Cracking the .sd files

[roy_d_merkel]

still doing testing, but what I am doing right now is to create a whole new tga file which contains my small faction icon, and my COA.

Then I currently add that tga file to shared.sd, and strategy.sd, as well as adding new variables:

FACTION_LOGO_WALES, and
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_WALES

into the files that reference the tga file that was added.


This way I don't have to edit any of the factory tgas, and theoretically the only limit to the number of COAs I can add is the physical limits of the number of files and variables in the .sd files.


as for resizing, I have been wanting to do tests on that, I think now that my hand isn't bothering me as much, I can actually do those tests for you

(right now I suspect that the game will resize for you, but I need to do more testing, what I was going to do was take the file that contains my COA and faction icon, and double its height and width, resizing the images to match, I'll tell you the results when I know them -- I'm hoping to know by tonight, I wanted to test if I've fixed the battle error yet).

Update: deleting descr_geography_new.txt and descr_geography_new.db appears to fix the problems with battles crashing for me...