Duck and Cover

were do I put my finiched scripts? And how exatly am I suposed to do with this to make things work? When you configure FSE you point to your Fallout2.cfg file like this: <img src="http://home.cogeco.ca/~desolation/FSEconfig.gif"> In the Fallout2.cfg is the patches settings: critter_patche...

The easiest way to compile scripts now is using Jargo's FSE (Fallout Script Editor), because in the latest version it includes everything (precompiler, compiler, and the editor itself). It doesn't get much easier than this other than writing the script source. http://bug.ii.uj.edu.pl/fallout/tools/F...

When people say ... make me what I need because I don't have time .... I don't think so. So your time is more valuable that mine? I already told you how to do it, this is the script source: #include "..\headers\define.h" #define NAME SCRIPT_RNDTALK #include "..\headers\command.h"...

Uh yeah ... but what anyone needs to learn is how to use compile.exe (that comes with the mapper) ... not watcom. Watcom is a generic C compiler. To "learn" watcom is completely out of the scope of fallout scripting, and not even useful knowledge for fallout scripting. Again: ALL watcom do...

It is misleading to keep calling watcom the compiler, and saying you need to learn watcom. That's a good way to confuse people. As I said, there is nothing to learn about watcom, since its is NOT the compiler that is used to do the script compiling!

You keep saying watcom ... this doesn't do the compile ... all watcom does is precompile, which is merging the header files into the script source. The compile is done by the interplay compile.exe, which comes with the official mapper. There is nothing to learn about watcom for fallout script compil...

Andy's patcher doesn't touch the exe anyways, it loads it into ram and patches in ram. You can disable movies with andy's FO2LC also, or the "short blank movies" ... here is one that works. If you copy that to artimer1.mve, artimer2.mve, artimer3.mve, artimer4.mve, credits.mve, elder.mve, ...

When entering partial map script area Player Char say <snip> A critter script when talked to it says:<snip> You mean floating text? It is really easy to script those. Create a .msg file with those lines in it, like this: {100}{}{Greetings my master} {200}{}{Good Day mylord} {300}{}{En taro Adun} {4...

I'd like to be able to choose camera view based on my personal preference, or sometimes based on the situation. The turn-based combat in FO tends to make combat more strategic, but then real-time seems more dangerous. I know the majority of FO fans think that anything but isometric camera views and ...

Looking at the script source code, the actual combat is not in the scripts. That means its in the engine, and the code that ends combat is not tweakable. As for printing out combat rolls, the closest you can get is enabling debugging with a patch. You can get <a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~des...

Here's a new summary page for modding tools: <a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~desolation/faq/tools/">Fallout Modification Tools</a> - View screenshots of each tool - Read docs and notes for each tool - Multiple sources for download - Links to most recent versions - Links to my <a href="...

Well Interplay explicity said <b>make sure there's no money involved</b>. Ten bucks for a "free CD" that is worth 50 cents ... is not free.

Having money involved is asking for trouble. Although Interplay did say unoffially "you should be okay" as long as there is NO MONEY involved and you stick to the fallout license, they also said you do so at your <a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~desolation/faq/#Mod002">own risk</a...

Wow! 250 and 410MB! Those nasa images look very very cool. After looking at this stuff last I was thinking, what if the world map changed in the middle of your game? Say for example, some nukes dropped and changed the world map, that would be an interesting effect. Based on what you have seen so far...

Topographical maps would look pretty cool for the world map. I had these links from some GPS projects a long time ago, free topos: http://www.topowest.com/ http://www.topozone.com/ http://130.166.124.2/ca_dems.htm http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/index.html http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html T...

I think I need update permissions because I want to update it frequently, and don't want to have to bother an admin for every update. I tried pasting the whole thing in here but phpBB doesn't recognize the tags properly. I'd be happy to make it part of DAC if I can get ftp permission to send updates...

You can make it an official part as long as its easy for me to edit. Not sure what that means exactly, can I ftp it somewhere or do I have to use the phpBB to edit? Should I try just pasting the whole thing in a post?

I have sifted through all of the modding archives I can find, and picked out a bunch of useful reference information. Its now a Fallout Modification <a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~desolation/faq/">FAQ</a>. If you think something should be changed or added, let me know. Happy modding.