How does one change the background(the one of space with stars while you are flying). I can't find it in any of the data or graphics files.
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Look in the EV/O Titles...I think that's where it is.
I saw it somewhere and that seems the most likely place...
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Kraig Hill
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Originally posted by boshek:
**How does one change the background(the one of space with stars while you are flying). I can't find it in any of the data or graphics files.**
Lol buddy don't even bother. It's been tried and failed. Who was it that tried to create a water background? Anyway you can only change the width of the stars and thats it. So no can do.
Dragon
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Well, all I could come up with was a peice of code in the Data Fork (DATA if using ResEdit(lines 002E08 to 12) that say "Couldn't load backdrop PICT". I am convinced that is the PICT in question but is hidden or by some other means is not able to be reached via normal way. I'm gonna keep hacking away until I pass out from exhaustion.
These damned little things always keep me awake.
Btw, why aren't more people on this late? This time is usually a hotbed for discussions.
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(This message has been edited by boshek (edited 06-28-2000).)
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As for some info - PICT ID 700 is the stars. AFAK It's only the star colour, though I am experimenting.
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Well, I think I figured out what is going on with the whole space background situation. I used Resourcer to look at the CODE and found around Anon_29 in the "Main Screen" a bunch of "Offset" and other commands that indicate this might be where the space code is(because once the stars are off the screen they are "offset"(moved to the opposite side)). There are a bunch of setColors and such here as well, so changing one of these might change the background color of space. But even then, you would just change space for black to like blue. Still, if that is all you want to do, by all means go ahead and try to find the one command out of the hundreds of setColor. So Matt pretty much just permanently made space a single color.
Why he didn't just use a PICT rsrc for space and make things easier on us, and possibly himself(he had to indicate where each star was)??? Don't know, sure he had a reason though....and it better a good one.
There are a couple solutions that might work. One I came up with would be to have the "Stars" PICT that blackhole mentioned take up the whole screen. You would also have to change some other stuff(i'm not sure what) so this PICT isn't just a 16x1 pixel line. Also, this PICT would be wherever the stars were in the original space, creating major overlaps, so again you would have to make it so a "star" (now that big ass PICT) would only appear once on the screen. There are a few other possible solutions but this is the easiest =).
Back to laundry with my head held low =~(
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Well, I think I figured out what is going on with the whole space background situation. I used Resourcer to look at the CODE and found around Anon_29 in the "Main Screen" a bunch of "Offset" and other commands that indicate this might be where the space code is(because once the stars are off the screen they are "offset"(moved to the opposite side)). There are a bunch of setColors and such here as well, so changing one of these might change the background color of space. But even then, you would just change space from black to like blue. Still, if that is all you want to do, by all means go ahead and try to find the one command out of the hundreds of setColor. So Matt pretty much just permanently made space a single color.
Why he didn't just use a PICT rsrc for space and make things easier on us, and possibly himself(he had to indicate where each star was)??? Don't know, sure he had a reason though....and it better a good one.
There are a couple solutions that might work. One I came up with would be to have the "Stars" PICT that blackhole mentioned take up the whole screen. You would also have to change some other stuff(i'm not sure what) so this PICT isn't just a 16x1 pixel line. Also, this PICT would be wherever the stars were in the original space, creating major overlaps, so again you would have to make it so a "star" (now that big ass PICT) would only appear once on the screen. There are a few other possible solutions but this is the easiest =).
Back to laundry with my head held low =~(
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Originally posted by boshek:
There are a couple solutions that might work. One I came up with would be to have the "Stars" PICT that blackhole mentioned take up the whole screen.EV/O pukes if a star spďn is more than 8x8 pixels.
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Well i guess that shoots down that idea.
Lemme ask this then....how(if possible) does one place more stars in the background. So you could fill the screen with the 8x8 tile(it would look fairly crappy though, never seen a tile tht small).
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(This message has been edited by boshek (edited 06-28-2000).)
