Scripting Notes

[EnderWiggin]

As I am starting a new mod project from the ground up, I'm wondering if I can pull from the knowledge of those who have already worked in Fallout modding.

I'm sure that I will find a lot surfing through the archives of this very forum, which I intend to do. However, I'm wondering if any of the scripters/mappers have put together some personal notes they'd be willing to share.

Our mapper for instance is looking for info on catloguing the item numbers. Has anyone made a list of the global variables, or other such reference material that will be of help?

Thanks for your time.

 

[ColJack]

global variables can be found in global.h in the scripts\headers folder that comes with the official mapper..

item numbers ( PID's i'm assuming you mean??? ) are stored in itempid.h in the headers folder..

critter numbers in critrpid.h
scenery in scenepid.h


please note that these numbers are by no means complete..
to find a PID of an object, edit its proto and change something ( like make it transparent or something easy like that.. ) and if you did your proto editing set up like it say's in my tutorial ( see link in my sig.. ) then it will save a text file in the relavent category directory under C:\fallout2\dev\proto\

in that text file it will list various details of the proto, one of which is it's PID number...


here is an example text file...

pid: 533 00000533
name: Environmental Armour MkII
message_num: 53300
fid: 52 robe
light_distance: 0
light_intensity: 0
flags: -1610612728
flags_ext: 40960
sid: -1
type: Armor
d.ac: 15
d.dam_resist0: 0
d.dam_resist1: 0
d.dam_resist2: 0
d.dam_resist3: 0
d.dam_resist4: 0
d.dam_resist5: 0
d.dam_resist6: 0
d.dam_thresh0: 0
d.dam_thresh1: 0
d.dam_thresh2: 0
d.dam_thresh3: 0
d.dam_thresh4: 0
d.dam_thresh5: 0
d.dam_thresh6: 0
d.perk: None
d.male_fid: 16777218 harobe,11,1
d.female_fid: 16777218 harobe,11,1
material: Metal
size: 1
weight: 10
cost: 0
inv_fid: 117440610 robeinv

the PID number is the first number after pid.. remember to put in preceeding zeros to make it an 8 digit number.. ( so 533 becomes 00000533 )