new road junction

[Drizzt DoUrden]

I was given some files and have been tinkering with new road junctions & such. I am using the temp editor so far seems to be working.

Question 1: Can I increase the size of the existing tem? Say its 5 X 3 and I want 5 X 5. I have been trying but can't seem to edit the old ones to make the surface bigger. When I insert a new tile and save it it disappers.

Quetion 2 : What name do I give them? EX: say there are 5proad do I just make it proad6?

Question 3: Where do I place these files? I am thinking that if it is a ubn file it has to with other ubn, but not sure of exact location.

[Blade]

1. I believe so, but I was never able to make it work. DJBREIT did more advanced work on this. Cutting a larger tile down to the size you want might be more effective.

2. Probably whatever you want(meaning I haven't tested outside the recommendation that follows), though I recommend keeping to an 8.3 format with the last two characters being a number between 01 and 99 for the way the system handles the number of tiles in a set. You also have to create entries in the relevant theatre.ini files. The extension dictates what theatre the tile belongs to.

3. Somewhere in the RA2 directory, in an ecache*.mix or an expand(md)##.mix.

[IcySon55]

1 : You can try using TMP Builder to create new tiles. The Add Tile function in v1.0 is broken so don't use it. Good luck.
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16819

2 : You can't simply name the new roads proad6+ and expect it to show up. You'll have to increase the number of tiles in for example, temperat.ini, but doing so will break all existing maps!
Instead create a new set in temperat.ini with any new filename: proadb01 etc...

[DJBREIT]

Yes I did make new tiles but you need a hex editor.
But if you need a 5x5 just grab the helipad temp 0102 group big one.

[Drizzt DoUrden]

Thanks DJBREIT, are there any bigger ones? hex editor? i am using the temp editor, is that the same?

[Blade]

No,a hex editor lets you edit a file at the hex decimal level. Basically its a byte editor with each byte being represented by 2 numbers in a base16 format so it goes from 0-F. The normal number system you are used to, 0-9 is decimal or base10. Same way that PD will make byte level changes to the executable after determining what changes to make using a disassembler. If you can understand a file format, a hex editor can allow you to do all kinds of things to it.

[DJBREIT]

There is a 6 X 6 tile. The baseball field.

And tiles bigger then that you may want to think about splitting it into smaller pieces.

As Blade said the hex editor is a programers tool not a RA2 Tool. But tiles are very small files so editing them in hex editor is not so difficult.

Paste an image of the tile you are working on. And I can help you work it throw

[Drizzt DoUrden]

is this hex editor a hard program to use? or can a newbie use it & understand it fairly easy?

[Vinifera7]

Anyone can use a hex editor with ease, but you would only know what to change if you knew what to look for. Non-androids are not capable of reading and interpreting hex code.

[pd]

Cool, I'm an android?

[DJBREIT]

Vinifera7 is Right. If you can read this you are fare better then I'm.


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If you can see this in that code then you can use the hex editor.
   

[pd]

Hehe, that does ring a bell.
If I knew the TMP format by heart still I could probably read it.

It's pretty obviously Z Data, I recognize a gradient there.

[DJBREIT]

The only thing I need to brush up on is the header info.

[Vinifera7]

Cool, I'm an android?

Yes.

[DCoder]

You know, there are hex editors that grok C struct definitions...