MrPhildevil

Uh, It did not help noticeably in my large galaxy. Hum. I'll try again with most graphic set to low instead of just high... oh well. I think there's just too much ship there already...

When you are added to the beta tester list, you'll have access to the beta tester forum. There, you'll be able to download the program you need in order to install the beta.

Don't worry, I'm not about to give up There you go Slocket: http://www.mediafire.com/?rrc676suw9pbjg1

Yes we can. I'm not on my Rebellion computer right away though, so it'll have to wait then, then I'll host-it to mediafire if nobody makes-it before me...

Of course, you may get my Galaxy pic. I found-it on google image, but had to play with it so it looks more like the Essential Atlas one with symetry and rotations. I'll make a nice package soon. My galaxy is about 55% complete, if I'm not mistaken. Not as much as Tex, but there will be no planet from battlestar galactica and else in my version I could send you a very early alpha version of my TC so that you can study placement. Of course, keep in mind that contrary to DarthTex, I'm not as organized. Tex made a kind of big plan and positioned his sector first. Then he was able to hex edit the positions of the planet within the sectors to different positions than they are now. If I could do that, I'd be very happy as I could not only get more correct positioning, but also no name cut with the enhanced planet pics. But as I'm very bad at hex edit, here's how I proceed: I basically place the ten original planets on a plan. Then, I make a doted copy of this plan. Afterwards, I place my new planets in their theoretical position. And lastly, I place them in the sector limitations in order for them to have the most correct positions possible. Sometimes, that mean that a planet that is supposed to be up another one will be down that one. But still, I'm mostly happy with the result. If you seek to make this better, I may be able to help you get correct placement. However, most of my "correct" plans have been thrown, because I work on paper, which is faster. So if you want correct placement for say Corporate Sector, ask me to draw a plan which I'll either do on photoshop or with my hand and scan so you can place your planets in this order. Also, since your game will have less limitation than Rebellion, I'd love for you to be able to use the New essential atlas planets to better represent the galaxy, in a more colored way.

Maybe we could use her face for Mirax? In any case, my attempts to make her into a card have been half successful. You seem better when it comes to doing the smaller pictures. I'm okay with the Extra pic, but the other ones are not such a joy...

Oh? I'm eager to test this!

I think I've got a winner. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/GalBG3.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/GalBG4.jpg What do you guys think of that one? I think I'll keep-it, unless a lot oppose to-it... New list for sectors: -Corporate sector (100%) -Mon Calamari/Centrality sector (100%) -Yavin Sector (100%) -Hutt Space (100%) -Deep Core (100%) -Modell Subsector (100%, though I did choose Ovise over G'rho) -Kashyyyk Space (100%) -Spice Triangle (100%) -Hapes contorsium (100%) -Hoth and greater Javin/Anoat (100%) -Unknown Region/Chiss Assendancy (20%, name of planet are okay, need to complete a lot of descriptions and give correct positions) -Corellian to be reworked (0%) -Coruscant sector (0%) So 10 sectors done out of 20, 2 have to be reworked, 1 has to be implanted 7 sectors remaining Projected sectors are: -2 for Pentastar alignment -1 for Senex-Juvex and surroundings -1 For Eriadu and Surroundings That leaves 3 I'll probably fit in the Core Stay Tuned.

How about that one? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/GalBG2.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/GalBG1.jpg Uh, why do you want me to look for SZEP? I have a beautyful szep in my life already

Allright, I did-it. Try this one. http://www.mediafire.com/?d0pwl6g586azu5l

The problem is this. Basically, Rebellion is an old game and use a limited color spectrum, called a palette, Rebellion's pallete in this case. The pictures you are working with do not use this pallet. When Rebellion tries to use your pic, it can't use some of the colors in your pictures. If you want to make some new picture cards, here's what I'd do, if I were you. Find the picture you want to replace. Say If you want to replace Veers, use RebEd or Ressource Hacker, whicher you use to modify your game. You have to extract 4 or five pictures: -Build -Fleet List -Tactical -Extra Pic and maybe ency pic. Now to working with these. If you wish to completely replace the picture, use the tool that let you select colors, select the blue color and fill the whole picture in blue. I suggest you open the picture that you will be working with to replace the character in your program (personnally, I can't work with GIMP and Photofiltre just don't have what it takes to do the job, but that's me...). That would be the "arbiter" for you. Now I suggest you duplicate this pic as much as you will make pictures for it (in our case, that would be 4-5). Keep in mind that there are two instances in which your pic will loose quality: when you will reduce their size (number of pixel) and when you will transfer them to REbellion pallette (color quality). Now you'll need to be very good with the tools to select the part of your original picture you want to keep for the game. But before that, here's the tricky part: you need to resize your picture to fit in the rebellion picture you'll be using. This is where you'll see if you want to keep the original Veers on the picture that will be the actual in game picture, or make this all blue, so that you make sure your Arbiter don't Overlap with original Veers. So step one, resize your duplicate to fit in the Rebellion icon (on a try basis). Step two, select the pic you want in Rebellion Step 3: copy the picture and paste-it on the Rebellion picture (you'll see the color transition which can be quite ugly...). If you don't see that color transition, probably your program don't recognize the Rebellion pallet. Personnally, Photoshop 6.0 is perfect for me in this regard. Last, you need to heed Antonius' advice about the blue dot. That is basically what tells Rebellion which color has to be invisible. That is why you can also use other colors than blue, when you know you'll have that color in your picture and don't want to have holes in your pics. I could make a tuto with pics, but I don't use the same program and can't help you with yours. If you still wish me to do so, I may just do it though...

