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Duke Falcon

A story like something out of a fantasy I used Win XP for a long time, also Win 7 --> I switched to Win11Pro for over a year I have been using CCleaner (not tools built into Win) for all these systems for many years I also recommend a program to monitor the entire computer - HWiNFO64 It will show t...

Duke Falcon

:howdy But why did you lose your work? Windows partially killed itself. I planned to move those files for USB, I usually do that every 6 months (that's why I only lost the maps and not the whole e-file). It started with slow loss of free space. I launch Window's own Disk cleanup what started to rem...

Duke Falcon

Because of a Windows collapse I lost most of the maps of my current project (46 maps range from 1920x1920 to 5000x5000)... A good lesson: Never let anything to save\store anything on the same drive where your Windows creeps! ... Ja, good lesson afterward... Some advertisement of my webcomic I wanna ...

Duke Falcon

Can submarines carry other units? And\or act as supply units? IIRC submarines can carry other units (all unit types can have hangars), and supply submarines have been something I was bugging Luis for years!... :lol Luis finally found this spring a solution using composite submarines (= a submarine ...

Duke Falcon

I vaguely remember it may were discussed before the forum's crash - and now not found that anywhere:

Can submarines carry other units? And\or act as supply units?
Because subs have different behaviour if I remember correctly...

Duke Falcon

Now that the forum luckily recovered...

My new E-file WiP

YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/n0RjsSMu058

DEMO download link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vipiz97x ... e.zip/file

Duke Falcon

Love the Xeno General efile! Exactly the kind of fighting I was looking for after Anomalous Operations. I like how the first campaign progressively gives you all these overpowered Taeron units and then you're stuck fighting for your life against them in the next Terran campaign and the Mantid one w...

Duke Falcon

Alrighty then... I do agree with the charm of 2D, it's just that even Heroes of Might and Magic are full 3D now... it's a sign of the times. How about an increase in the icon resolution at least? So that tank wheels do not appear as squares because of lack of available pixels... There are 17000+ ic...

Duke Falcon

I found a CD full of old DOS games yesterday (among them Panzer General!). I excavated whatever the OS could save from the old disc but some files seems corrupted... I tried to install Raptor: A call of shadows... Registered, full version, 3-disc install (1 disc for all episodes)... Disc 3 corrupted...

Duke Falcon

I have a strange question at first: Could it be disabled that units get supplied on the map if they not stay in a city\port\airfield? I want dedicated units being the only what can resupply other units with ammo&fuel. If I remember correctly reinforcement of damaged units could be disabled in a...

Duke Falcon

I have a strange question at first: Could it be disabled that units get supplied on the map if they not stay in a city\port\airfield? I want dedicated units being the only what can resupply other units with ammo&fuel. If I remember correctly reinforcement of damaged units could be disabled in a ...

Duke Falcon

I have a serious late with my current E-file WiP. Not sure when would it be ready even as a DEMO... But I started upload videos how I play Fantasy General: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaLipHU5XQ It's like kind of a new hobby or such... I plan to add some more new content to my YouTube channel o...

Duke Falcon

Greetings and Happy New Year! Long since I were here, right? And i hope Putins trojan Horse, Orban will leave the EU, sorry Duke, i hope we will stay friends. No worry, we hate him to. I want to remain in the EU but this "braindead dwarf" is to much of a russian-kisser gay for such an enli...

Duke Falcon

What was I saying back there? Active theater of war number 2 is now active. More campaigns for Duke Falcon's modern e~file. The doubt now is whether # 2 is enough to ignite the "big one" or if a number 3 will be required. The obvious candidate for that is much further east but its main ac...

Duke Falcon

So, I may end up at the wrong answer, so I thought better clarify just for sure:

Duke Falcon

For the next promotion ceremony:

Can I have the title of "Star captain"?
I fought and got it in MWO and it were always my most liked clanner rank! Something I wear with pride and honour!

Duke Falcon

Thanks, Sympatik! I just sketching a new e-file. This would be the first where I want to use special transports (hence the weight checkbox question). I know I read once how it works but I can't find it. And first time want to use trains to - not as transport but as combat crafts do able to transport...

