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Initial note: I'm no programmer, so forgive me if I'm misusing terminology concerning OOP. The single biggest limitation of modding FO is that almost everything of note is done through the use of prototypes. That is to say, any critter, piece of scenery, or pistol mainly exists not as a...

I was adding new UI tools (I'll be updating that thread later today) and thought I'd make a text box for player input. One possible application being a string based item generator and a map teleporter, I thought I'd put those together for cheat/modding use. You can download it here, just extract...

As most modders know, there's a more or less functional way to introduce custom UI elements into FO2, but it's far from ideal. Using the global script below (i.e. compiled as something starting with gl*) you get a couple of advantages: 1: The procedures work fast. As I get into in this thread...

Use this script to list weird behavior in sfall scripting so those generations of FO2 modders coming after us can benefit. 1. Halted script execution: as phobos explains here, some functions apparently cause frames to be skipped, meaning that anything which relies on a single frame for...

Given that inventory management in FO2 is an absolute nightmare, I thought I'd include some handy sort buttons. These should work with any version of FO2 whether modded or not as long as it has sfall included, but who knows really! Just unpack it in the main folder of whatever you're using and...

Thought I'd stop cluttering up the interesting dev ideas thread. I incorrectly said there that projectile animations are already present in the spike trap scripts, which was hopelessly naive (those only "work" because they move in one of the six cardinal directions, and even then go way too fast...

I thought I'd stop dumping everything in my ill-named define.h thread, and make a dedicated thread. I came to the conclusion a short while ago that much of my megalomania is outside of the scope of the regular game, and would probably result in breaking it completely. So, I want to try and...

I felt I should give something like this a go. I'll probably add some more stuff (mostly in the "extra" category) as I go along, but feel free to contribute/correct anything I've done wrong yourselves of course ;). 1. Tools, Docs and other first steps: 2. What Are These .H, .SSL and .INT...

I've been doing some testing with the AI's weapon selection and came up with these results: AI does check for weapon: - when he's out of ammo for his current weapon. AI doesn't check for weapon: - at the start of combat or with a new turn (e.g. even if he's unarmed and has a bazooka in his...

Because I don't want to keep cluttering up the engine tweaks thread with this, here's some random other stuff @phobos2077 might consider for the sfall header files: #define dude_base_st (get_critter_base_stat(dude_obj, STAT_st)) #define dude_base_ag (get_critter_base_stat(dude_obj...

I was wondering whether I was correct about the way it works: If the object below the bag/back pack in the inventory is a quest item, and the quest item is attempted to be removed by a script, then it remains instead, correct? I'm not sure to which items this applies and how I could correctly...

As many probably know, there's an unimped blackjack script in the source files of FO2. So, I was wondering, after looking around and finding almost no references to this, how incomplete is ZIBLKJCK? I'm guessing it was pretty incomplete if it was never added to RP (at least, I'm guessing it was...

For those not in the know, the invaluable Fallout Editor manual has a lot of its script commands "greyed out", of which MCA (at least I think it's MCA) says: A lot of these have of course been figured out already, but to my knowledge haven't actually been included in an updated manual, which I...

I've been running into an annoying game crashing bug that seems to have to do with my proto file changes (at least, deleting the proto folder "fixes" it). Sfall's debugger gives me the following reason for the crash: I'm guessing some item proto file (I've only edited items) has an art...

Sorry for the long thread title, but basically that. As far as I know there's two ways for it to takes place: a critical failure resulting in a "random hit", and a miss resulting in a different target getting hit regularly. I'm mostly interested in how the latter works. For one, is it included...

I've been trying to put together new interface items, like AP values for above 9, but I can't get it right. The "AP" in this screenshot has black "holes" in it and just generally looks shitty: while the pcx (and the bmp I've converted it from), look fine: I first used frm2bmp, then...

I always thought the interface was pretty much still unchangeable, but then I came across Fallout of Nevada which has this really cool extension of the interface; how did they do this? [resolved]

I realized too late that instead of begging Timeslip for a get_tile_pid function with a material returned that for all I knew wasn't even implemented consistently (was it?), I could just go through the .lst with an frm viewer and just make a list myself. I just categorized them the way I saw...

Burst cones! Of course you can't use this for "proper" bursts, but if you, like me, want shotgun spreads and aimed mini-bursts for Bozars, then this is (I think) the way to go. The script has two parts, one setting up the cone (just copy this to something like a tohit or afterhitroll...

This hookscript does some really neat unexpected (to me at least) things, including firing when the steal inventory opens (means we can put an additional barrier to stealing), when dynamite is set and dropped (weirdly this is the same value as reading a book for some reason), and when a weapon...