Yeah, that Kyle's good. Looks like Ewan McGregor though... I'm good with blue dots too, just take some time to correct that. Now I've been trying to get a new galaxy pic that will better fit my intended goal: fit the New Essential Galaxy. Because of the position of the volume of planet, I needed to have more place on the right side than left side. So here's what I've come up with. Opinions? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Galaxybackground.jpg

How do you make new hyperspace burns? Copy paste in PS?

This forum ain't dead. I'll send you the original background sometimes. Until then, Antonius has made some of his which are rather gorgeous available for download, follow this link and you'll see. viewtopic.php?p=546874#p546874 First link has the backgrounds, if I'm not mistaken.

+1 for essential atlas lol. If I ever get to finish my TC, maybe taking a peek at what is done may help you figure out what you want to do

Yup, I did Well, I don't have Reloaded under my thumb just yet, but in general, what Reloaded chars I did not like were either removed from my current list or I wrote-it (imps). If I want to remain fidel to my idea, I will be forced too... Besides, Jedi Knight Dark Forces II had real persons cinematics and cartoonish for the game and it did not ruin the game for me, so if some dislikes my cards (as I'm sure some will), RebEd will help them... I'll show you mine soon... maybe I'll take yours too (or part of, as I did for Vader and palpy yesterday). Uh, when editing cards (pics), there's a lot of issue with seeing blue dots on your pics. Especially when you use PS to change the same picture from one pallet to the other one... It basically depend on the way you make your pictures compatible to the rebellion pallet. Complicated stuff to explain lol. Maybe I'll do that sometimes Yeah, I did read, but could not see the difference. I'll try to be on the lookout for these differences. I'll take these pics to replace what Reloaded chars I've kept

Not quite sure what you mean when you speak about painting card. For the moment, I've chose to keep the old background on most of the char... but not for the Twin ency pic, for example. I am pretty open in where my char are coming from. But I don't want to use completely new names. There are some names that are just not worth mentionning in the SW universe (Mendoo, for example) in my opinion that is. And I can't even begin to think to make my TC without Thrawn or Ackbar... So no, no totally new cards, but I'm not keeping all the Reloaded cards, of course. I'll mainly be keeping those that have a special place in my heart AND ref pictures, if possible. Otherwise, not worth-it. I seek to take your pics when I sort-out how to use them. Problem is I don't want to change my cards's stats by replacing the card, plus I did not really touch any character editing since a long time. I'd much rather work on the galaxy layout some more, and including some more planets icons (I'm going to change the Gamorr one, in particular). Oh, and I'm now officially seeking a galaxy pic I'll cut almost in half, because the galactic west part of the galaxy is almost unexplored and I wont be using-it pretty much... I know peeps will be bored about the mod, but this is a 1998 game and RebEd make it very easy to change the Cards, so I would not worry about that. Of course, everybody has their preferences. I just about never played vanilla Reloaded and it was just fine like that... I'm still browsing through what you sent me. Of course, I'm at school and my focus is elsewhere. Also, as you can see, I am nowhere near completing the imperial side, with many unsure char and a lot to be worked on. I think I'll make a mix of painted/picture version cards... As it's already the case for Kyle Katarn (pic version and Corran Horn (though not the actual Corran Horn, but that is another matter...)). I think I'm happy with the current pic of Lando, but I may take a pic version or a HD one, if there's no blue removal process to go through (these are such a pain...). As I've said, one of the aims of this mod is to get rid of those I consider to be too much UE to my taste. Or not important enough. As such, Mendo and Orimaarko are no go's for me. I think I'd be interested in a decent set of stormtroopers to make Characters such as LaRone, Macross and their friend. If I could get a card for Kirtan Loor, I'd also be happy. An ISB agent would be cool too. I think I'd also like to have a Hutt, but not Jabba. Jabba's too much of a gangster. How about the Young Hutt from Darksaber (that would be Durga the Hutt)? I don't know how the guy managed to get 31 chars instead of 30, but I'll begin by 30 and if I absolutely more, I'll see about going over. In my experience, trying to change thing too much in rebellion can result in corruption some time, breaking the game. Which Reloaded cards did you remade?