Duke Falcon

Okay, I know it were maybe explained many times... But I decided to save such explanations to avoid ask the same stupid thing again and again like a dumb child... Plus not sure how much things changed with the latest executable and suite updates... What I am curious about and would appreciate if one...

Duke Falcon

Superlarge units
Units with a check box "superlarge" block adjacent hexes for other units to enter (like pg2 carriers did just this works on dry ground to).

Duke Falcon

Modern Warfare e-file is upgraded&updated! Unitpaedia is done, even for the near 50 new units added to the roosters. It have 10 campaign (latest is the Ukraine one with 7 scenario) mostly based on fictional events (hope so, see main post). 9 stand-alone scenarios, I recommend SAS8 & SAS9 to ...

Duke Falcon

It seems this year would not be the best ever... Not if fall back in april (or at least the oncology find it in april) would not enough. Summer seems not know the meaning of "kickass" and ruined half of our roof. It were an excellent experience to fix it albeit not the one I ever wanted. F...

Duke Falcon

VonHelvete wrote: ↑2023-06-04 13:57, Sunday Link for Xeno General is unavailable

It's available again! Zip's name is serious, password is: XG
Enjoy!

Duke Falcon

Okay, Modern Warfare E-file now have it's own download section in the FIRST POST!

Check it!

Duke Falcon

Greetings everyone! Question: Could helos use carriers? Considering that "helo" class is essentially "flak" in MW e-file I thought it is better if I ask if they could deploy on carriers or not. Well it depends how you configure helos and containers ... The best way would be if y...

Duke Falcon

Greetings everyone!

Question:
Could helos use carriers?
Considering that "helo" class is essentially "flak" in MW e-file I thought it is better if I ask if they could deploy on carriers or not.

Duke Falcon

Thanks Luis!
This would be more than handy!

Duke Falcon

Maybe not the right place but corresponds to OG anyway... How can I make a new, blank dat file? I use the icontools to remove old items from an existing openicons.dat then refill it with the new icons but that method is time-consuming at best... Is there any other way? EDIT: One more! Is there any w...

Duke Falcon

Making transparent the background of dialogs showing unit's stats is a bug or is intended ? I'd say that unit's stats are rather difficult to read, at least for me :dunno Transparency is a heritage of Xeno General, I used that as a base for GUI. EDIT: Try this one (only the Opengui folder is in the...

Duke Falcon

Yepp!
It iz fer realz! Checkit:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lr7ibgb3 ... r.zip/file

Now that it is done time to add new units, scenarios and an ukraine mini-campaign for the OG-conversion.
Like 5000x5000 pixel maps! Bit bigger than PG2\PeG's 1920x1920, ja?

Duke Falcon

Okay, conversion is finished! Here is the Modern Warfare's OG-ported version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/lr7ibgb39ut93u3/ModWar.zip/file Now time to add new units, scenarios and an ukraine mini-campaign to the e-file... KNOWN ISSUES: Leaders! Converting them from Peg is stupid. When try to chang...

Duke Falcon

I still work on some new units. For their icon-templates I would share when all would be done. So far a peek (with PS you could even use this now) + a favour! => Help me identify the submarines! Old stuffs I repolished but not found the corresponding txt file to know what were they made for... https...

Duke Falcon

OK. I again work on the conversion to Modern Warfare to PeG. Thanks for PeeDee I could easily fix the fuel "bug" of the conversion! Some new maps for stand-alone scenarios are also under making. Not plan any new campaign now but if I finish quickly with the conversion a 4-6 scenarios ukrai...

Duke Falcon

...yes, Fantasy G was (afaik) never modified much/any maybe, i don't know reason but it was (for me) most challenging SSI-gen title and never finished it when i was kid... so i'm trying it now and then now, have the game (it is Dos title btw) and giving it some time. Maybe my tactics and army compo...

Duke Falcon

@PeeDee Thanks! I would run the process through when I could (perhaps it works even for scenarios). @Bombast I listed it among the known issues but I fixed only the aircrafts in a haste because 0 fuel in their case is... Sensitive? Otherwise I would really fix the issues I know or would be found. No...

