Please help me with Freddy Pharkas

[Kokka]

Hello!

I'm currently translating a Freddy Pharkas.

I'm having a trouble positioning menu buttons at start screen.

Look at this picture:



Don't pay attention to strange letters It's Russian language.
But how you can clearly see, the buttons of menu moved from its places, because of font widths rearrangement.

Can anybody give me a hint how and where to correct a script to rearrange buttons for my needs?

I think its somewhere in the 110.scr...

Thank you!
Kokka,
Russia, Moscow.

[robingravel]

How did you manage to change some stuff in Freddy Pharkas?

I thought sci VGA cannot be edited.


Robin Gravel

[Collector]

There are a few utilities to edit some resources, such as Enrico Rolfi's TraduSCI for editing text resources and ViewView for editing graphics resources. Some have use the Sierra Resource Viewer to extract scripts from games to create fan made patches. I have fixed a couple of things with a plain old hex editor. Other than that, you are right in that there is no complete package or IDE for editing/creating SCI1+ games. Brian's incomplete SCI Studio VGA is the closest thing, but nobody that is able to has picked it up to get it in some kind of usable shape. I always thought that the ability to create SCI VGA games would have lead to a lot more SCI fan games. Most of the AGS games look like they could have been done in SCI with no more work. It may be too late now to attract many new users.

[Kokka]

How did you manage to change some stuff in Freddy Pharkas?

I thought sci VGA cannot be edited.


Robin Gravel

Sorry for long absence.

It's pretty easy. If you want, I can share the tools and describe a methods. Shortly, you will need a SCI Viewer, a TraduSCI, TraduSCIhop, and any pixel editor which can keep the palette in a file untouched. I use Adobe PS CS.5. Legally