Thanks to Spinasso and my small contributions, we can now use Max Payne as yet another merc. He works just like myothermercs, but as that would fit the third game, can be found in the most run-down bar of Arulco (perhaps he wants to take care of yet another mob?).
I admit the NPC recruitment phase isn't the best (we were severely limited in sound and portrait choices), but he works just fine (and now I know better how .npc scripts work [new bugs to find ]). A grumpy, alcoholic psycho that narrates some of his lines fits just in with the rest of our selection of wackjobs.
We can justify a variety of traits for him - I went with the above, which makes him efficient with pretty much all firearms. In case he seems a bit weak, stat-wise, keep in mind that this is him at about the time of the third game, when he was a broken alcoholic that had already survived the first 2 games somehow.
You can of course change him in Mercprofiles.xml etc. - he has profile number 214.
At the moment we only have soundfiles for Max Payne 3, which is somewhat limiting. I can't really make any solid buddy or hate relationship with that. Perhaps someone might be interested in getting the sounds from part 1 and 2 ?
You might also notice that the Ryder twins have new faces, because edmortimer and townltu got busy and made portraits. 200% more chinese, woohoo!
I've redone the gear kits for Shepard - we now have 3 kits along the same idea increasing in price and quality, and 2 special kits (P90 for CQB and SVU for sniping).
This was built for r8570 & GameDir r2424.
As these mercs are obviously not from the Jagged Alliance lore, they won't go into any official release.
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That would be amazing! Sawed off shotgun in one hand, and hedge trimmer for the chainsaw arm. I wonder if it would be too crazy to make it so he could equip both the hedge trimmer and still shoot the shotgun or other one handed weapon to simulate the chainsaw being attached to his arm. Great idea in any case especially with the zombies.
Thank you very much Flugente for all of your hard work!!! It is extremely appreciated!!!!
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Somewhat OT question about PC placement, so pls feel free to move or delete message.
If i get that right, placement of Max in San Mona relies entirely on entries in strategicEventHandler.lua,
i.e. if sector is not loaded (not gWorldSector[x/y]) and Max isnt either dead or hostile.
So i would have to add a PC according to "How do I do that?" Adding a new character
then clone Max`s block in strategicEventHandler.lua, and adjust sector&tile to place a new PC.
But how do i delay the spawn of the new PC depending on a specific event/fact (preferably with some days delay after fact became true),
and let him appear in one of the sectors where quests ID 11, 14 or 16 respectively 23, 29 or 33 can be finished?
Last not least is it possible to suppress the "your squad has noticed someone in sector x/x" message?
Else it would make much less sense to hide a merc.
(... for the few players who meet him before its common knownledge how&where to find;)
First of all, this isn't the usual method of placing NPCs - the stock ones are placed in the map itself etc.. It seemed to me that this was a much, much easier way, and... well, it is
The 'noticed someone' check only appears in wilderness sectors, I see no easy deactivation method otherwise.
Checks for quests and facts are easy:
if (not ( ( gWorldSectorX == 6) and ( gWorldSectorY == 3) ) and not MercIsDead(Profil.MAX)
and (gubQuest( Quests.QUEST_ESCORT_SKYRIDER ) == qStatus.QUESTINPROGRESS) and (CheckFact( Facts.FACT_ANGEL_LEFT_DEED, 0 ) == true) ) then
...
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Thanks so far;) and sorry for vague explanation of specific part, didnt want to leak too much.
So is it possible to set the spawn sector for the new PC equal to the sector where one of the classic Skyrider, Gabby etc spawn happens?
i.e which term to use instead of fixed sector coordinates [6,3,0] in command AddNPCtoSector (Profil.MAX,6,3,0),
or do i need to check all sectors where Gabby may be present whether he is actually there,
and let the result control a jump to fitting spawn command for the new PC?
Or perhaps both not doable atm, at all?
Take a look at function GetIntelAndQuestMapData( aLevel ) in strategicmap.lua, this might be useful as it shows how to get coordinates of a character:
if ( gubQuest( Quests.QUEST_ESCORT_SHANK ) == qStatus.QUESTINPROGRESS ) then
SetIntelAndQuestMapDataForSector(GetCharacterSectorX(Profil.JAKE), GetCharacterSectorY(Profil.JAKE), -1, MapSymbols.EXCLAMATIONMARK_BLUE, "Escort Shank to Jake", "")
end
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In a Matthew McConaughey's voice: "Alright alright alright...!"
