Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: Borealis4x on August 19, 2016, 11:50:34 PM
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So in my game there wasn't any sorium on Neptune or Jupiter. I understand that minerals are randomized but I can't help but feel that gas giants should by default have some hefty amount of the stuff on them, especially in the starting system. Is there a way I can add it with the Space Master in unharvested form? All it allows me to do is add it to the planets inventory as a harvested item.
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So in my game there wasn't any sorium on Neptune or Jupiter. I understand that minerals are randomized but I can't help but feel that gas giants should by default have some hefty amount of the stuff on them, especially in the starting system. Is there a way I can add it with the Space Master in unharvested form? All it allows me to do is add it to the planets inventory as a harvested item.
System view (The button that looks like a sun) get you to a screen that lets you specify minerals.
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I get an error when I try to use system view :(
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I get an error when I try to use system view :(
Which error?
Do you always get it when you try to access this window?
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That would probably be the mssmswhatever.dll missing problem. The general fix is to install simple shutdown timer, however some of the results I found had my browser warning about viruses.
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Why didn't the required dll download with the game?
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Maybe microsoft doesn't allow redistribution of that file without paying? I dunno.
Anyway, you need msstdfmt.dll to be registered into windows for the system information map to display planet images correctly.
Download the dll from here : http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/M/MSSTDFMT.zip thenextract the dll into C:\Windows\SysWOW64 , open a command prompt and enter the following:
regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\msstdfmt.dll
That should register the dll, but its possible you might need to be in administrator mode, alternatively download simple shutdown timer from here :http://www.pcwintech.com/simple-shutdown-timer .
Do not download it from jaleco.com which is actually virus (at least panda says it is).
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no it's because that file was part of windows when VB6 was a thing so it didn't need to be packaged, it's not needed/used in 64 bit versions of windows, so needs to be added.