Tutorial: Adding a new faction symbol

[zxiang1983]

Hi, alpaca. Thanks for your reply.

Please forgive me but I'm still a little confused :P

ok, let me summarize my understanding
1, I put my 1st faction symbol in 1.tga, and by using your converter I get strategy.sd(a) & shared.sd(a)

2, I leave the strategy.sd(a) & shared.sd(a) in your converter's folder(instead of moving them to ui folder)

3, I put 2nd faction symbol in 1.tga, too, just different place with the 1st one

4, I re-write coordinates in modpage_strat.txt and modpage_shared.txt to point them to the 2nd faction symbol's location.

5, Then I run your converter again and get strategy.sd(b) & shared.sd(b)

6, strategy.sd(b) & shared.sd(b) is what I wanted.

Am I right?

[wilddog]

That's basically it but you don't need to do steps 1 and 2 as you're overwriting them anyway in the later steps.

[zxiang1983]

I don't understand.
I thought the converter will read information from strategy.sd(a) & shared.sd(a).

If I don't do step 1&2, how will the converter know anything about the 1st faction symbol?

Oh, I know you mean I just have to write 2 entries in modpage_strat.txt and modpage_shared.txt. And then the converter will read the 2 factions' symbols together. Thanks a lot!

[wilddog]

Yes you just add whatever you want to the new TGA file you are using and add in as many corresponding entries into the two modpage files. Create the new *.sd files and then use them.

You don't need to add and compile one symbol at a time.

If you see any strange results its normally just because you got your coordinates wrong.

[alpaca]

Yeah the converter doesn't use the .sd files at all when compiling them, you add two icons to the tga and the description file you want to use and compile. That's it

[tornnight]

You've got a bug with entry name lengths.

I've reproduced

SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_KHW
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ABA

works

SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_KHWAREZM
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ABBASSID

does not.


Other conditions during this occurance:

I have two seperate tgas 1 for strat 1 for shared.
Each has 12 seperate entries for a total of 24 entries.

I know your example has a long entry name, but under some condition the entry names lengths start to matter.

[Lord Condormanius]

You've got a bug with entry name lengths.

I've reproduced

SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_KHW
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ABA

works

SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_KHWAREZM
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ABBASSID

does not.


Other conditions during this occurance:

I have two seperate tgas 1 for strat 1 for shared.
Each has 12 seperate entries for a total of 24 entries.

I know your example has a long entry name, but under some condition the entry names lengths start to matter.

SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_TOULOUSE
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_BURGUNDY
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ARMENIA
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_IRELAND
SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_WALES

all work for me...