Picking Screw's gearkit with S&W model 29, you get a revolver holster. M29 does not fit into the holster, obviously

I threw together Smoke's battlesounds. Nothing too fancy.
http://www.mediafire.com/?zkq44q4g52tznct

Also, I've finally completed Doc Koolhan's voicepack. He was tricky because he had two different voice actors for JA and JA:DG. The pack includes speech, battlesounds, and an edt file. http://www.mediafire.com/?3me8t5319w1wxwl
I'd appreciate any feedback you can give.

Awesome mod. Great job everyone involved! Was Leech's order acknowledgement in DG realy "be rational" or something like that? It's been a while since I played that one.

Kazuya's done a great work on the portraits, although I personally would fix Screw's skin color. Also, I'm not really feeling Snake's portrait.. it just looks wrong somehow. Bob also should have a bit more hair on the top, I think it has something to do with the perspective. Anyway, just minor thing.. maybe I should comment on the Kazuya portrait topic.. not sure.

Thank you for bringing them back!

I've recruited all of them and taken them to Trixa on the Arulco Revisited maps. The portraits work fine although Screw´s portrait could be a bit lighter. They seem to be a bit more silent than normal Aim mercs. You could say that too many lines concern what the ground looks like, sort of sounding like warnings about possible mines.

My way of fighting is at night with quite a lot of mercs. Everyone fights, I don't use mules or gun runners or mercs that just do support work such as repairing so I've changed stats a bit - especially WIS - in order to be able to use Kaboom, Sparky and some others. I´ve also given a few mercs NO.

Great that Manuel became an NPC. I would rather have more of those than more Aim or Merc mercs if that is possible when you add the rest of the old guys.


All in all: Good work.

One wish: Spike used to say: "Time to close things down boy" when a fight was nearing the end. I haven't heard it once now despite quite a lot of playing. Please give him back his comment. For me that´s why he became a necessary part of the team.

I'm experimenting with the portraits, trying to fix the JA:DG mercs that stand out too much in the roster.

Any idea on what are those yellow dots on Boss' headband? They do stand out very badly, I got rid of them for the time being.

[img]http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/previewbnn.jpg/[/img]

Here we go, would you consider it an improvement? I reckon the bigface could use a bit more work.

Hell... I like it...

only thing still wrong with the pic is maybe the nose. It looks a bit too 2 dimensional if you know what I mean. Compare just the nose to the other noses on the AIM page and you'll probably smell it (ehhh.... "see it"... damn too many noses in one sentence).

How do i install this?? I wannt them all =)
Can someone teach me?

Just get the latest SCI, they are all in 1.13 now... (at least those done already... somehow this project seems to have slept in unfortunately).

Hey, I'm here! Playing the new AIMNAS version!!! No time for modding hahaha

I don't know what to do next.
We need all camo faces, but I can't drow at all :-(
Also we need Kazuya for new JADG faces!


What happened to Kazuya?!? Where is he? I hope nothing bad...

Okay!
I will check his dialogs one more time and try to find this speech. No problem.

Nice work!
I think you could work on the dialogs instead of me :-)
But without new faces there is nothing we can do :-(

Thanks for the compliment. Been kind of delayed, but I'm back to working on Wink's voice.
Is it possible to add new situations in which dialogue is used? There's some quotes I really like, but I can't think of a situation to use them.
Also, would you mind if I did some changes to the dialogues mercs you already added?

Logisteric made a very nice spreadsheet for all dialogs used in game. Maybe that could be helpful. He named it SoundMachine something... and it can be found on his skydrive. As he has gone AWOL I don't know if it is accessible or not.


I will upload it to my Skydrive. Just grab the soundmachine beta08 zip.

Might be useful...

Here is my working sound list:
http://www.mediafire.com/?z26tjpfhqld6gl6

It does feel weird, might be tricky to fix it though.

Can't do plastic surgery to make it prettier, wouldn't be Boss, if I did, would it? I'd rather try to fix it through lighting, No idea how yet, mind you.

dudes.... you gave me Snake back. i cant thank you enough lol! and his stats are just right, too.

i aint sure i have the skills or the time to help with this, but im willing to try. i cant easily figure whats needed.

so just tell me: do this or do that. i might be able to do it, who knows ;D

Amazing work guys.

