Buckeye Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 Okay, there are some really great mods being developed for CM by Madmatt and his crew, but they are PC users and don't have the expertise to translate them for us Mac folks. Isn't there someone out there with the technical expertise to do the translations (or whatever is required)? I wish I had the skills, but I don't. Who's going to step up???? Heck, CM was written on a Mac. Are we going to let the PC users get away with this? Where's our pride? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott C Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 Well, my roommate is working on a mod right now (for the GD, of course, but he's setting it up to apply directly to the release version too) and, from what I see, it should be trivial to convert it. I'll give it a shot when he gets done and let people know how it works! ------------------ Questions, comments, arguments, refutations, criticisms, and/or sea stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4A Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Buckeye: Are we going to let the PC users get away with this? Where's our pride? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> No, we are NOT! There will be mods for the mac, even if I have to do it myself! Is there anyone working on this? Any comment from mod developers? Any comment fromBTS? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Posted June 16, 2000 Author Share Posted June 16, 2000 Hey Scott C and G4A, that's good news. I know that Madmatt and Kwazydog and others are willing to share their work (or at least that's what they've said). Rather than re-inventing the wheel, perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to translate their mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Madmatt Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 We (Mad-Dog team) keep asking for some assistance or commitment from someone to do the conversions for us. Every time the same three people say how easy it SHOULD be then we hear nothing more. So let me state for the record, without help THERE WILL BE NO MAC VERSION OF THE MDMP MOD PACKS!!! Take it as a challenge, a request for help or with a grain of salt but please TAKE IT and someone contact ME with a commitment to help us... Madmatt Bill Carey? You listening my friend??? ------------------ If it's in Combat Mission, it's on Combat Mission HQ! CMHQ-Annex, The Alternative side of Combat Mission Combat Mission HQ CMHQ-Annex Proud members of the Combat Mission WebRing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Posted June 16, 2000 Author Share Posted June 16, 2000 Okay, Madmatt has laid down the gauntlet...who will rise to the challenge and defend Mac users' honor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmorse Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 There was some earlier discussion about this at http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/Forum1/HTML/005350.html Later in the thread was a reference by "Marty" to a utility. Converting PC files to MAC is very easy. A kind person in Germany has already written a free convertor utility you can download to your MAC. You then just drag and drop a single file or a group of files onto the icon and it will go through th conversion routine adding the resource fork. This should work just fine unless there is something really unusual about the CM file formats....The convertor is -Maconverter 1.1.2 located at... http://home.main-rheiner.de/soft.rabbit/ I have DL'd it but haven't yet tried it. Marty if your there? Or anyone else? [This message has been edited by jdmorse (edited 06-16-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Posted June 16, 2000 Author Share Posted June 16, 2000 Hey, Jdmorse, maybe you could ask Madmatt if he could provide a sample of the mods to try the utility with. Madmatt, are you listening? Unfortunately, I'm not convinced it will be so easy. I've used some converter utilities before, and they don't always work as advertised. It's not always just a matter of resource forks. But you can try it and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddy Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 I'll share what meager knowledge I have - talked with someone the other day on a chat and found out some things (some I already knew). Apparently the graphics are "bundled" (for lack of a better word) into Graphics 1, 2, etc. files. These can be opened with an application called Res Edit. Once there you will see a series of graphics in thumbnail rows. Select the one you wish to modify, copy it (Command C) and paste it into Adobe Photoshop (or some other graphics program, I guess). In Photoshop I know you modify the graphic. Once finished, copy the thing and then paste it where it came from to begin with. This is where I can't get it right. When I paste it into the file it automatically renames the file (which doesn't allow the game to find it - so it doesn't work). Basically I got it this far but I need help to go further. Oh yeah, ONE VERY IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER. MAKE A COPY OF THE GRAPHICS FILE BEFORE YOU SCREW WITH IT OR YOU MAY END UP WITH A MODIFIED FILE THAT DOESN'T WORK AND NO ORIGINAL TO FALL BACK ON. Copy the Graphics file to your desktop for safekeeping, modify the file in your game folder. If it doesn't work, simply trash the non-working modified file and replace with the original. That's all I know. Someone else maybe can pick it up from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4A Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 buddy, you need to open the PICT in ResEdit before you paste. Otherwise you're just making a new one. MadMatt, it would be easy, but I don't have the mod yet! And since you're not done yet, I didn't see the point in asking. I also don't have the game yet, so I wouldn't know which Graphic file to put the PICTs in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddy Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 Hey, that might work. Do you double-click the file in Res Edit to pop it open? Paste and then save? (Incidentally, I started a new thread on this...sorry, got impatient). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>We (Mad-Dog team) keep asking for some assistance or commitment from someone to do the conversions for us. Every time the same three people say how easy it SHOULD be then we hear nothing more.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hmm, this is the first I have heard about a request for help. I converted CoolColJ's mods, so I guess I'll just pick up your gauntlet and slap you with it Send me an e-mail telling me what you need done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddy Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 How to posted on Tips and Techniques forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye Posted June 16, 2000 Author Share Posted June 16, 2000 Alright!!! Way to go, Berlichtingen. I hope that Madmatt sees this, and follows through by working with you so that us Mac users also will be able to admire their MOD (and your) handiwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted June 16, 2000 Share Posted June 16, 2000 Let's carry this over to Tips & Techniques. I started a new thread "Mac Mods" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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