Just want to tell you that I've started to work on Wei Shen (Sleeping Dogs's main character). I got the sound files already. 1h30 hour of quotes... Here we go again.
Btw, I'll need help with the face again too, otherwise it will be imp 203...
Next project will be Saint's Row male player's voices. Specially 1 (Troy Baker) and 3 (the one with the cockney accent).
Great I have only a very rough idea on how those specific characters sound, but GTA-like game characters likely have a ton of sounds to choose from.
Keep in mind that we can use a lot more sounds thanks to Additional Dialogue.
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This will create a couple of folders in the last path of the command. Look in "data\database\sounds" to find all game dialogue sounds. Random mutterings from Max during gameplay can be found in "characters\max". The graphic novel narration is in "story", dialogue from cutscenes and stuff in "ingame". The "enemy" folder also has some funny stuff from the junkies, mobsters...
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Yes, but note that I've altered several scripts for this. If the game doesn't recognize some of the functions in there, you will get a crash, in that case, one has to check what to use.
Also note that these mercs cannot be added to an ongoing campaign - merc profile changes only affect new campaigns.
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I noticed this from the AimAvailability.xml file in the download of the combined file for Lara, Sara, Scott, Max, and Shepard. I had a question about this part for Max:
Unlike all the other entries, there is no name for Max in the description. Will this cause any issues? (I'm guessing it won't, but I mention it just in case)
The uiIndex is the correct number, and it seems that the ProfilId and AimBioID follow the convention for NPCs like Tony etc., so I'm guessing those are okay as well.
Love having these extra Mercs, I've not yet got a chance to find Max, but he seems like he will be a great addition as well. Shepard and Sara sound really great especially with the additional Dynamic Dialog. Great work altogether.
This sets which characters get an AIM bio. As Max is not an AIM merc, he is not supposed to show here, thus the -1.
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Thanks for the explanation. Your reply in the other thread mentioning AIMBIOS.EDT makes clear that I must have forgot to transfer a few of the Additional Mercs files over (I was trying to merge and therefore not replace certain already modified ones). Replacing the files I forgot to transfer over, should do the trick, as I noticed the dates were wrong on the files currently in place. That should bring the Descriptions back.
In the Additional Mercs pack there is a file in the Scripts Folder called Overhead.lua dated 6-10-2018 3:24 pm. In the 8633 build that I currently have the same Overhead.lua file is dated 7-25-2018 4:11 pm.
Is there something key in the later dated 8633 SCI build for Overhead.lua that I should keep, should I use the Overhead.lua in the Additional Merc package, or should I open both up and try to edit them, merging them by hand?
Only thing I figure is that the .lua files are scripts, so that I'm guessing that especially Max Payne needs code from the Package, but there may have been some changes in the 8633 build in this Overhead.lua file, and thus I ask the question about what I should do?
The only file so far I had forgottn to move over was the AIMBIOS.EDT file as you explained in the other thread. Copying the forgotten AIMBIOS.EDT fixed the descriptions, so thanks Flugente.
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As far as some limited lua scripting experience allows me to interprete the filecompare oracle,
you will lose the comments on the death of an NPC, and most importantly chaotic Buns! you are aware that a spcl chaos buns portrait pack is available, are you?
Pretty sure (>99%) that both scripts must be merged to get the best of both worlds.
In case you will recognize the difference in section "Profiles =", aka lines 70 - 191 in the mercpacks lua script,
for which i would also use the entries of the sci's later script version,
i.e. either paste lines 184-188 and line 191 from 1 (=mercpack overhaed.lua)
as new lines into 2 (=sci's overhead.lua) between line 223 and 224,
optionally paste lines 71 - 120 from 2 into lines 71 - 82 of 1,
then squeeze Skitz from 2 (line 223) between Rudolph and NO_PROFILE in 1, together with Buns_Chaotic after Max.
Not sure whether the diffs beginning at line 2875 in 1 and 2859 in 2 must be grouped according to related usEventNr's,
aka usEventNr == blabla.ADE_[discover_room], blabla.ADE_[dialogue_reaction], blabla.ADE_[sector_commentary]
but its good practice to that anyway and not risk to waste time if so,
would also make your script confusing in case you have to add more entries.
Uh oh. Okay, that's a bit depressing. But if the lua files are able to be read as text in Notepad, maybe I can figure it out, and I'll look over your notes again then.
