Fallout 1 mod FO1 to FO2 conversion, for real

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JimTheDinosaur said:
As in that you actually get irradiated while descending into the most irradiated location on earth? ;)

Isn't the radiation limit before actually dying ridiculously high?
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Last I checked it's only 1000. I'd have to test the 95%cap/1000death thing though, I'd have to try in a real game to see if it's "balanced enough" or whatever.

It'll be addressed eventually though regardless, I've always wanted to tweak the Radiation Sickness system in Fallout. I assume it should be doable with sfall scripting.
 
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Anyway the "installer" (~370mb) is uploading now, keep in mind this is the old version, but it plus the files you already see at https://github.com/Sduibek/FO1toFO2engine/ is pretty much everything I have right meow.

For some reason that big file is taking forever to upload. GitHub says "syncing...100%" but the animation is still going and the files aren't online. So basically GitHub is stupid with that percentage. Lame.
 
Thanks, good to know.

I'm already fed up with GitHub, it's now refusing to commit or publish anything, even deleting it all and starting over. There's nothing wrong with the files. And on top of that, I find the UI not even remotely user-friendly. :evil: :mad:

EDIT: And it leaves behind literally 4000 files when I uninstalled it, wow.
 
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Nah I'm still here. The joy of customizable titles :)

I actually stole the idea from another member here who set their custom title to Banned. I was surprised and then amused so I did it too.
 
Ah, ok, I don't follow the rest of the forum, and I know NMA has a historical reputation for being a bit ban-happy at times, so I thought you never know ;)
 
Yeah, I think that's usually in the General Discussion section, from what I've noticed in the Vats. I guess they get a little rambunctious there from time to time. :razz: I will say that would be a serious bummer if any of you were banned, especially because of all the stuff you're doing in modding Fallout.
 
Hey Sduibek, does the Fallout executable need hacking in addition to this Total Conversion mod? It's possible without needing to use the engine tweak mod!
 
Fox Wernicke said:
Hey Sduibek, does the Fallout executable need hacking in addition to this Total Conversion mod? It's possible without needing to use the engine tweak mod!
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Could you please rephrase? I'm not sure I understand the question.
 
I was thinking about this page on Vault-Tec Labs: http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_Engine_Offsets

It contains info on various "hardcoded" things in the Fallout engine, the things can be edited from there rather than simply using the ddraw.ini to point towards overriding things, like what map to start on or maybe truly disable Horrigan's encounter... I don't have a clue about the original Fallout's executable, though. I mainly hope the pseudo-source ports like Falltergeist aren't too painful where only few things can be edited without tinkering with engine-related coding.
 
Fox Wernicke said:
I was thinking about this page on Vault-Tec Labs: http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_Engine_Offsets

It contains info on various "hardcoded" things in the Fallout engine, the things can be edited from there rather than simply using the ddraw.ini to point towards overriding things, like what map to start on or maybe truly disable Horrigan's encounter... I don't have a clue about the original Fallout's executable, though. I mainly hope the pseudo-source ports like Falltergeist aren't too painful where only few things can be edited without tinkering with engine-related coding.
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Most of those aren't needed with Sfall/ddraw for Fallout 2, but some might still come in handy. Thank you!
 
Just a fair warning, I haven't had much of any time to work on this, so the upcoming release is likely going to have a lot of issues. It'll be a start, but will feel more like pre-release beta testing than a full release. My target was May 1st; it might take until May 4th.
 
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Overview:

* Days Left (sticky note) will be a system message hack with a customizable frequency (once a day, once a week, etc)
* Party members will still be the old scripts for now; not actual Fallout 2 party members. (yet)
* Random encounters will still be the old scripts; not the worldmap encounter table. (yet)
* Thus when asking to avoid encounter it'll just say something like "Encounter", not the actual type of encounter. (yet)
* Percentage-chances of random encounters will be made up and might be wrong. This could take a long time to balance properly. This is because Fallout didn't use percentages like Fallout 2's worldmap table does; it used random number rolls. And some of the calculations (such as Special Encounters) were hard-coded so I have no idea what they were.
* Install size will be bigger by a few hundred megabytes. (for now)
* You'll have to start a new character
 
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About the sticky note. Isn't it possible to hack it in via graphic overlay of some sorts? Back in the days when I was still able to mod for Fallout 2 (can't use mapper anymore, duh), I scripted myself a custom resting system, which had a pip-boy like calendar fully hacked together from images that are switching based on current date.

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(I am able to change the options as I see fit. E.g. could remove all of them and instead have the option for "sleep in a bed" if the player is currently in a hotel room. Cool stuff.)


/Edit: woot, I just tried the mapper again. It looks like the latest nvidia driver changed something. Now it's working again like ever before. Such madness.
 
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Well, you could easily hack it together in the game map (the sticky note with 0-9 lettering is right there in the master.dat ofcourse), but you wouldn't be able to hack it into the pip boy screen. For instance, for my inventory sort buttons, I was just in luck that the inventory doesn't occupy the whole screen, so I could add the UI elements to the side of it. With a menu that occupies the whole screen, all you'd do is place it underneath.

Of course, if Sduibek wanted to pop up the note with a prompt, that'd be easy enough (especially when I put out my improved UI building tools later today ;)).
 
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