Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 12:45 am Post subject:
adding tilesets to FA2
i have been playing around with the idea of adding new terrain sets to ra2, but i dont know how to load them into fa2. i can get fa2 to read a new section for the tilesets by editing the temperatemd.ini or whatever,
but i cant get fa2 to read the tiles themselves. even if i put them in the ra2 folder, or in a mix named expandmd. so there it is; how do i get fa2 to read these extra tiles? i am using that fa2 patch e1elite made, if
it makes any difference. QUICK_EDIT
Just put the new tileset entries in say temperatmd.ini and place it loose in RA2 folder. Put the *.tem content in expandmdXX.mix and put it in game folder. Checkout TX (terrain expansion) as example.
Re-check your mix file. Check entries like TilesInSet in the INI. Patched FA2 doesn't make any difference. QUICK_EDIT
yep ive got it now. it was my .mix files being hateful
is there any documentation hidden somewhere about the content of these theater.ini files? i wouldnt be surprised if not, as they seem a bit archaic and
mods tend to use complete reskins of the tiles + TX. its hard to even find lat tiles for ra2, which is ironic considering the lovely set TS has. QUICK_EDIT
General section gives the place of the tileset. Say WaterSet = 21 means to look for water tiles in [TileSet0021]. Game is hardcoded for water behaviour in the map when it handles tiles from WaterSet which is tileset 21 like a torpedo from submarine would travel underwater only in tiles from tileset 21. Terrain type related information like movement zone in water etc. is used from the TMP files themselves.
Tile numbers/index are counted from 0, this index is how a tile is referenced in maps. If the first tileset has 10 tiles say TilesInSet=10 then those get tile numbers of 0 to 9. The first tile in the next tileset will have tile number of 10 and so on sequentially. So, one has to remember that any increase/decrease in tile number of any tile would affect all the tile numbers that come after it. That in-turn affect the existing maps.
Re-skin of tiles and appending tilesets after the last is better if one wants to use the already existng maps.
There are only limited slots (4) available to use for LAT in FA2 and YR. TS (FS expansion) has the extra blue mold, swamp and crystal LATs. Check about LAT system.
You can always have more tiles with different terrain types, water or otherwise that would work for pathfinding and building placement etc. but those new water tiles won't allow the coding specific to WaterSet like the underwater torpedo. Like a WoodBridgeSet entry makes the game know which overlays to use when repairing a bridge with wooden bridge end tiles. QUICK_EDIT
Is this confirmed? The linked thread went silent without an actual resolution. And the WaterSet suggestion was already seemingly disproven by MadHQ's previous post:
MadHQ wrote:
Double post...
So I tested a few things...
1 = adding tiles to the YR DES water set
2 = replacing the water01 and water02 tiles with mine
3 = new tile set
Neither works...
So, that tells me there is some thing wrong with my tiles...
I have added two of the tiles to this post. Can any one see anything wrong with them?
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