S Viewer - Bit late in the day perhaps?

[champy]

Kind of a question for Paul re shape viewer and others if anyone else knows of an easy way to do it.
Ok here goes:-
I have loads for wagons which are alaised to a common loads folder for shapes and textures. So when loading in S viewer i always get a blank S file show because of where the Textures are. Is there a way other than renaming the entire lot to take a shot of them using s viewer??
Is it a case of adding a simple line in the program to allow you to be able to select the folder the textures are drawn from??
Or am i too late for this...

Im open to all sensible options other than spending ages re doing all the files again

Jon

[markpullinger]

Hi, in the file menu for shape view there is the option to open a second shape which you can add to the previous one ie add a load to a wagon or add the tender to an engine.
Hope this helps
Mark

[champy]

Yes thanks for the help, i know what your saying but the actual wagon is irrelivant, its the load im after. The wagon will load with textures as the S file is setup for it to ask for the textures from the folder its in. Where as the load isnt, its set up in a common.loads folder so has a string inside the S file to tell it where the Texture map is.
It shows in S viewer the String but i wondered if there is a way it can be tricked, or should it find it anyway??

Jon

[ianmacmillan]

I don't know of any way around this.

95% of my loads use RCH_Loads.ace and the aliasing avoids repeating this in each load folder. However Shape Viewer cannot follow the aliasing inside the shape file.

I used to include unaliased shapes but the folder was getting to big. I have them in my personnal version.

I'll shunt them out for you.

[champy]

I remember you did the FKA for me a while back, this is for something similar. But i hadnt wanted to go back through the entire process of having rename each ace mind you i guess i can do the above with one s file and keep renaming the ACE to show it. Just seems long and drawn out when a function like that could be added?? Im not programmer otherwise i would like to have had a go at it. Maybe if i ask nicely maybe Paul might show up and do it. lol. Even a pull down section and being allowed to find the relevant ace file would be good so it can display. I guess it all sounds easy maybe its not as easy as that??


Jon