subs0nic Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 After seeing the success of swapping in Jedi characters ( I had assumed this wouldn't work, so never tried it; but you know what they say about assumption ), I tried making Ally races (Wookiees, Ewoks etc) playable - and it worked. Ewoks on Endor Ever wondered if the Ewoks could've beaten the Empire on Endor by themselves? Now you can find out. I left wookiees in so there was at least a chance of taking out the shield gen. Screenies: Ewok Character Selection Eat stick, trooper! Ewok speeder squad to the rescue Wookiees on Kashyyyk Load the Clone Wars Kashyyyk Islands map and defend your village against the Seperatist droids! I swear that Wookiee missile launcher is more powerful than any of the others... Wookiee Character Selection Droid go boom I'm going to put this up for download purely because I think everyone needs to hear the sound of 100 ewoks charging to their furry deaths; it's something special. Download: http://jupiter.walagata.com/w/subs0nic/mission.rar The free hosting server I'm using just now seems to be having some issues with dropped connections, so you might have to try a couple times. Just back up your mission.lvl as always and copy over with the one in the .rar file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingguru Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Nice...That cracked me up...the ewok death charge. We need to make a hoth mod with all the ewoks vs jawa and put the tough vehicles on it. What else you dig up today? Jawa with lightsaber , lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 To be honest, most of my time (after working 10 hours) was spent slugging through sound .lvl files trying to make sense of them :/ This mod actually only took literally 5 minutes - simple mission.lvl change, all the ally units are already loaded there, just need to change which units load for the teams. Tomorrow I might take a day off to actually play the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rends Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Na, tomorrow you should make the Naboo Gard playable :-) And i see someone will cross the line in the future and make all those Jar Jars playable too,lol Nice work so far. Rends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Arg, I can't open rar files. Someone please upload it in a zip! I suggest that on the Naboo: Theed map in the Clone War era, CIS's enemy faction is the Royal Guards. Would be interesting to play as the Naboo guards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 11, 2004 Author Share Posted October 11, 2004 Originally posted by Rends Na, tomorrow you should make the Naboo Gard playable :-) And i see someone will cross the line in the future and make all those Jar Jars playable too,lol Nice work so far. Rends Ask and ye shall receive.. So it's official - I get tomorrow off. TK - www.rarlab.com EDIT: Moderators - just a passing thought before I hit the sack: could we possibly get a sticky thread where we can discuss new info on hacking the lvl files, and other modding info? Would help prevent important details possibly getting buried under 'cool map idea' threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 Originally posted by subs0nic Ask and ye shall receive.. Release! Release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florihuana Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 good work subs0nic i'm gonna post a news on We dont care about your site. No advertising. ~Alegis but before i have to ask some things: • i replaced the 'mission.lvl' with the original mission file. is there another way to do that? • the 1st person view of the wookie is too close (in quake its the setting cg_fov ) all in all: not really playable but its funny to play ewoks and wookie with rocket luncher cant wait for your next 'mini mods' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Thanks. I had noticed that the first person view for some of these units had a bad fov, not sure how to fix this just now. • i replaced the 'mission.lvl' with the original mission file. is there another way to do that? Do you mean to remove the mod? This is the easiest way I can think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rends Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Thanks Subs, i realy like the naboo guard and hope to have them playable soon :-) Rends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florihuana Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 i dont mean to delete it. i mean is there a way to have the original mission.lvl and your in one folder? rename or sth...but i dont know if it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Florihuana i dont mean to delete it. i mean is there a way to have the original mission.lvl and your in one folder? rename or sth...but i dont know if it works Unfortunately not at the moment, the original has to be backed up and replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegis Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Great job. I didn't expect the ewok would be playable at all. Man, cant wait to try this one out edit: this mod is great experience. Man the ewoks sure are weak (the second ewok class doesnt even have a tribal spear to throw with) but its just ace. You hear all these ewoks shout around you and all bein blasted. its hard to hit someone, except with the rocks but those hardly do any damage I tried imperial and its great pistol practice but they sure are better in throwing spears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Alegis Great job. I didn't expect the ewok would be playable at all. Man, cant wait