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      Hello everyone. I have just designed a new hypergate and opening animation, but I'm not sure how to implement it into Nova with a plug-in. I know I have to put all the frames into the rleD resource for the hypergate, but how do I get certain ones to repeat like the original hypergate in the game? Thanks πŸ™‚

      (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/barisaxguy5/Hypergate.gif")Here(/url) is an animation of the hypergate and the few frames I want to repeat.

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      From the Nova bible section on spΓΆbs:

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      CustPicID

      Which custom landscape to show
      128 and up
      ID number of PICT to load instead of the standard landscape display

      less than 128
      No custom landscape

      (Note: for animated hypergates, this field can be optionally used to set the index of the transition between the "opening/closing" animation and the "working" animation. Set to 0 to have the engine use the first half of the frames for "opening/closing" and the second half for "working".)

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      CustSndID

      Which ambient sound to play
      -1
      No ambient sound effect
      Anything else
      ID number of snd resource to load

      (Note: for hypergates and wormholes, this field serves a different purpose - it controls the angle at which ships emerge. Values between 0 and 359 specify an exact angle, while any other value specifies a random direction.)

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      Weepul, thank you for your prompt reply, I managed to get it in the game successfully with that help.

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      (This message has been edited by BariSaxGuy5 (edited 07-03-2004).)

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      Meh, beating the ATMOS hypergate isn't all that hard. We think ours is pretty darn good πŸ˜‰

      (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ragashingo/.Movies/Hypergate.mov")Aftermath Work In Progress(/url)

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      I've cleared a lot of replies out of this topic, if people are wondering. pipeline made a (probably unintentionally) inflammatory statement and it got a bit out of hand... move along please. πŸ™‚

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      -- ** (url="http://"http://www.mazca.com/")Mazca(/url)**

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      (quote)Originally posted by Mazca:
      **I've cleared a lot of replies out of this topic, if people are wondering. pipeline made a (probably unintentionally) inflammatory statement and it got a bit out of hand... move along please.:p

      Dave @ ATMOS
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      (quote)Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      **Meh, beating the ATMOS hypergate isn't all that hard. We think ours is pretty darn good:D

      I guess I missed the excitement. Glad I was actually helpful, and not a part of it, though. πŸ˜‰

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      (quote)Originally posted by Weepul 884:
      **...WTF?

      That doesn't do my work justice at all. πŸ˜›

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      (quote)Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      **You're doing the hypergates? I thought that was my job:)

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      I was going to use Photoshop but found it didn't have to tools or power I needed. Luckily my iBook came with Apple Works.

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      (quote)Originally posted by Weepul 884:
      **...WTF?

      That doesn't do my work justice at all. πŸ˜‰

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      (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/aftermath")Aftermath(/url)
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      Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      **We think ours is pretty darn good;)
      Aftermath Work In Progress
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      Ah, that's a joke, isn't it. It is a joke. It must be a joke. Please tell me it's a joke! PLEASE!!!

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      Originally posted by Arion:
      **Ah, that's a joke, isn't it. It is a joke. It must be a joke. Please tell me it's a joke! PLEASE!!!

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      I dunno. It's new. It's fresh. I like it. I'm sorry, pipeline, I'm switching out all of Nova's default hypergates for Ragashingo's ;).

      Matrix

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      Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      I was going to use Photoshop but found it didn't have to tools or power I needed. Luckily my iBook came with Apple Works.

      Hehe. Either you are insane you're on drugs, you're an alchoholic, or you're joking. I'm betting the last one.

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      The programmer's code of entomology: there's always another bug.
      There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who have friends.
      Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
      (url="http://"http://www.cwssoftware.com")Sephil Saga Website(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")Add-ons Search Engine(/url)

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      Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
      **Hehe. Either you are insane, you're on drugs, you're an alchoholic, or you're joking. I'm betting the last one.

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      No, actually all I wanted to do was quickly make a circle. I didn't see a circle tool in Photoshop so I quit it and used Apple Works and its spray can tool.

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      Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      **No, actually all I wanted to do was quickly make a circle. I didn't see a circle tool in Photoshop so I quit it and used Apple Works and its spray can tool.
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      Well, it looks good, I can't wait to see your wormhole graphics πŸ™‚

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      Phaa ha ha ha ha ha πŸ˜„

      The non-constructive parts of this topic (read: all since Raga posted :p) amuse me greatly. πŸ˜„

      orca: Who says he has to just be one of those? πŸ˜‰

      Maybe when it's done, I'll show my hypergate...remake...maybe. πŸ˜‰

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      Hopefully most will see it in-game eventually anyways. πŸ˜‰

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      Originally posted by Ragashingo:
      No, actually all I wanted to do was quickly make a circle. I didn't see a circle tool in Photoshop so I quit it and used Apple Works and its spray can tool.

      Yeah, in Photoshop that gets complicated. I'm still waiting for an approach that doesn't involve inverting a circular selection and changing the hue/saturation and brightness/contrast...

      Weepul: Eh? And what else would it be? Oh, okay, I suppose that maybe insanity is one possibility...

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      The programmer's code of entomology: there's always another bug.
      There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who have friends.
      Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
      (url="http://"http://www.cwssoftware.com")Sephil Saga Website(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")Add-ons Search Engine(/url)

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      Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
      **Yeah, in Photoshop that gets complicated. I'm still waiting for an approach that doesn't involve inverting a circular selection and changing the hue/saturation and brightness/contrast...
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      Why can't you just go to the ellipse tool and hold shift while using?

      Matrix

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