Ello y'all, I am new to EV plug making and I just came across somthig funny.
PICS # 7102: A button that says "Back Room"
I dont think I have ever seen these before, and I was wondering if anyone else knew what they are for. Thanks!
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This I beleive was in EV graphics, I noticed it too and have been trying to find some of them within EV when I am playing.
-Wire
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Find out... it's kewl!
(Nah. Those where just things that I believer where dropped, I don' think they serve any function.)
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Jeez, too bad that they are not real... EV would of been intersting!(Not to say it isn't!!!!) I wonder, will NOVA have that stuff? Just a question!
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They are from features that were never implemented. They do nothing, they just somehow got left in, causing much confusion among people who poke around with resource forks =P
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Originally posted by mburch (the creator of Escape Velocity):
**Since this has been asked so many times, I'll give a straight answer to clear it up once and for all...
In an early version of EV, there was a Back Room button in the bar that would lead you to what was basically just a copy of the existing Mission Computer window but filled with more "unique" missions. It was exceptionally lame, hence the thing you see now in which people come up and "talk" to you in the bar via pop-up dialogs.
The Demand More button may have been intended to have something to do with tribute or giving fuel to AI ships - I really don't remember, and I don't think any code was ever written that had anything to do with it.
Once those buttons crept their way into the EV data files, they stayed because we either didn't notice or didn't remember to take them out. Interestingly, during most of the development of Override, those buttons were gone - but sometime prior to the release they snuck back in somehow! Since the buttons are handled differently in Nova, I would hope that the phantom buttons will now be well and truly gone.
DLOG resource 4005 will probably stay, however, since I know David Dunham just loves answering email about it.**
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David Arthur
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Thanks! Where did Matt say that anyhow?
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Could you use those graphics or resources in a plug-in, just to spice it up a bit? Or would Matt hunt you down and beat you to death? Also, could you play with EV a bit to add the unique missions deal and all that to the bar, and also add the give the AI fuel? Just rambling on and on like a mad man. Thanks.
-Wire
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He would, after all, be an ambassador; between the old and the new-between the creatures of carbon and the creatures of metal who must one day supersede them.
-a quote from Arthur C Clarke's short story, "A Meeting With Medusa
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Just rambling on and on like a mad man.
Yup, sure thing...
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Originally posted by dashriprock:
Thanks! Where did Matt say that anyhow?
It was either on this board or the EV Nova board, around the beginning of October.
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Originally posted by wirehead:
Could you use those graphics or resources in a plug-in, just to spice it up a bit? Or would Matt hunt you down and beat you to death? Also, could you play with EV a bit to add the unique missions deal and all that to the bar, and also add the give the AI fuel? Just rambling on and on like a mad man. Thanks.
There's no way to add engine features using a plug-in, so all you could do is replace another button with one of these ones. I have seen plug-ins that change the bar to 'Back Room', but I've never seen the point.
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David Arthur
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/talon-ev/")Talon Plugin for the original Escape Velocity(/url)
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/mc/")An Upcoming EV Override Mission Editor(/url)
