Last edited: Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 6:59:29 AM

Is very cool! Cheers for making it work!

And the easy way is to say "The first team listed in the charts above is Green, the second is Blue. So Fleas vs Destructive, Fleas are Green, Destructive is Blue."

Last edited: Sunday, August 01, 2004 at 7:51:45 PM

Indeed, that sounds good and easy TMO. Especially as it matter less what colour you are now as you will be looking at tank skin not the colour of the players name above the tank...

Awesome.

So for this weeks game, I would download the Corset and Locos skins. Then name the Corset one tankB1.jpg and the Locos one tankG2.jpg?? Then drop it in the tanks folder?

Awesome.

LilAlienD.. You first need to DL this file and extract the contents to the game/data/shapes/tanks folder, but otherwise, yes, almost.. (tankG2 is the green team medium tank)

Corset skin as tankG1.jpg (corset play green)
locos skin as tankB1.jpg (locos play blue)

Or - for other matches

Fleas skin as tankG1.jpg (fleas in green)
destructive as tankB1.jpg (destructive in blue)

Sheep skin as tankG1.jpg (sheep in green)
bandits skin as tankB1.jpg (bandits in blue)

Captains please make sure all your team have the files in the above link installed.

-Z-

Just in case anyone has forgotten the words...

I'm seeing about three or four sets of instructions of what to download, extract,change, replace to make it work.
Might be nice to have it written in one place.
I will have to set it up for 2 different teams so I need to get it right.
Tried last night, but sat in eternal server load mode...obviously something didn't work.
What do these files replace? Do they replace my customized skins? I need to know what I am keeping from the original folder.

So I copied all contents of -z-'s Think Tanks client zip (except readme.html ) into my ThinkTanks/game/data/shapes/tanks/ folder
When I click on them they are really there....
When I open TT the tanks are white (no skin visible).Attempts to get into servers result in eternal load..
I did ______ wrong?

@z I've been known to server host. My server platform is windows XP. I'd be willing to setup for Wednesday as well.
Think also, we must keep our names for next season to not be a bother. We also need to choose green or blue...

So Baba... Is it Baba Blue & Bandit Green?

Last edited: Monday, August 02, 2004 at 2:00:59 PM

Baba - you should still have your Tank0*.* files for regular games. This adds 2 new sets of tanks tankB*.* and tankG*.*. So this will not interfere with your normal custom skins at all - normal games still use the tank0*.jpg files. Only servers using this script will even look for the B and G tank files.

@ TMO
Thanks! That was the problem, I had removed my customized skins to "save" them.
Loaded on to Rx's server fine (seemed unusually laggy to me tho)
The usual ps password did not work on dash's server.

@ Prey
Let me check....
Consult the Black Sheep oracle
Right that would be Baba Blue, Bandit Green.

Last edited: Monday, August 02, 2004 at 2:53:56 PM

So :
Corset = green
Locos = blue
right?

Right

Thanks to a quick consult with my favorite ThinkTanks techie all my problems have been solved.

Baaaaaa!

There is some excitement about getting team colors for the last game. In making it happen. Not only will modifications need to be made to your client TT game. It will require a 1 hour download time if you don't make the modifications to get into the newly modified game server. I suggest giving it a try. I had not made the client changes. Basically to get the team colors and opponent colors added. You need to add some files to your game. These are in a zip file and are part of the PS League thread. There is a readme which describes how to do this. The servers also need to be modifed, so each team can have separate color skins. If you don't do the download, it will take a long time to get into these new modified servers.

Just to see how bad it would be. I did not load anything on my client TT. After about 1 hours I was finally able to get into Rx's Skin Test server. Without downloading pre-skinned team colors. The results were a green tank hue and a blue tank hue. Should help eliminate friendly fire, except for Bolo's team... !

I would like all the team Bandits players to connect to Rx's test server. Let me know your success. My first thoughts are to go with regular servers. The download takes too long for a client which has done nothing. Perhaps the timing isn't right. Maybe better for next season. I'll give till Tuesday night to let me know how it went. If I don't get a response from everyone on the team. I have to choose a standard, unaltered server for the last game. Give it a try.

I'm trying our email and this web thread. Our communication hasn't been perfect in the past. I'm almost sure I won't get a confirm by Tuesday night. Let's see.

I suggest leaving a server up to download the stuff all week is that possible id rather spend the hour downloading

How bout.... Each team captiain should download the file, decompress it, and change the file names for the games. Then recompress it and send it to all they're players for this week, along with an included read me file for installing. If there's any captains that can't decompress and recompress the folder, I'll do it for you. This way everyone will have all the files downloaded and ready to go and we won't end up having to wait an hour for people that didn't get it before hand.

Agreed LilalienD
the process is very easy only an idiot would have difficulty (LOL)

Actually it was easy once I stopped fussing and did it.
open -z-'s zip, drag the contents to the Resources/game/data/shapes/tanks folder

After that is done rename the team skins that -z- made and posted on previous page of this thread.

