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Aralvar:
Does anyone know where I can find tutorials for, or someone who can show me how to do these things:
1. Changing the death penalty from full loot to something else (a custom penalty, not just removing item loss entirely)
2. Adding and editing new towns, NPCs, and items (I know I'll need an artist or artists for this, but I'd like to know how to implement what they create into the game)
3. Changing and adding new dialogue for the game
4. Expanding the world size
5. Making certain areas have different death penalties when you enter them and how to mark them on the map
6. Disable and Enable PVP in certain areas
I'd also like to know:
7. Is this project doable for someone who has no knowledge of AngelScript or C++, but is willing to learn how to change lines of code for this game specifically?
8. Will I definitely need a C++ or AngelScript programmer at some point to complete this project?
9. Do you know of any good places to find programmers and artists, including these forums?
I apologize for the number of questions, but I REALLY want to complete this project. I want to play on a server like this so bad, and I'm willing to read extremely long tutorials to complete this project. I already know how to launch the server and how others can connect to it. I would GREATLY appreciate if you can answer these questions either with a link to a tutorial or a tutorial of your own. I would even put your names in the credits of the game, if you would like. Thank you for at least reading this if you have done so!
-Justin
raynor009:
Read this if you want to learn about making dialogs http://fodev.net/files/sdk/
You don't need to be an artist to use the fonline mapper. Read the english pdf that comes with the fonline mapper if you want to learn how make new locations. Adding new npc's is also done with the mapper.
Changing the worldmap and it's size is easy. Here is what you need to know http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,25502.msg215494.html#msg215494
Writing scripts with AngelScript can be hard that's why the dev's implemented MONO. Here http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,26877.0.html
Lidae:
Good news and bad news.
Bad news is that if you want to do this yourself, you will have to do some scripting. There are no tutorials as far as I know, the "documentation" is quite limited, and so for this reason, especially if you have zero programming experience from before, the learning curve is steep.
The good news is that what you want to do in itself is very easy. Sounds in fact like quite a good starting project for somebody who wants to learn to work with the SDK. Adding items, changing the world map, making new dialogues and toggling pvp is very easy to do and requires almost no scripting knowledge. Changing the death penalty as per questions 1 and 5 is probably the hardest tasks, but depending on exactly what you have in mind, it should also be pretty easy.
You sound very determined to make it happen. You already have the SDK I assume, so everything is set up. Do you definitely need a C++ / AngelScript programmer? Well, either you learn some very basic stuff for yourself, or you need somebody to do it for you. No way around that. But like I said, the stuff you're aiming for is not exactly rocket science. You just need some patience.
For the rest of the questions...
--- Quote ---Adding and editing new towns
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If you mean the maps themselves, you need to work with the mapper. Dunno if there are any good tutorials for that. To get started, you load maps with "~mapname", save maps with "^mapname" and make new maps with "*new". The rest you can probably figure out with google translate and just messing around with the maps.
If your question is refering to adding new locations on the worldmap, look for GenerateWorld.cfg and Locations.cfg in the server/maps folder. You first have to add a location in Locations.cfg, then in GenerateWorld.cfg you add the actual green circle on the worldmap.
--- Quote ---Adding and editing /../ NPCs
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To add critters on a map, you use the mapper (or spawn them with a script). If you want to change the statistics of a critter, you can go to server/proto/critters and look at the *.fopro files. Inside you can edit the default parameters such as the SPECIAL, hp, ac, and so on. To add new models with new art is a lot more involved.
--- Quote ---Adding and editing /../ items
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To add/alter items, go to server/proto/items. The *.fopro files specify new items, you should be able to figure out roughly what's going on by looking at those files.
--- Quote ---Changing and adding new dialogue for the game
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Have a look at this tutorial: http://fodev.net/files/sdk/ArtOfDialogs.pdf
--- Quote ---Expanding the world size
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Afaik, all you have to do is replace the image in server/maps. The colour specifies how fast you travel on the map - the brighter the faster. The map you actually see in game is client side, in client/data/art/intrface/wm.
--- Quote ---Disable and Enable PVP in certain areas
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You have to add a script to the maps where PvP is disabled. I haven't tested this, but if you want, you can try the following.
First make a new script (just a regular text file that you put in the scripts folder). Call it whatever you want - for example map_nopvp.fos. To register it, go to scripts.cfg and add somewhere the following line:
--- Code: ---@ server map_nopvp
--- End code ---
Then in your file, copy paste the following:
--- Code: ---#include "_macros.fos"
#include "mapdata_h.fos"
void map_init(Map& map, bool firstTime)
{
_MapSetMode(MAP_MODE_NO_PVP);
}
--- End code ---
Next you open up the map file where you want to disable pvp, and at the top, you see these two lines:
--- Code: ---ScriptModule -
ScriptFunc -
--- End code ---
Replace it with:
--- Code: ---ScriptModule map_nopvp
ScriptFunc map_init
--- End code ---
This should disable pvp on that map. Assuming it compiles in the first place. And assuming that you're using the 2238 sdk.
--- Quote ---Changing the death penalty from full loot to something else (a custom penalty, not just removing item loss entirely)
/../
Making certain areas have different death penalties when you enter them and how to mark them on the map
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Changing the death penalty is the hardest task. I won't walk you through the process, but if you want to try to figure it out for yourself, a good place to start looking would be replication.fos. In the script main.fos, look also at the function critter_dead - that one is called whenever a critter dies.
--- Quote ---Do you know of any good places to find programmers and artists, including these forums?
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How much does it pay? ;)
Good luck with your project.
raynor009:
Holy s**t Lidae you either had this ready to copy and paste you're a damn fast writer :D
Lidae:
--- Quote from: raynor009 on October 26, 2013, 02:07:03 am ---Holy s**t Lidae you either had this ready to copy and paste you're a damn fast writer :D
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My keyboard is burning, and still you beat me! D:
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