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Do you have installed the old video codecs that are required to play them? Such as Smacker video?

It was more to make accessing a planet of 300 quick and easy then to drill down four layers to pick something. In this game there is an object and a target so a person wants two windows open. Probably more trouble than it is worth. I am going to go with leaving the background galaxy map static at one set zoom. You can then move the sector window panel that pops out when clicked on a sector to show planets moveable in order to position them in a nice spot so both windows object + target can be open and not interfere with each other, or what is on the galaxy map behind it.

Good catch, yes you need the XNA redistributables installed.

OK that is correct and it is not crashing . I forgot to add the initialization/check if valid range> for the mouse variables, such as when leaving focus (minimizing and maximizing the window or starting up at first). Thanks for the feedback and let me fix that real quick. Notice you can click on a planet and at the bottom a more detailed view of what is on the planet will come up in the pop up box along the bottom of the UI. What should it contain? I thought would be nice to see a more detailed Planet defenses and industry with population Size troop level. Without having to open up the Planet surface window. Let me photo shop up ?add some more code to give an idea. UI feedback is welcomed. Example 3 Laser LNR II cannon + Picture maybe. 8 Storm troopers ( or just total point value of troops), A blue circle Halo around planet to show fully shielded and half circle if troops can still invade...Industry and mine economic level.

Xan can you check a small UI demo to see if it works for you I made yesterday under the demo release topic? thanks. http://www.filedropper.com/rebellion2013

Thanks you for your interest. I just got back to working on it. Main thrust is complete rewrite into a common language C++ using XNA 4.0 from original DarkBasic. It will have a new AI since the original one was dismally stupid. Plus I had to convert and make new artwork or scrounge off the internet wide screen format and a new UI for modern 9:16 displays. Go ahead and see if that last small test UI will work on your computer.

public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); Content.RootDirectory = "Content"; graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 1920; graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 1080; graphics.ApplyChanges(); } string[] aPlanetNameText =File.ReadAllLines("../PlanetName.txt"); // "ReadAllLines" convenient perfect fit format = as one large string array. Names of Planets. string[] aPlanetPosText = File.ReadAllLines("../PlanetPosition.txt"); // "ReadAllLines" prefitted in as one large string array. Those are integers characters of text. string[] aPlanetLoyText = File.ReadAllLines("../PlanetLoyalty.txt"); string[] aPlanetOwnText = File.ReadAllLines("../PlanetOwner.txt"); string[] aPlanetTexText = File.ReadAllLines("../PlanetTexture.txt"); /// <summary> /// Allows the game to perform any initialization it needs to before starting to run. /// This is where it can query for any required services and load any non-graphic /// related content. Calling base.Initialize will enumerate through any components /// and initialize them as well. /// </summary>It is not finding the text files because of the directory structure. Tht whole folder is the complete directory taken from Visual Express 2010. Of course it works on my computer. Here try this one exactly as it is after you unRAR it. There is s only one EXE is it. It should find the text files (that is so you you easily edit stuff using a basic text editor). that" ../ filename" should look in the directory relative to the EXE for that file 'up one' forward slash each dot.. i thought. http://www.filedropper.com/rebellion2013

There was a discussion about RebEd working under W7 in another thread. It will if you edit the registry for SW rebellion properly (it has to do with the install to get the main game to work under W7) so RebEd can find it. RebEd looks for it in the directory the files it needs to modify. I have it working. Here it is, though the thread is a bit of a mess. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28202&p=549474#p549474 getting RebEd to work. ---------------------------------------excerpt------------------ I found the SWRE Editor and will upload here here later. As for getting the RebEd .26 running, you need to edit the registry for example like this for ONLY Windows 7 64 bit OS (it is different for W7 32 bit) Using RegEdit add this to the registry or download the reg file and just add click install it. This is verified to work. Make sure to move your Rebellion install folder to and rename it as C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Rebellion\ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Rebellion] "TooBigLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DllLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DataLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "InstalledLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "EncyLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\EDATA" RebEd needs to find the DATA folders for Gdata, and Encyclopedia locations for the pictures.

