Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:32 pm
Empty DLL problem (doubled-p numbers!)
Well, I used the empty dll from Giskard for my MOd of course, already had added a bunch of names for planets, moons etc. until I found a problem. The first IDS_name and IDS_info entries have the same numbers! That resulted, for example, in the Mercury "system", when you had a char there in the char selection screen it would show "start here" since I hadn't added any infocards yet and those words were still in the info entry with the same number 458753.
Now, that is a real problem, making this IDS entry empty destroyed my DLL sort of, as I could not open that IDS_info anymore...
And in the char screen, the field was just blank, where it should have said "Mercury".
Well, the question is, how to deal with this, except copying all stuff from the ids_name to the ids_info with the same number? Which pretty muhc doubles up the time required to make the resources. It's really annoying since this already screwed my dll and I have to make about 20 new names again into the empty dll, while having no idea how I could solve the ids_info problem then...
My only idea is to leave the "start here" alone, start with the next entry for a name and then use some numbers for idsname, some for idsinfo, that means some have to be left out there.
Actually, I had hoped that the start values would have been like 458753 for ids_name and 459753 for ids_info or so, similar to the scheme of the original files...
Now, that is a real problem, making this IDS entry empty destroyed my DLL sort of, as I could not open that IDS_info anymore...
And in the char screen, the field was just blank, where it should have said "Mercury".
Well, the question is, how to deal with this, except copying all stuff from the ids_name to the ids_info with the same number? Which pretty muhc doubles up the time required to make the resources. It's really annoying since this already screwed my dll and I have to make about 20 new names again into the empty dll, while having no idea how I could solve the ids_info problem then...
My only idea is to leave the "start here" alone, start with the next entry for a name and then use some numbers for idsname, some for idsinfo, that means some have to be left out there.
Actually, I had hoped that the start values would have been like 458753 for ids_name and 459753 for ids_info or so, similar to the scheme of the original files...
