A new and major update of my mod Fallout Tactics Redux will be released in a month or less. I'm having trouble with three specific problems, and have decided to give up on all three of these. If anyone would like to participate by helping me with these issues, you'll have the gratitude of the entire community and will get credit in my mod's documentation. The mod will be released with or without these three things, but would be better with them. The catch is, as I said, the update will be released very soon, so you'll have to work fast if you'd like to lend a hand.
My three problems are:
a) I want to add an article explaining Reaver society and religion, since these don't make much sense. This would benefit all players, and would also tie in with an npc (Paladin Mathers) I added last time in Bunker Four whose story is that she's a spy researching the Reavers. Yet I can't think of anything interesting to write about the subject. There's an article on fallout.wikia, but it merely regurgitates (albeit in a clever way) everything already found in the game rather than offering insights and new information. If anyone would like to write a pseudo-scholarly article on the Reavers, I could make immediate use of such.
b) I have a lot of text articles available at terminals in the bunkers, and I wanted to add some multimedia as well. Audio files (wav, mp3) are no problem for me, but I tried to make bik movies of some public domain 1950s civil-defense shorts and couldn't get the Rad Game Tools to work right. For example, this movie. The source movies in avi format were fine, but after binking all I had was audio with no video. If anyone knows how to work Rad Game Tools, any help would be appreciated.
c) I can't make sprites. There's no use explaining it to me, recommending programs, etc. A man has to know his limitations; I've wasted a crazy amount of time on this issue over the years and I have to conclude it's a lost cause for me. I don't own Photoshop, and freeware alternatives (GIMP) can't output in the correct format. I don't understand alpha channels, palettes, or obscure format specifications like raw and 32 bit bmp, and the truth is I'm not very interested in being initiated into any of these mysterious rites. Anyway, I have some artwork already made (sized, 256 colors, etc) for eleven inventory item sprites, and if anyone able to utilize this to make some actual working sprites would like to assist then any help would be much appreciated. As there aren't very many items, it probably wouldn't take more than an hour or two for someone who knows what they're doing.
Feel free to contact me via PM or reply right here if you'd like to be a part of Fallout Tactics Redux by pitching in on any of these three issues.
My three problems are:
a) I want to add an article explaining Reaver society and religion, since these don't make much sense. This would benefit all players, and would also tie in with an npc (Paladin Mathers) I added last time in Bunker Four whose story is that she's a spy researching the Reavers. Yet I can't think of anything interesting to write about the subject. There's an article on fallout.wikia, but it merely regurgitates (albeit in a clever way) everything already found in the game rather than offering insights and new information. If anyone would like to write a pseudo-scholarly article on the Reavers, I could make immediate use of such.
b) I have a lot of text articles available at terminals in the bunkers, and I wanted to add some multimedia as well. Audio files (wav, mp3) are no problem for me, but I tried to make bik movies of some public domain 1950s civil-defense shorts and couldn't get the Rad Game Tools to work right. For example, this movie. The source movies in avi format were fine, but after binking all I had was audio with no video. If anyone knows how to work Rad Game Tools, any help would be appreciated.
c) I can't make sprites. There's no use explaining it to me, recommending programs, etc. A man has to know his limitations; I've wasted a crazy amount of time on this issue over the years and I have to conclude it's a lost cause for me. I don't own Photoshop, and freeware alternatives (GIMP) can't output in the correct format. I don't understand alpha channels, palettes, or obscure format specifications like raw and 32 bit bmp, and the truth is I'm not very interested in being initiated into any of these mysterious rites. Anyway, I have some artwork already made (sized, 256 colors, etc) for eleven inventory item sprites, and if anyone able to utilize this to make some actual working sprites would like to assist then any help would be much appreciated. As there aren't very many items, it probably wouldn't take more than an hour or two for someone who knows what they're doing.
Feel free to contact me via PM or reply right here if you'd like to be a part of Fallout Tactics Redux by pitching in on any of these three issues.
