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Minor Race Alternate Picture or Name modification?
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by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 10:16:10 AM

Can we change the minor race picture from a logo to
perhaps a picture of an alien with the little logo in a corner like the main races? If so..how is this done? What would the dimensions of the file need to be? Would
it be a .pcx etc?

Also ..are the names changeable as well?

Douglas

                    
#1  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:38:05 AM

Also, where can i find a brief description of the minor races that can pop up in the game?
all of the minor races?

                    
#2  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:42:11 AM

You see, what i'd like to do is modify the name of the race in the description file..leave the rest of the description the same since this is obviously the way that minor race plays..and add a picture of an alien where the big logo once was ..with the old logo in the corner of that portrait of the alien.

                    
#3  by Diplomat HawaiiFive-O - 4/18/2003 11:51:46 AM

Can't help you with your first question, I haven't found that yet, but I can help you find the descriptions.

Open English.str in NotePad, do a search on NewCiv. That's the area of the file you'll want to modify.

                    
#4  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:58:26 AM

http://irpinball.ztnet.com/alexian.jpg Link


Something like that ^


thanks hawaii for part 1 of the 2 parts i need to do this mod

                    
#5  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:59:38 AM

copy that link location and then paste it into your
browser window or you won't be able to see that picture.

sorry.

Douglas

                    
#6  by Citizen StarDevilThrull - 4/18/2003 10:25:42 PM

Cool pic Douglas! Did you make it? Convert it? etc.

As posted this in the other thread, but here ya go:

There are 3 sets of pictures in your GFX subfolder:

Foreign_Image01.pcx to Foreign_Image16
Message_RaceImage01.pcx to Message_RaceImage16.pcx
Trade_Logo01.pcx to Trade_Logo16.pcx

Images 01 - 05 are the main races.
Images 06 - 09 are the "common" minor races (carnoids, alexians, etc.)
Images 10 - 16 are the rest of the minor races (the ones in English.str listed as NewCivs)

Foreign policy images are the Foreign_Image## ones... I think

Message_RaceImage## are the ones that pop up on the main screen ("we claim these worlds for our own...")

and Trade_Logo are for... well... the trade screen!

Whoops! Update - there are also TradeImage01.pcx to TradeImage16.pcx pictures... so there are FOUR (4) sets of pictures. Not sure what gets displayed where - Trade_Logo or TradeImage (think TradeImage is the big one that you see while negotiating trades, not sure where Trade_Logo goes... hmmmm )

      
#7  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:24:43 PM

I don't find the names of the minor races in the english.str...all i see are
%s

for when a race name belongs in there.

Does anyone know where the actual names like Alexians, etc are?

                    
#8  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:26:48 PM

I see the new civs there..but not the main minor civs
like Carinoids, Alexians, etc.

                    
#9  by Veteran Duglis - 4/18/2003 11:27:22 PM

I converted it Thrull, I can't remember where i found it

Doug

                    
#10  by Citizen StarDevilThrull - 4/19/2003 1:23:24 AM

Carinoids, Alexians, etc. (I think there are four or is it five...) are "hardcoded" into the executable, but I believe Cari has added it to the ever-growing-suggestion list to place these in the English.str

I hope this one goes through on the next update because I almost ALWAYS encounter the Carinoids... (Cari: "I call them mini-me" )

      
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