A Plea for Help... and an Announcement

I'll start with the Announcement. Here in a few weeks I will be starting a new webstory based on the plot of the EMPIRE plugs. I am still working on alot of the details but I can safely say that this Webstory will feature the governments, ships and tech from EMPIRE: A War Without End, a new system for moderating the story, as well as one for researching ships and technology. I'm not quite sure yet but I will probably come up with a new system for industrial production too. Hopefully with these changes we can avoid the problems that past webstories in this forum have had.

Now, the plea for help. In making a website for this story I have run into a couple of problems, the biggest of which has been finding shipyard pics for many of the EMPIRE: A War Without End ships. I know that most of these pics were taken from generic shipyards, but so far I have only been able to locate a few of the ships I need. If anyone can tell me where I can find the Weave, Terran Empire, Brox, and Sauridian ships used in the plug I would really appreciate it(or if anyone knows how to convert the PICT files used by the jame into .jpg or .gif that would be great as well).

If anyone has any questions, comments, or advice, please send me an email at matrekie@aol.com.

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Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far dirves the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet - Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

I could get them all for you... I wont tell my secret... Heh.... But I just need the plug, and several hours...

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Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease
I beat the ENTIRE Federation mission string in a Stock Civi Viper
(url="http://"http://evula.com") EVula's Lair(/url)| (url="http://"http://starfleet-ssf.com/index2.html")The SSF(/url) | (url="http://"mailto:jager@evula.net")mailto:jager@evula.net(/url)jager@evula.net

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Originally posted by Jager:
**I could get them all for you... I wont tell my secret... Heh.... But I just need the plug, and several hours...

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All you need to do is go to (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/empire_trilogy")www.geocities.com/empire_trilogy(/url) and DL EMPIRE: A War Without END. I would however like to know how to convert the PICTs to .gif or .jpg for future use.

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Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far dirves the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet - Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

What you have to do is to extract the graphics you want by opening the plug in EV-Edit (better make a copy before you attempt this, it could ruin your plug) and exporting the sprites. Then open your sprites in Photoshop, go to 'save as' in the file menu. It should let you choose which format to save it in.

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Hand me the gun and say that again.

Alternatively, you could open the plug using ResEdit, copy the image you want, then paste it into a blank GraphicConverter document. Save it in whatever format you choose. Then rinse and repeat until you have all the images you need.

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"Your death will be the proof that Horus does not lie."
Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness

Also you could do this in photoshop...

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Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease
I beat the ENTIRE Federation mission string in a Stock Civi Viper
(url="http://"http://evula.com") EVula's Lair(/url)| (url="http://"http://starfleet-ssf.com/index2.html")The SSF(/url) | (url="http://"mailto:jager@evula.net")mailto:jager@evula.net(/url)jager@evula.net

Hrmm. Instead if using edit I'm going to post again ;). So ya. Do you need the stats of the ships also? and what views? Shipyard, spin....

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Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease
I beat the ENTIRE Federation mission string in a Stock Civi Viper
(url="http://"http://evula.com") EVula's Lair(/url)| (url="http://"http://starfleet-ssf.com/index2.html")The SSF(/url) | (url="http://"mailto:jager@evula.net")mailto:jager@evula.net(/url)jager@evula.net

(quote)Originally posted by Jager:
**Hrmm. Instead if using edit I'm going to post again:frown: in fact I don't think I have any graphics apps.

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Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far dirves the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet - Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

(This message has been edited by Vice Admiral Ipvicus (edited 07-05-2002).)
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you can get it (url="http://"http://jager.evula.net/empdown.html")Here(/url)

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Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease
I beat the ENTIRE Federation mission string in a Stock Civi Viper
(url="http://"http://evula.com") EVula's Lair(/url)| (url="http://"http://starfleet-ssf.com/index2.html")The SSF(/url) | (url="http://"mailto:jager@evula.net")mailto:jager@evula.net(/url)jager@evula.net

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Originally posted by Vice Admiral Ipvicus:
**As for all the conversion stuff I figured this was possible using Photoshop or something like it, but I don't have Photoshop:frown: in fact I don't think I have any graphics apps.
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GraphicConverter is shareware, and pretty easy to use. You can get it at (url="http://"http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=graphicconverter&tg;=dl-2003")MacDownload(/url).

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"Your death will be the proof that Horus does not lie."
Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness

(This message has been edited by Phil Barron (edited 07-05-2002).)

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Originally posted by Jager:
**you can get it Here

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Jager, you are a lifesaver, I can't thank you enough.

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Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far dirves the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet - Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

Sure you can.... Anyways.. Want any more help just ask.. i almost always have a few mins...

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Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease
I beat the ENTIRE Federation mission string in a Stock Civi Viper
(url="http://"http://evula.com") EVula's Lair(/url)| (url="http://"http://starfleet-ssf.com/index2.html")The SSF(/url) | (url="http://"mailto:jager@evula.net")mailto:jager@evula.net(/url)jager@evula.net