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Yes. I made a scrollable and zoom-able 2D interface with planets and such about 3 months ago. I can upload here, but it is not a professional product. Maybe you can add more planet artwork to it? I would like to make it more of a true turn based "Master of Orion II" style theme. "Master of Coruscant" so to speak. http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5235/rebellion2013.png:http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7486/rebellion2013b.png http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5235/rebellion2013.png http://www.sendspace.com/file/e0uqa8

It is your graphics driver. Are you playing this on a laptop? They have notoriously bad support for DirectX. It is not your OP system. http://forums.longestjourney.com/showthread.php?t=667 make sure you have updated DX.

Are you trying to play this on a tablet phone? Some of those integrated graphics cards may not support 3D?

That is not the way it works. RAW MINERALS are produced by mines and the refineries turn that raw minerals into refined material to produce objects. All object production takes a chunk of refined material to make. In your example you have 0 raw mineral mined. Your refineries have already processed over 100% into 8000 refined material. Your last number 200 maintenance is what is your capacity to maintain what you already have left further to support (the total maintenance for each pair of mine/refinery - total object maintenance). It is not used to manufacture objects, only maintain them. You get for each PAIR of Mine and Refinery combo 25+25=50 maintenance points. Each object in game has a cost to build in refined material, then an on going 'cost' for maintenance. If you maintenance exceeds your capacity (IE below zero) left to use, then your objects in game start to blow up to reach a balance.

It would seem your directX functions are not working. Are you sure you have the exact file d3drm.dll installed? It is not the same file. It must be installed manually also since the new version of DX does not contain it. Without it, you will absolutely not have any 3D battles.

I just installed rebellion on a Acer Aspire One 725 net book with W8 and got it running fine. At first it would also have the small icons upside down and reverse color. I ran it with the "reb.exe -w" switch in window mode to get it to work. I used not the graphics hack of ddraw. The battle in 3D manually work fine too. I also have Rebellion run in W XP 3 mode with 480*640 tagged. It made one message to "incorrect palette color" but continued to run fine with proper color. No crashes and return to normal 2D game run after it was done. So it will (possible) at least on my machine to run the 3D battles. There is that error message that briefly shows up then proceeds to play normally, instead of crashing as you experience. Also I checked run as administrator.

Rebellion will not natively install on W7 64 bit by itself as for my experience also. I can only copy the data over and use a hack to get it to run. It may very well install onto a 32 bit system though. I then edit the registry manually so the Editors (RebEd) will and can find it. The reason why Rebellion cannot install normally onto 64 bit is the way the registry is set up, there is an extra "/Wow6432Node/" folder in the line that has to be there. There is no way for the Rebellion installer made in 1998 could account /anticipate for this future change. It would seem like...time travel. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Rebellion] "TooBigLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DllLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DataLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "InstalledLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "EncyLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\EDATA"

need link update, apparently your editor will run under W7 whereas RebEd will not. THX

The registry for your computer must be exactly like the install. Example make sure the game Rebellion is installed in the same step up as the default install normally would occur IF I remember sort of like this C:\program files(x86)\ Star Wars Rebellion\ C: is your hard drive location or it maybe the UK version or even Cool Hand\Star Wars Rebellion\ etc note that is is something like "Star Wars Rebellion" folder IIRC not simply Rebellion folder. The RebEd editor is trying to read the registry info (I think) to locate the DAT file and DLL location for the Rebellion game. Usually the program code reference is a special system symbol %var% that would look it up, but the OS of Windows has changed sine the Editor was made. "Errantone" also mad a SWRebellion Editor that does much/not all of what RebED did about two years ago and it worked under W7 Vista I think. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3564 if you can find it. I think I still have a copy of it on my old computer. " Rebellion registry entry is used" as for RebEd 0.26 Rebellion registry entry is used absolutely and that is why it must be put back in if your using the 'drop and play' method to using Rebellion. Worst case you can hex edit the values back in by hand using the .dat guide for location in the DAT files, but that is not ideal/ LET ME GO LOOK INTO MY OLD COMPUTER AND REGISTRY AND SEE WHAT IS UP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RebEd is a Windows 32 proggy written in Delphi 3. Hex locations are based on the various files at TRZ and info from nice Rebellion-community citizens. If you want a DOS prog with nice sounds, graphics and animations, check SWRE. + Easy to use interface with partial hint & help system. + No setup or configuration is required, Rebellion registry entry is used. + RebEd is contrib-ware, if you find it useful, send good ideas, interesting hex offsets or anything that could be of use for the RebEd users. At least, report bugs ! What it does (now) : -------------------- + Systems and Sectors Editing + Capital Ships Editing + Special Forces Editing + Facilities Editing + Defenses Editing + Troops Editing + Fighters Editing + Major & Minor Characters Editing + Missions Success Probabilities Editing + Settings saving/loading, as a whole, or as cards + Default values restoration + Encyclopedia & In-Game pics Editing + Generic DLL Entries Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------- I found the SWRE Editor and will upload here here later. As for getting the RebEd .26 running, you need to edit the registry for example like this for ONLY Windows 7 64 bit OS (it is different for W7 32 bit) Using RegEdit add this to the registry or download the reg file and just add click install it. This is verified to work. Make sure to move your Rebellion install folder to and rename it as C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Rebellion\ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Star Wars Rebellion] "TooBigLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DllLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "DataLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "InstalledLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\" "EncyLocation"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\LucasArts\\Star Wars Rebellion\\EDATA" RebEd needs to find the DATA folders for Gdata, and Encyclopedia locations for the pictures.

