Loco Tool 'Frontend' II v0.6a

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Loco Tool 'Frontend' II v0.6a

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Hi,
i was working on the Frontend II for 10 days or so. Ive recoded the whole thing, and now you can edit the vehicles and the cargo. Here is a screenshot:
http://www.mathias-garbe.de/Locomotion/ ... nd0.6a.png

There are no known issues, but if you find one, please post it here.


When you start it the first time, the program makes 3 dirs (/Data, /Data/Vehilces, /Data/Cargo) and is starting to decode all the Locomotion dat files. Then it saves the xml file, generates a title-image and deletes the sprites to save diskspace.

http://www.mathias-garbe.de/Locomotion/ ... I_0.6a.rar

(You need the VB6 Runtimes for this: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... n60sp5.exe )

This tool is based on and uses the LocoTool v0.4.3 by Patchman (Josef Drexler).

All comments and ideas are welcome and thanks to locomotion-fanpage.net for testing!

(Use of this program on our own risk...)
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Hehe, I wondered when someone was going to make "lomoalter" :)
Well, back to work, lot's of it in the near future
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What is the export for. Also i save a bus and altred its speed. How ever it didnt appear in the game it was just at normal speed.
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Post by Villem »

you need to recompile the bus(Drag the xml to locotool)
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Post by Mathias »

Guest:
When you save it, its only saved to the xml. Then you must export it to your Loco ObjData Folder using the "export" button.
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Post by wozzar »

I changed a mod on the bus. I then save it. And i then export it and it came up with the loco tool. Loco tool says it cant read c:\program: no such file or directory. After i press the okay button it then brings up the browse for your folder. It say please select the ObjData folder. I then get a dialog box saying there is already an Vulcan.dat do you want to overite it. I click yes and then i get an error message. Run time error 53 file not found.
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Post by Mathias »

Okay, thanks. Thats because you are using a Path with space characters(?) in it, thats fixed now: http://ssd.arbur.net/LocoToolFrontend_0.21.rar
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Post by wozzar »

Lol its working now since i downloaded the new version. How about in your next version you add capacity to the Frontend.
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Post by babs »

I extracted the program and started it and got the following error:

Component MSCOMCTL.OSX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is misiing or invalid
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babs wrote:I extracted the program and started it and got the following error:

Component MSCOMCTL.OSX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is misiing or invalid
As I said already, you need the VB6 Runtimes.
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Post by wozzar »

The file that Frontend edited where is it located..
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Post by babs »

Mathias wrote:
babs wrote:I extracted the program and started it and got the following error:

Component MSCOMCTL.OSX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is misiing or invalid
As I said already, you need the VB6 Runtimes.
And how do i get this VB6 Runtimes???
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Post by Slace »

damn... I got beaten to it :(
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babs wrote: And how do i get this VB6 Runtimes???
Here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... n60sp5.exe
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Post by Rover »

i extracted the files in to a new dir

when i select the object data folder i get the following error:
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Post by Mathias »

Rover wrote:i extracted the files in to a new dir

when i select the object data folder i get the following error: [...]
If you are using Win95, the bug is fixed. Here is a new version: http://ssd.arbur.net/LocoToolFrontend_0.22.rar
(You can't edit cargo yet, but Iam working on it)
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Post by Rover »

am using w98

seems to be working now 8)

thanks!
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Post by Mathias »

Here is the last relase of my frontend, as nobody seems to be interested in it: http://ssd.arbur.net/LocoToolFrontend_0.3.rar

You can now edit the cargo and i fixed a few bugs.
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Post by madman2003 »

The frontend is nice, but having an overview of more than just vehicles would be handy.(for figuring out what is what) For "normal" modding, locotool can do almost anything the frontend can.

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Post by DarkMatter »

Two things: One, the frontend can't do anything LocoTool can't do yet. As LocoTool only does vehicles and bridges, it doesn't have much to choose from. And two, you've the description backwards - the frontend can do almost anything LocoTool can.
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