Mon Sep 08, 2003 12:58 am
Planetary infocards
Hello,
I have a question about planetary infocards. How does one get the incremental effect to work with custom infocards? That is, as you approach a planet for the first time the infocard displays only statistics like the mass, diameter, etc. whereas after landing the card also displays info about the commodities and ships available, as well as the descriptive paragraph. The objects in the system ini files have only one ids_info tag and yet there can be two xml resources in the infocards dll for a given planet. At first I thought the game just incremented the resource ID by one to get the next part of the card but, if that is the case, then it doesn't seem to work for the planet in the test system I have created (it only displays the first resource entry). I have not had any other trouble getting custom dll resources to work.
Any insight would be appreciated.
awm3
I have a question about planetary infocards. How does one get the incremental effect to work with custom infocards? That is, as you approach a planet for the first time the infocard displays only statistics like the mass, diameter, etc. whereas after landing the card also displays info about the commodities and ships available, as well as the descriptive paragraph. The objects in the system ini files have only one ids_info tag and yet there can be two xml resources in the infocards dll for a given planet. At first I thought the game just incremented the resource ID by one to get the next part of the card but, if that is the case, then it doesn't seem to work for the planet in the test system I have created (it only displays the first resource entry). I have not had any other trouble getting custom dll resources to work.
Any insight would be appreciated.
awm3