Bridge Commander Ship Menu Creator

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Bridge Commander Ship Menu Creator 5.6
by USS Sovereign (BCS : TNG)
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PROGRAM FEATURES
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- Replacement for BCMI and BCMP

- Ability to create ship plugins (defs)

- Ability to create submenu, CWS 2.0 and SDT code for you

- Ability to create multi ship plugins (suitable for large ship packs)

- Ability to fix ship plugins which were disabled by BCMP

- Allows fastmultiple creation of plugins using Fast BCSMC

- N00b input protection

- Can edit already existing plugins

- Secure mode which will ask for your consent when saving a plugin (can be shut down)

- Each modes options output location can be predefined

- Quick Battle Ship Description Fix  (BC Modification)

- Can extract & install older BC Mods (BCMod files)

- Can create Sound Defs for you (sound plugins, if you hear no sound ingame)

- Can backup your BC critical files

- Can restore earlier made backups

- BC Foundation 2008 (BC Modification)

- NanoFX 2.0 Targetable AtmospheresSuns Fix (BC Modification)

- Multiple language support

- Support for custom skins

- Vista "aware"

- Ability to define defeault startup mode

and many more... those are just some more important ones


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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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This program is the intended replacement of the BCMPs ship plugin tool and it now has several modesoptions. 

BCSMC Mode: By default it's the ship def creator with extra features such as creating the SDT code, CWS 2.0 code, Submenu code for you. Also it allows the creation of multi ship plugins, suitable for large ship packs.

Fast BCSMC Mode: It's a somewhat light version of BCSMC and it allows appending data to the list and BCSMC instantly creates all plugins in the list (Simply putting it: you can create 30 plugins or more at once by a click of a button). However, in this fast mode you can only define ship names and icons the rest such as descriptionssubmenuswarp speeds are not supported.

Plugin Editor: This mode allows users to load data from the existing plugins for editing. This mode doesn't support Multi Plugins or SDT. It supports Submenus and CWS.

BCSMC Options: Allows you to change BCSMCs options.

BCMP Fixer Mode: This mode is used to fix the plugins which BCMP disables on your installation.

BCMod Unpacker: BCSMC can now totally replace BCMP & BCMI, this tool extracts *.BCMod files which were created using BCMP (this is for older mods out there).

SoundDef Plugin: Allows you to create and "inject" sounds into BC. This is used for weapon sounds (phaser and torpedoes).

Backup BC: This mode allows you to backup your scripts folder. It is useful if you installed a mod which "destroyed" your installation so you can always revert back. 

BC Foundation: Launches an installer which installs newest foundation build.

QB Desc Fix: Launches an installer which installs QB Ship Description Fix which fixes the description outputs in Bridge Commander (requires any version of Foundation).

NanoFX 2 Fix: Launches an installer which installs a fix related to NanoFX 2.0 which allowed sunsatmospheres to be targetable.


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FULL PROGRAM DETAILS
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Refer the pdf manual for more info.


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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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This program comes with an installer so just run it and follow on screen instructions or you can use the copy & paste method. 

Note: If you manually install BCSMC make sure to start BCSMC.exe as this is the main exe.


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REQUIREMENTS
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Net Framework 2.0 or higher (Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en)


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GLITCHES
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None that we know of


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CREDITS
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- To Me, USS Sovereign of BCS : TNG, for making this program

- Mike Krüger, Christoph Wille, Christian Holm, Bernhard Spuida: the team who is behind the SharpZipLib

- Nanobyte who created the BCMod format

- Dasher for the Foundation, various Foundation Fixes & Foundation Tech (which are included in BC Foundation 2008)

- Mleo for various Foundation Fixes, Submenu 3.7, Foundation Tech (which are included in BC Foundation 2008) & his invaluable assistance during the assembling of the new Foundation

- Defiant for bdebug.py & Scrollable Mutators (which are included in BC Foundation 2008)

- SMBW (from BCS forums) for his German translation of BCSMC, invaluable feedback and bug reporting

- Equinox1.0 (from BCS forums) for his bug reporting & feedback


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LEGAL INFO
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This program is not made or supported by Activision. You may distribute this program freely
as long as the original archive is distributed and no part of it, including this
document, is modified or missing.

Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
and related properties are Registered Trademarks of Paramount Pictures registered
in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

We do not take any responsibility for any kind of damage this does to your computer.
Use it at your own risk.


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SHARP ZIP LIB INFO
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BCS:TNG takes no credit or claim whatsoever for this library, if you are a developer and wish to use the library please check on their website regarding their licensing details: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/


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FOUNDATION INFO
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BCS:TNG takes no credit or claim for any of these mods included in the package.

If you wish to use any of these scriptscode you name it. Please consult the Foundation 2008 Docs folder in your BC directory and look through the supplied documentation. You can also contact BCS:TNG and we will direct you to the author of the scriptcode in question.


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CHANGES
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Changes from v5.5.1 include:
-New Icons
-New GFX
-Multiple language support
-Support for custom skins
-Option to select a default startup mode
-Fixed a potential bug in BCSMC
-Improved BCSMCs error handling (help for future problem reporting)
-Fixed some bugs reported by users during Beta testing
-Added an option which checks if there are updates available
-Some minor, under the hood, code changes
-Used some unused warning prompts in BCSMC
-BCSMC now prompts the user to use Admin privileges on Vista
-Added Vista "aware" BCSMC variant
-Added NanoFX 2.0 targetable AtmospheresSuns Fix
-Added Foundation 2008
-Corrected some spelling errors in strings

Changes from v5.5 include:
-BCMI unpacker speed improved
-SoundDef Creator is no longer case sensitive
-Backup BC process no longer freezes
-Backup BC process speed improved
-Backup BC process slight GUI changes 

Changes from v5.0 include:
-Overall code cleanups
-Improved the overall code
-Fixed some minor GUI bugs
-Improved the speed of the BCMod unpacker
-Fixed a bug when BCSMC in some instances wouldn't retrieve settings very fast
-Improved BCSMCs error handling when retriving badcorrupt settings
-Added new GUI effects (mouse hover effect over buttons)
-Made the Mode selection more intuitive (Mode selection is redesigned)
-Added a new mode which allows users to create sounddef plugins (for phasers and torpedoes)
-Added a new mode which allows users to backup and compress their scripts folder and restore them later if needed


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CONTACT INFO
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Go to http://www.bcs-tng.com for support, questions, comments, etc. The home of BCS:TNG!