Raise different pirate flags

[Pieter Boelen]

What does the "ch.Flags.Personal.texture" attribute do? I thought the personal flag was entirely controlled by "ch.Flags.Personal". For example, from "initModels.c", specifically the definition for Johan Elting:

model.Flags.Personal = 9;

That translates to second row, third flag, which indeed is Elting's personal flag - the one with red, black, red horizontal stripes and three white X's on the black stripe. Likewise, for Roxanne Lalliere:

model.Flags.Pirate = 27;
model.Flags.Personal = 40;

So the pirate flag would be fourth row, flag 7, while the personal flag would be sixth row, flag 6 - the red flag with the white mermaid and the red flag with the yellow cross, respectively.

It differs between the "start storyline" code and the "actual ingame code".
It gets converted from a "single number" to an "index on the texture" and "number of that texture".

 

[Jack Rackham]

For land use:

ch.Flags.Personal = 3; flag nr 4 from left
ch.Flags.Personal.texture = 4; from perflg5.tga
is the swedish

for ship use as you said.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Ingame, you have to use that for both.

The single variable method works ONLY when starting a new game.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I did reset everything in flags.c and set commander nation = AMERICA which doesn't exist
in the golden age of piracy. This to get the black flag which is ok.

Even better would be if I could change that black flag to Teach's. Any problems for the rest of the game?
This would be only in frtflg3.tga

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If that works, GO FOR IT!
Sounds like a pretty good solution.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Can someone tell me which the flags in perflg5.tga are.
I think I recognize nr 4.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Can someone tell me which the flags in perflg5.tga are.
I think I recognize nr 4.

Can you post that file here as JPG/PNG?
Otherwise I won't be able to check until tonight.

 

[ANSEL]

I think this is the one:

 

[Grey Roger]

I suspect @Jack Rackham is counting from 1, which means flag 4 is the Swedish one. Anyway, here as requested is a JPG version:

Number 1 is John "Lucky Jack" Aubrey, a.k.a. Master and Commander. Number 2 looks Prussian. Number 3 is the harp flag for "Brave Black Flag". Number 5 looks like a variant of a Scottish lion rampant. Number 6 is the American First Navy Jack. And number 7 looks vaguely Spanish.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Number 5 looks like a variant of a Scottish lion rampant.

Is it? I always thought it was something Dutch-ish.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Thanks for that @Grey Roger.

 

[Jack Rackham]

I replaced the black "american" flag in frtflg3.tga and now it's fun again.

 

[Grey Roger]

Is it? I always thought it was something Dutch-ish.

I said "looks like". It may indeed be something Dutch, especially if you can identify it as such. The Scottish one doesn't have a scimitar.

 

[Levis]

Yup number five is from the "Staten General" from the netherlands
The States-General (The Netherlands)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I replaced the black "american" flag in frtflg3.tga and now it's fun again.

It worked then? AWESOME!