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I know you have been working on a lot of new portraits, and I am interested in them. But I don't know a lot about how to install such things. If you can refer me to the procedure, I'd sort of like more portraits, especially for my IMPs. I noticed your work a bit in probably one of the mod threads, maybe the one for Arulco Vacations. I do know that Flugente allowed for a Chaos Buns, and I did see you had made new glasses for her with less of a smile, but I was not aware there was a download pack, etc., or that it was complete. I'd be interested in such a file.
If you can direct me to a primer to maybe adding some more portraits, or even new mercs, that would be great. I don't want the Mercs to either be the best values or super-powered, I just like the variety, with the different looks, voices, and gear.
Oh, by the way, years ago, TownLTU, the original Urban Chaos mod had several different portraits for additional mercs, one that was a bit funny for me at the time, used Flo's voice (which I get a kick out of), but she was very dangerous, so she would say some of the lines you would never expect Flo to say. Anyway, you might find some Portraits in there if you have never looked.
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Registered:December 2017 Location: here
@ZedJA2
Notepad will do, but i recommend e.g scite, notepad++ etc for better overall view.
Find the chaotic Buns portrait here,
install process is pretty straight forward, in opposition to many other sets in that thread which require to rename files.
(use e.g Irfanview's "batch conversion" feature to rename all in a few_clicks_operation).
Btw there are more portraits in the related sticky
If you like Buns new "all enemies defeated" comment and want more weird character messages, check this thread for voice 311 and 312,
note some of the earlier voice imports were integrated into stock 1.13, not sure if link in Flugente's message 348277 reveals which ones.
Also edmortimer appears to have cut some more speechsets together in his Arulco Vacations mod from where you could pull them out.
This spellbook should contain all the required info to assign portrait and speech sets,
that is unless/until the way things work has_been/will_be completely revamped ;)
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Registered:December 2017 Location: here
An attempt to merge overhead.lua scripts dlded from svn on 09:Nov:2018 and the one in afaik latest mercpack JA2Femshep_LaraCroft_RyderTwins_MaxPayne_v17.7z:
Hey, cool. I'll try and download that tomorrow night and use it as a guide. If it looks ok, I'll try it in my current campaign. Thanks for the effort.
Download went pretty darn fast, passed both of my virus/malware checks. 7-zip found the archive to be good also. Did not even have to disable my ad blocker as suggested, hmm Mediafire may not be so bad after all, good surprise.
One of the things this brings up, unfortunately, is how inter-related all this modding and files are. My initial guess, not having looked at the overhead.lua files yet, was that probably they trigger for Max Payne and for Sara, etc when they are triggered to either be found, or talk about areas. So, any additional merc with such changes, plus Chaos Buns, needs their lua file.
At any rate, makes it dang interesting, but shows how difficult it can be to mod. Thanks for this, should help me to learn things, too.
UPDATE:
Am currently using your Overhead.LUA in-game of 8633 SCI campaign. So far no issues, runs fine. But the lua scripts probably only trigger in necessary trigger sectors and/or under certain events, so until then it remains a question. But the game accepts it fine without crashing.
Hello errybody. I just got done adding 95% of Unfinished Business' maps to my jagged alliance (I couldn't get the heavy snow maps with the helicopter crash to load) I had to rework some maps to remove the snow, but its all there in the previously inaccessible forest to the southeast of Alma. I moved Manuel from Chitzena to Varez, which I created in said forest, no prob there. But im looking to add Betty Fung and her clear the bloodcats from her warehouse quest into the game. I copied over her info from UB to a merc profile. I put her in slot #210. I copied over all her audio dialogue and the face info and renamed it all to match the 210 profile slot (so the audio files went from NPC 73 in UB to 210 in JA2 1.13 data.) The best I got was her appearing in her shop, she looks correct in game(right outfit) and got all the text from her dialogue when I talk to her. But her face info wasn't there, it was just a messed up Mickey Obrien picture with words saying not finished. Audio didn't play. The buy and sell would open up but she had no items. If you guys are able to just add people left and right haha, please point me in the right direction. I am very sorry if this isn't the place for this question, I searched, I did indeed did. this is what came up when I searched "add an npc." haha., but... we can't stop here, this is bat country.
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Registered:February 2020 Location: North East England
Hi,
The Mickey O'Brien picture bug is because the npc face is missing. Do you have the correct bxxx.sti in the right place?
Regarding audio didn't play, did you correctly move the relevant .edt file relating to Betty Fung?
As for the merchant's stock, I believe this needs adding in through .xml files (i.e. setting up a merchant under Merchants.xml and then adding the merchant's inventory to xxxInventory.xml).