Let's face it, 1.13 is unbeatable by any other JA-like to ever come

Hi everyone.
Can someone do all types of Camo faces for the JADG Mercs for this project?

The original Camo Faces were made with GIMP by Jazz. I have all the original GIMP template files if someone is interested and if it helps in any way. Just PM me.

I use GIMP. If your templates have still the layers (project file xcf format), then it will be child's play to do the deadly games camo faces

Kazuya made the faces, not me.
He's unavailible right now...
I have nothing, just the mod sti files :-(

Version 3.0

Fixed a lot of Speech files.
Added some new speech from JA1 series. (Spike, Snake, Vinny and many others)
Fixed Ivan's quotes.
Organized merc's salaries.
Edited merc's stats and traits.
Gary moved to A.I.M..

Did you fix the "!!!" stuff in the subtitles? Really doesn't fit in.

Noone noticed this before...
I will do it.

@all: I have just added v3.0 of this mod to the official 1.13 svn game directory. The next SCI will include v3.0.

@dimitri: you should update the following 3 files in your MOD with those files from svn game dir, because your files are out of date:

https://ja2svn.dyndns.org/source/ja2_v1.13_data/GameDir/Data-1.13/TableData/MercProfiles.xml
https://ja2svn.dyndns.org/source/ja2_v1.13_data/GameDir/Data-1.13/TableData/MercStartingGear.xml
https://ja2svn.dyndns.org/source/ja2_v1.13_data/GameDir/Data-1.13/Ja2_Options.INI

Thanks. But after I copy\paste this file, my XML Editor crashes everytime.
Have no idea.


And a question:
Can we add more new IMPs faces to the roster?
Not replace, but adding new ones.
I was trying to add Kazuya's FOTBOS guys like new IMP faces, but there is a complicated problem - I can't edit their eyes\mouth coordinates.
Jagged Alliance 2\Data-1.13\TableData\IMPPortraits.xml - I can edit here everything - clothes, hair etc. But not the coordinates.
Tried to edit in the MercProfEditor and direct in wordpad. Same shit. I type in the true coordinates, but in game they don't work, the eyes and mouth moving defective.

Tried to replace 216 or 217 or adding a new one on 199 with this guys

coordinates are
1st:
48x43
eyes x=9 y=4
mouth x=9 y=23

2nd:
48x43
eyes x=13 y=5
mouth x=11 y=23

You have to use the latest XML Editor from SVN GameDir. Than it works fine.

Okay!
I will try.

Flugente mentioned this problem with coordinates on IRC a couple weeks ago... at least IIRC it was Flugente, if not then my apologies...

Anyway, you need to start a new game for the coordinates to be picked up properly.

1st pic looks like he could use voice #2, but methinks Rico needs some sounds ripped from JC/JC2

It has nothing to do with a "new game".
I think some additional info about IMP pictures is stored somewhere... Or is it only the IMPPortraits.xml file?
It just can't be, that the same picture with the same coordinats properly works on a AIM\MERC roster and doesn't work on IMP

No way.
Crashes to desktop

Maybe you have added some new weapons to the game or something like that?

I just tested and it loads fine. It seems some other files in your TableData folder that are connected to the MercStartingGear.xml file are out of date.

Anyway, once Tais releases a new SCI, you should definitly update those XML files, otherwise your MOD will not be compatible anymore with latest 1.13.

Does it display some sort of error message or "XML Editor has encountered a problem and needs to close ...", any screenshot for the error messages would be helpful.

Also try these;

1. Delete "XMLworkingdata" folder
2. Delete JA2data.xsd
3. Clean install
4. (Re)install .net 4.0 framework.

fuck this...
I spent 2 hours with this editors.
old

new



all done.

P.S.:
Can someone upload this program on mediafire. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with snv...
But don't realy think so

Hello Dimitri,



Yes, that should work! At least in my short test (based on v4870) I could add a new IMP face without problem.





