Ares Templates?

I take it this is the equivalent of the Dev. Board for Ares, so here goes....

Are there any NovaTool-esque editors for Ares? What about plain ol' Templates? Anything that could let me view the sprite files is what I'm looking for....

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Your choices for Ares-editing are hera and resedit.

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*ResEdit is not really a choice

I made a template for the races once, but you really can't do anything decent with it, since the resources are too complex.

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hera is the GUI editor for ares scenario files. It's included in the Ares 1.2.0 folder, oddly named "hera" 😉

If you want to somehow copy the sprites, you'll either need to:

1. write a SMIV display plugin for ResEdit
2. write an application that can read and display SMIV resources
3. copy them frame-by-frame using screenshots from within Hera or ares.

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(This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 11-17-2002).)