tutorial on adding your weapon's name to the hud interface

VoiDeD · Post by **VoiDeD** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:02 pm

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thats actually cool... a super stealth map..

*back to the topic at hand*

get a new bitmaps file. if that doesnt work.. then u must of messed up with the shaders.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:20 pm

Wow...Even the sky's gone! What the hell did you actually do?

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:21 am

u really messed up.. but my card is the exact same, suxalot brand
that would be hard to find ppl in, hahahaha, like an advanced type of marco polo, hahaha

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:22 am

wait, u can see the glowie things on the wingtips of the banshee!, that may narrow down what u did

VoiDeD · Post by **VoiDeD** » Sat May 22, 2004 8:51 am

[cc]z@nd! wrote:wait, u can see the glowie things on the wingtips of the banshee!, that may narrow down what u did

the glowie thing on the banshee has nothing to do with bitmaps.

Deadly_Shadow · Post by **Deadly_Shadow** » Sat May 22, 2004 8:54 am

why didn't u make bg invisible too? ;p That'd be a fun map in multi player

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:29 pm

Deadly_Shadow wrote:why didn't u make bg invisible too? ;p That'd be a fun map in multi player

No. That would just be f*cked.

mattyboy_900 · Post by **mattyboy_900** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:57 pm

The same thing happend o me in DI and i just forgot to copy the sbsp.meta file from Verticies into the levels folder that might fix it

luquis · Post by **luquis** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:39 pm

Thanks to Rafazum Z for giving me some pointers.
I decided to write this so no one makes a custom weapon that still says "Picked up a Pistol" when you pick it up.

First off you will need a Hex Editor. I recommend xvi32 which can be downloaded here:
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/f ... /xvi32.htm

I highly suggest you backup you original file.

Open up your hud_item_messages.unicode_string_list located at tags\ui\hud\

Go to the 13th string reference that says "Picked up %d canisters..." or something along those lines. It should be 80 bytes. I will explain why to use this srtring later. Click on the duplicate button and save.

Open the file up in your Hex Editor and scroll to the very bottom. It should say "Picked up %d canisters..." on the bottom few lines with a [] symbol in between each character (including spaces). Now change the letters to what you want them to say but there are a few limitations:

If your string stops before the end of the original string then fill in the rest with spaces. This is because the length of the string must stay the same size or else Guerilla won't except it. You used the 13th string because it is the largest.

If your string is too big then you will have to think of something else to put.

Now you can save and open it up in Guerilla to test it out. Now all you have to do is change the string index value on your .weapon file to match the one you just created.

Good luck and happy modding

HoboRockAssassin · Post by **HoboRockAssassin** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:33 am

this is good someone should sticky this

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:46 am

I made a dos program that allowed you to make unicode string list tags a while back (with no limitations), but never got around to releasing it. Maybe I should make a GUI version of it. I also need to fix the source code, it was real messy the last time I checked.

I needed to do it because I was making a UI map template the would allow you to make a customized UI.map map. I should probably finish that too. So many things to do.

luquis · Post by **luquis** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:04 am

thats a good idea it would be so much easier

rafazum · Post by **rafazum** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:01 pm

thanx for the mension luquis

and its Rafazum "X" not "Z" lol

luquis · Post by **luquis** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:33 pm

sorry x is next to z

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:36 pm

But if you pick up a flamethrower, and later pick up ammo for it, it'll say "Picked up (weapon)". Strings the game don't use are:

8:Picked up energy sword
*9:Picked up ammo for... (can't see the rest, most likely energy sword)
16:Picked up gravity rifle
*17:Picked up ammo for... (can't see the rest, most likely gravity rifle)
32:Picked up double speed
34:Picked up full-spectrum...(vision I think)
44:Checkpoint...
45:Checkpoint... done
46:Picked up fuel rod gun (SP FRG, I think)

31, 33, 35, 37, and 39 all say "[#] something should be here", so I bet that they're blank in hex.

luquis · Post by **luquis** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:40 pm

it wont change what it says for the flamethrower as long as you duplicate it and edit the duplicated one. as for the "something should go here" it just says that in hex and you can change that.

rafazum · Post by **rafazum** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:53 pm

u add new strings by duplicateing