Explinations

[Sundansyr]

Phoenix-D said:
You are seeing different icons, then? The only thing I can think of at this point is that you aren't actually setting the components.txt correctly. Can you post the components.txt and your new components.bmp please?

I suspect that I might be.. in which case I would have expected either a crash, or an absolute hash of the images. But neither happened. I got images, but the wrong ones (since slot 1 was replaced with a weapon, my 'bridge' in the game was that weapon... even though in the components.txt file the index number for 'bridge' was 191).

Here is my components.txt file. You can find my components image file (in JPG format for size) in my GraphX thread.

As for the purple/pink line around the items... I've solved that problem and it'll be clean in the finished components.bmp file.
Photoshop replace color is a handy tool...

[Phoenix-D]

umm. I'm not seeing a file in either thread, actually..

[Sundansyr]

Just below the reply subject header is a line at the end of which is a hyperlinked attachment

Re: explinations [Re:Phoenix-D]
#296823 - 09/20/04 08:31 PM Attachment (1 downloads)

Same situation for the graphX thread, with the second post.

Components.txt
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=296823

Components.JPG
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=296183

[Phoenix-D]

Ah, oops. Haven't used attachments on this board before.

[Sundansyr]

Phoenix-D said:
Ah, oops. Haven't used attachments on this board before.

Took me a bit to figure it out as well, and this is the first group I've found that allows attachments.

Any luck understanding the file(s)?

Note
I'm completely redoing the components file all over from scratch again, so the one in the above thread is no longer really valid (though it is for the comp.txt file I attached). I've expanded my ideas for My Little Mod.

[Phoenix-D]

I plugged both of them in- the component I resaved as components.bmp in my main folder and the other got plopped into campaign 1.

I don't see any problem at all. The pictures are occuring exactly as how you set them. They don't make any SENSE, but they're appearing correctly. For example your standard shield generator is component image ID 121.

Picture 121 may be many things but it doesn't look like a shield to me. Even weirder you have standard armor with a bitmap ID of 157. There is NOTHING in square 157! Its just a purple blotch.

[Sundansyr]

Hrm... I think that jpg might not be working right anyway. I did some minor tinkering after posting it, but things should've remained in place unless my indexing was way off. The next file will have line-by line numbering so I know where I'm looking before I start mapping the new component slots.

I'm glad it worked clearly for you, though. Was being an absolute bugger for me.

Because I wanted to have a visual difference between say... 2 ton standard armor and 20 ton, I was looking for some way of making them look similar but obviously bigger or whatnot. Some came out looking wonky at the first attempt. I found a decent armor set for the next comp.bmp attempt. How they look in the game has yet to be seen.