As I've sent, it did not work as much as it should, but at least, there's something there! By the way, I believe I owe to Budious for his Rebellion 1.02 fix. Thanks to him, my windows 7 64bit can now run Rebellion! Maybe I'll go to this computer to run/mod that game. We'll see. So guys, time for a small update: I tought I was over with planet icon editing. Seems like I was wrong. Thanks to Antonius, I now have a better HD Coruscant pic, and I think it's gorgeous. New Coruscant Icon/Encypic http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/CoruscantIcon.jpg New Hape Sector: http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/HapesSector.jpg Descriptions for Thrakia and Arabanth (don't mind the copy of Arabanth on Thrakia, it is a bug and I don't know how to correct-it so it'll stay that way... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Arabanth.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Thrakia.jpg New spec forces for imperials (don't remember where they came from, but I bet I've worked to balance them. It's been a long time I did not touch balancing) I think I'm satisfied with these Cards though.: http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Noghricopier.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/ImpIntelcopier.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/ImperialCommandoscopier.jpg http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/ImpScoutCorpcopier.jpg Here's the pic for rebel sabotaged, probably from Reloaded. I'll examine if I can take Antonius's instead, if it is preferable to my taste ... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/SaboteurStrikescopier.jpg Imp Character list: K - Keeping N - Not keeping, seek to replace U - Unsure if going to keep Thrawn WILL be included and perhaps C'Baoth... N: Never heard of her... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Zolaycopier.jpg K: Guy recruited Thrawn... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/VossParck.jpg K http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Veers.jpg K http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Vader.jpg K: He's the major who held the strategic part in making believe Thrawn was alive and an ex-royal guard. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Tierce.jpg U: Bah, if I'm going to have Warlords, let it be Zsinj... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Teradoc.jpg N: I have nothing against women, but again, this person those not seem very important to me in the SW universe. I'd rather have an HD nightsister! http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Tavirar.jpg N: The only Sienar I'd like to have is the one from Rogue Planet. If anybody's got a nice Card, contact me. If not, I'll find something else. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Sienar.jpg K: Han Solo's evil cousin? Definetly keeping that one, though it will be modified. Perhaps a Centerpoint background would be nice? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Sal-Solo.jpg K: Rukh has shaped history, even though a mere bodygard. Will have to put down his loyalty though, in RebEd! http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Rukh.jpg K: Rogriss helped Han Solo pursue Zsinj. Wait, this is going to be weird if I also have Zsinj, but whatever Place from Roleplay I say. And what about having General Melvar in this case? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Rogriss.jpg U: Bah, he ruled the centrality. I may keep him If nothing better comes out, plus he was pretty cool in ROTJ, if memory serves, though not there long, being dismissed by the emperor. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Pestagecopier.jpg K http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Pellaeon.jpg N: This guy's like Zolay... bof http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Maarek.jpg U: I don't like the idea of having two Luke's running around in the galaxy. I'd rather have a Darth Maul clone. Perhaps Jerec? Problem is I don't want the Empire to get overpowered with too many Jedi... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Luuke.jpg K: Well, She's like Mara Jade, but on the Empire. Of course, her story's a little more complex and twisted than that, but she'll do. Shira Brie. Might be better with a more gorgeous picture though, don't you think? She's kind of creepy like that. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Lumiya.jpg U: Good ol' Lemelisk. Never liked him and Adar Tallon. Useful until the research runs out. And then? No use. Perhaps we could replace him with Kuat of Kuat or something? at any rate, someone more useful afterwards... Maybe Evir Derricote? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Lemelisk.jpg N: Ain't that the Lunatic from Isard's Revenge? He's not very clever in my opinion, and I don't think I'll keep him. If anyone's got a suggestion on a replacement, I'll hear you... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Krennel.jpg K: Everybody's prefered masochistic SW woman. The perverse b**** we love to hate and too many imps want to get in her bed. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Isard.jpg U: Again, I don't think much of warlords... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Harrsk.jpg K: We always need a ship stealer. If only Rebellion allowed-it... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Ferrier.jpg K: best pilot in the galaxy and skilled diplomat it appears. Anybody thinks I should add Syal Antilles (his wife) in the imps faction? What about his son (Jagged) http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Fel.jpg U: Bah, Dorja's not particularly important. If nothing better comes, I'll keep him. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Dorja.jpg K: According to him, probably the only non-force user Palpy ever considered as a possible rival. Edit: No wait, that would be Flirry Vorru's description: I need this Vorru in my Cards. Disra's one of the triumvate that pretended Thrawn was resurected... the political guy. How about taking the actor too, Flim or something like that? http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Disra.jpg N: Whoever he is... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Delvardus.jpg K: Needs a serious overhaul though... Can finally train Jedi! (Duh...) http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/DarthSidious.jpg K: Whether Grand Tarkin got to bed her for her "tactical genius" or her "flexibility", she still could move things in the galaxy a lot, when she got out of her holes... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Daalacopier.jpg N: So I took Reloaded not to get nowheres Char such as Bin Essada and who do I wind up with? Cronus? No way... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Cronus.jpg K: good general from Thrawn's era, too bad he loved C'Baoth, albeith unwillingly. http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/Covell.jpg N: One royal guard is enough for me. Looking for suggestions. Please, do not propose too many jedi, or balance will be ruined... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/CarnorJax.jpg

