Annuals and CC3+
Medio
Surveyor
So, i finally decided to purchase the CC3+ despite the map i´m creating nowadays can´t use it, mostly due it´s from an Annual.
CC3+ is great but i still miss the compability of "old" annuals. I know they´re going to be made compatible but i understand it´s not high on the list of the company, it´s been a while and we still didn´t see any Annual working with CC3+ except the Herwin Wielink’s overland style on last patch (cheers to that, i already bought the Annual including it but it´s a great new to have it now in CC3+).
That made me wonder... maybe you guys could give some priorities to the most used Annual styles and make them compatible with CC3+ so we all who bought them can start working with CC3+, and leave the least popular styles for later?
It´s just a personal opinion but been wondering and as we don´t have any clue about the Annuals upgrade scheduling.
Thanks
CC3+ is great but i still miss the compability of "old" annuals. I know they´re going to be made compatible but i understand it´s not high on the list of the company, it´s been a while and we still didn´t see any Annual working with CC3+ except the Herwin Wielink’s overland style on last patch (cheers to that, i already bought the Annual including it but it´s a great new to have it now in CC3+).
That made me wonder... maybe you guys could give some priorities to the most used Annual styles and make them compatible with CC3+ so we all who bought them can start working with CC3+, and leave the least popular styles for later?
It´s just a personal opinion but been wondering and as we don´t have any clue about the Annuals upgrade scheduling.
Thanks
Comments
1) To convert a library (FSC file), open it in CC3+, enter FFIX on the command line and save.
2) If you have macros, you have to change # to @.
3) If you've diddled with toolbars, you have to change # to @ too. One exception: the # at the beginning of a line number stays a #. Example:
#615,#Bitmaps\Icons\BTB_Structures.bmp:[Medieval Brown Beaver Tail Roof Catalogs]|SYMICONMR;SYMICONFSET;5;
has to be changed to:
#615,@Bitmaps\Icons\BTB_Structures.bmp:[Medieval Brown Beaver Tail Roof Catalogs]|SYMICONMR;SYMICONFSET;5;
"we'll be updating all the Annuals to CC3+, definitely! It will take some time, but once we're done with Cosmo 3, I'll get on it right away.
In the meantime, if you really need to use an individual issue, you can do sort of a rough update yourself:
- Find the fills and symbols for the style in your CC3 installation and copy them over to your CC3+ program data folder (not program files!)
- do the same with the Drawtools and Templates. Open the template files one by one and do the following changes:
1. Run FFIX from the command line (this will update all the bitmap fill styles and symbols in the template to point to the new location.
2. Open the drawing properties and put TEXT* in the text sheet field.
3. Open the drawing properties and in the OnOpen and OnNew macros replace all instances of # with @.
4- Save and close the template.
- Open all symbol catalogs for the style (FSC files) and run the FFIX command, then save them."
I would hazard a guess that the hard part of this operation is then testing to make sure that everything works as expected.
I was having problems with my Traveller Planey Survey 'map' and it stopped loading in CC3, but it loads fine in CC3+. I leave the map, and save my edits, in the CC3 data folders.
Has anyone used this method to try the older Annuals in CC3+ ?
They are bought a year at a time, if you want to buy 2015 or 2014 and use with CC3+, you get one zip file upon purchase for all 12 months. Buying 2016 now will give you links in your account to download each month. You will need the Annual's serial number, added to your account after purchase, and place it into the install program for that annual when it asks for it.
Dioramas Pro needs to get converted over and the CC3+ version of Cosmo 3 is still in Beta. When Cosmo3 gets out of betasome of the annuals may get converted. A lot of the older annuals had diorama Pro stuff in them so I'm pretty sure they won't update those till that gets updated.
Futhermore, is there any way of "closing" a template rather than exiting the program?
Now doing the symbols catalogs and ... Looks like it´s working! Tomorrow will check it carefully, it´s 1:30 AM here so heading to bed.