Sun, 27 June 2021 14:56

In a subious attempt to maybe make the game look better, I've added a bit of code that allows us to show several graphical overlays.



What he have for now are blood spatters on full walls if someone takes a significant (> 15) amount of damage. This works on all things that have, well, blood. Vehicles and robots are excluded, as are the bugs, because their blood has a different colour and I couldn't be bothered.

Additionally, structural damage to walls is shown as well.

For the moment both only work on full walls, but theoretically you can do this on any wall you want. If there is enough interest I might expand this to half-sized walls and doors.
This also doesn't have to be restricted to walls. Any structure would work.

I have a few ideas on what else we could show:

• burn marks from fire on the floor and walls
  
  
• bullet holes. It would require us to save each and every location hit per map, and apply some finicky business adding pixels to the right spot, but nothing insurmountable.
  
  
• spent shells and empty mags on the ground whenever we fire or reload. But those things would be 1 pixel each, which is going to look very stupid.
  
  
• Add a spray can and graffiti the place?
  

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; If set to TRUE, additional decals can be seen on some objects (cracked walls, blood spatters etc.).
; Also requires the 'Blood & Gore' option to be toggled ingame.
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ADDITIONAL_DECALS = TRUE

Hello Folks!; Sun, 20 June 2021 22:44

Hey everyone, Long time JA2 gamer. Back since it came out when I was in high school. Good memories, old times. Been looking to try to get the vengance mod working, I'm having some trouble with it but Im sure I can figure it out with all of the great resources here!

Go here!; Wed, 09 June 2021 05:20

How to get: latest 1.13, 7609, feature-descriptions and more

Fri, 28 May 2021 01:26

I haven't played this game in a long time. Bought it when it came out in '99 while working at Toys R' Us. The mods though the aiming seems really poor. Is that on purpose? 90 marksmanship with gun in range with precise aiming and it completely misses every time. Am I missing something? Thanks

Sat, 22 May 2021 20:25

The ja2 wiki claims it's possible to knock out SAM sites by damaging them in the tactical screen:
Quote:

It is possible to physically destroy the SAMs on the tactical screen. If the computer controlling SAM is destroyed, the SAM site will no longer cover the airspace. If an enemy captures the SAM site however, it can repair the computer, rendering this only a temporary solution.

Thu, 20 May 2021 21:53

Fairly new to editing/modding, need some help: replaced a character with a new character found online...installed battleSNDS, speech, updated profile pic & bio....that all worked and new character is playable, but now when i enter the code at IMP it says maximum number have been created

Any ideas how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, sorry if this is posted in the wrong area..

Drop All activated - but auto resolve drops no items; Thu, 20 May 2021 06:51

Auto Resolve - No items dropped despite being drop all activated.

I am using: JA2_113_FullRelease_English_7435
And JA.102 as Base.

I have set Drop All to 1.

My last playthrough a month ago worked fine.

But this time I noticed my Auto Resolve fights dont drop any items.
This is only bothering when there are huge milita fights with elite soldiers in your cities, and there is absolutely NO Drops afterwards.

Is there any setting that could BLOCK my auto resolve from dropping items?
If I fight manually, items are dropped. ALL ITEMS...

a new mod for Straciatella; Mon, 17 May 2021 08:08

Hi everybody, started porting my maps for a minimod on Straciatella.
Went through crazy times like not understanding why Strac doesn't load some maps that were saved by the 1.13 editor in another format than the standard v. 1.12 one, did a thorough play through and found out Strac doesn't like some map edge points from my maps...rectified that.

I have a map that loads perfectly in the editor but doesn't load in the game, resulting in crash to desktop with some error code I don't understand and know nothing about: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fywxtci2c6dxn9c/l10.dat/file Can somebody help?

Sat, 15 May 2021 21:01

Noticed the camo coverage from kits is 5 %. Should I increase it, since I'm using old inventory system. I think I'm losing out on some camo % from LBE gear, am I correct?

How does the system check the camo type? Should I re-camo myself from desert to urban when moving indoors in Tixa for example?

Sat, 15 May 2021 02:09

it says you can upgrade both spectre helmet and commando vest. it doesnt work on commando vest while i can do it with helmet. so it is bugged i guess.

plus i dont understand whats the point of these upgrades? i upgraded my spectre helmet to medic helmet and i dont see any difference other than cross icon on helmet lol.