Hunter Thompson wrote on Sun, 23 February 2020 11:24
Hello errybody. I just got done adding 95% of Unfinished Business' maps to my jagged alliance (I couldn't get the heavy snow maps with the helicopter crash to load) I had to rework some maps to remove the snow, but its all there in the previously inaccessible forest to the southeast of Alma. I moved Manuel from Chitzena to Varez, which I created in said forest, no prob there. But im looking to add Betty Fung and her clear the bloodcats from her warehouse quest into the game. I copied over her info from UB to a merc profile. I put her in slot #210. I copied over all her audio dialogue and the face info and renamed it all to match the 210 profile slot (so the audio files went from NPC 73 in UB to 210 in JA2 1.13 data.) The best I got was her appearing in her shop, she looks correct in game(right outfit) and got all the text from her dialogue when I talk to her. But her face info wasn't there, it was just a messed up Mickey Obrien picture with words saying not finished. Audio didn't play. The buy and sell would open up but she add no items. If you guys are able to just add people left and right haha, please point me in the right direction. I am very sorry if this isn't the place for this question, I searched, I did indeed did. this is what came up when I searched "add an npc." haha., but... we can't stop here, this is bat country.
As for her UB-quest, I don't know if it is possible to activate this in JA2. As far as I know, this quest is triggering facts in UB-code, not JA2-code (inside the UB or JA2 exe). I don't know enough about code, but as far as I assume, the UB-code is not active in JA2, maybe a person capable of coding knows more. Furthermore, for quests you also have to change quest.edt and adjust the triggers inside the npc.edt of Betty and also stuff in some lua-scripts. In the mod "ArulcoVacations" by EdMortimer, the UB-quest for Raul is active, maybe worth looking into or asking him. Betty is available in this mod too, may helpful to look how it was done there.
Does anyone happen to know if there are any plans to reupload this pack after the previous host site went down? Or at least point me in the direction of someone who could provide it?
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Hey guys, could someone reupload latest version (the one with Mercy, I guess) to a mirror (mega or something?)? I don't know what's broken right now (possibly romanian network is overloaded as hell), but I am unable to download this from rcs-rds. DL speed is 7-9 kbps and the download just crashes after 1-2 mbs downloaded.
And also for everyone who worked on this project!
I only discovered the 1.13 world now (shame on me) and it is absolutely amazing work! Same good ol' feel on (crates of) steroids!
I usually replay JA2 every 3-4 years ever since it came out and this time around it is unbelieveable.
(same as the fact that no game manages to pull off anything like this ever since!)
Thank you, I will look into those mods. If I could just access the Lua scripts at all haha and look at them, just like how i figured everything else out, I could probably copy them into JA2.
3. compare the lua scripts in 2. (latest 1.13) with lua scripts in 1. (Additional Mercs)
add the additional stuff found in lua-scripts of Additonal Mercs to the according lua scripts in latest 1.13
i.e., at the very end of strateticmap.lua of Additional Mercs you'll see a few lines after "-- tell us where Max Payne is", add those to the starteticmap.lua in latest 1.13
or, another example, in StrateticEventhandler.lua, scroll until you see "-- Set Max Payne's location" and add those
you have to be precise, don't miss stuff like (at the top of StrateticEventHandler) the enum for Profil has "MAX = 214,"
and so on
biggest chunk is in Overhead.lua, mostly all the ADE (AdditionalDialogueEvents) at the end of the script
Use a texteditor like notepad++, this will help you keep correct formatation (add stuff exactly as found, all those "if" and "end", etc must be at the right position)
4. all other files in download of Additional Mercs look fine, those should be working by just copying them in latest 1.13
edit: better look at the other files as well, i.e., backgrounds.xml is missing a few tags (add the missing tags to the one from Additional Mercs)
same principle as with lua, compare included files with files in latest 1.13
5. now you should have the latest 1.13 with additional files from Additional Mercs and updated lua scripts
6. do the ususal, copy 1.13 into original ja2, play
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P.S. Why updating the lua-scripts?
it's been a few years since Flugente created this, so the lua-scripts have seen some changes since then
simply using the old ones shipped with his AdditionalMercs will cause trouble
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]). A grumpy, alcoholic psycho that narrates some of his lines fits just in with the rest of our selection of wackjobs.
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If I could just access the Lua scripts at all haha and look at them, just like how i figured everything else out, I could probably copy them into JA2.
