Author Topic: Hello All (Read 1110 times)

pokie · « **on:** February 27, 2005, 03:27:36 PM »

I've been messing around a bit with the Editor for a couple of days now......but first I should say to HiTech and his Team for the AH2 game and Editor ( more stuff for the map builders OH YA!!!).

I know I'm behind schedule with the new editor but most of it is the same as the original one for Aces High (1).

Some things I've notice:

With Roads, Rivers and Rails are

1) You can travel on the Rivers with PT Boats ( Not LV's though )

2) You can come from Water Tiles and get onto the River and Vice-Versa (leave a River to goto a Water Tile).....meaning you could launch your PT Boat from an CVTG and drive to the shore where the River starts/exits and keep on going.

3) PT Boats don't like going under Bridges, you will destroy your engines.
P.S their is a way around this though. Shut off engine just as you pass under it then restart when you past by.

4) Vehicles can't cross a River unless it is done on a Bridge. This makes for good Ground Barriers May help keep attacking ground forces to travel the Roads or Rails to attack Cities, Towns Etc.

5) PT Boats don't like Rivers that are on Forest Tiles. At the moment you can't pass on them.

6) PT Boats won't pass thru the natural underground tunnel of the Grass Tile, neither will Planes.

7) Rivers and Rails get screwed up when placed on Rock Tiles, except when they make a 90* turn.

8) You can have Road, River and Rail on a same 1 Mile Square Grid Square.

9) Rivers need to be at sea level or your PT Boat starts to act like a Submarine

Here is a complete list of shapes in the Shpfilter. If you copy this list and paste it into your shpfilter file then nothing will show up when in the editor.
Just place some Character like / ,@ or something in front to make item appear.
Example for 109E4 make it /109E4 and then it will show up in the editor.

109E4
109F4
109G10
109G2
109G6
110C4
110G2
163WL
190A5
190A8
190D9
190F8

30CFLSH

3PIPE
3PIPEA
3PIPEL

50CALA
50CALL

A20G
A6M2
A6M5B
AAAFAC0
AMOFAC0
AR234
ARFLASH

B17G
B24J
B26B
B5N2
BACFAC0
BARGE
BAR0
BATTERY
BEERWEP
BG10
BG100
BG100A
BG100L
BG10A
BG10L
BG200
BG200A
BG200L
BG25
BG25A
BG25L
BG400
BG400A
BG400L
BG50
BG50A
BG50L
BHORIZ
BMBSGT
BMFLASH
BOSTON3
BOXCAR
BTCYL
BTSTR8T
BULLET

C202
C205
C47A
CA
CAFLASH
CITY0
CLD0
CLD1
CLD2
CLD3
CLD4
CLIP
CV
CVFLASH

D3A1
DE
DRUNKS
DRUNKSL
DT100L
DT300
DT300A
DT300L
DT400
DT400A
DT400L
DT44
DT44A
DT44L
DT45
DT45A
DT45L
DT50L
DT75
DT75A
DT75L
DTF6F
DTF6FA
DTF6FL
DTL100
DTL100A
DTL50
DTL50A
DTR100
DTR100A
DTR50
DTR50A
DTZERO
DTZEROA
DTZEROL

EJECT
ENTPNT
EXPAIR
EXPLGND
EXPLWTR
EXPSGND
EXPSWTR

F4F4
F4U1
F4U1C
F4U1D
F4U4
F6F5
FIRE
FLATBED
FM2
FULFAC0

GAFLD0
GFIRE
GUNCAR
GUNTGT

HIT
HORIZON
HQ0
HURRI1
HURRI2C
HURRI2D

IL23

JU87D3
JU88A4

KI611C
KI67
KI84
KIDT
KIDTA
KIDTL

LA5FN
LA7
LANC3
LAFLD0
LCRATE
LCRATEL
LCRATER
LOCO
LPCRATE
LPCRATL
LRKTRLA
LVTA2
LVTA4

M16
M3
M8
MAFLD0
MCRATER
ME163
ME262
MFLASH
MOSSIE6
MPR0

N1K2

OSTFLSH
OSTWIND

P38G
P38J
P38L
P40B
P40E
P47D11
P47D25
P47D30
P51B
P51D
PANZR4H
PFIRE
PIZWEP
PLNTRC
PODR6A
PODR6L
PORT0
PTBOAT

R4LR2A
R4RL2A
RATO
RATOA
RATOL
RCKT2
RCKT2L
RCKT2LA
RCKT2RA
RDRFAC0
RKTPOD
RKTPODA
RKTPODL
ROCKET
ROCKETA
ROCKETL
RP60
RP60A
RP60L
RRKTRLA
RS132
RS132A
RS132L
RS82
RS82A
RS82L

SAFLD0
SAFLD1
SBD5
SC100
SC1000
SC1000A
SC1000L
SC100A
SC100L
SC1800
SC1800A
SC1800L
SC250
SC250A
SC250L
SC50
SC500
SC500A
SC500L
SC50A
SC50L
SCRATE
SCRATEL
SCRATER
SEAFIRE
SECCNT
SELRECT
SHEEP
SHELLL
SPCRATE
SPCRATL
SPIT1
SPIT14
SPIT5
SPIT9
SPITRLA
SUN

