TheJamsh' TA5 Enhancement Pack Preview

[Commando]

ColorizeLG is used when you run at a resolution of 1280x1024.

[Nielk1]

Why no Tronic? Other ppl's assets in the map?

[TheJamsh]

No its just being a total nightmare to convert... and i got to a certain point where i wasnt motivated to do it anymore

[Nielk1]

I'll do it >.>, next addon pack beta thingy I;ll look into several things...

[TheJamsh]

Cool, i got halfway there. But i started changing asset names and doing a find/replace in arachnophelia with the .bzn file (in ASCii of course).

Kept crashing after that, so gave up and worked on something else... But yeh ill send it over in next beta. I havent really done enough on it recently to warrant one of those for a while though.

[Nielk1]

I've given up text editing BZNs. If I do ANYTHING other than change a pilot ODF in one it AVs.

Depending on what I need I sometimes make a DLL that does all relevant things. I suspect it will be even easier to fix a simple map like that without resorting to ASCII or DLL editing.

[Axeminister]

Played version 7 today. I love how the enemy base builds new stuff. Now that rules!
Instead of starting out with a defense a god would be proud of, they build their own. F-n-A, now that's what I'm talking about, Willis!
lol

[TheJamsh]

thanks axe glad youre enjoying it!

[Axeminister]

I know neilk1 is working out a way to install this but I wanted to report something that you may already know, I don't know because I haven't found time to read everything you guys are doing. Here it goes.
I have made the shortcut to run the addon pack and it runs fine, everything is there. But when I click my shortcut for default TA5 all that stuff is there also and everytime someone new joins my TA5 games the first thing they say is that they can't join because of different assets. I always tell them to just join again, and that works. But there are few that give up before I can tell them anything. This thing is supposed to not change default in any way and I didn't know if you already knew this stuff.

[TheJamsh]

It will be fixed for the best in the e-pack so dont worry.

Also, you SHOULDNT have to run from a shortcut, you can run BZ2 as normal still, as the installer add's lines to youre .cfg file (makes it easier for users)

[Nielk1]

I know neilk1 is working out a way to install this but I wanted to report something that you may already know, I don't know because I haven't found time to read everything you guys are doing. Here it goes.
I have made the shortcut to run the addon pack and it runs fine, everything is there. But when I click my shortcut for default TA5 all that stuff is there also and everytime someone new joins my TA5 games the first thing they say is that they can't join because of different assets. I always tell them to just join again, and that works. But there are few that give up before I can tell them anything. This thing is supposed to not change default in any way and I didn't know if you already knew this stuff.

Good god do they read... Do I have to make a folder called "!TRY_JOINING_AGAIN" to make them understand?

[TheJamsh]

lol

i notice youre running active as well Axe when in testing, run passive. (by that i mean just run BZ2 as you would without the e-apck installed), from a non-modified shortcut or w.e

[Nielk1]

bzone.cfg = safe
bzone_addon.cfg = not safe unless other person uses it to. This changes files that would cause BA.

[TheJamsh]

I have just had permission from (bac)Malovence to include ALL his maps

I think that pretty much covers the majority of the ZST maps, so i hope we'll see even more people playing TA5 now. The e-pack now includes nearly 100 new maps

[Nielk1]

You mean 100 old maps.