Dune 2000 Singleplayer game patching (new features and bug fixes) + D2kEditor 2.3 release

[Domaithianus]

Hey, so, I'm back, after several years of life going very wrong, I'm starting to get back on track, and back to the things I love doing.  I've been poking around this editor, and I'd love to have a play with building some new units.  Was thinking of starting with an Imperial Hammer Tank - basically a very heavy combat tank with a Gun Turret (the building) weapon, instead of the usual tank cannon.  I wanted to take the top part of the Gun Turret, and put it on the Siege Tank base, but I seem to have no idea what I'm doing with sprites, as the two seem incompatible without some editing... I had a look at the 'Resource Editor', but, currently, it's just going straight over my head.

I was also hoping I could edit the colours for the 'Sandworm' faction, so, instead of using an odd Atreides allocation index for my House Sarakeen, I could use the Sandworm, and build some real differences between Sarakeen, and Atreides (like making the TibEd built Sarakeen commando only accessible to them, and not giving them an Atreides palace).

This software is amazing, thank you for all the work you've put into this.  I feel obsolete.

Edited August 24, 2024 by Domaithianus

[Cm_blast]

8 hours ago, Domaithianus said:

Hey, so, I'm back, after several years of life going very wrong, I'm starting to get back on track, and back to the things I love doing.  I've been poking around this editor, and I'd love to have a play with building some new units.  Was thinking of starting with an Imperial Hammer Tank - basically a very heavy combat tank with a Gun Turret (the building) weapon, instead of the usual tank cannon.  I wanted to take the top part of the Gun Turret, and put it on the Siege Tank base, but I seem to have no idea what I'm doing with sprites, as the two seem incompatible without some editing... I had a look at the 'Resource Editor', but, currently, it's just going straight over my head.

I was also hoping I could edit the colours for the 'Sandworm' faction, so, instead of using an odd Atreides allocation index for my House Sarakeen, I could use the Sandworm, and build some real differences between Sarakeen, and Atreides (like making the TibEd built Sarakeen commando only accessible to them, and not giving them an Atreides palace).

This software is amazing, thank you for all the work you've put into this.  I feel obsolete.

Oh, hi back! If you are interested on all that complicated stuff, I can suggest you to join a discord that we have available for modders, you can recieve and answer almost in real time (depending on who are online and how much we know about the topic). There are some modding going just right now on and, since has been a while, you may not even be aware at the multiple new units that some people created, such as tank that uses a machinegun-gattling kind of weapon, flamethrower tanks/turrets, autogun turrets (think on yuri`s gattling tanks and turrets) tesla coils wannabe and more!

If you don't want to join a discord, you can always start a new topic with all the questions you have and we will try to give specific answers, as some like creating a new unit with new graphic may be a bit dense for this topic that doesn't involve the editor in specific or needs a bit of heavy explanation. Like the palettes, which unit you are using to import and lots of stuff going on.

For editing the colors of the units is incredible easy, there is a tool although it seems that now it is not available for some reason; I will post the tool there later, but meanwhile you can check the screenshot under that post, which I took using that tool and a few clicks, is just really easy: https://forum.dune2k.com/topic/27380-coloursbin-research/page/3/#comment-394728

You may not even be aware of the "Custom campaign data" folder so you can do your own mods per mission withouth needing to move files around (nor asking other people to do it) and well, lots of things really, it is nice the amount of improvement and stuff we can do now, as you can make 5 different mods with 5 different tech trees all for just 1 single campaign and nobody has to move files around while playing it.

This new editor is so new that I don't even know how to fully use it yet, but I know it has so many stuff that you may want to use at some point. 

So feel free to either join the discord (on the main dune 2000 there is a pinned post on it) or create a new topic to go more deep into every part you may need.

Edited August 24, 2024 by Cm_blast

[Deqistestisticeйstiestisti]

Can you make an 2025 version of this Modding Tool but this Time with the feature of extended Unit Editor such as Accumilation of anything you want such as Constitution for any amount of Time Reinforcements Screen|

[Klofkac]

Update from 2025-06-16:

Game changes:

Added: Ported back multiplayer code
Fixed: Crash when trying to place building below bottom line on 128 tiles height maps
Added: Additive multiselection of units when Shift key is held
Added: Order selected units to deploy with O key
Added: Exclude non-armed units from multiselection when Alt key is held
Added: Remove limit of units which can be given an order
Added: Select all units on screen of same type with W key
Fixed: Allow cancelling of building production for right-clicking anywhere on buildings sidebar stripe
Added: New unit shooting features
Added: New building shooting features
Added: Lightning bullet behavior
Added: DontPreferTargetingHumanPlayers AI option, Implement AttackSidePriority AI property
Added: Unstuck AI units ordered to attack unreachable target
Added: Radar markers feature
Added: Uncrushable infantry
Added: Customizable infantry death sound
Added: Improved error reporting in the event system
Added: Increased number of sound channels from 6 to 15
Added: Debug Features for map testing purpose
Added: Allow playing music file also from GAMESFX folder
Added: Reworked unit and building terrain restrictions
Added: Not edible units
Added: Make barrel art respect unit's animation frame
Fixed: Mouse clicking to the left of unit icon
Fixed: Keyboard/Mouse Up hook not updating mouse button state
Fixed: Crash on IF event

D2kEditor changes (release 2.3):

Added: Remap Structures feature
Added: New unit, building and weapon properties in Structures editor with respect to new game features
Added: New AI property "DontPreferTargetingHumanPlayers"
Added: Image importing and exporting improvements (exporting and importing multiple images at once)
Added: New event type "Add Radar Marker"
Added: Tooltips to structures editor
Added: Debug Features for map testing purpose
Added: Show Event Areas feature
Fixed: Test Map dialog remembers the settings even if cancelled
Added: Event type search filter and event type categories
Added: Event separators (also colored)
Added: Preferences window
Added: Ability to draw map blocks of Change Map Block event on a map
Added: Show crate markers option
Added: Built-in AI properties help
Added: Built-in events and conditions help
Fixed: Crash on tile markings
Fixed: Duplicate Event action did not update indentation
Removed: Obsolete manuals

First post edited and download link updated.