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Post by **DCER** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:36 pm

Thanks Peter, I'll get it fixed.

Post by **Peter1981** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:54 pm

Great no rush thou just kept freeking out when the kaylar kept becoming a malconian!!

thanks for the quick reply look forward to the update.

Post by **JeanLucPicard1** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:08 am

I'd also like to point out that you can't remove buildings from the civilization level under starting buildings in the latest edition.

Post by **DCER** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:33 pm

Done.

I'll upload the new version in a couple of days when I finish implementing the option to edit lists of buildings in a saved game. Had it partially done two months ago, i thought I'd complete it now.

I couldn't reproduce the bug with the image selection in the race screen. For some reason the image always sticks for me, even in dev11e. I've cleaned up the code a bit now - hopefully that will fix the issue in the new version. Couldn't figure out what could be causing the bug

Post by **Peter1981** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:23 pm

sorry to be a pain in the ass DCER - I have been wanting to ask for this for ages but never really wanted to bother you:-

Please is it possible to add some zoom functionality to the GUI -- I have a 1920 x 1080 x 32bit 32" monitor and sit 3-4ft away from the screen. However i find it difficult to read the screens in UE. Even just a doubling of the font size would be great. If this is difficult to implement (I don't know any java) then don't bother.

Thanks

Post by **DCER** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:55 pm

I'll add the option, but the GUI wasn't made with this in mind, some newer screens might survive it - the older code will likely just produce unusable screens. I'll have to fix those that break later then (may take some time).

Post by **Peter1981** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:18 pm

Thanks DCER for the quick reply, hopefully a simple and quick solution is all it'll take; UE looked fine when i sat at a desk with the old desktop -- or on my laptop -- but multimedia platform needs bigger fonts. Thanks

Post by **DCER** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:15 am

Ok, uploaded dev 12.

It has the option to set the font size. I was surprised that most of the screens worked off the bat, only a few required minor fixes. If you find any problems with the font size being bigger let me know.

Additional features are editing lists of structures in saved games and some bug fixes.

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:56 pm

The larger fonts are a great help - thanks for this DCER

Post by **DCER** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:12 pm

No problem.

Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:37 am

Tethys wrote:I was under the impression that changing of all offsets containing 0A to something higher (eg 0F) would 'unlock' the propulsion techs somehow, but without knowing how custom range values are handled by UE and Botf there is no way for me to test it. Rereading SCTs post has given me the idea that its a space issue, that all the propulsion techs are handled in trek.exe and not by the tech tree, so Im assuming the only way to extend map ranges is to hex edit trek.exe and change reference pointers to compensate for smaller bytes.

The code space issue is solved via the shared bonus ranges option. So you just have to change 8 bytes in trek.exe (4 for shared ranges + 4 for the tech limits) and enter the shared bonus ranges in the UE menus for the former empire bonus ranges (ascending order: car/fed/fer/kli/rom).

Example: Gowrons fix option with tech limit 15(dec)

UE Menus for bonus ranges:

Card 1-11 = shared 0-10
Fed 1-5 = shared 11-15

Fed 6-11 & fer/kli/rom can be ignored.

Just do the maths! [EDIT: too clear words removed]

I see no reason that DCER sits down for hours to create complex case differentiations and new user interfaces(unless DCER can do this in a few minutes).

Post by **DCER** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:31 pm

Spocks-cuddly-tribble wrote:(unless DCER can do this in a few minutes).

I wish I was that fast

To be honest I'm not too keen on adding trek.exe editing features because all the different versions of changes can make the code quite complicated and prone to errors. A small change and it makes UE incompatible. I'm also considering just dropping support for the vanilla 1.02 version of trek.exe and only supporting the Joker's patch to make things easier.

But it's ok to ask, I might add it anyway.

Post by **Peter1981** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:08 pm

does multi-mod 1.02 already contain jokers patch? if so then I can't think you'd need to continue the support for the CD original 1.02 vesion?

I also agree with SCT:-

I see no reason that DCER sits down for hours to create complex case differentiations and new user interfaces(unless DCER can do this in a few minutes).

Post by **Peter1981** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:34 pm

Sorry DCER minor issue with latest UE 0.7.1dev12:-

having loaded Stbof.res -

EDIT -> GALAXY -> MAXIMUM PLANET POPULATIONS

drop down menu 'Planet Size'

I cannot select 'medium' or 'large' it always reverts to 'small' weather using mouse or keybord navigation. (hope this is an easy one for you to fix)

Post by **DCER** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:57 pm

As far as I know all multi mods are based on Joker's patch.

I'll have the bug fixed, thanks for reporting it!