hi everyone, i used to have a mac 5 years ago and i loved playing EV and creating new ships. now i have a windows machine, and i just got EV for windows. i was wondering if there is any way to make new ships on my windows machine. i dont even care about the graphics, i can just use the sprites from one of the ships already in the game, but i want to give the ship my own specs. does anyone know how i can do this? thanks in advance!
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Originally posted by reic:
**hi everyone, i used to have a mac 5 years ago and i loved playing EV and creating new ships. now i have a windows machine, and i just got EV for windows. i was wondering if there is any way to make new ships on my windows machine. i dont even care about the graphics, i can just use the sprites from one of the ships already in the game, but i want to give the ship my own specs. does anyone know how i can do this? thanks in advance!
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(Leaving Mac bias out of this post)
There is no way to create or edit a plug as of yet on a PC, because of the fact that all of the Escape Velocity games rely on a resource fork, and there are no PC editors to work that. Darn, huh?
I suspect, that eventually, someone will create a PC editor. Until then, you'll just have to wait.
(Or, if you're nice to someone coughme I'll do some stuff for you. Email me requests.)
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That is what they tell us. 
Apparently, the file needs to be encoded as a MacBinary in order for it to work with the convertor, but otherwise, it will work.
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Get Ballisk II from somewhere and Res-Edit from (url="http://"http://www.resexcellence.com/")Resexcellence(/url) and you can edit using res-edit in emulation. You may also want to get NOVA tools from somewhere - I've heard they are useful.
ewan
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Originally posted by reic:
it seems like NovaT ools is for the mac, is there a windows version of this?
No - you'll have to use a Mac emulator.
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Not at this time, but DA has been working on a windows version of MC, but that will not be for a while. For ships specifically, I am working on something along those lines, but I am still playing with .bin formatting.
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