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can I help?
I love B5.... and know the show decently well... (I own seaons 1 and 2 and the movies.. (not rangers...))
I'm a beginner c++ programmer and PERL
I'm just starting to learn how to use wings3D
in other words.. I don't have ALOT of skills.. but what I got is growing, and I would LOVE to see a B5 mod for Vegastrike.. if this porject still lives..
I'm a beginner c++ programmer and PERL
I'm just starting to learn how to use wings3D
in other words.. I don't have ALOT of skills.. but what I got is growing, and I would LOVE to see a B5 mod for Vegastrike.. if this porject still lives..
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THat would be awesome...I think the first step is picking a small subset of the ships...then making a central repository then editing the units stats table (well creating one first) to make the physics feel right...start with just a few favorites... like that X-wing sort of ship and a few vorlons or whatever
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it's actually not so bad... what you can do is take the latest vegastrike cvs and start changing ships one by one till they're how you like
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the file in question is units/units.csv
can be edited in Open Office or even Microsoft Excel
can be edited in Open Office or even Microsoft Excel
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yes...very new
in the old one you had to edit each fighter by itself
now you can edit whole columns at once--which makes mod making fun
in the old one you had to edit each fighter by itself
now you can edit whole columns at once--which makes mod making fun
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it's fun to freeze frames.... click on the second to top left (that's B2...I sunk your battleship!)
then go to Freeze Frames in the Window or View menu
and voilla...you can see the keys
then go to Freeze Frames in the Window or View menu
and voilla...you can see the keys
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making a listing would be helpful... the second listing is supposed to contain the units of measure for the column--course ti's not always clear--just post here for questions...mabye you can add it to the wiki
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if I know what everything was.. I could in theory.. make a perl or c++ program to act as an editor.. just input the values and pick from lists.. and stuff... and it writes the file.. since it's just a comma seperated file.... that's easy to do with perl.. (though I never did play with writing to files with perl... )
but perl would proly be better for this than c++... hmmm.... than again... I like structs...and arrays of structs.. maybe I just need to read more.... (tries to remember his perl).. and I need to remember how to work with perl... been using to much c++ not enough perl...
hmmm.... this would proly need a user interface... tk.... I've not really played with tk much... cgi yes.. but not tk.. (I made a banking program for a government simulation out of cgi...)
if I could make such a script.. maybe it could generate some of the values for me... (if applicable.. I don't know if it is...)
but perl would proly be better for this than c++... hmmm.... than again... I like structs...and arrays of structs.. maybe I just need to read more.... (tries to remember his perl).. and I need to remember how to work with perl... been using to much c++ not enough perl...
hmmm.... this would proly need a user interface... tk.... I've not really played with tk much... cgi yes.. but not tk.. (I made a banking program for a government simulation out of cgi...)
if I could make such a script.. maybe it could generate some of the values for me... (if applicable.. I don't know if it is...)
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The perldsc and perllol manpages might be usefultonerman wrote:but perl would proly be better for this than c++... hmmm.... than again... I like structs...and arrays of structs.. maybe I just need to read more.... (tries to remember his perl).. and I need to remember how to work with perl... been using to much c++ not enough perl...
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When programming and lerning perl I recommend the O'Reilly Perl bookshelf:
http://kaste.lv/OreilltyBookshelf/perl/
Pontiac
http://kaste.lv/OreilltyBookshelf/perl/
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I have the following on hand..
Learning Perl
Programming Perl (3rd eddition)
Perl/Tk (laerning I think.. might be programming, and I can get at the "mastering..." book took...)
I also got a couple other books.. like.. Tcl/Tk if I want it.. wrong language.. but my dad says the basics are the same..
I've decided to just put this off for a while... while I learn Perl/Tk a bit more... and figure out the units.csv file.. I'll proly post a working list of the columns and what they are for somewhere so others can see it.. and people can help me fill in my gaps.. and I think someone said something about making a wikipage... (if I can disern the columns, i'de be happy to do that..)
Learning Perl
Programming Perl (3rd eddition)
Perl/Tk (laerning I think.. might be programming, and I can get at the "mastering..." book took...)
I also got a couple other books.. like.. Tcl/Tk if I want it.. wrong language.. but my dad says the basics are the same..
I've decided to just put this off for a while... while I learn Perl/Tk a bit more... and figure out the units.csv file.. I'll proly post a working list of the columns and what they are for somewhere so others can see it.. and people can help me fill in my gaps.. and I think someone said something about making a wikipage... (if I can disern the columns, i'de be happy to do that..)
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Base interiors... I have the Babylon 5 season 1&2 and Movies DVD.. maybe I can get something resembling video capture functioning on this box... (I have a tunercard.. which.. SHOULD be able to do videocapture..) maybe I can get some interior shots taken right from the show... (or I could google..hehe maybe someone has done it already...)
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just for my own reference..
is there a CVS server or anything where I could find the meshes and stuff?
just for my own reference..
is there a CVS server or anything where I could find the meshes and stuff?
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