Conversion Designer/Installer Creator

[sajmon83]

JeanC Add to the background image black rectangles where they are minimize and close buttons

[JeanC]

Originally Posted by sajmon83

JeanC Add to the background image black rectangles where they are minimize and close buttons

thanks man, to finish I have this other problem ...
At the end of the installation I get this error.

[Kitsune1982]

hi guys, i am playing around with razors conversion designer/installer creator and whenever i compile my project and specify an .ico file, it just shows the plain setup icon. am i doing something wrong or is this a bug with the program?
what size do the icons need to be, and do they need to be named Setup.ico?

thanks in advance.

-Kitsune

[Kitsune1982]

hi guys, i figured out how to make custom icons work with latest installer creator, i was just wondering a few things.

1.is it possible to use custom fonts you have downloaded from a font site and installed, or was this disabled/removed in latest IC? i tried making an autorun and then when i clicked build it gave an infinite looping 'could not find ringbearer' the lord of the rings font i use for fantasy games then every time i located and clicked the ttf font, it kept saying 'could not find font' and forced me to alt-ctrl-delete and end the app in task manager because i couldnt get out of the looping error message.

2.is it possible to have IC go to a fullscreen installer window when installing, and when its doing the small installer is it possible to full screen the small installer like in the old 2.7 editions of razors IC? i know razor is retired and will not be updating this or any of his projects anymore, just was wondering if anyone could answer these questions. and as always, thanks razor for your projects, graphics studio was a life saver making transparent png images.

-Kitsune

'the only dumb question is the one never asked.'

[Kitsune1982]

nevermind about my questions guys, i fixed with a bit of testing.

heres what i did.

1.if you want to use your custom installed fonts with IC 3020 or 3100, go to your windows\fonts folder press ctrl-a to highlight all of them, right click on it and click copy or press ctrl-c. go to your IC 3020 or 3100 folder, go into system where you see the eurostile.ttf file, and press ctrl-v to paste all the fonts into the folder. then make your conversion and when you click build it will compile your project with the fonts you added DURING the project, not all the ones you just pasted in. then you can use your pretty fonts with the latest IC version!!

2.if you want a fullscreen during the small installer, you will first need to make sure your slides are in HD resolution. if you need to make HD resolution slides, you should check out irfanview. its an amazing free image editor that can batch converter/rename/resize images. heres a small tut how to make HD res slides.

1a.download irfanview and install it.
1b.open irfanview and go to the folder your slides are in. hint - i usually save all my game wallpaper slides in a folder marked slides and have all the game names in it in folders. to keep you all from having to spend hours making the folders and downloading the slides i will upload a 7z with my premade folders and images.

2a.go to the folder i uploaded and copy/paste the slides you downloaded - if any, or just use mine ^^ - into the temp folder for your game.
2b.click file then 'batch convert/rename'

3a. under 'work as' click on batch conversion - rename.
in the dropdown choose jpg if making backgrounds or png if making small installer images.
3b.tick the 'use advance options for batch resize'
click 'advanced'

4a.tick the 'resize' checkbox.
untick the 'preserve aspect ratio' checkbox.
4b.click 'set size' radio button.
under 'set one or both to sides to' width/height put 3200 and 1800
4c.click the 'use resample function - better quality' checkbox.
4c.click ok.

5a.under batch rename settings/name pattern put Image#
5b.under output directory for result files click use current 'look in' directory.
5c.click 'start batch'.

there! now you have hd resolution images so you will now get a fullscreen with small installer! ^^

Cheers.

-Kitsune

[JeanC]

Originally Posted by Kitsune1982

hi guys, i figured out how to make custom icons work with latest installer creator, i was just wondering a few things.

1.is it possible to use custom fonts you have downloaded from a font site and installed, or was this disabled/removed in latest IC? i tried making an autorun and then when i clicked build it gave an infinite looping 'could not find ringbearer' the lord of the rings font i use for fantasy games then every time i located and clicked the ttf font, it kept saying 'could not find font' and forced me to alt-ctrl-delete and end the app in task manager because i couldnt get out of the looping error message.

2.is it possible to have IC go to a fullscreen installer window when installing, and when its doing the small installer is it possible to full screen the small installer like in the old 2.7 editions of razors IC? i know razor is retired and will not be updating this or any of his projects anymore, just was wondering if anyone could answer these questions. and as always, thanks razor for your projects, graphics studio was a life saver making transparent png images.

-Kitsune

'the only dumb question is the one never asked.'

how you managed to make the icon work, I still get the same results.

[Kitsune1982]

hi guys, kitsune here again. for any of you using IC 3.0 and getting the decompression failed -11 error code when using pzlib v3, and the 'crc does not match checksum!' error with zstd, i finally got them to work with IC 3.0, and had a clean install no errors. i am including my full IC 3.0 2800 R2 folder with my updated files, and it doesnt matter what file type you use, i tested both pzlib v3 and zstd on some .ogg files then made a sample setup.exe with it to see what happened and it installed clean, no errors at all during decompression!!!

just extract the attachment to your HD and voila, no more errors!

Thanks, catch you on all the flip side. enjoy making your new installs with pzlib v3 and zstd with IC 3.0, no more annoying crc or decomp failed errors!!



-Kitsune1982

P.S. when adding your .bin files in the external resources section of IC, do -not- forget to select the proper precomp version that you used during compression with UltraArc.
i cannot stress this enough. if you used pzlib/precomp 0.38 when compressing your game in UltraArc, make sure you click on the 'precomp' drop down in IC and select 0.38!! likewise, if you used pzlib 0.42/reflate in UltraArc, make sure you click the dropdown in Installer Creator under external resources and choose 0.42! If you mix the two settings you will always get a decompression failed error during extraction. the 7zip attachment i included has the correct IC 3200 / UA 2800 folder structure and the files for pzlib and zstd properly placed so you wont have to go through the headaches of constant failures during decompression, just make sure you choose the exact same version of pzlib/precomp that you used in UA when compressing your game, otherwise it will not work!! thanks guys, have fun.

'the old dumb question is the one never asked.'

[EyeSalt]

@Kitsune1982, Thank you! Your Script.iss also fixed the problem I was having with Install Creator not attaching the icon file to compiled .exe file.

Also, thanks to Razor12911, great installer.

[008black]

Can you tell any alternative to inno setup that can extract files compressed using arc I have tried advance installer and setup factory they can extract files but using .bat file I want them to extract like inno setup so can anyone help

[78372]

Originally Posted by 008black

can you tell any alternative to inno setup that can extract files compressed using arc i have tried advance installer and setup factory they can extract files but using .bat file i want them to extract like inno setup so can anyone help

nsis

[pakrat2k2]

Originally Posted by 008black

Can you tell any alternative to inno setup that can extract files compressed using arc I have tried advance installer and setup factory they can extract files but using .bat file I want them to extract like inno setup so can anyone help

uniextractbeta

[andreiutzu21]

hi everyone . how to compile setup and get workng with ultra arc diskspan? when i try install it give me error ISDone dll unarc.dll thanks