Super-dumb question

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 2:35 am

How might I assign the normal World Map to my campaign? The campaign editor wants a .png instead of a .zar (of which the Worldmap is - I know 'cause I extracted the thing), so um... WTF?

Red · Post by **Red** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 2:43 am

The editor takes the PNG and converts it into a ZAR (which is how it's stuck into the campaign).

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 4:08 am

Yea I kinda figured that part, but I dunno how to do a zar -> png. I thought that's what "Recurse" was for, but when I have that checked, the editor still asks for a png.

This is really silly - I just want to use the normal World Map image for my campaign, and I just can't figure it out! *sigh*

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 4:17 am

Unless Red's viewer can save it as a png, you may have to go the circuitous route. Use the zar2gif to make it a gif, open up PSP and turn it into a png.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 4:31 am

How about something a bit simpler than all of that mumbo-jumbo verging on graphical voodoo?

It's very simple, really: Open the core campaign and modify if to be your CAM file. All of that superfluous info will be dumped as you import your own data, but the relevant part(s) that you want will stay.

Okay, back to dragging all of my worldly possessions down three doors...

Cheers,

OTB

Forty-six & Two · Post by **Forty-six & Two** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 7:46 am

OnTheBounce wrote:How about something a bit simpler than all of that mumbo-jumbo verging on graphical voodoo?

It's very simple, really: Open the core campaign and modify if to be your CAM file. All of that superfluous info will be dumped as you import your own data, but the relevant part(s) that you want will stay.

Okay, back to dragging all of my worldly possessions down three doors...

Cheers,

OTB

Sounds like a good idea...

Anyways, where ya going OTB? Long trip?

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 11:14 am

OnTheBounce wrote:It's very simple, really: Open the core campaign and modify if to be your CAM file. All of that superfluous info will be dumped as you import your own data, but the relevant part(s) that you want will stay.

Uh? Where in the campaign.txt is what pic to use for the World Map defined? I dun see it...

46 & 2: He's moving to a different apartment. How do I know this? I'm an omnipresent deity who sees all and knows all.

Or OTB told me... one of the three...

GrimJim · Post by **GrimJim** » Tue Jul 16, 2002 3:48 pm

This is what I did... Open campaign editor.. then open BOS.cam, the import your CAMPAIGN.txt, and you'll still have the world map, but it will use your info,missions, if you edited the generic.txt right......the save it as something else..... works good for

Max-Violence wrote:
OnTheBounce wrote:It's very simple, really: Open the core campaign and modify if to be your CAM file. All of that superfluous info will be dumped as you import your own data, but the relevant part(s) that you want will stay.
Uh? Where in the campaign.txt is what pic to use for the World Map defined? I dun see it...

46 & 2: He's moving to a different apartment. How do I know this? I'm an omnipresent deity who sees all and knows all.

Or OTB told me... one of the three...

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 9:18 pm

GrimJim wrote:Open campaign editor.. then open BOS.cam, the import your CAMPAIGN.txt, and you'll still have the world map, but it will use your info,missions

Yes, that's exactly what I was (apparently fruitlessly) trying to tell Max to do.

46+2: Max is right, all I did was move three doors down, but since the phone company took their sweet-assed time about getting my new line hooked up, I may as well have been on the dark side of the moon as this forum is concerned.

It's good to be back and all that.

OTB

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 11:42 pm

I may as well have been on the dark side of the moon as this forum is concerned.

We thought that was where your new apartment was....

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 11:47 pm

Jimmyjay86 wrote:We thought that was where your new apartment was....

Well, right across from the U of A pretty much is the dark side of the moon, intellectually speaking...

OTB

Max-Violence · Post by **Max-Violence** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 1:31 am

OnTheBounce wrote:Max is right

Well, there's something I don't hear everyday

As soon as I get off my lazy ass can find the time, I'll get back into mappin' for Revenge.