| Post 1 | New | Posted December 31st, 2005 |
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| You've started in the right manner; start out making neat small things and if you like it you can expand into larger projects. The timescale of creating new cities in GTA1/2 is measured in years, though. Unless you really want to spend every moment of your life for the next few years thinking about modding GTA2, I highly recommend you find a different hobby. Having said that, GTA2 multiplayer is still quite popular thanks to GTA2 Game Hunter by Sektor. GTA2 has really good support for adding new multiplayer levels to the game and a multiplayer level won't need you to figure out a storyline, characters and write thousands of lines of mission code. Therefore, after you figure out relevant aspects of GTA2 mission coding you can put together a good multiplayer level quite easily. As long as you keep it small (around the size of Hidden Surprise) you could create a multiplayer level within a few months.  Anyway, to answer your question, vehicle spawn locations are set in the .scr binary data files (compiled mission code). You have to write new mission source code from scratch (.mis text data files) but you can copy from other levels who release their mission source code (like I've done with MultiSlayer). Delfi's MISpad for GTA2 is a great tool for writing .mis files and compiling them into .scr mission code. Oh, this tutorial covers vehicle spawning. ------------------
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| Post 3 | New | Posted December 31st, 2005 |
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| Post 4 | New | Posted January 1st, 2006 |
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Sektor
| Download GTA2 mispad Start mispad and click "Run". Type the filesnames of the files you want to use. .gmp is a map file and can be edited with the official map editor (it has glitches and stability problems on XP, best to use 98) .sty is the style file. It contains all the graphics, tiles, sprites, cars. You can edit it with GTA2 sty tool. .scr is the compiler mission scipt. To create an .scr file, you need .mis file and then you compile it with either mispad or the official compiler.  That's the fastest way to test a script/map. If you want it to replace one of the singleplayer levels then later you can edit test1.seq with notepad. ------------------ Stealing cars is the easy part |
| Post 5 | New | Posted January 1st, 2006 |
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| Delfi Programmer 
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| Post 6 | New | Posted January 2nd, 2006 |
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| Deleted Member | Delfi wrote: gta2 mispad uses a modified offical script compiler that it can integrate better incase you are affraid, so files will be same if generated by mispad or "offical compiler". So good he posted it twice!  Thanks for the Help guys. I have yet another question though, on the DMA Map Editor how can I find out the Map Coordinates? |
| Post 7 | New | Posted January 2nd, 2006 |
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| Pyro GTA2 Scripter & Mapper
| To get the co-ordinates, just load up your map and click on an area of interest that you want the co-ordinates for. Now just look near the bottom right hand corner of the program and it will have 3 little boxes with an X, Y and Z number. These are your co-ordinates! However, scripting requires most co-ordinate values to be floating point values (e.g 125.5). For the centre of a square, a co-ordinate would be 127.5 , 127.5. Top left would be 127.0 , 127.0 whilst bottom right would be 127.9 , 127.9. Quite straight forward, but remember to change the co-ordinates to what you need. Any more assistance, just ask! ------------------  Quote: "Side effects may include: dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, water retention, painful rectal itch, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death, and halitosis. Magic is not for everyone. Consult your doctor before use." Quote: "Sharper than one of Oscar Wilde's witticisms rolled up, dunked in lemon juice and stabbed in someones eye..." |
