New Tool: TS/RA2 SHP Radar Colour Editor

IcySon55 · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003 **Location**: Overworld

Original idea: IcySon55
Programmed by: Nyerguds
GUI design by: IcySon55

This handy tool allows you to quickly change the radar colours of SHP files, to prevent them from showing up as black on the in-game radar. This is useful for fixing tiberium, ore, gems, bridges, rocks, and any other overlay type.

Features:
-Drag & Drop interface allows very quick opening of files
-Colour picker for faster colour selection
-Three save modes:
* Saving the current colour to the current frame
* Saving the current colour to the first or last 50% of the frames (Useful to ignore shadow frames on some SHPs)
* Saving the current colour to all frames
-The "Store Colours" and "Save Stored" functions allow quick copying of all colour values from one SHP file to another. This is especially handy for fixing tiberium, since blue triberium looks odd if you don't use the original colour values.

Notes:
-Requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to run
-Based on a tutorial by Bittah Commander

Download

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Nyerguds · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:18 am Post subject:

Yay! Now Icy can colour his bridges in TAKTICS #Tongue

Oh, also thanks to Banshee for the note on identifying TS SHP files Smile

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gufu · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:21 am Post subject:

Does it change the innards of the game files? Or is it possible to implement as a MOD-only change?

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Nyerguds · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:

...please read this before asking silly questions...
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=145241

And mind the fact that reading all the information in the first post here and looking at the picture should make it very clear that this program edits SHP files.

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

Sweet! Just what the SHP artists needs. #Tongue

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Oh yeah! No more black veinholes!

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

Ah, a tool that is very usefull! Great job IcySon55 and Nyerguds Very Happy

Nyerguds · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Yuri 08 wrote:

Oh yeah! No more black veinholes!

I wouldn't be too sure about that... the radar colour of the veinhole SHP is actually brown, so it seems that the blackness isn't caused by that...

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Siberian GRemlin · Grenadier **Joined**: 13 Aug 2004 **Location**: Russia

IcySon55 wrote:

-Requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to run

Bad idea!

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Nyerguds wrote:

Yuri 08 wrote:

Oh yeah! No more black veinholes!

I wouldn't be too sure about that... the radar colour of the veinhole SHP is actually brown, so it seems that the blackness isn't caused by that...

Hmm...it might have been a modified veinhole SHP the last time I checked.

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IcySon55 · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003 **Location**: Overworld

Siberian GRemlin wrote:

IcySon55 wrote:

-Requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to run

Bad idea!

It was written in C#, what did you expect?

I really couldn't care less about your like or dislike for any given programming language or runtime package. We wrote this tool to be useful, end of story. If the user doesn't want the .NET Framework, too ztyping bad. They're lucky they even have the opportunity to use this program.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

@Yuri 08: I tested it ingame... no changes I made to the SHP changed the veinhole's radar colour ingame. It stayed black no matter what I did. It might have something to do with the fact it's a kind of building or something, and has an owner... like the civ buildings are grey...

@Siberian GRemlin: What should I use then? I tried VC++, but it's one big mess and I have no idea how to use any of it.
The only thing I've done in C++ were simple DOS programs. This stuff with .h and .cpp files is totally confusing me. What's the purpose of the .h files and why does my GUI appear in one of these?

At least in Java, all files are just .java classes, with the same rules & formatting. Confused

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azri_apoc · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

thanks man, this is really useful. Wink

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject:

Umm, forgot to check post date did we?
I know this is a good tool but don't bump please man.

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

As far as I see his post was a comment that motivates the makers of this tool to keep making great tools and stuff, not a spam, duwd... Please don't whine if some of us bumps the topics with good reasons like these...

Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Ok, sorry but usually if people bump a few weeks to say:
"Thanks Very Happy

really good"
it tends to wind people up, strange how it didn't here.

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Nyerguds · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject:

This post may have been caused by the fact I just put a link back here from Bittah's tutorial.

I should really repost this topic in the C&C tools section too though, so people can easily find it...

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