Send them a Viscount and the pirates will cry Hey Lavo, if I build a fleet of Dreadnoughts, which have (do they?) the slave rigging ability, would that make them stronger? How so?

And being not exactly sure of the meaning of "wankering", I'd add that a genuine copy with working cd keys that haven't been cracked or anything is mandatory if you don't want a minidump fest (thrust me, I've bought a Thai version that was probably used and its been hell, enven though vanilla worked like a charm...)

Is there something to be done about system.dat and the other one? Personally, this is how I proceed: There'S the description with encytext.dll Then I make sure sector and system names are working accordingly in texstra.dll 3- I replaced the planet in strategy.dll 4- When my sector has had all its modifications and is all set with the approximately correct positionning, I use RebEd in order to change the planet icon to what fits the most with the planet description. Is there anything else I should know? What about the systemsd.dat file? By the way, numbers where there for the sole purpose of identyfing which planet pic was associated with what planet description in this forum, nothing in-game there Oh, and thank you about the modification! Edit: the new descriptions don't seem to work. See e-mail for details.

Aye, I'll keep the classics. Positive, Vader and Palpy, however, I'm still working to fix the issues about Them supposedly being C'Baoth and Thrawn, which pisses me off (the voice more than anything...) Ty. I'm back to school, so modding activity will slow down. Still awaiting Darth Tex's modifications though. Any luck trying to do anything with this so far?

Thank you for letting me use your ressources. Of course, I'll be looking into this soon and see what I can use. Maybe I could use background pictures (I think I already used the Massassi temple one for the solo twins though...) I'd like to change the facility picture, perhaps, just throwing the idea around, incase another one had the idea and experimented with-it. I know reloaded used a modified picture for adv. shipyard, but I don't know... Also, which characters did you not know about? I'll try to update my list and perhaps post the imperial one tonight, or perhaps later, as tomorow already, its back to school!! PS: I work in a bar and tonight, when I was going for home, I quit at 3 AM. There was some chance to rain and I wanted to avoid getting in the thick of-it so I ran... Got intercepted by the police to be idied, lol! I think I'm done with the planet. I'll still get a look at yours, but I think I've got a fair selection of SW planets too, however, the non-sw ones are probably the most HQ and fit nicely in the SW universe anyway.Here are the planets and numbers to indicate what they are in the SW universe if applicable... http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y339/Mr_Phil_/Rebellion/PlanetFinal.jpg NEG: New Essential Guide 1: Gamorr (NEG) 2: Eriadu (NEG) 3: Slocket's planet 4: Ithor (NEG) 5: Venus by google image 6: Slocket's planet 7: Triton (NEG) 8: Rebellion/Slocket? 9: Slocket 10: Hoth (NEG) 11: Anoat (NEG) 12: Slocket's 13: Byss (NEG) 14: Reb's original modified by me 15: Bestine (NEG) 16: Duro (NEG) 17: Reb's ency pic adapted by me 18: Slocket'S 19: Taanab (NEG) 20: Raxus Prime (NEG) 21: Slocket's Mon Calamari 22: Reb's Coruscant ency pic (not so HQ, but still...) 23: Bakura (NEG) 24: Darth Tex's asteroid field 25: Csilla (NEG) 26: Reb's original from ency pic Yeah, one part of Credit is done

Okay, I've basically completed the planet enhancement process. Here'S the Alliance current pre-listing for Chars: -Ackbar -Wedge -Lando -Chewie -Dodonna -Madine -Rieekan -Airen Cracken -Drayson -Katarn -Corran Horn -Mara Jade -Bel Iblis -Karrde -Page -The Solo Twins (one card for both, so no Caedus out there ) -"Face" Loran -Booster Terrik -Iella -Ooryl -Elegos -Mirax -Winter -Gaeriel Captison -Brenn Tantor -Kirana Ti

I could make a list of the Characters I have, and specify which one I want to keep, which ones I feel should be replaced, which ones I'm not sure about and maybe add a wish-list... By the way, it is perfectly subjective which Characters I'm going to include, so if anyone don't like them, it'll be easy to replace which Characters are which. However, I am working hard to get the characters balanced, with the more powerful (Vader and Palpy) being somewhat stronger than the others.