Locos, sheep and destructive will all be blue so their files should be renamed: tankB1.jpg

Corset, bandits and flea's will all be green so their files will be renamed: tankG1.jpg

Drop the pairs that are playing each other
Sheep/ Bandits
Locos/ Corset
Destructive/ Flea's

Into that same Resources/game/data/shapes/tanks folder.

Start TT and enter Rx's skin test server to see if it works, same ps password.

Captains talk to your team, especially starters and reserves.

Heh, yeah its not as daunting as it sounds, thanks for the explanation Baba - more simply conveyed than mine probably.

AWESOME!!! Works like a charm, and extremely easy to do. If only ALL the team servers were like this :(

If you don't care about the custom skins and just want the blue/green colors, it's just:

"open -z-'s zip, drag the contents to the /game/data/shapes/tanks/ folder"

That's it, your done. Easy.

Tried doing the 3 sets for the games, but the links didn't work. I have them if ya'll like, and can email them to the appropriate captains.

I see everyone is working really hard to make sure we have quality gameplay...

I wish someone could record these games..... Anyone..... Anyone....

Played some CTF with the blue and green skins....cool

B

Are we doing the right thing ?

@ Baba
Haven't seen that Zippo paper dude for a while! Be careful of the grass he gives you to graze on man...

Last edited: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 3:48:55 AM

Go for it! I'll give it a shot too. Regent X has a great thread on this somewhere. I can't find it :S but, here's the easy way for Macs.

1. Open "Terminal" in Applications - Utilities.

2. Control-click ThinkTanks and "Show In Finder" (You want to see the folder it's in, so "view as columns")

3. In Terminal type (space) cd (space)

4. Drag the ThinkTanks folder into the terminal window. It'll automatically make a path.

5. Hit enter.

6. Paste the following;
./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks OSX -jSave filename.txt

7. Hit enter, and it will launch TT and record everything until you quit.

To play it back, same as above but just switch line 6 with;
./ThinkTanks.app/Contents/MacOS/ThinkTanks OSX -jPlay filename.txt

BTW, if you want to save the file, it's named "filename.txt" and is located in the "Resources" folder.

Thread on movies is HERE.

Last edited: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 5:57:51 AM

Someone on Locos will have to record the game. I've got nuttin.

Bring on the Sheepzes.... Baaaa!

Last edited: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 7:18:13 PM

Hey Baba,

He's the best techie 'cause

Jesus saves... :P

(trombone and moaning heard in the background)

Last edited: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at 7:39:03 PM

First team is blue, 2nd team is green.

No.. Dont confuse everyone.. Everyone has done it the other way round so far, as TMO suggested about 20 posts back!

I've got it set up this way. Is this how it's going?
Corset skin as tankG1.jpg (corset play green)
locos skin as tankB1.jpg (locos play blue)

Fleas skin as tankG1.jpg (fleas in green)
destructive as tankB1.jpg (destructive in blue)

Sheep skin as tankG1.jpg (sheep in green)
bandits skin as tankB1.jpg (bandits in blue)

Yep that looks right KBC

Yo can I join the new season of psycho scrum? I heard the last game was tomorrow( wednesday).

Thx and please!!

-TaKeNo

23 HOURS AND IT'S ON BABY!!!!!

Last edited: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 1:13:40 AM

17ish.

Can anyone tell me what map is left? Not cranium, not the flatlands...

(Baba here, signing in from work..shhhhhh!)

Please people, read prior entries to avoid confusing everyone.

Sheep : Blue

Bandits: Green

As agreed by the captains.

Prey is it all good with your players?
Skins loaded and ready?

Tick Tock..
Baaaaaaa!

Baba

Isnt it Hypothalamus Hills?

SKINS LOADED AND READY!!

@Baba The only players who have acknowledged seeing the skins thread are Az & FoulPlay for team Bandit. I had a test server up Tuesday. DJ tried to join but bailed, as it was downloading the new tank skins. Took too long. I didn't get a chance to talk with him. I did not directly hear that any of my team members are set to go. I'd like to go with a server host without the skins mod, as a backup plan.

@Team Destructive; Don't forget to fill your tank up with some Bug Wash guys. Going to be a lot of dead fleas splattered on our brainjars tonight!

{ reversi je sais }

Le seul bon insecte est un insecte mort

Nice skins Tally...

So which the map??

Tally demonstating the Fleas 'leaping' technology as he lurches and jumps forwards to collect the scrum

Well, I think its time for a bit of deduction. Which maps are these screenshots taken from!?

Game 1

Game 8

Game 9

And therefore, which map hasnt been played?
A) Medulla Mesa
B) Hypo Hills
C) Cranium Crater
D) Freudian Flats

-Z-