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A short message in a bottle

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dendee

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Ahoy there mateys! I apologise for my temporary absence from the crowd. The reason for this is real life, namely, some work that has to be done and my family issues, which take more of my time than usual. However, I am far from forgetting me mateys and me safe harbors around the caribbean <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Expect me back soon! In the meantime, maybe this little thing will make you a bit more comfortable with my absence and maybe even shed a bit of light as to (some of) the reasons of my absence...

<a href="http://www.contemplator.com/sea/mariedmer.html" target="_blank">http://www.contemplator.com/sea/mariedmer.html</a>

See ya all soon, me scoundrels!
 
Hello again Den Dee! I was just wondering where you'd gone. Nice hearing from you. Best wishes to you and good luck! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
Thanks Herr Pieter (anybody knows the quote?) for your acceptance of me going AWOL. Another update here. I have been press-ganged into some enterprise that my old matey is leading. He and his mates are network coders, they have it all bar the graphics. I am to do my time before the mast, for a couple of months, and if I do well, they are letting me in on the booty too :) So, I am doing a GUI for their wonder-stuff there. Other than that, my other friends have been doing concerts recently, and I still have a whole bunch of photos and video material to sort out and post. At the same time, my kid is going to a new kindergarten (pre-school already, does that time fly, dammit...), so I am all of a sudden more busy with him than I was before. This leaves me little time. Apart from that, I have finished the concept for my book, and am just about to start writing it. A busy fella, eh...

As to our project: I will try to devote whatever spare time I have to it. I haven't mingled in the potc affairs for a good month or more by now, so I still have no I dea if you've finished the 13. My guess, I doubt it :). Anyways... I will provide a new map this weekend i hope. Can't really playtest now - no time. Pieter, please let me know if you already need those derussified fonts - I will find the time to do them if need be. Sorry Vanderdecker, we have to postpone the islands for a little while. I'll take a look at your stuff and PM you about it in a few days.

Generally, I'll be checking back once a week or so.

Fair winds all and have a happy autumn! Whatever some of you might think, it is a great time of the year :)
 
We still need de-Russified fonts, please. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Welcome back. Good to see you're keeping busy. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

Hook
 
Ahoy there Hook :) For the fonts, we have a certain agreement with Pieter. Soon as the said agreement comes to a conclusion, I will have all the materiel I need for producing the derussified fonts, and will proceed to make said fonts.

Another update (not essential, rather as a accidental communications upgrade), I am on Skype, even with video link... (how many of you ever wished to see me in person eh? some few of you did , I know :) So there, my Skype name is "petuhosran" (those who know what that means will be treated to a good anecdote when they reach me). I am on Skype about round the clock (as I am on the ICQ). Feel free to get in touch, I am more than happy to talk to my pals late at night, when I've drank enough and am in the mood for a talk :) That is, unless I am away in a pub and getting hooked up with some nice wench from our local bunch here... in which case I'd only be back online the next evening, as it happens :)

Again, have a great fall, love your... hmmmm... you know, whoever you love best... and cherish this fall, just as the coming winter... and the stuff that follows it. I am getting a bit didactic here heh... anyways, it is getting colder here (at last!). Expect me to up my activity a bit :)

Yours boucaneerly...
Den
 
Hello again Den Dee. Build 13 hasn't been released yet, but thanks to the combined efforts of Hook and IncredibleHat, we are now much closer to a stable version than we ever were.

We still need the de-Russified fonts, yes. What agreement are you talking about? I don't recall anything of the sort... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
The current font used in the Pre Build 13 pack is the Russian font. That is why certain characters like ç and é and the like appear as Russian characters instead. A de-Russified font would be the same font that would instead show the characters properly. The problem is that the required characters would need to be recreated, based on the current font. We could, of course, use the stock game's European font instead, but I would prefer to keep the look of the current font. I like it much better. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
So you are talking abut the font.tga.tx texture files.

But the Build still has both rus_tga and normal font.tga files right?

That was what I fixed by just changing which texture was called for in the "fonts,ini" file.

That way there would be no need to repaint a texture file that already exists.
 
We could do that for the time being, yes. But I would like to have the texture recreated eventually though, because I like the look of the Russian font better. I suppose proper spelling is more important than the look of the font though... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
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We still need the de-Russified fonts, yes. What agreement are you talking about? I don't recall anything of the sort... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
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For a detail on our agreement, see bugtracker entry about derussifying.

I forsee some trouble with replacing the font though... seems that regardless of the font, the letters are cut off from top and bottom as in the original graphics file. This is not about alpha channel either. Until I discover what makes it cut off those tildas and lower parts of letters, it's still possible, but it won't be THAT pretty (it will still be pretty enough, just not as pretty <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Ah. Now I remember. I would send you a savegame with those characters used. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
I need to know which game version you are using at the moment though. Otherwise I might send you a savegame that doesn't work in your game. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=161100:date=Sep 11 2006, 10:11 AM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pieter Boelen @ Sep 11 2006, 10:11 AM) [snapback]161100[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
Ah. Now I remember. I would send you a savegame with those characters used. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
I need to know which game version you are using at the moment though. Otherwise I might send you a savegame that doesn't work in your game. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
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I have reinstalled my system recently, so as of now, I am ready to use whatever version you request me to use. So... kindly post with the version you would like me to use (here in the thread), and upload the savegame to the folder "DenDee" on our ftp, preferrably with the filename "Pieter to DenDee - savegame with font".

My current work is proceeding at a lax pace so far, so i believe i have a few spare hours to devote this week.


<a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pogues/streams+of+whiskey_20109776.html" target="_blank">http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pogues/stream...y_20109776.html</a>


Do Save As, rather than Open --> <a href="http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/158365/Streams%20of%20Whiskey.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/158365/...f%20Whiskey.mp3</a>
 
I am going to release the Build 13 Beta version later today. You should use that one, I think.
 
I uploaded the savegame to your folder now. You should be able to load the game with the Build 13 Beta I just released.

The player's name is:
<!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->éèêíìîóòôõáàâãúùûç<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

Perhaps I should also make one with the capital characters?

It would be great if you could get this done in a week or so. We want to release Build 13 next week and it would be great to have the font de-Russified by then... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
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