I'm a new guy, and...

[syphon0]

ok, i got Soldat like 2 days ago and i luv the game, despite it's pointless violence. but here's the thing. i just recently downloaded a awesome Halo mod (the original one) and enjoyed it. but i want to make my own. how the hell do you do that? the only thing i know is, that you use paint to create the weapons. all i'm making is a weapons pack. and mayby a player pack. but where would i begin? i have no idea how to get it to work, then get it to run under the mod starter, and stuff. im going to go play original soldat with a friend for 15- 20 min, then ill be back to check the replies. please help me out guys. and if you're interested, start soldat, or wherever you can find the servers, i'm making one called the zero hour. join it. my char's name is syphon. that's if your interested. l8tr.

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[Espadon]

For starters, in the Mods folder, create a folder titled [Your Mod]. Now copy the folders Weapons-gfx, Txt and Interface-gfx into it, also copy weapons.ini into it. Start tweaking the graphics in Weapons-gfx -- these are the in-game weapons. Go into Interface-gfx --> Guns to mod the interface menu graphics. Go into Txt --> Weaponnames.txt to change gun names. And go into weapons.ini to change gun statistics.

[syphon0]

i went to mdos folder, made a folder next 2 halo, and put some stuff into it. now how to i get that into the mod launcher? man im gettin tired of playin arou7nd with this.

Date Posted: June 18, 2007, 11:00:32 PMand also, i dont know where to find weapons ini

Date Posted: June 18, 2007, 11:04:03 PMyea.... i cnat seem to find the weapons ini. if you or soemone can answer tthose two questions, i mghit b able to gtt this roleing

[mxyzptlk]

The weapons.ini is in the main soldat folder.

[syphon0]

the compresse d one? because i orginally downloaded soldat to my desktop and could not find the folders with stuff in it, so ire downloaded it to my items. that way i can find it. ill look some mroe, but im haveing a hard tie finding it.

[Hello There]

Said by espadon, save your new mod folder to your "mods" folder in you soldat folder. It will show up in the mod starter if you save the entire folder there. weapons.ini is located in the soldat directory, not in any folders.


For easier access, just go to your soldat folder, click on any icon (not double click) and type "weapons." The computer will do a search for it and it will be highlighted on your screen.

[syphon0]

i did. i went to "mods" and next to "halo3.5 mod" i put a folder named "my mod" in it with everything in it.

Date Posted: June 19, 2007, 12:18:50 AMand am i the only wone with a problem? i dont have a "normal soldat folder". when i downloaded it, i put all 4 links to my desktop. and i dont think it came with a folder. ims till looknig for it though.

Date Posted: June 19, 2007, 12:19:55 AMok, so im completely deleting all soldat stuff from my comp, then im reloadign and installnig sodlat and myaby ill get soem stuff outa it. not to mentino i think it was f***** up last time i downloaded it. it said it was missig files and stuff. so im gonig to see if i can place it where im gongi to b able to find it once more

[Hello There]

Gosh man, use Spell Check! *complains about unreadability*

Yeh well what aspects of the mod do you have modded? if its just�  gosteks, you could back up your soldat folder and just set it as default. but thats another 100 MB to deal with...

Re install soldat to your C:\ Drive.

What windows are you running on? (correct me if you are on Mac)

[syphon0]

well, i officially pretty much give up. i dont get shit. i searched my entire fricking cumputer, did 3 searches on internet and on comp with program, searched every little thing, and NOT ONE SINGGLE DOCUMENT, OR ANYTHING IS NAMED WEAPONS.INI. IS THIS SOME SORTA ABREVE, CUZ I DONT UNDERSTNAD IT AND ITS TICKING ME OFF. NOW I ALSO HAVE AQUATT ON MY COMP. I RE DOWNLOADED THE FREAKING GAME, BUT NOTHING CAME WITH IT. UNDERSTAND? NOTHING. ONLY THE SETUP IN A NICE LITTLE ZIPPED FILE. THEN I CLICKED EXTRACT ALL TO SEE IF I MISSED ANYTHING. SOLDAT DOES NOT COME WITH ANYTHING OTHER THEN THE GAME. IM GETING REALY ANOYED AND TIRED. WTF DO I NEED TO DOWNLOAD...............................

[Hello There]

it would be called weapons actually.

If you look towards the bottom right of the soldat window...

[syphon0]

ok... i just had my friend email me the standard weapon ini. apperently, i didnt have it fo some reason..... and by main soldat file, the only one i can thin of you talknig abou, is the compressed file you get when downloading it from the main soldat site. but all thats in it is a setup.exe.

Date Posted: June 19, 2007, 12:38:21 AMok. i actually now have the main soldat folder. my comp must not have downloaded right cuz my good friend took the tiem to email them to me. ill c if i can try to peice what u guys said togethor to try to make a good mod. i dont know to much about anything, but ill try. and by the way, if i amde a good mod soemhow, how would i make it downloadable by others?oh and sorry for the spelling. ive been trying to figure this impossible riddle out forever, and im not thinknig clearerly when it comes to my hands, and im not in the mood to try to fix it... lol

[-Skykanden-]

You wear 2 days and you want to become a modder? Wow interesting

The most hard are the interface weapons, look at the tutorals, you will lear a lot

Add me to xfire or msn i will teach you a little bit
msn: sky_darkknight@hotmail.com
xfire: steelsky78

[Espadon]

Ah don't worry about it. The thing is, if you wanna start modding, start small. My first mod was a ghillie-camo Barrett, and I tested it out online until I figured out that the only person I was fooling was myself.

