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Quzo - Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:52 am
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Ok, i know that you cant change the ships in others zones. but is it posible to change/overlay the ships that i see on my screen? I know how to make ships and I know how to rotate them and put them in my own zone but I want to see my ships in trench wars or some where else. I apreciate any help.

Quzo

Maverick - Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:54 am
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You can put your custom ships in your C:\Program Files\Continuum\graphics directory, overwriting the standard ones.
Now if you are in a zone that doesn't use custom provided ships through a LVZ then you should see your own custom ships (like TW).

Quzo - Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:21 am
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Ya that should work, thanks. you don't happen to know how to open a bm2 file do ya?

Quzo - Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:30 am
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never mind.. i found (by accident ) that paint can open it thanks for your help

Quzo

Samapico - Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:28 pm
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any program can open them, bm2 files are bmp files , you can actually rename it to bmp if it doesn't want to open in a particular program

Smong - Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:12 am
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Or if you just want to overwrite another zones graphics put the new ones in the zone's own folder instead of the general graphics folder. It should look something like "cont\Zones\SSCU 17th Parallel".

Maverick - Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:49 am
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Wouldn't the client redownload and overwrite the files if it finds that the local files are different, Smong? (when entering the arena/server)

Chambahs - Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:54 am
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Thats what I was thinking.

Cyan~Fire - Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:22 pm
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Maverick wrote:

Wouldn't the client redownload and overwrite the files if it finds that the local files are different, Smong? (when entering the arena/server)

wiki wrote:

Note that files included by themselves (not within an LVZ) will take precedence over ones inside an LVZ. This also means that a user can place a file (say, ship1.bm2) in a zone's folder and it will override any custom ship graphics the zone uses.

I just added that on the wiki to LVZ.

(PS: MGB, how about an automatic wiki link thing? I'd love to be able to write [[LVZ]] and have it link.)

Chambahs - Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:25 pm
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Wouldnt that be really hard to implement?

By typing [[ ]] it would have to search the word on the wiki site, then get a link and insert it all by itself...

Hmm, well i guess its not that hard..lol

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:18 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

MGB, how about an automatic wiki link thing? I'd love to be able to write [[LVZ]] and have it link.

I did give that a try a while ago, but the method to do Wiki links is really shitty in the code, and would require loading almost all the includes from MediaWiki just for it.

If someone knows of a simple function/sql calls for it, I'll throw it in.

Smong - Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:16 am
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Maverick wrote:

Wouldn't the client redownload and overwrite the files if it finds that the local files are different, Smong? (when entering the arena/server)

Well cont doesn't unpack the lvz to your file system anymore, so it works with cont 38/39pr1. Before that I had to keep pasting an edited mines graphic into a certain zones folder because they thought it would be a good idea to make them invisible. Hmm, I could have just set it to read only in hind sight.

CypherJF - Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:20 am
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One thing to note say you plop blah.bmp into your zone and use levelfiles=blah.bmp. Even if you were to remove the entry from levelfiles the bmp still overrides the defaults. Or at least I used to have that issue when running Omega Fire. That's why I tell everyone to use LVZ.

Cyan~Fire - Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:25 am
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

It wouldn't have to detect whether the page is there. Just simply transforming [[LVZ]] into LVZ would be fine with me.

Cerium - Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:51 am
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perhaps a [wiki=page]text[/wiki] type thing instead?

Cyan~Fire - Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:40 am
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Who edited my post? I put the period in there for a reason...

Smong - Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:01 am
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I didn't edit anything, although the other day I nearly edited someone's post instead of quoting it