Hi fellow modders.

A year has passed since i have been working on the combo mod with Aralez, BlackAlmaz and others,
we did a great job, and now the time has come to meet and greet, so give yourself the honor to sign this thread,
not only if you are a veteran in AM modding, everyone is welcome who whishes to participate. Tell us about your
expirience and your skills you would like to use to mod Ufo:AF, and feel free to spin ideas about projects you would
like to work on.


Well i will make a start then for those who dont know who the hell i am and how
i came here...

My real name is Harald known as TYR, im 24 and i study Communication Science in vienna.
I have joined the modding community in May 2004, i already had some knowledge in 3ds,
but had no idea how to mod anything. I started to read every single thread in the modding forum,
some of them 10 times or more, and started to ask questions about anything. I got on alot of peoples
nerves i guess , but i managed to collect the knowledge of every single modder aviable,
exept the scripting thingys, this stuff is for the programmers really. However i became pretty good
and together with Aralez and BlackAlmaz i made the final version of the combo mod. Also we had
some other guys who made some very cool things like the plugin for Milkshape, or the camera mod
which where the foundation for our whole work. However this is the past, i want to bring in my skills
with modeling-texturing once again in the next version of this game UFO:AF, for now i have no plan
at all, but i would really like to see who else is aboard, so give a tell and say hello.

Yours TYR

I can't do any modding but but if you want any glossary entries or anything added i could right them... but only for made up weapons

Always welcome Blehm, i actually never made glossary entrys for my models in AM, it was a little though and since i was doing modeling, texturing, icon creation, debugging i didnt really invest time in this, i was just happy to have it working and looking good.

well guess who is in!!

i'll have heaps of time over december..but first i have to wait till the game gets here...in one months time

ELVIS IS ALIVE

will get started as soon as some bugs are done and i finally figure out how to finish this game

I have finished AF two days ago, how about you?

If you still have the problem with the messed up research tree i can help you,
i had the same prob, edited my savegame and voila the Sgs could not stop me anymore

Since i have no idea what kind of and when we get the "tools" im uncertain about modding, however i will start with a steyr aug this week

i'm almost fisinshed work for the year they have granted me a months leave
i had to restart the game but its okay
send me a letter with the tools your using and how compatible they are
and a list of stuff to make

Howdy,

I just got back to the internet, my ISP caneled my account before my new one was done so i was out of order for the last two weeks , i think this might be a general conspirancy of reticulan-wargot-starghost alliance to prevent me from creating deadly weaponry to kick their asses.

However for editing the savegames i used the old vfstool from snigget, i extracted the gamedata.vfs changed the values in the strat_game.vfs file, where every technology has its value True or false for aviable or not. Since i was too lazy to fight off 30 paethic starghost attacks i simply gave me all technology to ensure i was able to research the "putting the pieces together" thingy and do the final mission.

Saved the file, repacked it, recounted it, and then copied it into the game directory.

Exept that i didnt try something else yet. Beside i have alot of stuff to do for college, i dont have heard anything about a 3d plugin yet. However in the xmas holidays i will start modeling weapons.

I suggest we start with the basic things, like aditional equiptment, Steyr Aug2, MG42 (for the real gunman)
, some pistols like colt 45, p90, plasma grenades, mines, etc...

what i have really missed are all the mutant species, maybe we could adapt the aftermath models and retexture them for aftershock?


greetz TYR

I need plenty of models (58 as of v2.18) for my Weapon Rebalance mod ...

damn why cant we get together and talk this through...i have had no time what so ever i'll be back at work on the 16 so i'll have some net time i'll npm you guys my email address so we can talk but there are still small problems to over look

why is there no progras whats so ever....???

There's been some progress on the model export / import as can ben seen here and here. Sadly it's not been finished yet. Skinning is doing well here however

Just one question by me:

They promised us better modding support, and as i see 3 months later nothing changed,
im kinda pissed of how altair treats their community.

Anyways if any talented programmer finally creates a tool for us modders to import/export stuff
give me a tell.

yeah well as we know from as skin making wasnt the biggest problem...so yeah once some modeling tools come out than...

can you make a request on the news for some to be made

Yeah, I might do that. I'll hold it off for a little while yet however, as ALTAR should become more active in the community again now.

still nothng...
i got that new weapon mod, and i have found some new models...if some one plz give me the details on how the edit them than i'll be heappy to make soe new ones, or even my own mod

Talk to rman or Shadowarrior over at the official forum.
They should have some tips for you.

Yeah, check out the modding forum at the official boards BA. There's not much, but a little...

if i think about it i can make diffrent skins in game....it actually easy once i looked at the code
slaughter can you do something for me....cause i'll be gone for a week can you get in touch with them and organise some info for.. i'll be next week and if you get me some usefull info i will start moding on monday

the mod will even have a start movie