Will it be possible to add tracked tanks to far cry?
How about flyable aircraft like a f16 etc...
Whats the limit on the poly count for models?
Can the Lods be set to any distance and how many lods can be used for structures and vehicles?

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Originally posted by TheVoodoo:
is it possible to start farcry.exe with a parameter that automaticly loads a MOD on startup?

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btw IT IS! I answer my question by myself.

farcry.exe -MOD:Modnamefolder

Where would I go about finding a program that assembles things in .pak?

The easiest way I find is to use WinZip and rename the file extension from .zip to .pak and vice-versa. Cunning eh?

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My god, this is such a newb forum, I'm dying to find some decent modder information. Aside from the original poster, everything else has been drunk sailor speak.

I'm a newbie as well, but people please share something useful.

So far I have taken a pretty bland FFA map and editted so that you can choose a class which have been customized, i dont have the menus working properly yet as i dont know what all the damn parameter numbers mean. I have a mutant class that moves fast "speed_run=60.0" and has 10 smoke grenades as a getaway. Right now I'm working on turning heat vision on perminanting which i believe can be done under the gameruleslib.lua ?gamerules:OnUpdate();?function. I'm not sure if i can call the heatvision function from inside game rules as most of my experience is with java and C++. Anyone know how the subclasses work in lua?

Also, my super fast mutant keeps taking damage whenever i jump downhill. Anyone know how to edit the jump height? jump_height=? does not work.

if anyone can help, thanks in advance.

A small update to my last post.

Figured out how to enable any vision effect u like by default such as motion tracking, night vision and heat vision. copy the code from scripts\default\HUD\ and place it in the hud.lua, this can be placed in any of the hud.lua's multi or single player but will only affect that particular HUD. I personally put it in MODNAME\SCRIPTS\MULTIPLAYER\HUD.LUA and it affects any game mode that calls upon that HUD.
Below is the function u need to edit, activates only once at once and initializes with the rest of the HUD. NOTE: you cant turn it off, you will have to bind a key to that, the code, once you see it is pretty self explainitory to anyone with even an intro to CGS under their belt. I might make a newb manual if nothing good comes out in the next month.

function Hud:OnInit()
self:CommonInit();
Language:LoadStringTable("MultiplayerHUD.xml");

-- this is where the new code starts
System:SetScreenFx("NightVision", 1);

self.PrevAmbientColor=new(System:GetWorldColor());
local CurrAmbientColor=new(self.PrevAmbientColor);
CurrAmbientColor[1]=CurrAmbientColor[1]+1.0;
CurrAmbientColor[2]=CurrAmbientColor[2]+1.0;
CurrAmbientColor[3]=CurrAmbientColor[3]+1.0;
System:SetWorldColor(CurrAmbientColor);

end

update: to activate heat vision and motion tracking is different from night vision.

nightvision can be used in Hud:OnInt

heat and motion are constantly updated and therefore must be places in Hud:OnUpdate

x.TheCounter.x,

recently noted and looked at the PackerForDistrib.bat file and was wondering for the FAQ what exactly it does. A search yielded this thead (had never looked into it ).

I am wondering if everyone was cool with me going through this thread and extracting some of the interesting stuff into the Swoop/AEon FAQ, to start off with x.TheCounter.x's first post?

AEon                         Check the Far Cry Editing FAQ by Swoop/AEon

Hi,

I am having a little problem, with the Yourmoddirectory, for the compress.bat, I named my mod folder for now to WarLords, what should I put below...



"PackerForDistrib Yourmoddirectory", example: "PackerForDistrib CryModification"

[This message was edited by MegaMan1966 on Tue May 25 2004 at 07:50 PM.]

errr

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Originally posted by seanp789:
My god, this is such a newb forum, I'm dying to find some decent modder information. Aside from the original poster, everything else has been drunk sailor speak.

I'm a newbie as well, but people please share something useful.

So far I have taken a pretty bland FFA map and editted so that you can choose a class which have been customized, i dont have the menus working properly yet as i dont know what all the damn parameter numbers mean. I have a mutant class that moves fast "speed_run=60.0" and has 10 smoke grenades as a getaway. Right now I'm working on turning heat vision on perminanting which i believe can be done under the gameruleslib.lua ?gamerules:OnUpdate();?function. I'm not sure if i can call the heatvision function from inside game rules as most of my experience is with java and C++. Anyone know how the subclasses work in lua?

Also, my super fast mutant keeps taking damage whenever i jump downhill. Anyone know how to edit the jump height? jump_height=? does not work.

if anyone can help, thanks in advance.

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How about telling me how to print/log to the console/log.txt file?

I can't even be sure it's loading my mod right because I can't get it to log anything in:

GameRules::OnInit
GameRules::OnUpdate
GameRules::OnShutdown

Any advice?

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Originally posted by Diedir:
Hi all
nice thread indeed
is anybody knows the scale unit in 3ds and the proportion of a model in the game (e.g 1.90 meter)
for previewing the right scale for models ans other stuff...
ok thx all

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If I'm reading your post correctly, the answer is quite simple.

Look on the top menu for Custimize, click it and select Unit Setup.

There, you can set which units you want, and there's a button at the top of the box that comes up that allows you to set an aspect ratio.



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Haven't been around in a while, I was wondering if any one knew of a mod working on a Walther 2000? I know Operation Archangel had plans but I have not seen anything more.

Ey guys I'm new here and I like it
But I have a question,
I want to have my own gun model in Far cry, how do I do that? I've got the SDK and I've got my own m4a1 How do I stick the animations in it and how do I make it able to play?
Maybe it's a hard question...

Thnx.

what i need to know and i know you mod gods have the answer to my question.

how do you change the sky to night sky or any other sky then the one you start out with in the sandbox editor please help me out i need to have a night sky for my death_island maps .

Guys, a lot of people are overlooking the actual readme for SandBox. It's got a lot of great **** in it.

--b

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Originally posted by bobfett:
what i need to know and i know you mod gods have the answer to my question.

how do you change the sky to night sky or any other sky then the one you start out with in the sandbox editor please help me out i need to have a night sky for my death_island maps .

Dude, with your level open in the Editor, just use the Skybox setting in the Environment tab. Here is where you can set just about every environmental factor for your maps. GL

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Originally posted by Paco4545:
In sandbox I tried to add some AI to an assult MP map. The Ai show up but without weapons, eventhough in the editior I give them weapons and I see them carring them. The help I need is how do I get them to keep there weapons when loading the map. Any help would be great.

PACO454

Okay, in the Entity Properties just check the box that says: Gun Ready At Start (or something very similar)... simple as that

hi go to nvidia site download plugin for photoshop may be for paintshop pro may be available.after that you install it and save your file in dds formate. this will help u.