Does anyone know who to change the engine burn pictures when a ship is in hyperspace? I.E. When I look at a fleet in hyperspace it shows a picture of the engines burning. When you change out a model it does not change out he engine burn to match the ship. I want to change these to match the new models.

Given everything is available somewhere by using resource hacker, I guess if you did some methodical searching using that tool, you'll find it somewhere; and be able to import a new image.

 

When you do, let the rest of us know, dude!

What can I use to look at the information in resource hacker?

Actually, Resource Hacker is a tool that lets you view what's contained in the Rebellion DLLs.

 

I think the blue hyperspace engine burns are in the gokres.dll bitmaps, starting at around position 22080.

 

You can also use the DLL entries editor in Rebed to view and replace the bitmaps in the Rebellion DLLs, if you haven't downloaded ResHack yet.

 

Good luck!

I was refering to the raw binary that is shown when you look at a ship model. But if it is just a bit map then I will go searching. The gokres.dll sounds like a good place to start. Thanks

They're indeed in the GOKRES.DLL. The bitmaps concernec are 5442 up to and including 6030 and bitmaps 21826 up to and including 22414.

 

P.S. - If you ever want to quickly assess such things, download Resource Explorer: looking this up took me about thirty seconds...

Where can I find resource explorer

Check out the_mask's site. He used to offer it as a download from the SWR section.

I stumbled across some hyperspace backgrounds for ships this morning whilst looking for something else.

 

Have a look in Strategy.DLL, numbers 10426 and 10423; might be what you're looking for!

So, Rebed does not change the damage pictures (masks). Likely it also doesn't change the hyperspace masks. A few points for a new editor.

Right, they are just additional pics with bluescreens that are used as a layer over the pic of the ship. That's done by the game, so you "just" would need the location of these. They are also in the GOKRES.dll, below the hyperspace drive flares. I don't know the order, but I suspect the same as in the capships.dat file.