Modding beginner

[chainsoar]

I'd like to create some soldat mods of my own, and I've read things all over the place about how to do it, but it never works for me. Could someone here point me in the direction of a good tutorial? Thanks a lot.

[ANdro!d]

You don't need tutorials to do that, you can draw the weapons by yourself in paint, and then you can replace them in the folder where the original images are, but you can never change they're names. In you're soldat folder there are the sub-folders where the weapons are:

- Weapons-gfx,here you have the weapons as they appear in your guy hands;
- Interface-gfx, folder that has the images of the interface, like the ammo, health, etc;
- Interface-gfx\guns, the weapons as they appear in the weapons menu;
- Sparks-gfx, this folder contains content like blood, flames, explosions, etc;
- Sfx, ingame sounds;
- Textures\Objects, these are the game elements like health packs, grenades, flamerkit, etc.

That's all.

[chainsoar]

Yeah, I know where everything goes, the problem I'm having is that I'm trying to make a mod using pictures of real weapons from the internet, and when I resize them for the weapons-gfx folder they just vanish. I think maybe it's to do with too many transparent pixels in the image, so I'll work on that, but the other problem is when I add the modded files to the C:\soldat directory they come up wrong in-game. Like, for example, I tried replacing the minimi with an M4A1 assault rifle yesterday and on the interface and while playing there was a big white block behind the gun. What did I do wrong?

[xtishereb]

1. Don't resize images. Lots of people hate that, just look here. Okay, maybe BladeRunner just annoys some people.

2. If you're going to have partial transparency, save the image first as a .png, and then rename it to a .bmp.

3. Make sure all transparent pixels are magic green (#00FF00).

[chainsoar]

Thanks for the tips. I got it all figured out now, I just successfully completed creating a P90 to replace the MP5! I test played it and everything and it's all good. As it was just a sort of test to see if I can do it right, I just nicked the sound effects from Counter-Strike , but in future I'll do better than that. Thanks for all your help guys!