Need help here!

Chrono Crusade

Alright, sorry for the last topic, which was offensive.
Firstly, let me thank everyone who has helped me so far.
Author of 101 XCC Mixing, Team Black
Cyborg Barrack Winner 2006, Lin Kuei Ominae
Titan *Posts: Denied*
They've help me a lot along with many others, who placed guides around.

Now, to the Core of the Problem.
I've managed to get the Ion Cannon SHP from Tiberian Dawn using the XCC Mixer. However, it isn't in the SHP(TS) type.

Everytime I try to turn it into a PCX file, it fails.
These are the things I did:
The ionbeam.shp is placed into the ecacche55 (I renamed it to replace)
Then, I right click and copy ionsfx as a PCX
Extracted it to a folder. Note that it has the same name, ionbeam.shp
When I placed it back into the eccache55, I noticed that it was still a SHP.

That leaves one question.
How do I convert a TD Ion Blast Animation to a TS Ion Blast Animation?

Any suggestions are welcomed.
Thank you.

IceDragon200 · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:44 am Post subject:

Lets see ...
Extract the TD ion blast.
Get OS Shp editor convert the td pallete to the TS anim pallette then save as ionbeam.shp(ts).
Then sipmly put that in an ecache.

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Chrono Crusade · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your answer! However, the colour turns weird when played in-game. it seems as though the ion cannon blast isn't compatible...

Orac · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:40 am Post subject:

Is it in the anim palette?

Chrono Crusade · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

I don't understand...?

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Basically your SHP is in the wrong palette. It has to be in the Tiberian Sun Anim.pal in order for it to turn out correctly in-game, you have to convert the .SHP you've extracted to use the new Tibeian Sun Animation palette (anim.pal).

Chrono Crusade · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:53 am Post subject:

I'm really sorry guys. I don't understand what I have to do. and also, If you think I'm ignoring your answers, I'm not.

This is what I do:

I open the the ionsfx.shp in OS Builder

and then I save it as TS SHP.

I don't know anything else other then that...

and also, the the anim.pal displays the ionsfx wrongly...

Rico · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:22 am Post subject:

when you save as shp u need to choose the palete (basically a list of colours), however I'll be converting the TD Ion cannon shortly so when I do I'll send you the shp as well.

Chrono Crusade · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:19 am Post subject:

Hello again. Oh and thank you Rico.

For my inactiveness, it's because my internet is down (My mother sent one E-Mail from daum and then my internet is all ****ed up...

Bittah Commander · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:52 am Post subject:

Here's a tutorial on how to convert the palette.

Also, old versions of DTA use a version of the Ion Cannon beam which looks like the one in TD and also falls from the sky like in TD with help of the meteor logic. This is probably the best way to do it, although the Ion Cannon beam newer versions of DTA use looks better in my opinion.
The falling Ion Cannon beam TD has just doesn't look right with high resolutions.

Still, if you decide to use a falling Ion Cannon beam anyway and use the meteor logic for it, take in mind that it will always take the same amount of time for a meteor to hit the ground. So this means that if you want the Ion Cannon beam to fall faster, you'll have to make it fall from a higher altitude (which'll naturally make it fall with a higher velocity, since it'll still take the exact same time for it to hit the ground).

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Chrono Crusade · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:21 am Post subject:

Oooh... Thank you!

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