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UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250282]

Sun, 25 April 2010 16:50

bbun

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Registered:April 2004
Location: Amsterdam

Could anyone share his idea's with me...

How much work would it be to add all UB items (weapons, armor, attachments, etc...) to Stracciatella?
Which are the things to think of, and the steps to follow?

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Corporal

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250283]

Sun, 25 April 2010 16:52

Logisteric

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is the vanilla items-limit still in stracciatella?

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Captain

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250301]

Sun, 25 April 2010 21:13

bbun

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Registered:April 2004
Location: Amsterdam

I didn't know vanilla came with an items-limit..? Wouldn't know if it's been removed. Considering stracciatella is basically vanilla, I assume it's still there.

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Corporal

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250304]

Sun, 25 April 2010 21:34

The_Bob

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Registered:May 2009
Location: Behind you.

More importantly, items are still hardcoded in stracciatella. That includes item drop chances, their availability at BR, merges, attachments and graphics.

As for steps, you'd need to provide the graphics in .sti, the stats and the sounds, then find a coder who would add the guns to the game. Or try doing it yourself - it's not very difficult, basically changing some numbers and text to put the gun in a blank item spot - no actual coding required.

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Master Sergeant

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250414]

Mon, 26 April 2010 23:46

bbun

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Registered:April 2004
Location: Amsterdam

Adding new items to the code shouldn't be a problem, although some pointers would be helpful.

Basically, you say that the blank items spots will suffice for the number of new items from UB, The Bob?

And what about the graphics, stats, and sounds? Can't I simply use the datafiles from UB, as they come? - or would I need to do some preprocessing?

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Corporal

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250436]

Tue, 27 April 2010 06:39

Kaerar

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Registered:January 2003
Location: Australia :D

You can use the gfx and sounds straight from UB, though you would have to have the same structure as the other items to define the correct numbers for the images Smile

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Lieutenant

Re: UB weapons/items for Stracciatella[message #250484]

Tue, 27 April 2010 20:30

The_Bob

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Registered:May 2009
Location: Behind you.

It would take a rather lengthy guide to explain the process of adding weapons to stracciatella, so I'll just say that the change will be limited to finding, understanding and modifying several tables in the items.cc and weapons.cc files. The most important things to remember are to keep the table size constant and never skip any commas. Although changing the size is possible, it will probably invalidate previous save games and may require more work then it is worth.

As for sounds and graphics, you'll have to figure out where to put the files you extract from UB and then point to them when adding the guns to the tables in the source files - for example putting 32 in the gun graphics index will make the game look for a file data/bigitems/GUN32.sti. Or at least thats my best guess, I never actually tried it.

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