Recent content by darkf

When using the DebugEditorKey, I can't move my mouse after the game pauses (using Windows 10 here.) Unfortunately this means I can't really use it, any workaround for this? (BackgroundMouse would work, except the mouse goes outside of the window and clicks on other things...)

The official blog post from 2011: https://www.bethblog.com/2011/01/03/the-official-fallout-new-vegas-japanese-rpg-demake/ and the game link: https://www.bethsoft.com/jpn/fo/fo_quest/index.html I'd like to try this and preserve it, as it's a silly Fallout game/demo, but it looks like it's been...

If you want to check it out in its current state, the code is now available: https://github.com/darkf/darkfo Happy New Years, everyone. Hopefully it won't be too long until we have a more modern Fallout 2 to play with.

I notice no developers ever touch the IRC -- is it abandoned? You might want to remove it from the README then. Are there any plans to support Fallout 1? How close to the original game are you planning on getting: exactly the same, or approximating some functions?

Most of the data is images, not JSON, really. Although I started investigating using BSON for save games and found that it's the only way to reasonably do that without writing a custom serializer. BSON is a *ton* faster *and* smaller than JSON (JSON would completely hang for a few minutes and...

Precaching assets isn't that big of a deal. I have scripts to convert all of the data files into formats I can use, and then just load those through an HTTP server. Most maps load in about 30 seconds, but this is over a local connection (negligible latency, high thoroughput). Over an...

If you're interested in this, you might also check out DarkFO, in which I aim to make an entire port of the FO2 engine to the Web and be playable. It's not open source yet, unfortunately, but I hope to continue working on it and incorporated some of the really cool ideas and code jsFO has...

With extracted DAT, data/premade/*.bio

The unknowns actually just correspond to values like you'd see in the prototypes (see the PRO File Format page). Someone was going to update the wiki, but I guess they haven't gotten around to it yet. And, yeah, the new engine projects are the best bet for this if you want completely...

I'm not sure if sfall has any of the functionality currently but it can certainly be added (through hooks to set_font, text_to_buf, etc.) Funny coincidence, I just figured out that the Skilldex/UI text was rendered using the font files 2 days ago! Need a nice way to render that now. :) Does...

Any progress on this, Cubik2k?

That's fine, we could have someone port it to a more modern toolchain like FreePascal. Nowadays people typically use GitHub; I'd highly suggest it. The parts of the code you own the copyright for you can license however you want (although I'd suggest one such as the MIT license).

+1 to this -- everybody wins. :)

For the engine? It kind of does, entites are modeled as structural objects of varying kinds (critters, items, weapons, etc.) where all of the specific subtypes hierarchially inherit from base objects, and have overridable prototypes providing properties acting as sort of object prefabs. So...

Well, that was almost easier than I thought: I implemented basic a lightmap generator (the only thing missing is objects being able to block light, which won't be hard, just an hour of tediousness.) Although, well, I can't speak for the quality of the code at this point. :)...