Duck and Cover

Hello.

I have TeamX's Fallout Mapper 0.97, and am having trouble opening map files with it. Fallout 2 is fully installed, the .dat files have been located by the program, and still I am unable to create or open maps. The ReadMe file included is useless; the writer must have been illiterate, or something. Any help would be appreciated. Also, does anyone know any good Modding tools? I want to create a game using the Fallout engine from scratch. I've got some good ideas, and I don't want them to go to waste.

Any help is appreciated, thanking you in advance,
Goris

For the illiteracy part, well, they are a bit short on writing good English part, being nativly Russian... I'd like to see you write some Russian...

We'll need some kind of error message from the mapper to help out more and wether you've properly extract the map files.

Creating from scratch is for now impossible since the only tool for the maps is the mapper even though BIS is looking into distributing them eventually... And said mapper can't "Create" a new map... At best take a nearly empty one (say rnd desert encounter) and work from there.

There are plenty of modding tools for other stuff though, and recently added is lipedit (or something like that) to managed the lipsynch on the heads... Otherwise you'll defenetivly need the script compiler and you'll probably want FUCK and FIME or FIC. The rest is pretty much all in text apart of course for the graphics and there are BMP->FRM converters to do that, smae applies for the sounds and movies.

All this stuff excpt the lip synching is available on this site's Fallout modding section.

Heh heh, the only Russian I could write would be the kind of stuff out of Command & Conquer, you know, when the Russians speak English with a poor Ruskie accent? Anyway, thanks for the advice; I hadn't extracted any maps. I'll give that a try.

Raaargh! I've extracted some .map files using DATExplorer (from this site), but when try to open them in Mapper2 I am told that there is an error and to check the .log file. I do. All it says is:

Failed to init palette.

Any suggestions?

And that is meant to say "DAT Explorer", and is not the name of some anal fetish program. Heh heh. Date Xplorer. Heh heh. Errr...

And another question. Using FUCK!, is there any way to select the sprite for the critter you are editing?

And to edit the description when you click on them with the "examine" tool? (binoculars)

Eg: You see a burly mutant.

well I'm not really into mapping, but i just gotta know what "FUCK!" stands for...

It stands for:
Fallout Utility for Critter tinKering!

This reminds me that this thread belongs in the fallout modding forum, not here...

But I ain't a moderator here, so much for that...

As for that are you sure you setup the options for the mapper to find the DAT files? You gotta do that first or it won't find the palette (and a whole bunch of other stuff...)

Red wrote:This reminds me that this thread belongs in the fallout modding forum, not here...

But I ain't a moderator here, so much for that...

Thanks, I'll move it.

Done. Mapper works fine now, thanks.