RebEd needs to look into the registry to understand how to find Rebellion where it is installed. Did your Rebellion properly normally install from the default CD onto your hard drive? NO. It looks for that registry entry. I could not get it to install normally using W7. So i must take a copy of the registry entry from another computer with W XP OS (where it did successfully install)and make a new COPY entry for the other computer with W7 . bit of a hassle missing old DirectX d3drm.dll file which must be added in manually (easy to do) 3D stuff that is no longer added with modern DX installs

unknown. Since there are so many variables, you must try it and find out.

Thanks for the reply. The "you plural" or I could say "you all". English uses the same word for singular or referring to several objective pronouns. Q is for question. I meant the question can also be answered by the community in general who also may have been following this thread and have some insights to share. Sorry for the confusion. So much for slang. I did port everything over to XNA 4.0 to what I had under Dark Basic. The basic GUI. I would assume the planets positions and maybe names should be randomize-able so you could have a different game every time, sort of like Master of Orion. (eventually I would like a remake of that game). Of course most people will play from cannon material, others can change it to what they like. All planet data is in single text file and in ASCII form so it is human readable and can be edited with simple Wordpad text editor. One thing about the interface to make it very quick to open up sectors and planets all across the galaxy, I have found a 3D interface it too slow and too much mouse movement, so I stayed with the 2D interface nature of the original rebellion. http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3308/insurrection12120300.png

Thanks a million . By the way Quick Q for you plural. What is up with some of the fictional sector and planets? Does the Dolomar Sector exist and this planet Averam in Coruscant Sector (not Sesswenna). It seems Rebellion and other sources conflict. Dolomar Sector Balfron, Caprioril, Dolomar, Kamparas, Pantolomin, Phorliss and Wor Tandell. ??? Pantolomin has references to Dolomar but where is this sector?

Of course thank me more if it does actually work!

Is there pictures for the two missing sectors ( maybe a repeat question (dead links))? Corporate is one of them. That is four systems total I would like to look at. I am referring to the post with sector pictures of which is shows 16 of the 20 total. I finally found time to recode the whole project into XNA 4.0 and I want a starting point for sectors and planet names. I have it set to go to 300 but the initial 200 i good enough for now. I may as well put them in a configuration between yours and Phildevils. There are somewhat similar, thanks. always good work, even after a few years.

You must put in manually a downloaded file called "d3drm.dll". It is for 3D stuff for old DirectX that does not come with the game or on your newer software. Place it in the same folder as your reb.exe. I am using W7 Ultimate 64 bit. I am using a repaired compatible version of reb.exe that came with the mod 1.5 off this site and used in the Rebellion Reloaded Mod that takes care of the CD not found in the proper location stuff not found and proper environment stuff so that I only had to use it plus the d3drm.dll file alone and it all works fine from the start. Copy all files off the CD to that one folder. So tell me if it works. Or if you have trouble. 1). Copy all content off CD to a folder (lets call it Rebellion98). Do not install. 2). Download off net the DX file d3drm.dll and place that into that folder. 3) Create a folder named "Savegame" inside of that folder Rebellion98. 3) must use the fixed compatible reb.exe from the Rebellion Mod or PM for it and place it in that folder. 4) should launch and run fine in full screen. Battles work also. http://www.4shared.com/archive/cxJ7NcAv/_Rebellion15_Mod_Betav2.html link for the two file are in here. d3drm.dll and the compatible reb.exe.