T341943
TA152H
TBM3
TEMPEST
TENDER
TER0001
TER0002
TER0003
TER0004
TER0005
TER0006
TER0101
TER0102
TER0103
TER0104
TER0105
TER0106
TER0201
TER0202
TER0203
TER0204
TER0205
TER0206
TER0301
TER0302
TER0303
TER0304
TER0305
TER0306
TEXRECT
TIGER1
TILE0
TNKSGT
TORP
TORP2
TORP2A
TORP2L
TORPA
TORPL
TOWN0
TRUCK
TTOWN0
TUG
TWINPOD
TYPHOON

UFO2
USERPNT

VFLD0

WAKE
WSPRAY

YAK9T
YAK9U

Pokie

Raptor · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2005, 11:17:45 PM »

doesnt that just look so good?

pokie · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2005, 04:34:24 PM »

S W E E T !!! Raptor01

Just wondering..............can a player join a PT Boat? too lazy to look in the AH2 help file

Pokie

Raptor · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2005, 05:02:21 PM »

yeah, you can join someone pretty much anytime, i dunno about a chute though

ive noticed you cant go from water tile to river because the river stops at the edge of the land tile and the way the shore lines are you cant get the boat over that

question:
Can you make an object that a PT boat can go on like the river? something like a lake or pond

pokie · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2005, 07:21:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Raptor01
yeah, you can join someone pretty much anytime, i dunno about a chute though

ive noticed you cant go from water tile to river because the river stops at the edge of the land tile and the way the shore lines are you cant get the boat over that

question:
Can you make an object that a PT boat can go on like the river? something like a lake or pond

You CAN go from a water tile to river, you just need to do a little change to the plb000X_a.bmp file.

Here is the change for the GrassyRock file...............

I just did it in one spot for testing.

Here's the file

http://www.accesswave.ca/~tscott/AcesHigh2-Stuff/plb0002_a.zip

Zip has the original plb0002.bmp file that I didn't change and has the plb0002_a.bmp that I did change.

Put both of these in your texsrc folder

You'll need to delete the cache folder to see the changes.

Pokie

P.S Just thought..............if you made the plb0002_a.bmp all Black you'll have no beach and the water tile will go right to the grassyrock tile.

Raptor · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2005, 01:26:16 AM »

where did you find the plb000#.bmp?

pokie · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2005, 02:59:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Raptor01
where did you find the plb000#.bmp?

You click on the Save Texture button while in the Terrain Mode of the Editor, the files get saved into your "savedtex" folder.

Here is an image that show all the tiles.
http://www.accesswave.ca/~tscott/AcesHigh2-Stuff/Terrain-SaveTextureList.jpg

Pokie

Raptor · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2005, 03:20:10 PM »

i know to do save texture but i didnt see what to save. on the object list should i just save the terr# and it will save all of that?

pokie · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2005, 05:31:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Raptor01
i know to do save texture but i didnt see what to save. on the object list should i just save the terr# and it will save all of that?

There are 2 seperate "Save Textures" junctions in the Terrain Editor which have nothing to do with each other.

The Save Textures button in the Terrain mode only saves Tile Textures

while

the Save Textures button in the Objects mode only saves Skin Textures.

Pokie

kanttori · « **Reply #9 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:21:08 AM »

Pokie, it's very nice to see you here after long time!:)

Without your and Nuttz' great assistance over two and half years ago with my first map I should not write anything in these forums...

Fellas, if you have any problems with the TE, just ask from Pokie!:D

NHawk · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2005, 05:29:31 AM »

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Originally posted by pokie
...P.S Just thought..............if you made the plb0002_a.bmp all Black you'll have no beach and the water tile will go right to the grassyrock tile.

And by doing that you'd be back to needing a shore tile. Wouldn't you?

Otherwise you'd wind up with straight line shores.

pokie · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2005, 06:18:49 AM »

Thanks kanttori, its good to have a computer that will finally run this game.

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Originally posted by NHawk
And by doing that you'd be back to needing a shore tile. Wouldn't you?

Otherwise you'd wind up with straight line shores.

I only meant that step as a quick example, to show that you can go from a water tile to a river with a PT Boat

Here one that I did for GrassyRock

Download it here if you want it.
http://www.accesswave.ca/~tscott/AcesHigh2-Stuff/GrassyRockplb0002_a.zip
NOTE!!!................ I'm not Nuttz so no complaining about this file.

Just place it in your texsrc folder along with the original plb0002.bmp file ( which was not changed )

Pokie

Dux · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2005, 02:24:02 PM »

Heya Pokie! It's great to see that you're still around.

pokie · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2005, 06:11:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Dux
Heya Pokie! It's great to see that you're still around.

Thanks Dux

Pokie

steely07 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2005, 10:24:01 PM »

Great to cya back Pokie!!