Custom loading screen, plugin help

[Warrior]

that dont work eather grrr this is so upsetting

[Warrior]

ok now it work s but its a bit messed up

here is a pic


it only covers the top left corner
and is hard to see
any ideas

[corto-72]

If I open the dds file, I do get exactly the same thing, the picture overall size is 1024x1024, but only the top left corner has really something the rest is white...

You must have done something wrong when resizing the picture...

[lille79]

The picture was that way before resizing too. So make the picture like you want it and your done

[Warrior]

ok well i fixed it kind of now its to big lol




grrrrr very frustrating
lol

top and bottom are missing now
but it is 1024x1024

[Warrior]

Think i got it figured out you need leave a space at the top and bottom that dont show in loading screen it is much closer now

[lille79]

I wrote that about 10 posts ago

1. Make a picture with the size of 1024x1024. Top and bottom 128 pixels wont be seen, so in general its a 1024x768 with black borders on top and bottom.

[Warrior]

yes you did and iam learning and i thank all of you very much for all your help

[lille79]

That's one of the best things with Trackmania. You can learn so much more than just playing the game itself. You'll be a loadscreen-expert by the end of this evening

[Warrior]

Thanks to all of you helping and your ideas i now have 7 loadscreens running in order on both my FAST and my Xaseco server in California called Extreme Gaming#1 = Xaseco
and ExtremeGaming Hard = FAST

[Mort]

There was a suggestion earlier in this thread about forcemod doing a check for pre-existing mods and only forcing if no mod is already applied. Is there anyone that has found time or a way to do this at all?

Mort.

[Warrior]

There was a suggestion earlier in this thread about forcemod doing a check for pre-existing mods and only forcing if no mod is already applied. Is there anyone that has found time or a way to do this at all?

Mort.

not sure what ya realy mean
but if your asking if your only forcing the loadscreen if no mod is there
well the answer i have found so far is that once you use this force mod for loadscreen it takes away the mod
it is an intresting idea
if i was to add a moded track to my download and then add the name to the destation if it would think it was the loadscreen and load the track useing the mod

i might not be explaning this right but i understand at least what im thinkg lol
but give a few ideas ill try and give ya the resualts

[Zh4r0naX]

I suppose that yes, the original map mod will not be seen as it is replaced by the one you forced. Btw i never tested myself

i just tried and it's exactly like this


but do you think it's possible to make exeption for the maps that have yet a mod, even manualy by the track's UID

it would need to read the challenge info before the map change, then test in the xl part of the file f there is a mod, and if yes make a ForceMod empty...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEASSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

please write for me stadium force mod - http://cablemodem.fibertel.com.ar/rebellion/JMFmod.zip PLEASE, others cant write cause they dont whana other servers have forcemod ( plEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[martoon]

This is how i put it and it is not working can anyone help me?

<?php
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// File: plugin.99.forcemod.php , adapted for Fast from a aseco Yorkshire plugin
// Date: 23.12.2008
// Author: adapted by Slig for Fast, from an aseco Yorkshire plugin
// (viewtopic.php?p=132930#p132930)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// This plugin will force random mods.
//
// It can also be used to just customize load screens, simply by setting fake mods
// which just contain the load screen.
// NBA's note for simple loadscreen: the mod zip you have to name yourself,
// and it will be the name of the mod, like yourmod.zip. Inside you have
// to put a catalog called 'image', and within that catalog you put the file
// 'LoadScreen.dds', which you made yourself.

registerPlugin('forcemod',99);
global $_forcemod_list;

// Note: for each environment indicate a list of valid mods urls in $_forcemod_list array !
// the default values are not valid : you have to set other ones !!!
$_forcemod_list = array(
'Stadium' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Island' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Speed' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Rally' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Bay' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Coast' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
),
'Alpine' => array(
'http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip'
)
);


function forcemodInit($event){
forcemodEndRace($event);
}


function forcemodEndRace($event){
global $_forcemod_list;
console("forcemod.Event[$event]:: set forced mods");

$modCalls = array();
foreach(array_keys($_forcemod_list) as $envir){
$num = count($_forcemod_list[$envir]);
if($num > 0){
$idx = rand(0, $num-1); // random index in envir mods list
$modCalls[] = array('Env'=>$envir, 'Url'=>$_forcemod_list[$envir][$idx]);
}
}
//debugPrint("forcemodEndRace:: modCalls",$modCalls);
addCall(true,'SetForcedMods', true, $modCalls);
}

?>

And this is the zip: http://martoon.no-ip.org/TMNF/TMNF.zip

[Mort]

I can't see that mod zip file at all. Do you have the right URL?

Other than that, are you sure that mod will work with *all* TM environment types?