Dune2K+ Toolkit Topic

[mvi]

This topic covers the development and releases of the Dune2K+ Toolkit Topic. The aim of the project if you are not aware of it is to develop a toolkit that is the only download a potential modder needs to mod Dune 2000 to its limits. As such, the tools being released all offer entirely new functionality or improvements on previously available functionality offered by other tools. Hopefully the release of this toolkit will allow unprecedented modding and I look forward to the mods that are made :-)

Releases

Map Renderer by mvi - Renders out any map to a .PNG

RS Extractor by mvi - Extracts the sound effects from the SOUNDS.RS file to .WAV files

Future improvements

Map Renderer - Add support for special indexes

RS Extractor - Add support for editing

In Development

Mission Editor by mvi

UIB Editor by mvi

R8/R16 Editor by mvi

Campaign map editor by hal, mvi and gruntlord6 - Note the "campaign"

UIL editor by slasherking and gruntlord6

Team

mvi

hal

gruntlord6

slasherking

Source Code and Specification Policy

If you need a specification of any file format used by Dune 2000, I will send you all information I have on that format, on request. All source code will be released, either at the same time as the toolkit or shortly afterwards.

[Gruntlord6]

It should be noted these are the tools being used for my new game, any info relating to the game will come from me or mvi, no one else.

[D2k Sardaukar]

Is it also possible to add .WAV files into the SOUNDS.RS and use in the game? For example, I got the idea to edit the sound of unit dying to more "KCHGZZZsst"-sound, haha.  :D

[mvi]

Definitely, I've mentioned it under the future improvements section ;-)

[AMIgaBot]

amazing..  i can record my own voice  and use it. omg

[MrFlibble]

mvi, I forgot if you know about an R8 graphics extractor. If not, here it is:

http://magicteam.ag.ru/files/programm/d2kc-12-rus.zip

Perhaps it could be useful to you somehow :) (Note that the interface is in Russian though.)

[mvi]

Thanks for the link MrFlibble, yeah I've checked it out before, it's a pity I don't have the source code to it, since I've only got R16 files working so far. I might have another look at that program and see if I can work out some of the bits that I couldn't before. Because it seems to me that the DATA.R8/R16 files contain lots of different ways of storing these images. So any program I make has to support all of them, at the moment I think my tool gets about a third of the way through the file before it hits a file type that it can't support. The DATA.R16 for example, you'd expect to contain 16 bit images. Not the case unfortunately, it also contains R8s. The tool currently works perfectly with the tileset R16s. I just need to fix the R8 palette loading and it will work perfectly with the R8 tilesets too.

[maxgo1]

mvi , when your DEV tools will be finished ? , can't wait :P for test them ;)

[Gruntlord6]

mvi , when your DEV tools will be finished ? , can't wait :P for test them ;)

Not for a while im afraid.

[Gruntlord6]

We have a new member to the team! to view up to date news about the project, visit dune.gruntmods.com

[athanasios]

That's good news!

[Gruntlord6]

That's good news!

Yes, it means that things will accelerate slightly.