Real question is do I need that or will notepad actually work?
I mean, I am not wanting to make pictures, but just write descriptions.

Notpad will work, I think, but it'll just be plain, uncolored text.

Color is nice, but like to get the game into testing, and can add them again later with color right, just have to do another TWA but it would be included.?

I think so.

quote:Originally posted by Harley Nuss (teamEIS)

Notpad will work, I think, but it'll just be plain, uncolored text.

Yes NOTEPAD will work for the .txt discriptions but players with Animation on can not read them unless you do the text in ansi and then change the extention to .txt

You do not have to have graphics in your ansi but that is the way
tw2002 main program sees files , so when the extention is .txt it still sees the file in its code as ansi and will display it even
with the renamed extention.

I've done it both ways over the years .
I find the way I discribed , works best.
But like life .. your free to do it your way.
I just prefer the right way , time and testing has shown me.

Since I use win98 se i think note pad suxs. I now use editlite. textpad works great too, links to them found here:
http://www.geocities.com/tradewarrior55/ToolsFiles.html

BTW Acid Draw is an ansi editor that is free:
http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10141 ... ag=lst-0-1

oops missed the post on acid draw sorry for double posting.

u know if u accidentally post u can delete it right.. anywho, refering to topic, if you dont make it an ansi and whatever and people with animation on cant read it etc... who plays with animation on? i think just do what you gotta do, i dont think all the extra work is needed so the 3 people who play with animation on will be able to read game descriptions for a game they wont be able to play cause theyll be dead.. so to sum up, do what you do, avoid extra unneeded work though, just a waste of time imo.
Slim

quote:Originally posted by Slim Shady

u know if u accidentally post u can delete it right.. anywho, refering to topic, if you dont make it an ansi and whatever and people with animation on cant read it etc... who plays with animation on? i think just do what you gotta do, i dont think all the extra work is needed so the 3 people who play with animation on will be able to read game descriptions for a game they wont be able to play cause theyll be dead.. so to sum up, do what you do, avoid extra unneeded work though, just a waste of time imo.
Slim

Seems you missed the point ...
Someone asked how do I put info in SD library ..
Try it on stock game .. with animation off , those files cant
be seen in SD.

This is why I suggested making file in an ansi editor and naming it with .txt at the end.

This way everyone can read them and they show correctly.
Your welcome to try ..let everyone know if you can find a way other then what I have already disclosed.

So Vid Kid, what you are saying is if you have animation off you can't view the library?

The reason is I have a lot of alien ships, and the players will want those ships so I was actually going to put stats in that area, for I feel that is the only area for them to be right?

So does that mean I have to do them the way you suggest?

its very easy to do them in an ansi editor, just type them in as text, pick a standard font and type away. You can make them any color you wish, or you can leave the white. Save the file as ansi, with an extention of .txt Load them into the game and it works.

quote:Originally posted by Narkon

So Vid Kid, what you are saying is if you have animation off you can't view the library?

The reason is I have a lot of alien ships, and the players will want those ships so I was actually going to put stats in that area, for I feel that is the only area for them to be right?

So does that mean I have to do them the way you suggest?

one word .. correct

Alot of posts on this subject! That's amazing, because when ever I enter a Gold game the first thing I do is look at the game descriptions with ansi on, all excited to see what the game ops ideas were, I have ONLY ever got "no information available."

As for the Draw, I've been playing with the draw now for at least 36 hours, you CANNOT use it for twars ansi's as far as I can tell. The smallest ansi that program makes is 80X25 and twars ansi's are limited to 76X16 and 76X23. EVERY ansi I made turned up scrambled in the game, and since I weeetaaaded, it took me 36 hours to figure out why I tried to find a way to set the ansi's the draw made lower and it's just not possible.

Then, I went on to the Brush, it too was limited to 80X25. I then downloaded AcidDraw (after searching for hours for it). Got runtime errors trying to load it. I have played with Poster 1.2 (for conversion), it's limited to 80x25 as well. EVERY ansi editor I found and tried is limited to 80x25 and won't let me make an ansi small enough for twars.

Maybe, Vid, you can explain to me how you use The Draw to make ansi's for twars? I don't see how.

I already figured out that trick about making ansi descriptions and labeling them .txt! That's the only thing I got to work right, but they too were scrambled because of the 80x25 size of the ansis.

Man, I have played with at least 8 ansi editors, converters, and creators in the last 36 hours, and they allow you to set the line limit to 16 when you create the file, however, the file still comes out with 25 lines, waaaay too big for twars.

I created some awesome ansi's though, too bad they are all unusable!

Whew I'm tired of messing with this. You know, slim shady's argument is starting to sound better and better to me. Who really looks at those ansi's anyway?

quote:Originally posted by Tradewarrior55

BTW Acid Draw is an ansi editor that is free:
http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10141 ... ag=lst-0-1


I went to that site downloaded it (again) extracted it, and clicked on the program icon, got a window saying AcidDraw.exe is not a valid windows application.

Sigh