I want to make a scene with custom parts like diffrent actors and diffrent moduels. Can someone tell me how to do this?

Scene releases has a sub-forum called scene making and I believe they have tutorials there. I hope that helps you.

I looked, and I didn't really see any tutorials.

I'm starting to regret writing these things:
http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17544

Making actors is a much more complicated process than you might think. Dragonxp wrote up a nice tutorial here. As for making custom bunkermodules, it's actually not all that difficult; 90% of the work is in spriting. To make a custom module, you have to have at least a foreground and material file, but most bunkermodules also use background files. For an example of this, you can take a look at /Cortex Command/Base.rte/Scenes/Objects/BunkerModules/ and then look at the various .bmp files, with three for each major module. Once you have your sprites, you just need to duplicate the formatting of the bunkermodule definition. To do so, look inside the same bunkermodules folder, and find BunkerModules.ini.

There's a series of short definitions for different modules. The basic process is as follows: Change presetname and golcost, make sure your new .bmps are saved seperately, then change the filepaths of the bunker module definitions to the new files.

I thought he was asking how to use existing mods to make a scene, I guess I'm mistaken.

Actually, he probably was.

So, you're more right than me.

if your trying to figure out how to add objects from a non-core RTE, in a scene, and have the scene be it's own RTE, that gets tricky... Its nothing complicated, just time consuming.



you need to put your scene in base.rte

you need to take all the mod content you want to use, and COPY it, into base.rte, Even if it's a sub-folder. this content must be added to index.ini in base.rte, it must come after all the normal content, but BEFORE your scene.

Then you open the scene editor, and you will be able to place everything that's inside base.rte (which now includes any mods that you added inside base.rte)

once you have it made and saved, make sure you can exit the game, reload the game, and still load that map (IE make sure it saved properly



Next comes the tricky part, if you messed up earlier, this can be hard.

you must take the mods you put into base.rte, back out, so your back to a vanilla base.rte.

CUT your scene.ini from base.rte and put it inside its own custom.rte you must either ALSO include any of the mod content INSIDE of this RTE, to load BEFORE your scene. OR (i'm not sure if this one works) make sure your scene.rte loads AFTER the mods used (so if you use Darkstorm, you would have to make it E_Darkstorm, or even ZZZZZ.rte, because it loads alphabetically).



If you use someone else's mod in a scene, you will need to get permission from them to use it. it is highly suggested that you use your own mods.

I did exactly what it said and heres my index:



But it still douesn't show up in the selection area.

The extra tabs.
Get rid of them.

I did that, and I get this error

"Abortion in file ./System/Reader.cpp, line 531, because:
Property name wasen't followed by a value in HR/index.ini at line 1!
The last frame has been dumped to 'abourtscreen.bmp'"

Get rid of the DataModule lines.

Read?!?!

Lisson, I take out the DataModule on the Index.ini for the Browncoats.rte, add the "IncludeFile = Browncoats.rte/Index.ini", but I still get a error :s

What's the error?
And why the fudge do you want browncoats?