Help me with moding...

[Drax]

I would like to know how to change the look of weapons, in detail, it would nice if someone make a video, because I can only replace with a picture that has white background I just want the look of weapon. You know what I mean? I am running with a weapon on white square ;/

[darDar]

replace the white background with the the lime color which is used as a background color for all the weapons. Everything which is in lime will not be displayed ingame. (lime is avaible on paint as a default color)
You will see the result ingame then
Also the weapons-gfx file are not in jpg file format.
Right click on the knife gfx, Edit with Paint - Replace the white background with lime.
Should work

Also you will have to change the image size else your weapon will be as large than on my attached image.

[Drax]

thanks man it works, yours look pretty cool xD

[L[0ne]R]

Download an existing Soldat mod and use it as an example. Open up the images and see how they're made.

[Drax]

does anyone knows how to put images of weapons from google into soldat easly? I was wondering if I can use wand to mark the area of weapon and the crop it but somehow its not working, there is a lasso  tool but its really bad. Any tips/tricks?

[darDar]

does anyone knows how to put images of weapons from google into soldat easly? I was wondering if I can use wand to mark the area of weapon and the crop it but somehow its not working, there is a lasso  tool but its really bad. Any tips/tricks?

using real weapon photos is not a good idea - you should try to somehow redraw the weapon.
If you really are trying to get your google image into soldat you'll have to crop it.

As L[0ne]R has said you should download some existing mods and see how they were made. You can test around there.

If you can't draw a weapon, you can try to overdraw the weapons photo with some color (with paint or whatever you are using) and resize it to the weapons-gfx default size then.

[Drax]

can I get rid of this dirty smoke that goes after law bullet?? how can I make it invisble for moding?

[darDar]

can I get rid of this dirty smoke that goes after law bullet?? how can I make it invisble for moding?

I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in "sparks-gfx" -> Explosions - smoke 1-10.
Try to delete them all (back up them first)
You will have to test around a lot of you want to make a mod, so just test stuff.
Also be sure to read the "readme.txt" files and help files which are in the folders.

[Drax]

thanks, tho I do not know which one is it, but its not important for now! thanks again!

[Drax]

how to mod, smudge of m79 and all of them?

[Drax]

Hey how to fix this:
here on the first(2) picture I dont have minigun and my bullet starts off from above my head, I dont want that, I want him to shoot from his hands, like on the second(1) picture where he has minigun, how to fix it?

[darDar]

Hey how to fix this:
here on the first(2) picture I dont have minigun and my bullet starts off from above my head, I dont want that, I want him to shoot from his hands, like on the second(1) picture where he has minigun, how to fix it?

there are two weapon gfx files
"minigun" for the left side
and "minigun2" if you turn right

(or image 1for right & image 2 for left - don't really know that now. You can find it out though )

the second weapon gfx file is always vertically switched. ( so if you add a new weapon you need to files and the second one has to be vertically switched)
If you open up "minigun1" & "minigun2" , or any other weapon with paint you will notice that.

Your minigun bullet is way to large so just reduce its size about 75% or so.

As I said you will have to play around with those settings a bit.
Don't add to large items.


*
Didn't really take a closer look on your image.
If you remove that blue circle on the end of your shoot (explosion circle thing), it should be ok.
bullets have to be linear to not cause a total mess.
You can edit your explosions at sparks gfx -> explosions
A minigun doesnt have explosive bullets anyway, so you will have to make that much smaller.

[Drax]

no its the way I want it to be, it just the bullet (when looking to the right) goes from above, how come?

[L[0ne]R]

AFAIK there's no way to fix this at the moment, so you'll just have to keep your images the same size as the original.

It's because of how Soldat handles images - each image is attached to its spot by the corner, not the center of the image. So if it's is too large - it doesn't expand in every direction evenly - it expands only up-left or bottom-right, depending on the direction in which you're looking. This is something I hope devs can introduce sometime soon to remove this limitation, but for now you'll have to keep your images small.

[homerofgods]

L[0ne]R report in in mantis?
If anyone knows bugs involving modding you should deffenelty report it in mantis, I know alot is wrong with it but I'm not really into modding so I feel like I don't see the whole picture yet. So please: http://bugs.soldat.pl/view_all_bug_page.php

[Drax]

hold on I still do not understand, how is that it can work properly from the left and to the right side it is different??? what's the problem? they are the same, aren't they.

you didn't answer to this: how to mod, smudge of m79 and other smudges?