to try this one out If anyone does manage to beat the Empire as the Ewoks, get a screenshot when the Empire has 1 reinforcement ticker left to prove it and I'll be most impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcz3 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 That's hillarious. Great job. ... I guess there goes there goes one detail we won't need in an expansion pack. richcz3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armydude71490 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Stuff like this needs to be done for the Xbox and Ps2 versions! The Console versions seem abandonded! There have already been two patches for the PC version but what have the console versions got? And don't tell me that things can't be dl on console! This basically has nothing to do with this topic but I don't care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegis Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Armydude71490 Stuff like this needs to be done for the Xbox and Ps2 versions! You can't modify a console version. Only PC has mods and 3rd party software. And devs don't release mods like these. Reason PC got some patches is a) the wide public and just to fix things. we havent got any new features yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alowan Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Nice job, thoug i dident try it, only saw screens, cant really wait untill maps are gonna be made and not replaced.. then we migt see some space maps etc.. like i posted in the official forum.. Would this also make you able to become a jedi... you would satify so meany players if u did that... just for fun.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Alowan Nice job, thoug i dident try it, only saw screens, cant really wait untill maps are gonna be made and not replaced.. then we migt see some space maps etc.. like i posted in the official forum.. Would this also make you able to become a jedi... you would satify so meany players if u did that... just for fun.. Being a jedi is already possible, but I won't be releasing a mod for it any time soon, regardless of how much people might want it - that is the path of the dark side, young padawan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rends Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Just wonder if it is possible to create an ingame menu so you can select/activate the factions of your choice (Rebels / Ewoks for example) instead of swapping files in the programm directories? Rends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolmstN Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Alegis You can't modify a console version. Only PC has mods and 3rd party software. Well, actually, if Pandemic/Lucas would take advantage of the new updated Xbox Live, we could be having modding for the Xbox, too. But it seems they don't know how to do multiplyer to well Hey, my quote didn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shammo99 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 It might be a good idea to write a batch file for your mods and have it as a seperate icon - that way you can just click the icon and load the patched version. In the directory, copy the patched file in as mission.patch. The batch file would read (remember the directories must be the same so a cd directoryname is in order here) ren mission.lvl to mission.patch Copy the mission.patch file into \games\battlefront\gamedata\data\_lvl_pc Jump to a DOS prompt and create the following batch file cd\games\battlefront\gamedata (or whatever directory u put it in) copy con playmod.bat cd data cd _lvl_pc ren mission.lvl mission.orig ren mission.patch mission.lvl cd .. cd .. battlefront.exe cd data cd _lvl_pc ren mission.lvl mission.patch ren mission.orig mission.lvl (hit ctrl-z) and press enter I have seperated each command to show the people who don't understand file structures , they can be joined such as cd ..\.. but thats too confusing for non-dos people... At least now there is a way you have a automatic batchfile for your patches... I would like to see a front end one day to click if you want ewokkies , wooketts and jedi-pinkett-smiths! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niteshift Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Awsome job, now is there a way people could start making little tutorials on how to do this That would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Yup Nub! (translation: This r0x0rz!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subs0nic Posted October 12, 2004 Author Share Posted October 12, 2004 UPDATE: I'm currently trying to make Ewok vs Empire more balanced. First up is giving the Ewoks better weapons - so far I have one class that has Rebel blaster and lightsabre, and another that has Imperial blaster and pistol. One interesting thing I found was with replacing the secondary 'throw' type weapon with a pistol - it creates a kind of instant switch that fires off a pistol round when you hit or tap the secondary fire button, a cool effect I thought. The Ewoks still feel kinda weak, although in a game where I mostly sat back and watched, the Empire only won by 4 tickets, so it's just about right. A major problem is still the the name length of the various assets, this limits which weapons can be given to the Ewoks (whose asset names are usually short). I did try working through the file using the info on .lvl files (all 30 or so chunks, manually ) and correcting the references to chunk and file size to allow more bytes where I wanted them, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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