LT's Recycler Variant

[Lordtac]

how would one go about making a new recycler varient? (such has greenhands or commando varient)

[TheJamsh]

For that my friend, you need to master ODF editing.

Best tool for a modder is 'Notepad'. Open an ODF file with notepad, and you will start to decipher it for yourself. Its really easy to create new things.

Give it 4-6 months of work, and you can learn how to ODF edit. It will take YEARS however, to master them, purely because there are SO many entries in BZ2.

[Lordtac]

yes the ODF code is extremely simple, I've deciphered the vehicles construction in the code (as far as weapons, resources, build time, and movement go) and the "data.ODF" do I have to reinstall the game to get a clean data.odf???

How do the "addons" work exactly

oh btw most of the links above don't work, BZ-scrap thankfully still works but I can hardly figure out which tool is which in their listing

[GSH]

Tip #1: start your own thread.

-- GSH

[bigbadbogie]

Yeah. And read the topic rules at the top of this page before you post in this topic.

[Feared_1]

Topic split off, so don't look in the other topic any more.

[Lordtac]

well thanks for splitting it anyways...

I don't like to start topics in forums I've just joined. seems rude.

anyways I've made very little progress making a recycler I don't seem to know where to start.

[Nielk1]

try using an existing one as a base. Take a look at ivrecym.. something .odf in the patch13.pak

Extract it into addons/testingstuff/ or something like that and rename it how you want. You will see it inherits from ivrecy.odf via the use of specifying an existing ODF as a classlabel. Recs do this often sine it greatly reduces the amount you have to write and makes core changes to base objects affect your units too (new patches).

For example, here are some ODFs from MRVP:
ivrecyscrappy.odf

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[GameObjectClass]
classLabel = "ivrecy"

/////// PROVIDES ///////////////////

provideCount = 3
provideName3 = "ivrecyscrappy"

////////////////////////////////////

[CraftClass]

[TrackedVehicleClass]

[TrackedDeployableClass]

[DeployBuildingClass]
deployName = "ibrecyscrappy"

[RecyclerVehicleClass]
[Lod1]

ibrecyscrappy.odf

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[GameObjectClass]
classLabel = "ibrecy"

/////// PROVIDES ///////////////////

provideCount = 3
provideName3 = "ibrecyscrappy"

////////////////////////////////////

[PoweredBuildingClass]

[BuildingClass]

[FactoryClass]
buildItem1 = "ivhscavscrappy"
buildItem5 = "ivconsscrappy"
buildItem8 = "ivscout_m"
buildEmptyItem = 8
buildItem9 = "ivscavscrappy"

[RecyclerClass]

[Lod1]

And thusly so on and so on.

[Lordtac]

I'll look into that, thank you very much

[Mr X]

Where could I patch13.pak from?

[TheJamsh]

patch13.pak is part of the BZ2 1.3 patches.

Get TA5, and then its in youre root directory. Note that you WILL have to use TA5 if you ever expect people to download or use a recycler variant...

[Mr X]

Thats wierd, I cant find any odf files for a recycler. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Can anyone tell me where one should be?

[AHadley]

patch13.pak>addon>objects>isdf>buildings>recycler
                                        isdf>vehicles>recycler
                                        fury>buildings>recycler
                                        fury>vehicles>recycler

[Mr X]

I don't have a folder called patch13.pak...

[VSMIT]

It's not a folder.  It's a file.  Go to BZScrap and download the Pak Explorer, then open patch13.pak in Pak Explorer, then go through what AHadley said.