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A little more assistance, plz
Mar 1 2010, 6:05 pm
By: Roadkill92  

Mar 1 2010, 6:05 pm Roadkill92 Post #1



Ok, the last few weeks have been a frenzy of modding, but I have a few questions:

1: How does one go about changing the names in SC? I want to change weapon names, unit names, and even the race names. Is that a possibility?

2: I have a Gun Tower that I'm making for my new race that will replace the Protoss in my main mod. However, I want to give it a spray pattern of fire (similar to the Terran Valkyrie's Halo Rockets) . It is basically going to be like the LAAG on the M41 LRV (Warthog) in Halo, except there are going to be two guns spraying an enemy and anything around him with bullets. Can this be done?

3: I plan to give both the Terran Dropship and the Confed Skyjacker (the dropship from my new race) weapons. I'm thinking for the Skyjacker a large autocannon mounted underneath and two racks of something equivalent to Gemini missiles. The Terran one will most likely have a missiles and either some sort of laser battery or just more missiles. I don't plan to give the Overlord any weapons though. My question is this: if I put the armed transports in there, what will people think? I mean, is it a good idea to have the transports act like the Pelican from Halo, or should I scrap the idea entirely?



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Mar 1 2010, 6:59 pm Jack Post #2

>be faceless void >mfw I have no face

1. http://www.modcrafters.com/wiki/index.php?title=TBL_files should help you.

3. Sounds good, just don't make the weapons very powerful, as transports shouldn't be powerhouses of weapons ;D



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Mar 2 2010, 3:22 am Derqua Post #3



2: Yes, this can be done through iscripts.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 2 2010, 4:35 am by Derqua.



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Mar 5 2010, 7:51 am EzDay281 Post #4



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2: I have a Gun Tower that I'm making for my new race that will replace the Protoss in my main mod. However, I want to give it a spray pattern of fire (similar to the Terran Valkyrie's Halo Rockets) . It is basically going to be like the LAAG on the M41 LRV (Warthog) in Halo, except there are going to be two guns spraying an enemy and anything around him with bullets. Can this be done?
in weapons.dat:
set gun tower weapon's behaviour to halo rockets.
set cooldown to 1 (or higher if you want it to be slower, or much higher if you want it to fire in bursts)

if you want it to fire in bursts:
in iscript.bin:
find the gun tower's attack animation, where the attack opcodes are.
repeat the attack opcode as many times as you want per burst, with a wait 1 or wait 2 between each.



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[03:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[08:35 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
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