Re: FoC Demo 100% Modability- Post your great discovery's!

[Mr.Crisp]

I tried to get the Dark Trooper to work in reg empire at war... But it just crashes.

But Mike you said the XML files won't work unless its meg... won't this mean patches will be... "Mod killers"?

[Mike.nl]

Yes I did say that. But that will probably just be the case for the demo. Seems like they learned some sort of lesson from the EaW demo and don't want people modding this demo and unlock, say, the droideka. Well, they're going to have to try harder than this

 

And I suspect the reason the dark trooper crashes in EaW is because of the different animation format. EaW can't handle FoC's animation files. So the FoC animation files have to be converted to EaW's animation file format before they'll work (if at all).

[ghostfox1]

And any idea how to do it? I can get pretty much any program that I need to change the type, but I'm not sure how.

[Shadowtrooper]

So then, is there anyway to unlock more stuff like we did in the original demo?  ???

[Kelathin]

read posts prior on page 1 for answers

[Shadowtrooper]

I did but I was kinda confused.  Should I be using a MEG extracor like some did, or a hex editor like others did?

[1upD]

I tried to get the Dark Trooper to work in reg empire at war... But it just crashes.

But Mike you said the XML files won't work unless its meg... won't this mean patches will be... "Mod killers"?

*gasp* what kind of cruel, cruel person would destroy people's beloved hard work!?

 

Dang, I'm glad I didn't download this demo, it would've probly ruined my mod. I'm waiting for the full, and hoping old mods will be compatable.

[ultimentra]

I looked thru the demo files and didnt find an XML folder! WtF!1!!1one  ???

[Kelathin]

extract the .megs

[1upD]

I looked thru the demo files and didnt find an XML folder! WtF!1!!1one  ???

LOL, can you code?

[swfan654]

somehow I highly doubt it.  :

[Kelathin]

somehow I highly doubt it.  :

 

I didn't know about extracting megs for a while, often people start with pre extracted xml files from other mods. So unless you start at the beginning you wouldn't know

[DragonShadow]

*gasp* what kind of cruel, cruel person would destroy people's beloved hard work!?

 

Dang, I'm glad I didn't download this demo, it would've probly ruined my mod. I'm waiting for the full, and hoping old mods will be compatable.

 

The FoC demo installs into it's own directory entirely separate from Empire at War...

[swgbex]

yeah.. and i wonder how the vanilla EAW will interact with the expansion ..seeing as expansions require the originals -.-

[DragonShadow]

well, I imagine that it'll probably have some changes to the exe and stuff in addition to changes in other files...my assumption is that EaW mods won't be compatible with FoC...then again, maybe the FoC files will be segregated in some way to allow for EaW mods to still work within FoC or something, idk...

[Droid803]

1 I doubt there is hidden stuff

2 I doubt we could edit the campaign

3 I doubt we can change the saving/loading. Its part of the exe.

 

my own questions:

 

Can I rip ships out of models.meg and textures.meg, stick them in EaW and have them work? (talking about space ships)

[Kampher]

1 I doubt there is hidden stuff

2 I doubt we could edit the campaign

3 I doubt we can change the saving/loading. Its part of the exe.

 

my own questions:

 

Can I rip ships out of models.meg and textures.meg, stick them in EaW and have them work? (talking about space ships)

 

No, because it seems the animations and shaders format are different.

[Meethos]

There is a mod for the FOC demo over at the lucasforums that you can check out here: http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=171364.  Enjoy!

[DragonShadow]

No, because it seems the animations and shaders format are different.

 

I have to disagree. As an experiment I replaced all the EaW shaders with the ones from the FoC demo, and it ran just fine. I've also added the models and textures, both ran fine. I'm testing some animations now...

 

Edit: ok, it's definite: the FoC anims are different. everything else is fine.

[Droid803]

YES! But what do you mean by "replaced all the shaders"?

[DragonShadow]

I mean I copied them of the FoC demo and put them in the EaW folder.

 

btw, models work just fine...

 

http://www.agesofstarwars.com/pcw/images/gallery/3/EAW_20061007_16513895%20copy.jpg

 

I believe that purple aura has something to do with the cloaking ability, but I'm not sure...

Edited October 8, 2006 by DragonShadow

[Droid803]

How come just directly copying it over causes an exception for me...can you tell me what you did to get the Vengeance to work?

[DragonShadow]

don't put the ALA files in your EaW folder. only the ALO files.

[Droid803]

Ah. Thank you.

 

Did anyone notice the BMP image of the commandbar!?! its nice. Apparently they changed the icons for space station upgrades (!)

[fortune faded13]

i got the Zann Consortium able to build Nebulon B's, Acclamators, A-wings, Tie Defenders, and the Corellion Corvette. oh and the Broadside cruiser and the Marauder cruiser. its not hard just set the tech level to 5. ha.

anyways,

ive been tweaking the XML's and i cant change the price or build time with any units...everything that ive tweaked including special ability recharge seconds works. anyone know why i cant change the price and build time?