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[jarekfall]

Over two years have passed since I last updated "Sprite Creator". The reason is that I had a lot of duties and problems. This summer I have found a little time and decided to spend it not on improving Sprite Creator but on Fallout Tactics hacking. I have just uploaded to NMA the result of my work, I've created a program which I named "FT Improver". The description of the program is included in the program files so I will not describe it here and please read the readme file carefully, it contains important information. FT Improver 1.1.0.1 gives modders a lot of advantage:
- possibility of adding new action points cost types definitions stored in structure format,
- possibility of adding new animation names,
- possibility of adding new ammunition types,
- possibility of adding new weapon types,
- possibility of adding new weapon sound types,
- possibility of adding new armour types and armour sounds,
all this available directly in FT Tools and in BOS.exe executable file. The program modifies the executable code and data only in memory, so it won't harm your files. I've tested the program and it works correctly.

I'm interested in your opinions and comments, especially from modders, because this program is mainly for them.
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FT Improver and Sprite Creator project website address is jarekfall.cba.pl

[gunner of shi]

Really awesome!

[VFSniper]

Sweet going to have to give this a try and see how well it works

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

Interesting, good work.
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[VFSniper]

Hmm doesn't seem to like my 64 bit windows pc, I'll have to try it in a VM

[jarekfall]

[VFSniper]

FTImprover gives the error 13

[jarekfall]

[destromet]

I have been modding the FOT campaign for about a year now. I decided that I wanted to do this for my own amusement (I may post it when I'm satisfied with it), and I just keep on adding stuff and changing stuff, and by now, the game feels very different from the original. Regardless, this tool (especially the ammo creator) is a great help. I just want to request a tool for future versions that can create new ammo variants. I have no idea how you made FT Improver, so I have no idea if that's possible, or if that is already possible, but It would help me greatly.
Keep on doing stuff with FOT. its cool.

[jarekfall]

[Abbadon101]

I have to say this is a VERY good tool. I have tried, over the last couple of years, to make a couple of weapons mods for FOT but ended up getting fed up with the way I had to edit things and leaving it half way finished.

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

Jarekfall is that new armour permissions, i.e allowing the BOS race to wear all the human armours as the tribals can? Or new armour types entirely?

Will we be able to give the BOS race it's own default appearance without armour, so they don't look like tribals?
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[jarekfall]

[gunner of shi]

Before this tool, I changed tribal race into unique type with trible spr in other name, and renew the former tribal spr to other spr.

[jarekfall]

FT Improver 1.1.0.1 contains an armour types patch and armour sounds patch.

Every patch is described in details in the "Readme.htm" file.
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FT Improver and Sprite Creator project website address is jarekfall.cba.pl

[Prosper]

How about a new form of dialog ?

Imagine a DirectX hook that uses the ID3DXFont (font interface) to simply write a couple sentences so they stack like in fallout 1 and 2.

If you have to, just use GetCursor or DirectInput to get the mouse position and with some simple math you can see if the mouse clicks while within the boundary of one of the sentences.

If it is within the bounds, then they clicked, and you can display a new response from the tree to the user from a string buffer.

The hard part is using triggers to trigger the new dialog window. One way may be scanning a variables value in memory to see if it changes.

Memory isn't the same on most computers as most of us know, so you may need to find the function that can access map variables. (reversing required obviously)

It would be a nasty hack at first, but I think it would be possible to accomplish a stable version.

The reason I suggest speech trees, is, Ausir even believes that if FOT had speech trees it would be cool and would possibly make Fallout 1 and 2 modding obsolete.

If you need an example of a good direct x 8 (or 9 if you want) hook checkout unknown cheats.

[jarekfall]

Thanks for the speech tree suggestion and tips. I imagined myself the same, many times. I'm extremely busy with life, so that's why my FT modding takes so long and I have a free time only in summer holidays. I like discovering game secrets and I would like to greatly improve it.

[Prosper]

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

Graphically, in terms of 2d isometric games the FOT engine is king. I'm not talking about the quality of the tiles but I can't think of any other 2d isometric game that allows such large multilevel environments.

But other wise the engine sucks balls, the amount of hacks and work a rounds needed to just give the game the versatility of... just about any other game must be truly daunting.
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[jarekfall]

Yes, FOT graphicall engine is a king in comparison to other games.

We cannot expect miracles, but I will try to improve the game at least partly. My knowledge isn't endless so I won't be able to add everything to the game what I want to add, but still I am learning new things. Also, it would be great if some FT enthusiasts would like to join to my project. If someone would like to create its own patch for FT by using FT Improver source code, please write in this thread.
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FT Improver and Sprite Creator project website address is jarekfall.cba.pl