Hi-Res Patches for Fallout1&2 & the BIS Mapper

[BreakinBenny]

Is there any way to scale the game x4 instead of x2?

Why would you want to zoom in so far? It'd be like cramming yer face into the monitor.

 

[Agent Locke]

Why would you want to zoom in so far? It'd be like cramming yer face into the monitor.

Because I'm trying to play the game on my Surface Pro 4, which is a 2736x1824 resolution. Scaling at 2x is 50% too small.

 

[BreakinBenny]

Because I'm trying to play the game on my Surface Pro 4, which is a 2736x1824 resolution. Scaling at 2x is 50% too small.

Oh... okay then, never knew about having the resolution of about 3K though I knew about 4K.

 

[Sduibek]

Does anyone know what's going on with @Mash these days? I have not been able to hear back from him via email contact.

 

[.Pixote.]

Matt has been missing in action for about 2 years now...come back MASH we need ya.

 

[BreakinBenny]

Yes, where could Mash be? If he's nowhere to be found at least his High-Resolution mod lives on in Falltergeist.

 

[Sduibek]

I just wish we had the source code for it Projects don't have to die if the source were released...

 

[burn]

I was thinking about creating a larger font for F2, but then I realized that it just won't fit into inventory screen, etc.

I also run a quick search for Matt Wells on github/linkedin, but couldn't find anyone fitting Mash's profile.

Guess we're stuck waiting for falltergeist, which means some 3-4 years, probably.

 

[notdefix]

I'm attempting, without much success, to add custom frm walls to the proto list.

I've set up the following folder structure (only custom dirs shown):

I've extracted walls.lst and placed it in art/walls and I've extracted the other walls.lst and placed it in proto/walls.

I've added my own .frm file names to the art/walls/walls.lst and I can see the art resources in the mapper (so that part seems ok).
I've switched BIS mapper to librarian=1 and I can create new walls. when I quit the mapper, the new proto files are added to the proto/walls/walls.lst but no .pro file is created.

I'm apparently doing something wrong, but I can't seem to find how to fix this, nor can I find the solution in the various docs I've downloaded. Anyone got any hints?

 

[Darek]

...I'm apparently doing something wrong, but I can't seem to find how to fix this, nor can I find the solution in the various docs I've downloaded. Anyone got any hints?

I believe you need to have the "dev" folder set up exactly like this:
C:\Fallout2\dev\proto\walls

 

[Fat Luke]

I had some similiar problems in past with creating protos and after some failed attempts I solved it in 2 steps:
1. making folders in this order

2. disabling "read only" attribute on ALL protos files in fallout folder (don't forget set back "read only" before you will run fallout2.exe)

This thread was really helpful to me - http://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/prototype-problem.160476/

 

[notdefix]

Thanks for the replies.

I've read the topic linked by Fat Luke (thanks!) and finally got it to work. For anyone else who tries to get this to work in the future, this is what worked for me:

I've created a new partition (F:) and reinstalled Fallout2, BIS Mapper and created the F:\Fallout2\dev\proto\... directories. I now have the following directory structure:

Spoiler: Directory structure

I've edited the following .cfg files:

F:\Fallout2\fallout2.cfg

Spoiler: F:\Fallout2\fallout2.cfg

[sound]
music_path1=F:\Fallout2\data\sound\music\
music_path2=F:\Fallout2\data\sound\music\

[system]
critter_dat=F:\Fallout2\critter.dat
critter_patches=F:\Fallout2\data

master_dat=F:\Fallout2\master.dat
master_patches=F:\Fallout2\data​

F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\Fallout2.cfg

Spoiler: F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\Fallout2.cfg

[sound]
music_path1=F:\Fallout2\data\sound\music\
music_path2=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data\sound\music\

[system]
critter_dat=F:\Fallout2\critter.dat
critter_patches=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data

master_dat=F:\Fallout2\master.dat
master_patches=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data​

F:\Mapper2\mapper2.cfg

Spoiler: F:\Mapper2\mapper2.cfg

[mapper]
librarian=1

[sound]
music_path1=F:\Fallout2\data\sound\music\
music_path2=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data\sound\music\

[system]
critter_dat=F:\Fallout2\critter.dat
critter_patches=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data

master_dat=F:\Fallout2\master.dat
master_patches=F:\Fallout2\MY_MOD_FOLDER\data​

And that finally got it working for me. Thanks a lot for the help!

Cheers

 

[.Pixote.]

Yep thats the way...

 

[Sduibek]

Am I to assume Mash is still MIA? :'(

 

[.Pixote.]

Am I to assume Mash is still MIA? :'(

Yep...sadly still missing. Did he provide the source files for the patch?

 

[Sduibek]

Not that I recall. I emailed him a couple times asking if he'd be willing to provide them.

 

[Modgamers]

Hi, I have a problem to get the mapper running with FO2 Steam version. I set everything up, as in the download description page (which is a little confusing, as it contains two instructions), but when I start the .exe my monitor goes black for about 3 seconds and then return to desktop.

 

[Lexx]

You sure the paths in the mapper.cfg are all set correctly?

 

[Modgamers]

Well, yes, I even created a second FO2 directory, because I thought he couldn't handle 'Fallout 2', so I made 'Fallout2'.

...

Ok, it wasn't the paths, I had to change the language from English to German.

 

[IceColdTabasco]

So I installed the cd release of Fallout 1, US 1.0.

Then I installed the US 1.1 patch.

Lastly, installed the High res patch ver 4.1.8 and the game gives me a loading screen and kicks me back to desktop.

Tried everything from resolution changes, compatibility, admin, sfall, color bit. NOTHING works, without fail. Did I do something wrong? Is the retail release incompatible?