Sure, I'll help ya! 8)
I'll explain my way of making new Items: (without scripts attached).
(This one goes from scratch, if you already have picture you want to put in your mod then skip first 3 steps)
1. Think of an item (duh)
2. Draw Concept Art
3. 3D software
- Model
- Texture
- Setup Lights
- Setup Camera
- Render
4. Open Image in Photoshop
- Crop so that the edges of item are on the edge of the image (make sure you don't have "free" pixels)
- Resize to maximum 185x63 (but make sure that if it's long (185px) that it is not at the same tim tall (63px) and other way around)
- Paint background of an item in single color. Try not to use a color that is already on the item (so you could avoid holes in you frame file later on)
- Set picture mode to "Indexed Color". My advice is to use one of the LOCAL palettes if exact is n/a.
- Save picture as Bitmap (bmp)
5. Convert to FRM using Frame Animator
- If you don't have this program download it from NMA.
- Press CTRL+A to import you bitmap
- Animator will automatically set the most common color to be transparent (that would be your background color)
- If you have hole in your item that means that you have background color somewhere on your item (you can fix that using Paint
)
- If all is good go to File menu and select Create FRM.
- Select you project folder. Don't put it in game right away.
6. Place your FRM in game
- Copy this file to the following location: Fallout2\data\art\inven\
- Here you will also find INVEN.LST (it's actually text file, open it and you will see list of names of all the FRMS used as inventory items)
- Place the name of your FRM at the end of this list. Make sure that your FRM file is named with or less then 8 characters (letters). Save and exit.
7. Set Item Attributes in Mapper
- In Mapper select Items and press END to go to the end of a list.
- Select first empty box and click edit button (Prototype Editor pops out).
- Click the "Inv Fid" button. Press END. There should be your Item.
- Other Attributes set to your liking.
8. Protect your Work
- Go to Fallout2\data\proto\ITEMS and make all files exept "items.lst" read-only !!! This way Game won't be able to delete all your files when you run it.
DONE
If you want to see what i've made so far, go to this
topic.
If you want me to make some items for your mod, that's cool too. No problem. Just tell me what you need.
