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Originally posted by Palaiologos
Btw shouldn't you be working on finding ways to pay that debt of yours? With the frenchies winning yesterday you now owe me 3.000.010 Euros.
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Originally posted by curtsibling
Oddly, I am not getting the proper Great Wall units in my game...They are invisible.
Anyone else getting this?
IIRC, this has to do with the height of these units and the zoom. You guys are lucky you haven't gotten a RTFM from Merc. If you create sprites that are set at one notch lower than the max in Merc's utility, you can see the tall (i.e. invisible health bar units) at ctrl-z. Otherwise you'll need to set it at shift z. It's in his readme. After I shoot some lego baddies with my kid, I'll look it up and rephrase this in a more coherent manner.
@Curt: you can check this for me. If you change the zoom to shift-Z, do you see the GW?
Btw shouldn't you be working on finding ways to pay that debt of yours? With the frenchies winning yesterday you now owe me 3.000.010 Euros. And before you ask i am not accepting your ex as payment this time. No way i am falling for that again.
Once burned, twice shy, eh Palaiologos?
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IIRC, this has to do with the height of these units and the zoom. You guys are lucky you haven't gotten a RTFM from Merc. If you create sprites that are set at one notch lower than the max in Merc's utility, you can see the tall (i.e. invisible health bar units) at ctrl-z. Otherwise you'll need to set it at shift z. It's in his readme. After I shoot some lego baddies with my kid, I'll look it up and rephrase this in a more coherent manner.
@Curt: you can check this for me. If you change the zoom to shift-Z, do you see the GW?
Ah you're right - I always play on shift-z so I didn't notice. Are you saying that Mercator's SpriteGen doesn't work properly then?
Is there a solution Boco, or do I have to revert to health-bars on mountains and the Great Wall?
Edit: Answered my own question I think. SpriteGen defaults to a unit height of 768. Seems you have to choose 512 to get the desired effect.
Edit #2 No hang on, that gives me a strange ghost unit at the top of the map. Sh1t, I really don't know what I'm doing with this Can anyone help me out? Have you killed all those lego baddies yest Boco?
Ah you're right - I always play on shift-z so I didn't notice. Are you saying that Mercator's SpriteGen doesn't work properly then?
Well, technically SpriteGen works perfectly as advertised. Civ2 just has this problem with it.
Is there a solution Boco, or do I have to revert to health-bars on mountains and the Great Wall?
No workaround that I know. Perhaps you could have 2 static.spr files? One for the ctrlz players and another for the shiftz ones. If you opt for that, I could write a bat file.
Edit: Answered my own question I think. SpriteGen defaults to a unit height of 768. Seems you have to choose 512 to get the desired effect.
You got it.
Edit #2 No hang on, that gives me a strange ghost unit at the top of the map. Sh1t, I really don't know what I'm doing with this
The ghosts are normal, since the map is over 512 pixels tall. You're doing exactly what can be done with SpriteGen. Oops, I take back the incurable statement, but you won't like the cure. Change your screen res to 800x600 and use 512. That should get rid of the vast majority, if not all, of the ghosts.
Can anyone help me out? Have you killed all those lego baddies yest Boco?
The Lego universe is infested with a never-ending supply of baddies. Besides my kid is not above fragging, and then we chase each other in cycles of revenge.
Boco is correct on everything. (Including the RTFM )
The taller you make units, the more sure you can be you won't get the "ghost units", even on higher screen resolutions, but the more zoom levels will be affected and see the units disappear altogether.
If you create sprites that are set at one notch lower than the max in Merc's utility, you can see the tall (i.e. invisible health bar units) at ctrl-z. Otherwise you'll need to set it at shift z. It's in his readme. After I shoot some lego baddies with my kid, I'll look it up and rephrase this in a more coherent manner.
Once burned, twice shy, eh Palaiologos?
Change your screen res to 800x600 and use 512. That should get rid of the vast majority, if not all, of the ghosts.
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