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Title: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 13, 2003, 12:58:36 pm

Is there a way to make a new shields type (perjhaps Shield-SB?)??

I want to make the scimitar more realistic by giving it shields strengths of 5x than Shield-10.

Is there a way to do this???

Please let me know if there is. Thnx

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: NannerSlug on July 13, 2003, 01:43:52 pm

in the assets -> common settings folder there is a file labeled shields. BEFORE YOU DO THIS, BACK UP THE FILE(s).

simple go do the romulan shield type you are wanting to change and look up the value for strength- change it to what you want to and whola!

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 13, 2003, 01:45:14 pm

Thanks.

Is there a way to add a NEW shields. or do I have to re-think the whole shield system to work with only 9 normal shields (and one immense shield)?

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 13, 2003, 01:51:55 pm

The borg have 10 un used shields, why not change one of them to the required settings, and replace race = b with race = r

There is no known way to add new stuff to the game.  

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: NannerSlug on July 13, 2003, 02:11:57 pm

excellent idea cueball.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:29:21 am

I changed borg shields to roms, like u suggested, and now the game crashes on launch with an illegal operation error.

Any ideas??

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 11:39:17 am

Original

[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"
Strength = 5
Efficiency = 3.0
Cost = 500
Mass = 1000
Race = "B"
UnavailableForRefit = 1


New

[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"
Strength = 5
Efficiency = 3.0
Cost = 500
Mass = 1000
Race = "R"
UnavailableForRefit = 0


if you have changed this
[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"

the game will crash, you may change the other setting below those.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:41:49 am

Oh.

I thought You could change the description.
Thanks, i'll change it now and tell you how it goes.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:49:33 am

It didnt work, even if iuse the unchanged version (ie. original files), it still gives me the following error::

SFC3 caused an invalid page fault in
module SFC3.EXE at 0167:00680a1d.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=00680a1d EFLGS=00010246
EBX=009a149c SS=016f ESP=012afc80 EBP=012afcd4
ECX=028b0098 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=19ff
EDX=028b00b0 ES=016f EDI=0296007c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 06 8b ce ff 50 38 8b f0 85 f6 0f 84 93 00 00
Stack dump:
0296006c 0296008c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00fc2db8 0296007c 0087e3c4 028b0098 00000001 00979fa8 000000b9 0097a0dc 00fc2db8 00000000

HELP

IS A REINSTALL NECCESSARY?

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 11:50:28 am

You can change the description
open "Assets\Strings\stings.txt"

Search for B-SHIELD-I , should be almost at the bottom of the file, change the

Shields provide protection against weapon fire and other hazards. This is the weakest of the shield generators, suitable for the smallest ships.

To your new description and save the file.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:52:19 am

I put EVERYTHING back to normal, and now its giving me this error:

Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Beta 2 Build 500
SFC3.EXE caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module <UNKNOWN> at 0167:0068082C

EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=012ADF3C  EDX=0321B4A4  ESI=00F86EF0
EDI=00000001  EBP=012ADF48  ESP=012ADDBC  EIP=0068082C  FLG=00010246
CS=0167   DS=016F  SS=016F  ES=016F   FS=616F  GS=0000

HELP

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:54:04 am

THSI IS WEIRD...now im getting this:

Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Beta 2 Build 500
SFC3.EXE caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module SFC3.EXE at 0167:0068082C

EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=012ADF3C  EDX=0321B4A4  ESI=00F86EF0
EDI=00000001  EBP=012ADF48  ESP=012ADDBC  EIP=0068082C  FLG=00010246
CS=0167   DS=016F  SS=016F  ES=016F   FS=57EF  GS=0000

0167:0068082C (0x012AE481 0x00A51C20 0x00000000 0x0086E6A8) SFC3.EXE
0167:0049010B (0x00478886 0x00A51C20 0x0094007D 0x004787D9) SFC3.EXE
0167:0047880D (0x00A51C20 0x0094D620 0x00477FD0 0x0094D620) SFC3.EXE
0167:004787BD (0x009A1680 0x03C47844 0x009A1680 0x00000000) SFC3.EXE
0167:00406DCA (0x009A1680 0x00407210 0x03C47381 0x00634F55) SFC3.EXE
0167:0040737D (0x00400000 0x81A9523D 0x00000001 0x00000000) SFC3.EXE
0167:00635A43 (0x00000000 0x81AECFC0 0x011A0000 0x33636653) SFC3.EXE
0167:BFF8B560 (0x81AACAB4 0x00000008 0x81AECFC0 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, IsDBCSLeadByte()+1512 byte(s)
0167:BFF8B412 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, IsDBCSLeadByte()+1178 byte(s)
0167:BFF89DD5 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, MakeCriticalSectionGlobal()+3542 byte(s)

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 12:04:25 pm

I cant help you with the error messages, i think we all see them with SFC3, well except me, i have the UK version & when my game crashes it just goes to the desktop without message.

May i suggest that you checkout TNZ from http://www.battleclinic.com or DW from http://www.sfc3files.com/sort.files?cat=943&ref=0

as i believe thy both have modifications to the files.

Title: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 13, 2003, 12:58:36 pm

Is there a way to make a new shields type (perjhaps Shield-SB?)??

