Fremen Weirding weapon mod help

[DoMoNiC_HuNtEr]

I've been modding Dune 2000 fremen units to be distinct from each other. I want the regular fremen to have machine guns and the cloaked fremen you get from Atriedes palace I want them to have basically a miniature sonic tank gun, and it uses the weirding weapon firing sound. I've done it before in years past, but I forget how. I remember the projectile even scaled with the fremen infantry size, so instead of a large sonic ball the size of the sonic tank's mounted RADAR dish cannon, the fremen fired a smaller sonic ball about the size of their gun. 

Edited yesterday at 08:38 AM by DoMoNiC_HuNtEr

[Fey]

7 hours ago, DoMoNiC_HuNtEr said:

I've been modding Dune 2000 fremen units to be distinct from each other. I want the regular fremen to have machine guns and the cloaked fremen you get from Atriedes palace I want them to have basically a miniature sonic tank gun, and it uses the weirding weapon firing sound. I've done it before in years past, but I forget how. I remember the projectile even scaled with the fremen infantry size, so instead of a large sonic ball the size of the sonic tank's mounted RADAR dish cannon, the fremen fired a smaller sonic ball about the size of their gun. 

I don't remember about manipulating the size of the Sonic Tank's ball. maybe it has to do with the size of the blue square graphic the weapon uses, and swapping out that graphic will make it smaller? anyway, for ANY modding of d2k, you'll wanna pick up the latest exe and editor from Klofkac's thread over here:

Spoiler

after opening a map, ctrl + X is the shortcut to open the 'Structures Editor,' and you can modify anything you'd like from there. I suggest granting a CustomCampaignData folder to your mod so all the pertinent files are saved somewhere distinct, and you can make copies of that mod folder as you make progress to save backups. always a good idea to save backups on occasion, especially before messing with graphics.

how assign CCD? F10 is the shortcut to open mission settings (note, if a .mis isn't assigned either then you'll need to hit this button)

and then write some stuff in these two boxes:

you can use the drop-down to select the folder you want if it's been created through, you know... right-clicking the subfolders in Windows Explorer and making new folders. if just writing the names of new folders you want generated in those boxes doesn't work, as it should, then you can try creating the path yourself

any time you wanna make a backup, duplicate the 'mods folder' and give its copy some kind of designation, then keep working

and the structures editor is very intuitive. you'll find sonic weapon data, including its graphic, under the weapons tab. hope that helps! good luck!

[DoMoNiC_HuNtEr]

Back when I had it setup, I was using TibEd. I think the projectile size of the sonic weapon is tied to the unit size, so tanks have larger projectile than infantry. As far as I can remember I basically copied and pasted the sonic weapon stats over to one of the fremen guns. Of course it's not that simple with Dune 2000, there must have been logic components other than bullet and warhead I messed around with.

Edited 22 hours ago by DoMoNiC_HuNtEr

[Fey]

19 hours ago, DoMoNiC_HuNtEr said:

Back when I had it setup, I was using TibEd. I think the projectile size of the sonic weapon is tied to the unit size, so tanks have larger projectile than infantry. As far as I can remember I basically copied and pasted the sonic weapon stats over to one of the fremen guns. Of course it's not that simple with Dune 2000, there must have been logic components other than bullet and warhead I messed around with.

well, if you figure it out again, I'm curious how changing that graphic works!

TibEd is entirely replaced and on many levels surpassed by Klofkac's editor. you'll be pleasantly surprised when you have a look, I'm sure