CV Edit questions

I'm working on creating files for additional MLB Showdown sets and
have a few questions:

1) How can I add additional choices in the non-dynamic "edition" and
"team" fields?

2) In the "edition" field there are values for "order" and "special".
What are these for and how does one come up with these numbers?

3) When I finish, how would I go about submitting them for usage by
everyone?



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[Colen]

At 03:58 PM 7/31/2004, you wrote:
>I'm working on creating files for additional MLB Showdown sets and
>have a few questions:
>
>1) How can I add additional choices in the non-dynamic "edition" and
>"team" fields?


You need to edit the mlb.def file. Check out line 30:

<group id="team" name="Team" maxcount="1" width="9">
<value id="angels" name="Anaheim Angels" abbrev="Angels"
heading="Angels"/>
<value id="diamond" name="Arizona Diamondbacks" abbrev="Diamond"
heading="Diamond"/>
....

You can add new teams there. Just make sure they don't conflict with the
names or ids of existing teams, and you should be ok.



>2) In the "edition" field there are values for "order" and "special".
>What are these for and how does one come up with these numbers?


'order' is the sequence the editions are displayed in. 'special' is the
order of the releases that Card Vault uses to work out which release is
'newer' than the other.

Generally, I arrange things so that newer editions appear at the top of the
list (since players are more likely to be interested in them). This means
that the newer a release is, the LOWER the 'order' number and the HIGHER
the 'special' number.


>3) When I finish, how would I go about submitting them for usage by
>everyone?


Drop me an email off-list (colen at wolflair dot com). For some reason
there seem to be about 3 people adding cards to the MLB files right now, so
maybe I should attempt to get things organised...


Thanks,



--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com




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