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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274688]

Mon, 28 February 2011 01:16

pyg

Messages:42
Registered:August 2007

smeagol

Special bonus feature... overview map of all sectors done so far:

Arulco Map

Beautiful, but I would like to request more non-covered [no trees] areas so the AI can reenact various military failures from the last 200 years. Give me a chance to use my oversized range.

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274690]

Mon, 28 February 2011 01:54

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

pyg

Beautiful, but I would like to request more non-covered [no trees] areas so the AI can reenact various military failures from the last 200 years. Give me a chance to use my oversized range.

No worries. There is still a lot more maps to come, and especially the desert maps will have only little cover.

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274709]

Mon, 28 February 2011 14:46

Buns

Messages:655
Registered:September 2010

smeagol

Special bonus feature... overview map of all sectors done so far:

Arulco Map

super!

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First Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274713]

Mon, 28 February 2011 15:08

Searry

Messages:12
Registered:June 2009

Where can i get the AIMavailability.xml? It has dissappeared from the given link in the last thread.

Ok after spending a lot of time i found this post.

[quote=Chatner]Ok, next attempt to fix the english SCI. Let me know if there's still any german stuff in there.
Since I can't edit my old post in the locked thread anymore, I'll copy the instructions here:

Quote:

Here's the download link for the english version.
Here's the download link for the german version.

Includes:
- Tai's SCI_SVN1252_MPSVN3944_Vanilla113_20101204
- Smeagol's WF6.06-AIMNASV14 (EN/DE versions for the respective SCIs)
- Smeagol's AIMNASv15 update
- New AIMAvailability.xml and MercAvailabity.xml as suggested multiple times in this thread
- Changed JA2.ini setting for SCREEN_MODE_WINDOWED to 0
- JA2_3928_EIIC.exe

How to install:
- Get a clean install of JA2
- Extract the contents of the archive into the game directory and overwrite any files when you're asked to
- That's it, use the JA2_3928_EIIC.exe to run the game and have fun![/quo

[Updated on: Mon, 28 February 2011 19:54] by Moderator

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274749]

Tue, 01 March 2011 04:16

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

Can somebody tell me where all the bios are saved? Some are in the AIMbios.edt, some are in the MERCbios.edt. But a lot of mercs are not listed in those, like all the new (UB and WF) mercs as well as some of the original JA2 mercs. I also couldn't find this stuff in JA2 vanilla, UB or WF.

Also, what about item descriptions? There is an itemdesc.edt file, but it's not being used. The game is pulling the descriptions from somewhere else.

[Updated on: Tue, 01 March 2011 04:35] by Moderator

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274753]

Tue, 01 March 2011 06:01

cdudau

In the slf files.

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274756]

Tue, 01 March 2011 07:16

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

Sorry, you didn't get my question. I got all the AIMbios.edt and MERCbios.edt files from 1.13, JA2 vanilla, UB and WF (the standalone game, not the 1.13 mod).
But some bios informations are simply not in there. For example the bios infos for the WF mercs are not in the files from WF and also not in the files from 1.13. The bios infos of the UB chars are not in the files from UB and also not in the files from 1.13. And some of the original mercs (for example magic and scully) also have no infos in any AIMbios.edt or MERCbios.edt. I can change the existing data from the bios files and it's properly used ingame, but it's just not complete.
So my question is: In what file are the missing bios informations saved? I didn't find them in any edt files.

As for the itemdesc.edt: Those files are simply not used at all. You can remove all the itemdesc.edt files and start the game, you wont notice any difference, all the descriptions are still there. Not to mention that the texts in that file do not match the texts ingame in the first place.
I'm not talking about the infos at bobby ray's, but about the description texts for any item in your inventory that's shown when you rightclick on it.
So where does the game pull the descriptions from?

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274757]

Tue, 01 March 2011 07:31

cdudau

In the slf files.

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274766]

Tue, 01 March 2011 09:17

Logisteric

Messages:3199
Registered:December 2008
Location: B

@chatner

if something is not in the 'folders' the exe looks for it in *.slf of the same name (mercetd\###.etds are in mercetd.slf) - you can extract all edts from the corresponding slf - to change them you simply need to put the changed etds to the folder

this system was chosen to keep updates slim as downloads where done by modems in these days

to extract files use dragon unpacker

when something 'vanilla' is not used then you find most likely an xml that houses the content (profdat -> mercprofiles.xml + mercopinion.xml)

use notepad++ to work on xmls

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Captain

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274771]

Tue, 01 March 2011 10:38

DepressivesBrot

Messages:3658
Registered:July 2009

Chatner

As for the itemdesc.edt: Those files are simply not used at all. You can remove all the itemdesc.edt files and start the game, you wont notice any difference, all the descriptions are still there. Not to mention that the texts in that file do not match the texts ingame in the first place.
I'm not talking about the infos at bobby ray's, but about the description texts for any item in your inventory that's shown when you rightclick on it.
So where does the game pull the descriptions from?

1.13 gets the descriptions directly from Items.xml, or [LANGUAGE].Items.xml for the localized versions.

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274783]

Tue, 01 March 2011 16:29

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

@merc bios data:
I checked every single BinaryData slf and folder (in vanilla JA2, UB, WF and 1.13). None of the AIMbios.edt or MERCbios.edt files in any of them contains the bios informations of those characters (all new UB and WF chars as well as plenty of the original chars). I also checked all the xmls that seem to be related to mercs, didn't find what I'm looking for. At this point I'd give up, but this stuff has to be somewhere and there's a good chance I'm just missing something obvious.
Let me ask for something specific: In what file do I find the bios informations for Magic? Chances are all the others are in the same file.

@item descriptions:
Thanks, I got it now. There is indeed a german.items.xml (as well as other languages), but looks like smea's WF mod doesn't use it. Apart from renaming the german.items.xml to items.xml, is there any way to tell the game to use the german file?

[Updated on: Tue, 01 March 2011 16:30] by Moderator

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274789]

Tue, 01 March 2011 17:31

Logisteric

Messages:3199
Registered:December 2008
Location: B

data(...)\binary data\

i think a german exe draws from the germanized xml

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Captain

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274832]

Wed, 02 March 2011 01:47

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

For all those, who like me, always wondered, why Arulco doesn't have a border-checkpoint on the land border to neighbouring countries, that puzzle has been solved... (especially check out the "leaving Arulco" sign Wink

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3852/a6bordercloseup.gif

And here's the complete map:

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/7369/finala6.gif

Edit:

Link to updated current overview map

[Updated on: Wed, 02 March 2011 01:57] by Moderator

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274833]

Wed, 02 March 2011 01:57

Cell

Messages:375
Registered:February 2011

awesome!!!

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Master Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274860]

Wed, 02 March 2011 11:17

lockie

Messages:3721
Registered:February 2006
Location: Scotland

This looks excellent Smeag , and the truck actually looks as if it belongs there !

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Captain

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274867]

Wed, 02 March 2011 12:22

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

Unfortunately, maps with cliffs are still bugged. Already posted a bug report about this.

Mercs can't go prone and tanks on these maps are indestructible. (not sure if the tank thingy is related to the cliffs, the not go prone most certainly is).

So if this doesn't get fixed, the map will only be half-playable. :/

Edit:
Placing the tank in a different position at least makes it damageable, so it seems to be related to something in the surroundings of the placement. But the placement itself is off. Placed it exactly on the road for testing, in game it is off-set like 5 or 6 tiles North-West.

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5742/tankbug.gif

Edit2:
Just tested placing a tank in a map without cliffs, that works fine. The tank doesn't get moved and it takes damage.

[Updated on: Wed, 02 March 2011 13:06] by Moderator

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274942]

Thu, 03 March 2011 00:30

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

New recoloured tileset for burnt wilderness/debris:

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6439/burntdebris.gif

In game pic of the tiles:

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1725/burntdebris1.gif

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274957]

Thu, 03 March 2011 03:56

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

Finisehd B6 (Burnt Forest North of San Mona).

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/6400/finalb6.gif

Updated Map of Arulco

[Updated on: Thu, 03 March 2011 04:01] by Moderator

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274980]

Thu, 03 March 2011 16:17

Kirill_OverK

Messages:257
Registered:September 2010

have You any screen with map which use mega-tile-set ?

thanks.

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Master Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #274982]

Thu, 03 March 2011 16:29

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

Chatner

Let me ask for something specific: In what file do I find the bios informations for Magic? Chances are all the others are in the same file.

Does anyone have an answer to this? I still can't find it.

Also, is there any other editor for .edt files than EDT editor and JA2edt? JA2edt wont run on Win7 64bit, EDT editor seems to cut the text.

Btw, why is the game using such exotic file formats anyway? Would be great to replace all slf with zip and edt with txt. Wink

[Updated on: Thu, 03 March 2011 16:36] by Moderator

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275000]

Thu, 03 March 2011 18:30

judecca_hel

Messages:33
Registered:January 2011

don't know this is bug or not.

HKG11 have fix optic, in EDB say it's a scope with reflex sights combo
but I still can add another reflex sights on it
so AP to fire is very low(11AP to fire,that's lower than pistol)

Should it be like this?

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Private 1st Class

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275033]

Thu, 03 March 2011 20:15

cdudau

Chatner

Btw, why is the game using such exotic file formats anyway? Would be great to replace all slf with zip and edt with txt.

That would be very nice.

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275045]

Thu, 03 March 2011 21:10

Maalstroom

Messages:340
Registered:December 2008
Location: en route to San Hermanos

hi smeagol is there any chance to make aim compatible with the latest nas and big maps (in terms of range)? i find ja2 boring without your mod. and the new features added to the latest exe are to nice not to play with them.

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Master Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275047]

Thu, 03 March 2011 21:13

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

@mael: The next release of smeagol's mod will have all you ask for. But it'll take a while to get finished. A rather long while I guess.

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275051]

Thu, 03 March 2011 23:47

Kirill_OverK

Messages:257
Registered:September 2010

Chatner

@mael: The next release of smeagol's mod will have all you ask for. But it'll take a while to get finished. A rather long while I guess.

good news !

I will be wait !

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Master Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275056]

Fri, 04 March 2011 00:39

Wil473

Messages:2815
Registered:September 2004
Location: Canada

Chatner, I just used the EDT editor here to fix some NPC dialogue in UC-1.13v3.04 http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=266700#Post266700

Works just fine on my Win7 64bit Pro. In the long term it would be nice if all the text was converted to an XML, much as prof.dat was with the Proflex work. There is some non-EDT text embedded in the executable (Funeral Home website), that should be externalized first however as right now changing that text requires building a custom JA2.exe.

EDIT: sorry for going off-topic here

[Updated on: Fri, 04 March 2011 00:44] by Moderator

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275058]

Fri, 04 March 2011 00:58

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

Awesome, thanks wil! That editor looks a hell of a lot better than what I got so far.

[Updated on: Fri, 04 March 2011 07:51] by Moderator

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Corporal

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275099]

Fri, 04 March 2011 15:21

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

Done with B8:

http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/5743/finalb8.gif

Edit:

and also done with B7, boring wilderness map, done in like 30 mins...

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/8674/finalb7.gif

World MapV6

[Updated on: Fri, 04 March 2011 16:41] by Moderator

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275137]

Sat, 05 March 2011 13:57

Hawkeye

Messages:2416
Registered:October 2005
Location: Australia

Good and Bad news on the Jeep, I've got one, but it will need a fair bit of work to get looking nice for a render. So might be a while yet.

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275199]

Sun, 06 March 2011 15:58

Kirill_OverK

Messages:257
Registered:September 2010

smeagol

Done with B8:

Edit:

and also done with B7, boring wilderness map, done in like 30 mins...

World MapV6

good news !

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Master Sergeant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275218]

Sun, 06 March 2011 18:37

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

And yet another boring wilderness map done:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7876/finala13.gif

World Map Update

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Lieutenant

Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275240]

Mon, 07 March 2011 13:45

smeagol

Messages:2705
Registered:June 2008
Location: Bremen, Germany

World Map Update V8 including Wilderness map C11.

Pic quality gets worse, because of upload limit at imageshack. Filesize with previous qualitiy was slightly too big. With reduced quality I think I can fit in the other missing maps as well. Probably will change soon to a different map format for those overview maps. The idea is to make a total of 9 6x6 maps. A complete world map would be awesome, but that file will probably be VERY huge...

[Updated on: Mon, 07 March 2011 13:48] by Moderator

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Re: AIMNAS WF2011 Part 8 (formerly Alpha_Item_Mod for WF6.06)[message #275250]

Mon, 07 March 2011 18:09

chatnertest

Messages:61
Registered:December 2010

I'm still working on a patch for my german SCI to replace all english texts with german texts.
I got most of it now, but there's a lot of english stuff remaining and I have no idea where this stuff is saved, aka what files I'd have to replace.
Here's a screenshot with some examples.

I'm talking about all the english stuff you can see in the laptop as well as the marked sections of the map screen. There's more than this, for example the buttons to load and save savegames.
My guess is that at least some of this stuff is somewhere in the exe, is that correct? If not, what files am I overlooking?

[Updated on: Mon, 07 March 2011 18:14] by Moderator

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