Ambrosia Garden Archive
    • Edwards, on Jul 30 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

      1. What can't you find?
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      The answer for this question:...

      Frequency 245, on Jul 30 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

      What must I do that the my new ships don't ignore that I kill one of them, I mean that they all attack me if I attack one of them?
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      Edwards, on Jul 30 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

      2)...(EDIT)Also, if you see an underlined piece of text, it is probably a link.
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      ??? Really? Veeeeery interesting. I'm not completly stupid, Edwards.

      Edwards, on Jul 30 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

      ...Guy's post also linked to the guide I gave you.
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      ...after I used this link:

      Guy, on Jul 30 2005, 12:49 PM, said:

      Well I'm not too hot with govts but you could try reading thehelp topics!!!
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      Edwards, on Jul 30 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

      1. That is what negative fuel scoops do- remove fuel all the time. To make a weapon use fuel only when you fire it, use the following instructions from the Nova Bible for the wëap resource's AmmoType field:

        -1000 & below    Weapon uses abs(AmmoType+1000)/10 units of
                                         fuel per shot.
                                         (example: -1005 = 0.5 units per shot)

      2. A spöb added by a plug after a pilot is created will start with its defense fleet set to 0 ships. To reset it, capture it and release it (assuming you defined a defense fleet in the spöb resource). It will work fine if you start a new pilot.

      Edwards
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      Yeaah! Thanks, the two things work now.

    • Frequency 245, on Jul 30 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

      What must I do that the my new ships don't ignore that I kill one of them, I mean that they all attack me if I attack one of them?

      This is the default behavior. What, exactly, is the issue?

    • Sometimes if I save my plug the icon of it changes to a clown which jumpes out of a box, but if I move the icon it changes back to the normal plug-in icon. Bug or feature?

      EDIT: I forgot some letters! 🙂

      And this was my 700th post!

      This post has been edited by Frequency 245 : 31 July 2005 - 08:29 AM

    • The clown which jumps out of a box is a standard ResEdit icon. MissionComputer(or whatever tool you're useing) saves over it as an EVN plug-in, so that the picture changes. Not a bug, but not really a feature either.

    • And where are the descs for the ships? They aren't in the normal descs.

    • Then look somewhere else. The descs are split up over multiple data files as you'll understand if you read another recent topic on this board.

    • The Ship and Escort dëscs are in Nova Ships 7

      This post has been edited by Flish : 31 July 2005 - 06:17 PM

    • Thanks Flish. Again a question:
      I can't see my outfits which I bought in the pilot 'profile', only one. What must I do to see them?

    • Fill in all the name fields. If you leave these blank Nova thinks you want to keep it hidden.

    • I already did that. I wasn't completly correct, if I look in the pilot profile there stands '..., and .', I noticed the same with ARPIA.

    • Hey yeah, I noticed that in Arpia too. Couldn't work out what was causing it though. So does the outfit appear in the pilot log?

    • Yes
      What <...> must I take to get the player's name in the text?

      EDIT:

      orcaloverbri9, on Jul 28 2005, 04:29 AM, said:

      ...
      Mission 1 Availability: !b1
      Mission 1 Success: b1
      Mission 2 Availability: b1 !b2
      Mission 2 Success: b2
      Mission 3 Availability: b2 !b3
      Mission 3 Success: b3
      ...

      What happenes if I use not a & or a |, but a space, like in the quote?

      This post has been edited by Frequency 245 : 04 August 2005 - 05:06 AM

    • Frequency 245, on Aug 3 2005, 11:16 PM, said:

      What <...> must I take to get the player's name in the text?View Post

      <PN>
      This information can be found at the end of the mďsn section of the Nova Bible.

      Frequency 245, on Aug 3 2005, 11:16 PM, said:

      What happenes if I use not a & or a |, but a space, like in the quote?View Post

      Something will go wrong, but I'm not sure quite what. For all test strings, you need to put in the "&" and/or "|" between bits, and you need to break up groups of more than 2 bits by putting in parentheses. So, if you want to test that bits 1, 2, and 3 are all set, you would put in: "b1 & (b2 & b3)" (not "b1 & b2 & b3" or "b1 b2 b3").

      I hope that helps.

      Edwards

    • Thanks Edd.
      What's now with the outfit-name-bug?

      EDIT: How can I convert jpeg picts into graphic picts and how can I get them into the PICT resource window?

      This post has been edited by Frequency 245 : 05 August 2005 - 09:35 AM

    • Open the JPEG with an image editor or an image viewer that will allow you to copy the picture. Copy it (select all first if necessary), open the PICT resource window, and paste.

      You're using ResEdit, right?

    • Frequency 245, on Aug 5 2005, 07:50 AM, said:

      What's now with the outfit-name-bug?View Post

      A couple of questions:

      1. Are all of the name fields filled out, specifically the LC Name and LC Plural fields, as well as the resource name itself?
      2. Are you using any other plugs that use that RID?

      For putting graphics into your plug using MissionComputer, follow orca's instructions, only create a new PICT resource and paste into that.

      Edwards

    • Okay, I've just worked out the outfit name bug (yes it's an engine bug). Negative display orders will cause this.

    • Matt did say he couldn't guarantee that negative display orders would work. 🙂

    • Ah okay. I think some editors may default to -1.

    • orcaloverbri9, on Aug 5 2005, 06:06 PM, said:

      You're using ResEdit, right?
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      No, Mission Computer

      EDIT: If I want to change a spöb and a s˙st twice in a plug, how can I do this? The ID thing don't work any longer, because I already use the ID with the other change-spöb/s˙st.

      This post has been edited by Frequency 245 : 06 August 2005 - 06:10 AM