Duke Falcon

Okay, first the link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/lr7ibgb39ut93u3/ModWar.zip/file This is the DEMO of the Modern Warfare's conversion from PeG to OG. Far from perfect but since I would have a hard time coming (yeah, things seems to love turn upside-down when you think you passed the worst) I thou...

Duke Falcon

:howdy Instead of manually finding which icons have an alpha channel - you can subject all of them to an automatic process - removing the alpha channel (whether it is or not) --> you can use batch processing You open IrfanView You press the "B" key on your keyboard Select directory - sour...

Duke Falcon

Quick question: Is there an easy way to check which icons have alpha-infestation? Or could we have some sign in Suite for that? IrfanView clears alpha nicely from those icons I knew contained it. Not sure how many still has because I converted only three campaigns from PeG so far and those nations n...

Duke Falcon

So far 3 campaigns converted from PeG Modern Warfare to OG version. Pffff... Not as easy as I thought to convert all those stuffs :P Literally all scenarios need to fix manually because some attributes (fuel for planes) are miss (hah, looks good when crash at the end of turn!). Campaigns and scenari...

Duke Falcon

I'll re-check if I can do something to convert 32 bits/pixel to 24 bits/pixel when loading images in a way I don't need to throw out all graphic system.

Thanks!

+I try this IrfanView what sympayk suggested. Try to get rid alphas with it so long.

Duke Falcon

When i design OG icons and maps with photoshop, i choose "save for web" and then simply save them as png-8-bit. There is a checkbox for transparency, that is unchecked of course. It means if I remember correctly that your icons are all indexed (use a custom palette of 256 colours but not ...

Duke Falcon

So you want to create png icons for Open General, correct? I ask because you mention png and bmp. Yepp. So long my method were make the icon in PhotoShop, saved as BMP to revent alpha-channel (PS adds that but not sure really why...). Then load in Paint and saved as PNG because XP's Paint saved PNG...

Duke Falcon

Okay, I admit I often pestered by the alpha-channels thus thought I ask it: Could be OG handle png files with alphas? Not sure how hard to code it into the engine so this is a question so far... I tried ImageMagick what Csaba recommended but my Win7 neglect to use it anyway (after install it the win...

Duke Falcon

New year and I am back to work on ModWar to OG conversion... And I decided to add some new scenarios and units for it. Ukrano-russo war provides lots of new stand alone scenario ideas like escalated frontiers (lots'o'nationz versus lots'o'nationz on huge 5000x5000 pixels map!)... I hope around the e...

Duke Falcon

Greetings everyone and Happy New Year! Question derived from the crappy S16=>PNG conversion: OG use split by 3 for collages (240x150 become 3x3 80x50 icons) but after the split the icons could be still split by 3 (81x51 for example) or OG would split those again? Converting S16 files to PNG resulted...

Duke Falcon

I post the following into the PeG sub-section albeit it literally belongs to here instead... So: Today I tried the conversion with the OG.exe to play test a bit... Error with the units' loading occured: ... GER30 not found, neither external nor in DatFile.dat ... Of course there IS an openicons.dat...

Duke Falcon

Another update occured (links and archive names are the same but the content expanded). Next would be around the end of november\dawn of december.

If you have theme suggestions, feel free to write it! If I could I would try to accomplish that (again, no promises)!

Duke Falcon

I post the following into the PeG sub-section albeit it literally belongs to here instead... So: Today I tried the conversion with the OG.exe to play test a bit... Error with the units' loading occured: ... GER30 not found, neither external nor in DatFile.dat ... Of course there IS an openicons.dat ...

Duke Falcon

Today I tried the conversion with the OG.exe to play test a bit... Error with the units' loading occured: ... GER30 not found, neither external nor in DatFile.dat ... Of course there IS an openicons.dat but it uses the s16 files the conversion brought from the modwar.dat. So, either OG not supports ...

Duke Falcon

First of all: Thanks for the answers and help everyone! Luckily enough I kept the bmp versions of ModWar maps so I easily converted them to jpg. Were strange not to use and have mapx files but the converted scenarios really brought their terrain datas just the map pictures needed to re-choose... Con...

Duke Falcon

Dates fixed.
Next big black spot would be the maps. I have no clue currently how to convert them into mapx format...

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