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Such a shame. Btw, if it were EAX2.0, would that run on Linux?

Silent Hill2 was the best of the series (haven´t tried the latest, don´t think I will so soon), had one of the most mature stories I ever saw in a video-game. You can try Silent Hill 1 on a PlayStation1, at least the graphics will creep you out... I plan to play Bikerdudes´s mission on Halloween, if it get´s released then...

Besides the 'Underwater'-set that you posted in this thread, are there more Presets evolved in the meantime? Dave, you should make more advertisement for this, it seems no one (so far) is going to use it. But it´s so easy, I as a complete Newb, had no problems to get it running in Crown of Penitence. I guess most of the TDM-players can 'hear' EAX4.0, right?

And Sotha, did you had a look? I successfully implemented EAX into German Crown of Penitence and it really was as easy as I said. We only would need more presets, but the existing ones are very good as basic.

Ah, thanks Greebo. It says: But I don´t get the meaning of "relative to parent". I got the impression that the very last value is for how long the text will be displayed. (left, up, right, down) Ah, now I think I got it: the second 'x/y' defines how much pixels it is away from the first 'x/y'-position... Yeah, I´m such a genius...

It is left, up, down & right, right?

There is no tut for the animated Briefing, right? Can someone please explain the following four values please?: rect 25,120,540,580 It seems the first is where the text begins and the last where it ends, so what are the middle values for? Is it up, left, right, down in pixels? And how much pixel has the whole screen?

When you add/change only readables(or other little stuff) next time you only have to 'runaas' instead of a full dmap. It´s a lot faster!!!

Ahem, of course I do know that, I just wanted to be sure I don´t miss sth... Then again, a patch with the weapon-bug-fix would only be this 4 MB dll-file, right?

Ho, it´s amazing to see things evolve like this...

Grayman, you´re earning a lot more of respect around here every day...

Oh yes, I had the impression of 'Next/Next/Prev/Prev' but I was wrong as I see now, sorry. The most confusion part must´ve been that BriefingPicture2 I had to use for Text3 and some pictures had to be shown for two text-stages. Of course not your fault! Try out Dave´s EAXdemo and open the map, from what I see it´s pretty easy. Just location_info for visportaled/doored rooms and separators in the doorways. And the efx-file. Only bottom-line is that every room needs it´s own definition, because you can use a location-name only once. You can use Dave´s settings as presets. But, hell, I haven´t tried it yet myself, but tomorrow I´ll play around with it... If you don´t have the Hardware for EAX4.0 I can test it for you!

Hehe, nice. I´d like to have 'resident wildman' beneath my avatar instead of 'Advanced Member', though 'Ambiance Addict' I´d like a little bit more... Erm, yes, I still have dreams of someone releasing a little patch to fix this bug. Though, compiling the whole mod for such a little fix a month before release, well, it´s not that worth the effort I guess... Why can´t there be an inventory.def-file where you can set 'Fix weapon-bug' from '0' to '1'? If I were god things were much more easy, oh, I´m drifting again... While we´re at it, when 1.03 comes out, where will the fix will be in? In some .dll or what?

Hey, nice. But you should move, äh, a mod should move this into Editor´s guild...

Well, COOP is sth I would like a lot more than switching characters in a 'real' mission...

Hmm, it´s time to finish your Teleport-technology you were surely working on... Oh, I just converted the German briefing for Crown of Penitence into Sotha´s GUI and it´s easy to have the Pictures floating into the next or previous page. I´m sure one can add the other stuff too... Though I have to say, the order of the Next/Prev-stages confused me a little... But I just need to get used to them, was my first time I messed around with briefing anyway. So, THANKS AGAIN Sotha, I really love it. I´ll add this to every FM I have in the next days/weeks... But next I´ll try to add EAX into the map and that leads me to another question I asked Sotha: Will there be EAX-support in your map?

Thanks, Sotha!! I love it! And I´m glad that it seems that I wasn´t the only one having problems reading the old briefings in time... Did you looked in the meantime at both guis? Is it still that easy? Of course this would please all of us. OTOH, a simple PAUSE-function would be the most easy/pleasing thing. This stuff suites best for narrated briefings, but when you have to read you won´t notice most of the images or even sounds, though I would love to have sound-effects in it, but they best fit when you read special words/sentences and again, better fits with narrated stuff. But hell, who has a Narrator at hand, I know. But if it is the same code, then the 'floating' text and such could be added to Sotha´s gui between the pages, couldn´t it? That would be great to have, is that sth you can do before breakfast too?

Ah, that´s it, thanks, Nils!

I couldn´t find a wiki-article about the Loading-Screen. Adding a new Loading-screen and changing Loadingbar-text and so on... Ideally it would be located under L for Loading Screen changes.

The ingame-shots look beautiful, very good work, Nosslak! Keep them coming...

Very good, I would place the arrows in the middle, left and right of the text. Maybe some evolved version of the menu-mouse-pointer as graphic... Maybe there is an old pointer available? Team-members? I wouldn´t like the 'Exit'-text, a symbol would be more fitting in my opinion. The X-idea is not bad. Actually I´m working with 7upMan on the German translation of Crown of Penitence, I would love to implement this as an option (Player would have to copy/paste manually).

Cool Sotha!! After you´re finished I´ll try to implement it to my copies of the existing FMs.

Thank you, Serpentine & Tels for your feedback. I´ll try one of these in the next days, first I have to decide which one first. While Antivir took five hours I can reckon with a lot of hours for my 465GB (237GB free) HardDrive, just to get Windows-Update working again, I´m sure some of you think that I´m better off without it...

It would be soooooooo cool if you could achieve this, Sotha! Sometimes I don´t even have time to watch the Screenshots while re-reading the text before I couldn´t get all on the first run. And the more I play the briefing the more I lose atmosphere... BTW, do you have EAX-support implemented?

Just a quick question for virus-stuff: How to erase 'hidden drivers' that hide possible malicious stuff? I seem to have such a thing because my Windows-update can´t connect. Also I got very often these damn pages popping up after I opened something new. Not side-related, it even happens after I opened the forums here. (I posted a list with these sites in a thread while ago) Recently I let Ad-aware and Avira Anti-Vir over my disk during Save-mode (in German: Abgesicherter Modus), the thing you select (F8 during boot) to just start windows with needed stuff, but nothing was to be found. Oh, btw, I have WinXP SP3 32-bit. (Last win-update I think was in April/June)