What did you exactly change in your IMPPortraits.XML file?

Hi Schein.
What slot did you used for that IMP?
An exicting one (200-219) or a new one?
How you typed the coordinates in?

Did you check the XML editor log file? Full details of the error message will appear there.

Also, it looks like you are running version .60. The latest is .93 or so, and there have been a ton of changes since .60.

Just this lines with my coordinates, but they don't work...
<IMP>
<!-- 217.sti -->
<uiIndex>17</uiIndex>
<PortraitId>217</PortraitId>
<bSex>0</bSex>
<usEyesX>7</usEyesX>
<usEyesY>7</usEyesY>
<usMouthX>10</usMouthX>
<usMouthY>23</usMouthY>
<DefaultSkin>1</DefaultSkin>
<DefaultHair>0</DefaultHair>
<DefaultShirt>0</DefaultShirt>
<DefaultPants>0</DefaultPants>
<DefaultBigBody>0</DefaultBigBody>
</IMP>

@ Dimi: I didn't overwrite an existing entry in the IMPPortraits.XML but added a new one:



I've uploaded my file from my short test. So best check it out if it works for you now:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-4366909/new_male_IMP_face.zip.html

Thank you very much.
I will try one more time.

p.s.:
I thought it would be more fun if we had more IMP portraits choices of best quality pics made by Kazuya. There are some masterpices there, like Malice and Box from Fallout BOS. So I decided to add some portraits.

@Dimitri
The "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" is almost always an error in the xml file. Last file to be loaded is the MercStartingGear.xml so you'll have to either check it yourself to find what is wrong, or upload it somewhere and let us take a look at it. Best to upload the whole tabledata folder, so if there are any other files with problems, we can find them. I may be able to take a look at it tomorrow, but not sure I'll have the time.
The error is almost always the inclusion of an item id that doesn't exist in the items.xml, though it might be possible to encounter the same thing with a merc id that doesn't exist, though I think that is much more difficult to accomplish.

Yes. Thanks for the answer.
I'm thinking so too.
RoWa21 has given me some new files from snv, and I'm sure that there are some items added in his new versions, I don't know exactly, items that I don't have on my clean version, so the XLM editor crashes. New kind of weapons maybe.
Because I've just tested it on my old files - everything is okay.

@RoWa21, if there are new weapons added or other itmes, please send them to me. Without it I can't launch the MercStartingGear file...

What do you think, can we add this new IMP faces from FalloutTactics BrothehoodOfSteel to the mod?
They pass best to the ja2 pics style from all the usermade faces I saw.


All made by Kazuya ofc :-)

Thanks Schein for the hint.

Oh, right. You're probably missing some of the new 'splody stuff. Here's a current TableData folder, just throw away the files you need in your mod and update the rest.

Thanks DepressivesBrot, I'll try.

But better I'll wait for the new release :-)

There's also an SCI from yesterday that includes all the stuff if you prefer those.

Thank you DepressivesBrot.
Now I will be working on the SCI.
So I'm just testing some stuff on the new SCI.


There is one problem I have noticed. I picked up the new guy Spooky and in the rebel hideout he said this: "You're firing me? Like the girls in the boom boom room say... this sucky sucky."
- Line 064 - first responds reassuringly to Miguel in Omerta. (For RPC only - Miguel killed)

I've checked his other files and some of them are wrong (a mess) like 178_008, 178_012, 178_026, 178_032 and many others or some just don't exist.
Were can I find Spooky's original files? I can fix some of them, the quotes seems to be ok, but the WAVs are just missing.

Is it just my impression or does this mod reduce the AIM alumni pages too? I think I remember Snake dying for instance. If so, can someone tell me if it's possible to revert these changes and remove these mercs? I liked reading that page and no offense meant to the creators of this mod or anything but I never use any of the non-ja2gold-ub mercenaries, not even the wildfire ones and in fact I don't even like seeing them in the roster as it makes it less convenient for me to browse to the one I want, particularly at MERC. Again this is just my personal preference, other than that kudos to the makers for a job well done.