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eargosedown
Gamorrean

Joined: 12 Feb 2004
PostPosted: Feb 29, 2004 22:12    Post subject: A few Questions View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
A few Questions.
how do you make a new wax.
what is a voc.
how do you make new cutseans.
and how do you make a new brifing.

thanks im new to df. :D

Jimmy Chicken
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Joined: 09 Dec 2003
PostPosted: Feb 29, 2004 23:34    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
A Voc is a Sound file, and it depends if your Mac or PC to edit cutsceans, breifings, and WAX's.

Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon

Joined: 28 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Feb 29, 2004 23:47    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
To create a wax, you need a graphic editing program like photoshop or paintshop pro. Then you need a program to compile them.

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 17:02    Post subject: ok im pc View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
i use pc.
will paint work the one that comes with the computer.
and how do i make a costom voc.

i'm brand new so it must sound like im dumb.

Nottheking
Kell Dragon

Joined: 29 Sep 2003
PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 19:44    Post subject: Re: ok im pc View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
eargosedown wrote:
i use pc.
will paint work the one that comes with the computer.
and how do i make a costom voc.

i'm brand new so it must sound like im dumb.


MSPaint normally will work fine for making materials... Just assuming you know how to work around it's pallette limitations (it doesn't like anything that's not a 24-bit BMP)

For custom voc files, you need to get the sounds in a .wav file, at 8Khz (very low quality), then use one of the conversion programs availible on this site to change it into a .voc file.

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Mattias Welander
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 20:03    Post subject: Re: ok im pc View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Nottheking wrote:
Pain normally will work fine



So nice to hear.

Nottheking
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 20:25    Post subject: Re: ok im pc View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Mattias Welander wrote:
So nice to hear.


Oops. Normally I don't make spelling mistakes like that... Thanks for pointing it out.

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Mattias Welander
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 21:01    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
No problem. I thought it was rather fun, or perhaps even intentional.

Nottheking
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 22:20    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
I thought it was a bit fun, too. But it probably wasn't as helpful as was necessary...

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Burning Gundam
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PostPosted: Mar 01, 2004 22:39    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Considering that waxes are also a "pain" to make most of the time Mr. Green .

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 03, 2004 00:31    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
i tryed to opean a wax in paint and i say that it cant opaen it.
"not a bmp."
how do i chang a wax to bmp.
and under what in c:dark are the waxs that the game comes with.
like the dark troop.[/b]

eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 03, 2004 00:38    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
oh and how do you take a in-game screenshot?

Burning Gundam
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PostPosted: Mar 03, 2004 06:17    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
It may be different for a PC, but on a mac, you have to use the compiling program to extract the states. This will save BMP files into separate state folders and they can be edited from there. Again, I don't use a PC so it may be different.

Or you could just do it all from scratch, but that is much harder to do most of the time.

I suggest you read the WAX editing article by Mark Heiddaker found here

Look in the DF Articles and go to the archives. You can't miss it.

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Death Star
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PostPosted: Mar 03, 2004 12:37    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Look for the BMP2DF utility set, which I belive comes in the WDFUSE download as bmp2df.zip. It contains, among other useful utilities, the command-line apps WAX2.EXE and 2WAX.EXE, which can decompile a wax into BMPs or recompile it again, respectively.

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 04, 2004 00:35    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
thanks and the screen shots?

Nottheking
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PostPosted: Mar 04, 2004 01:27    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
eargosedown wrote:
thanks and the screen shots?


When you go to start DF, use the command:

DARK.exe -Shots

...instead of:

DARK.exe

...You can add as many of the parameters you like, such as "-U***.gob", which allows you to specify the .GOB file for playing...

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 04, 2004 01:43    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
???
im running win xp so give me suport here.
i just tryed to run wax2.exe and a window poped up then disapered.
and i tryed all the other ones and they all did the same.
can you help me.
and if not is there any other program that dose the same thing that i can download?

The MAZZTer
Death Star
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PostPosted: Mar 04, 2004 13:36    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
I specifically stated it's a command line app, you have to run it from the command line. Razz

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Nottheking
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PostPosted: Mar 05, 2004 18:45    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
eargosedown, I highly reccomend an article called "Installing & Configuring Dark Forces". You can find it [url="http://df-21.net/articles/install.html"]here[/url]. It will tell you hwo to get to the command prompt. I highly reccomend geting used to it, as it's essential for DF editing.

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 06, 2004 00:59    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
im running xp so i dont have dos and when i try to run the program it says cant find file dos4gw?

Darth Oosha
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PostPosted: Mar 07, 2004 22:28    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Its your frst levvel so pleaze dont say its not stuupid

eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 07, 2004 22:29    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
ok i whont.

eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 08, 2004 18:11    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
i just tryed it on my win me and it says the same thing.
whats going on?
im in the cammand promt.
and my win me has ms-dos.

Nottheking
Kell Dragon

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PostPosted: Mar 10, 2004 17:42    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
eargosedown wrote:
i just tryed it on my win me and it says the same thing.
whats going on?
im in the cammand promt.
and my win me has ms-dos.


Apparently, the file "DOS4GW.EXE" is missing from you instalation. You can do one of two things:
  • You can search your DF CD, and copy the file over. Assuming your CD drive is D, search in C:\DARK.
  • You can simply re-install DF. While this would take longer, it is possibly easier.


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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 12, 2004 01:53    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
ok thanks

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DarthDoctor
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PostPosted: Mar 12, 2004 11:55    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
eargosedown wrote:

i just tryed to run wax2.exe and a window poped up then disapered.
and i tryed all the other ones and they all did the same.



Keep in mind, some of these utilities are quite old, even before the days of good ol' GUIs. Well, these run through command line parameters passed to them. wax2 did exactly what it needed to do, it opened up the NULL file. Alas, you didn't specify which file to use, and certain command line parameters, like whether to make a makefile for recomplilation, what format, bmp or pcx, for the output, etc. There is a helpful file downloaded with the package that describes all the parameters, and how to use them.

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 19, 2004 00:14    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
ok dos4gw is messed up can someone e-mail me a good copy?

my e-mail is eargoesdown@highstream.net
thanks.

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The MAZZTer
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PostPosted: Mar 19, 2004 12:26    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote
