Basic Modding with Playable Examples

[Faiakes]

Originally Posted by niphty

Well, here's a Q's for you.. when you imported the JPEG into PSP11, did it have a transparent background,

What I mean by transparent background is that it shows a black & white checkerboard grid behind the items, which look like cut-outs.

Yes it did.

Originally Posted by niphty

Also, PSP11 automatically promotes the selection to a layer. You can see this after you choose the pick tool, and try to resize the gun. If you look in the Layers section of the UI, you can see it now has a 'Promoted Selection' Layer. They've just cut out a lot of the messaging for you. It should still gave the warning on save about merging the image down.

It gives no warning now.

And, Yes, right clicking on that side gives me a number of options:

New Raster Layer
New Vector Layer
New Art Media Layer
New Layer Group
New Mask Layer
New Adjustment Layer

Merge

Promote Background to Layer
Promote Selection to Layere

Defloat

to name a few.
What is it that I need to do here before I proceed?

[Kill001]

How do you change the damage on your custom weapons??

[Demoche]

just change the hit_power line niphty's got his gauss as
hit_power = 10.10, 10.10, 10.10, 16.60
which, may be a bit of overkill......
i have mine as 0.80, 0.82, 0.84, 0.90
which for me does more than enough
(especially when shooting buckshot ammo with the same velocity as normal gauss rifle)

[Final Warrior]

Note that you don't need to have four different values. I think they each correspond to a different position your character is in (standing, crouching, low crouch, and one other), but you can enter a single value for "hit_power" and the game will use just that one number for damage.

-- Griffinhart

[TheGreyKnight]

Do you know where I can find these itx. files? 'Cause I can't seem to find the itx for a GP 37 anywhere.

A full step by step would be nice.

[TheGreyKnight]

Um, yeah. I figured out you have to download something, but where can I find the unique_weapons.ltx? And some stuff in there is confusing. Where exactly do I put the text?

Sorry, but I'm a n00b at this.

[TheGreyKnight]

Okay, now I am simply confused. (Sry for third post)

Is there someway you can modify your existing guide, or make a new one, because I just can't follow your directions on this. You specify the files, but now WHERE to put them.

And for the weapons, the locations of each would be nice.

And sry again, I'm a n00b.

[TheGreyKnight]

Okay, now I am simply confused. (Sry for third post)

Is there someway you can modify your existing guide, or make a new one, because I just can't follow your directions on this. You specify the files, but now WHERE to put them.

And for the weapons, the locations of each would be nice.

And sry again, I'm a n00b.

[TheGreyKnight]

Okay, now I am simply confused. (Sry for third post)

Is there someway you can modify your existing guide, or make a new one, because I just can't follow your directions on this. You specify the files, but now WHERE to put them.

And for the weapons, the locations of each would be nice.

And sry again, I'm a n00b.

[FoxTwo]

Originally Posted by niphty

scope_zoom_factor - How much your scope moves in and out. I'm not -totally- sure how this number works, it seems like lower is better just by thumbing through the config files, just haven't tested it yet.

The magic number is 60 (degrees, I presume). Meaning, your FOV (Field Of View) is by default 60 degrees. Assuming you haven't found a way to adjust the "natural" FOV (unscoped), 60 is the number you need to work with.

So, if you want a scope that zooms in 5x, you do 60/5 = 12, and you put 12 here. A 10x scope would mean this number should be 6. The binoculars have a zoom factor of 8x, so the figure is (60/8) = 7.5

If you want to zoom OUT, you multiply instead of divide. 5x zoom out = 60 x 5 = 300.