Forum for Phoenix 8 (#48)

[Posting] No starship image
Thread opener
Posted Sun, 2020-07-05 21:06 GMT

This is not a bug nor a problem. My Winplan do not show me a picture of my ships (I have a Hansa Class Transport).
In the starbase screen it shows all the ships pictures (the Hansa looks like a LDSF) but in the ships menu I have no picture, just a text saying "Accessing Pixel Matrix".

BTW I have read years ago some enthusiastic player made a new set of different images you can use in your Winplan, perhaps you know where to download it and it can help my problem.
I think it was at CircusMaximus download zone.

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Player 1 (The Feds)
Posted Sun, 2020-07-05 21:14 GMT

I think you mean the file resource.pln, if you don't have a copy tell me your email and I'll send it to you.

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Player 4 (The Klingons)
Posted Sun, 2020-07-05 21:33 GMT, edited Sun, 2020-07-05 21:34 GMT

I think you mean the file resource.pln

You can also grab RESOURCE.PLN from the VPA support files zip file here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpa/files/VPA%20Support%20Files/v2/vpasupp2.zip/download

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Thread opener
Posted Sun, 2020-07-05 22:13 GMT

I think you mean the file resource.pln, if you don't have a copy tell me your email and I'll send it to you.

Thank you, this is my email:
aleortu@yahoo.com :smile: Tell me in wich folder should I place it, in the main Winplan folder or in VPWORK7 folder of this game.

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Thread opener
Posted Sun, 2020-07-05 22:17 GMT

I think you mean the file resource.pln

You can also grab RESOURCE.PLN from the VPA support files zip file here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vpa/files/VPA%20Support%20Files/v2/vpasupp2.zip/download

Thank you!
It worked.:cool:
It must go in the Winplan folder.

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Posted Mon, 2020-07-06 16:11 GMT

Thank you!
It worked.:cool:
It must go in the Winplan folder.

Now I'm curious. You got Winplan to use resource.pln? Normally, Winplan uses a bunch of *.bmp files, and I don't know of it behaving different in ship building and ship control screen.

--Stefan

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Thread opener
Posted Mon, 2020-07-06 21:10 GMT, edited Mon, 2020-07-06 21:11 GMT

Now I'm curious. You got Winplan to use resource.pln? Normally, Winplan uses a bunch of *.bmp files, and I don't know of it behaving different in ship building and ship control screen.

--Stefan

Yes, there is a folder call BMP full of them, but it seems it do not work in Plist2.4 ships designs.
But as I said, I entered the Starbase screen and surfed the hulls to build, and these images were displayed!

[Posting] Re: No starship image
Player 4 (The Klingons)
Posted Tue, 2020-07-07 02:45 GMT

Now I'm curious. You got Winplan to use resource.pln?

Now your curiosity piqued my curiosity, so I had to write a resource.pln viewer tool for my site :tongue:

I have learned things tonight. Archaic things, such as planar graphics :eek:

This is a testing version.
It may be incomplete, and have more bugs (or features) than the public live version at planetscentral.com.