[Akinaro]

every graphic you have in sparks-gfx and in weapons-gfx folders, just remember to not resize them and keep alpha as lime color

smudge graphic  is in weapons-gfx

[Drax]

can I make a different color for each weapon? 

[L[0ne]R]

L[0ne]R report in in mantis?
If anyone knows bugs involving modding you should deffenelty report it in mantis, I know alot is wrong with it but I'm not really into modding so I feel like I don't see the whole picture yet. So please: http://bugs.soldat.pl/view_all_bug_page.php

AFAIK this isn't a bug, just the way the game was coded where sprites' origin coordinates are at the corner of an image, not the center. Also I think there already was an entry about that on mantis, though I'm not sure. It might've been posted so long ago that it's already been forgotten. I'm not even sure if it should be posted on Mantis as it's not really a bug and "fixing" it would require quite a bit of work since there's a lot of images that have this issue.

[Drax]

best program to mod sounds effect, music?

[Akinaro]

Audacity
Its Free. You can find it in every site with apps(or google it).

At first its look complicated but after playing with it for few minutes you gonna love it(or hate it, depend on your capabilities to understanding app more complex than Browser :] )

I use it for more than 5 years, and even after buying Sony ACID its still handy to edit simple sounds(trim, mix, simple effects)

[Drax]

what is the background color for bonuses, I want to make a circle instead of box, help please!

[homerofgods]

what is the background color for bonuses, I want to make a circle instead of box, help please!

Have you tried green(255) bule(0) red(0)?
Also called lime

[Drax]

yes, but still its a square ;/ (in game)

[Drax]

can I make separate look of grenades explosion for each player?

please respond, please help !

[Akinaro]

can I make separate look of grenades explosion for each player?

no. Just like you cant make different graphic for each team

[Drax]

Akinaro please replay to everything I wrote, like the thing about box

[Drax]

Hey how to edit animations in soldat?
For example hitting with fists, can I make it different? or can I make kicking in soldat? or can I add an animation, just tell me what can possibly done.
Also provide please proper program for it (active link please!)

[Akinaro]

You can't.

Remember that for now you can only change graphic for weapons and gostek, but you cant change any animation or change duration of it, or add new ones

[L[0ne]R]

You CAN actually change the existing animations, but you need an animation editor which can be found here: http://sfd.doc776.org/app/59
Note though that you have to edit every single frame in the animation and you can't add or remove any frames or the game won't work online, so this is probably not worth it.

[Akinaro]

you can't add or remove any frames or the game won't work online, so this is probably not worth it.

That why I said you can't :] because its a bit useless if you do this just for SP
Unless he want to make some sort of machinima or SP mod, but as far as I know(looking at his other posts) he want it for online server.

[L[0ne]R]

you can't add or remove any frames or the game won't work online, so this is probably not worth it.

That why I said you can't :] because its a bit useless if you do this just for SP
Unless he want to make some sort of machinima or SP mod, but as far as I know(looking at his other posts) he want it for online server.

"Can't" and "Can't for some things" is very different. You should still provide correct information so the he can decide for himself whether he wants to go ahead and mod animations anyway or not bother with it. Maybe he's fine with making a single-player mod?

[Akinaro]

Easy, I just saw his all post and I have full picture what he want so I just say its quickly.
So he not gonna spend more time searching for it if its not what he want.

[Drax]

what if everyone would download the mod and get on server? would they have this animation?
the animation I am thinking about is, changing the knife animation to nade throwing like in heretic mode, because I might have a modded knife to sword so I would like it to make proper animation for it.

another thing: how to change the look of weapons on the tab list, in game?

yo I need help with chainsaw:

[Chainsaw]
Damage=5000
FireInterval=1
Ammo=100
ReloadTime=200
Speed=400
BulletStyle=11
StartUpTime=0
Bink=0
MovementAcc=0
BulletSpread=0
Recoil=0
Push=7
InheritedVelocity=0

but it is not using it's ammo at all, constantly fires without reload, how to fix this??