How Fallout 2 cities work...

[anon]

Hey everyone. Just wondering if there is any information out there on how cities/locations/etc. work in Fallout. Like a detailed description of what the values in city.txt do and what files need to be manipulated to change/create cities or areas.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Yup, there's the [a href=http://www.teamx.ru/docs/worldmap_en.zip]TeamX worldmap.txt doc[/a].

 

[anon]

[updated:LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-03 AT 03:16AM (GMT)]Thanks, that file helped alot however I am still having problems.

I downloaded the patch so that I could add cities over the 49 city maximum and made the following ammendments to the city.txt, maps.txt and worldmap.msg files respectively:

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Area 50 ;Just a test
area_name=TestArea
world_pos=184,300
start_state=On
size=small
townmap_art_idx=-1
townmap_label_art_idx=-1
entrance_0=On,200,90,Test,-1,-1,0
-----------------------------------------------

Map 151
lookup_name=Test
map_name=test
music=17arroyo
ambient_sfx=gntlwin1:25, gntlwind:25, animal1:20, animal:20,
gustwind:5, gustwin1:5
;ambient_sfx=hmxxxxbg:100
saved=Yes
-----------------------------------------------

# TestArea
(6775)()(Test)
-----------------------------------------------

I also added a map file called test.map (the one reffered to in the maps.txt file addition as the "map_name")

When I pack this in a dat file and use mod runner to launch Fallout 2 with it, fallout runs but the city doesn't show up on the map. What is the problem??? This is driving me nuts.

PS
The square brackets were ommitted from the lines:
- Area 50 ;Just a test
- ...and Map 151
because they made the text disappear, no idea why, maybe some html thing.

Thanks again for the file W95.

 

[Guest]

Uh... my best guess will be that you didn't start a new game.

 

[anon]

I did. I think the problem might be that the map file I made is actually artemple.map but edited, so the map name that is stored inside the .map file will say artemple instead of test.

Is that possible or am I just backwards on this whole thing? If it is the problem how do you change it?