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Post by kosacid on Mar 11, 2008 9:17:20 GMT
here a good one how do i change the start screen i know it uses .thn files how do i edit them and use them i want to use a ship as my start screen i know its in scrips into folder
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Post by Gibbon on Mar 11, 2008 11:28:46 GMT
You need to decompile the THN files with the THN file decompiler which was available on Lancers lol but you might find this on Filefront. They are all encrypted so without this you're going nowhere. Once you have that and can see the info in notepad or similar you'll realise it's written in a form of the LUA script.
This will make no sense to most people but there are sections that you can change if you're not an expert.
For instance, the background. Look for this entry,
entity_name="starsphere_backdrop", type=COMPOUND, template_name="starsphere_Li04", <---- this here
Now if you changed that to starsphere_Li01 or whatever, then you can chnge how the background looks.
Moving onto ships, look for this line
entity_name="ship1", type=COMPOUND, template_name="cylontanker", <----- this here
There you need to put in the ship name which is in fact the archetype name from the shiparch.ini. In this case i put a cylon tanker in so i have that flying around. There are also engine entries which are specific to the ships which you can modify, just look for the ship1 engine entry, then you mess with it. You can also change the bases that are showing, planets that are viewed, load of stuff.
Changing the paths the ships fly is more of a challenge and something i haven't mastered yet.
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Post by kosacid on Mar 11, 2008 14:01:40 GMT
so no need to put it back together just like how the ini files are
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Post by Gibbon on Mar 11, 2008 19:40:29 GMT
Correct, no need to recompile it.
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Post by kosacid on Mar 12, 2008 8:43:03 GMT
how do i just select one screen or do i have to change them all basicly stop the random screen
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Post by Gibbon on Mar 12, 2008 9:28:06 GMT
You'd need to have the same movie playing in all three intro sections. Currently there are three different ones
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