Don't get frustrated, good things take time. I've been working on one mod for a few years now, and the average for a good mod seems to be at least a few months.

EDIT: To answer your questions [you ARE using Soldat 1.4.1, right?]:

o If you ever want to upload a pack for others to download, use a file hosting site, like Filefront. Then link it to here with URL tags.

o To use a mod you've made yourself, open Start.exe and select [Your Mod].

o "Main Soldat" means the main Soldat Folder, where your Soldat.exe is, etc.

o Finally, just a tip: Being a modder, you are walking in the shadows and footsteps of great modders before you, like Ivan, blah blah blah. There are some of us here with high expectations [this relates in now way to me...lol] and it would be prudent to first show a few screenies of your work before releasing it, so any mistakes made could be quickly corrected.

And remember, if you ever need help, you have the best Soldat modders available here to help you.

[-Skykanden-]

And remember, if you ever need help, you have the best Soldat modder: -Skykanden- available here to help you.

Lol joke... im to bored

Well But don't rush! You can take  loot of time, and if you disover your shading, it will be nice! Good start on soldat, i started to modding that year

[syphon0]

yea, that sounds a little perky... thanks for all the support lols. all im makeing for a beginer is a simple weapons pack. theme - mine. (lols). and the way this is looknig, all b done in about 3-4 days. im only changeing weapons. (and mayby adding 1 or 2 bots.) im not sure how to chane the acutall player's looks. and if i cna have some tips on makeing weapons look mroe realistic, plese tell me, because there starting to look liek a piece of crap.�  thx

[Espadon]

I wouldn't advise changing gosteks at your stage, syphon -- start out with modifying weapons. I'd advise picking apart other people's mods to learn, and I'd actually endorse you cobbling other people's weapons at first, just for learning/practice -- just don't release them as your own. You said you have SK's Halo 3.5 mod? You can take a look at some of his weapons in Halo 3.5 --> Weapons-gfx to figure out some stuff. Weapons are limited to 64x64, bmp or png format, although pngs will be recognized and used before bmps. If you want the bmps to be read, delete any pngs of the same name. I recommend you cut any pngs you find and put them in a backup folder for now, and learn to just cobble the bmps -- it's the best way to learn how to mod. Later, when you feel more confident and/or have programs to utilized the alpha-channel support in png files, you can replace the bmps with pngs.

EDIT: Don't listen to Sky, he thinks Interface graphics are everything! Well, maybe they are...  Just kidding. Listen to him, but remember, weapons-gfx graphics are the real heart of a mod!

[syphon0]

um, you guyts do know that i ahve modded  other online games rigt?  the only reson i had problems with this game is its set up differently. ive made mods for quake, halo, some onlie game my friend showed me, and other stuff. all im doing is rewriteing the weapons, there damge, and there looks. the way the damge lists are set up is similir, so it represents stuff that i laready know. its no biggy. plus i like to learn, and there aint no way to learn, thento experiment. (believe me, my friends call me stubborn when it comes down to them tellnig me to wait). beside, i dont think im gonig to publish this one. its jsut for my own entertainment (unless it turns out better then what i thought it would be.)

[Espadon]

Sounds good. Modding Soldat's way easier than anything else, no Uscript or SDK to bother with. It's actually more like skinning than actual modding.

[syphon0]

yep..... oh, and theres something wierd going down. i realy cat believe im haveing problems modding this, but for some reason, i tested what i have done so far by playing sodlat modded, and the only thing different for it is the names that i gave the wapons when you select. i already changed some of the graphics, but there not showing up differently on sodlat. the text i edited is different, but not the weapon graphics. i only fixed one weapon and msot of its components. do i need to change everything that is attached to that single gun (i.e. clip, bullet, fire). i changed the guns look, the bullets, and clips. its not aperaing differently on soldat. ( the bullets a tad different. i think. im gonig to compare it to the normal soldat). anything else i gotta do?

Date Posted: June 19, 2007, 04:04:29 PMok, let me rephraase that. when i click on the named weapon, the newer version i made comes out has i equip it, but on the wapons menu, the graphics are the original things. i coudl definitly tell becuase i chanegd the chainsaw to a lightsaber. when i start with it on my baaack, its a lgiht saber, and when i equip it. nbut on the menu it is showed has a chainsaw

Date Posted: June 19, 2007, 04:23:34 PMok, im going to the pool for a little while. ill coem back and see what everyone posted please help. remember, i only have weapons grf, weapons in, txt, the folder guns from inside interfaces, and mayby 1 or two more folders in it. what do i need to change to change what the weapon loks like on the wepons menu?

[Espadon]

lol, do you always feel the compulsion to tell us what you're off to do? =P