I want to make the scimitar more realistic by giving it shields strengths of 5x than Shield-10.

Is there a way to do this???

Please let me know if there is. Thnx

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: NannerSlug on July 13, 2003, 01:43:52 pm

in the assets -> common settings folder there is a file labeled shields. BEFORE YOU DO THIS, BACK UP THE FILE(s).

simple go do the romulan shield type you are wanting to change and look up the value for strength- change it to what you want to and whola!

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 13, 2003, 01:45:14 pm

Thanks.

Is there a way to add a NEW shields. or do I have to re-think the whole shield system to work with only 9 normal shields (and one immense shield)?

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 13, 2003, 01:51:55 pm

The borg have 10 un used shields, why not change one of them to the required settings, and replace race = b with race = r

There is no known way to add new stuff to the game.  

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: NannerSlug on July 13, 2003, 02:11:57 pm

excellent idea cueball.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:29:21 am

I changed borg shields to roms, like u suggested, and now the game crashes on launch with an illegal operation error.

Any ideas??

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 11:39:17 am

Original

[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"
Strength = 5
Efficiency = 3.0
Cost = 500
Mass = 1000
Race = "B"
UnavailableForRefit = 1


New

[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"
Strength = 5
Efficiency = 3.0
Cost = 500
Mass = 1000
Race = "R"
UnavailableForRefit = 0


if you have changed this
[ShieldItems\B-SHIELD-I]
Description ="B-SHIELD-I"

the game will crash, you may change the other setting below those.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:41:49 am

Oh.

I thought You could change the description.
Thanks, i'll change it now and tell you how it goes.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:49:33 am

It didnt work, even if iuse the unchanged version (ie. original files), it still gives me the following error::

SFC3 caused an invalid page fault in
module SFC3.EXE at 0167:00680a1d.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=00680a1d EFLGS=00010246
EBX=009a149c SS=016f ESP=012afc80 EBP=012afcd4
ECX=028b0098 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=19ff
EDX=028b00b0 ES=016f EDI=0296007c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 06 8b ce ff 50 38 8b f0 85 f6 0f 84 93 00 00
Stack dump:
0296006c 0296008c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00fc2db8 0296007c 0087e3c4 028b0098 00000001 00979fa8 000000b9 0097a0dc 00fc2db8 00000000

HELP

IS A REINSTALL NECCESSARY?

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 11:50:28 am

You can change the description
open "Assets\Strings\stings.txt"

Search for B-SHIELD-I , should be almost at the bottom of the file, change the

Shields provide protection against weapon fire and other hazards. This is the weakest of the shield generators, suitable for the smallest ships.

To your new description and save the file.

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:52:19 am

I put EVERYTHING back to normal, and now its giving me this error:

Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Beta 2 Build 500
SFC3.EXE caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module <UNKNOWN> at 0167:0068082C

EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=012ADF3C  EDX=0321B4A4  ESI=00F86EF0
EDI=00000001  EBP=012ADF48  ESP=012ADDBC  EIP=0068082C  FLG=00010246
CS=0167   DS=016F  SS=016F  ES=016F   FS=616F  GS=0000

HELP

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: quircus on July 14, 2003, 11:54:04 am

THSI IS WEIRD...now im getting this:

Unhandled Exception! in Version 1.01 Beta 2 Build 500
SFC3.EXE caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module SFC3.EXE at 0167:0068082C

EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=012ADF3C  EDX=0321B4A4  ESI=00F86EF0
EDI=00000001  EBP=012ADF48  ESP=012ADDBC  EIP=0068082C  FLG=00010246
CS=0167   DS=016F  SS=016F  ES=016F   FS=57EF  GS=0000

0167:0068082C (0x012AE481 0x00A51C20 0x00000000 0x0086E6A8) SFC3.EXE
0167:0049010B (0x00478886 0x00A51C20 0x0094007D 0x004787D9) SFC3.EXE
0167:0047880D (0x00A51C20 0x0094D620 0x00477FD0 0x0094D620) SFC3.EXE
0167:004787BD (0x009A1680 0x03C47844 0x009A1680 0x00000000) SFC3.EXE
0167:00406DCA (0x009A1680 0x00407210 0x03C47381 0x00634F55) SFC3.EXE
0167:0040737D (0x00400000 0x81A9523D 0x00000001 0x00000000) SFC3.EXE
0167:00635A43 (0x00000000 0x81AECFC0 0x011A0000 0x33636653) SFC3.EXE
0167:BFF8B560 (0x81AACAB4 0x00000008 0x81AECFC0 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, IsDBCSLeadByte()+1512 byte(s)
0167:BFF8B412 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, IsDBCSLeadByte()+1178 byte(s)
0167:BFF89DD5 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000) KERNEL32.DLL, MakeCriticalSectionGlobal()+3542 byte(s)

Title: Re: New Shields???
Post by: MrCue on July 14, 2003, 12:04:25 pm

I cant help you with the error messages, i think we all see them with SFC3, well except me, i have the UK version & when my game crashes it just goes to the desktop without message.

May i suggest that you checkout TNZ from http://www.battleclinic.com or DW from http://www.sfc3files.com/sort.files?cat=943&ref=0

as i believe thy both have modifications to the files.