VNDragon's ZT1 Projects

[Goosifer]

4 hours ago, Fern said:

No it is because you two spoke spanish in his intro thread post. 

 

Oh that's funny. That was a different fella with the name MiguelAngel but I can see the confusion 

 

I wish I could be helpful with the animal coding but sadly I've only ever made buildings and scenery. Zarawatto for sure might know though when he sees the ping.

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

9 hours ago, MarineIguana97 said:

yo how can i change the plaque?

 

cPlaqueImageName = animals/spino/plmspino/plmspino

Let's start a graphic guide. First, load the exctracted .ztd into zoot. In this case, I'm extracting just a singe animal. You'll find the .uca and the graphic directory inside it:

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Inside the folder, you'll find a secondary folder whose name starts whit "pl-" followed by the animal name. In this case, it is "plpanda":

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Inside the plaque folder, you'll find a configuration file (.ani), a palette file (.pal) and a graphic file with no extension at all. For user created stuff, the file's default name is "N".

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Once you selected the N file, you have to click the frame editor. The feature with the screwdriver and the key in a green bg. It will open a secondary window:

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Inside the secondary window, you'll find the frame options, including adding, removing and exporting frames. Here you can load a new file and delete the previous one. NOTE: Plaque files must be indexed for a maximum of 256 colours. Also, the colour of the top-left corner will be selected as the background and will be erased for transparent by the program. The maximum size of the image are 175x190 pixels. You can use default backgrounds, but I see you have a new image. You can edit all these properties with a graphic editor software. I use GIMP.

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Once deleted the previous plaque frame, just click save. The window will close and in the first one will display the new picture. Done!

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This also works for icon and list icon frames.

[MarineIguana97]

5 hours ago, Zarawatto said:

Let's start a graphic guide. First, load the exctracted .ztd into zoot. In this case, I'm extracting just a singe animal. You'll find the .uca and the graphic directory inside it:

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Inside the folder, you'll find a secondary folder whose name starts whit "pl-" followed by the animal name. In this case, it is "plpanda":

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Inside the plaque folder, you'll find a configuration file (.ani), a palette file (.pal) and a graphic file with no extension at all. For user created stuff, the file's default name is "N".

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Once you selected the N file, you have to click the frame editor. The feature with the screwdriver and the key in a green bg. It will open a secondary window:

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Inside the secondary window, you'll find the frame options, including adding, removing and exporting frames. Here you can load a new file and delete the previous one. NOTE: Plaque files must be indexed for a maximum of 256 colours. Also, the colour of the top-left corner will be selected as the background and will be erased for transparent by the program. The maximum size of the image are 175x190 pixels. You can use default backgrounds, but I see you have a new image. You can edit all these properties with a graphic editor software. I use GIMP.

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Once deleted the previous plaque frame, just click save. The window will close and in the first one will display the new picture. Done!

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This also works for icon and list icon frames.

thank you for explain literally everything, but i still confuse why is your an image and my it's just "N" no " .___ " just "N"literally

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

1 minute ago, MarineIguana97 said:

thank you for explain literally everything, but i still confuse why is your an image and my it's just "N" no " .___ " just "N"literally

The graphic file has no extension. I mean, it is not a .jpg or .png file.

 

About this issue, it happened to me before when software finds metadata content that do not match the file directory.

 

Probably you changed the name of a folder or a file manually and, when zoot loads metadata, it finds a mismatch that result in this reading error.

[MarineIguana97]

8 minutes ago, Zarawatto said:

The graphic file has no extension. I mean, it is not a .jpg or .png file.

 

About this issue, it happened to me before when software finds metadata content that do not match the file directory.

 

Probably you changed the name of a folder or a file manually and, when zoot loads metadata, it finds a mismatch that result in this reading error.

 

it's still the same.

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

When I mean the file has no extension, it is because it works like that. You do not need to change the extension nor try to load with a graphic editor software.

 

Changing file names won't update metadata automatically and zoot (therefore, ZT game engine) won't load it properly.

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

I understand now what you're trying to do and why it won't work at all this way:

 

The Dino Accuracy Booster pack made by gorgeous VNDragon is a hack!

 

What does it mean? It modifies base game stuff by adding new information.

 

When you say you can not find the Spinosaurus plaque, it is because this pack does not contain any plaque. It uses the game base plaque located inside ZooTycoon original source.

 

However, you previously said you found the plaque for tarpan, bison, camel & deinonychus because these are new animals made from scratch and then, the pack contains a plaque within only for these ones.

 

If you want to change Spinosaurus' plaque, you should create a whole new hack that attaches the base game stuff in order to work.

[MarineIguana97]

so what you're saying it's to change the plaque i have create a whole new hack?

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

21 minutes ago, MarineIguana97 said:

so what you're saying it's to change the plaque i have create a whole new hack?

 

Yeah. It sounds harder than how difficult it actually is.

 

The issue is that hacks overwrite previous information. This means: if you use more than a hack for an item, the newer wil override the previous one.

 

So, if you want to create a new hack for Spinosaurus, any other hack of it previously installed including this one won't work.

 

Maybe a hack that only changes the plaque might work as an independent hack, but ZooTycoon has a limit of supported aditional material AND I can't assure it would run the Dino Accuracy Booster changes... Agh!

 

My suggestion is doing what I did for my Eoraptor. Create a new animal from scratch compatible with plain/vanilla game and another one for the hack version. That allows the player to pick the most suitable one for their game.