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- DCoder - 17.02.2005
I recently found this message in the .exe file: "You have violated the limit of having only one extra building palette". IIRC, Ren tried custom palettes with Palette=X at DZ forums, but failed. This might be why, because the Statue Of Liberty already uses a custom palette. Thoughts?
- pd - 17.02.2005
Well I never cared of that, but that seems to be obvious.
Hell... the game's full of limits...
- Renegade - 17.02.2005
If I ever get near those coders...
- Beowulf - 17.02.2005
You'll congratulate them on a bang up job right?
- Renegade - 18.02.2005
Actually, reading it again, it sounds kinda stupid.
They are the developers of the game. They do not support mods. Why the hell did they add such a message?
I mean, it's not like coders would go "Oh well *shrug*" and use a different palette - they could just go to the programmer and say "Yo, I need this palette to work!" and he changes a certain expression and there it works.
What I mean is, coders and programmers were either pretty fucking close together, or even the same person. Why did they need such error messages?
Plus, when would it appear? There certainly wasn't an IE-style windows-message telling me that text when I added my building. It just looked horrible.
- CannisRabidus - 19.02.2005
It might have to do with working out of 2 offices, one in Vegas and the other in L.A.
- pd - 24.02.2005
Quote:Plus, when would it appear? There certainly wasn't an IE-style windows-message telling me that text when I added my building. It just looked horrible.
I can tell you where it appeared: In a log file.
The game DEFINITELY wrote a log file during development.
At every place those texts appear (there are plenty of them), a routine is being called. This routine has been emptied, so the game doesn't write the file anymore.
All those texts are debugging messages, like in the RMG "Seeding water" etc.
So the texts were written for debugging purposes.
Maybe they wanted to have a log file to offer a better support... (good joke, huh?)
Anyway, as we know WW was a lazy troup, and they just didn't delete the texts, but just the log file writing routine.
If I knew how to write files in assembly I could renable it...
It would also help me finding some stuff.
I should google around for that...
EDIT:
Heh, I found something, maybe it's useful.
- Big Jah - 24.02.2005
Found what?
- pd - 24.02.2005
Something about writing files in assembly
- pd - 05.03.2005
No, this is NOT a double post, regarding the dates they were written
Just wanted to announce that in the next patch version, there won't be no extra palette limit any more
- DCoder - 05.03.2005
Holy shit! "I'd tell ya I love ya, but I ain't that kind of guy."
- Renegade - 05.03.2005
:o :o :o
...this means that theoretically, we could have a fully optimized palette for every building! (Not considering problems with remaps)
- pd - 05.03.2005
Yep, but I didn't test any limit.
I think WW had a reason for limiting it to 1 (OK, sometimes they just don't need any reasons).
A second one worked properly though.
I also didn't test that for infantry.
Extra palettes are loaded for each unit type, maybe it works for infantry also... I dunno, would be cool. Somebody test that?
- Big Jah - 05.03.2005
Does it support animations?
- raminator - 06.03.2005
is it possible to re-enable the temperate/snow remaps?
and...
wouldn?t it be better to replace all pallets by one 16-bit-pallete?
mfg raminator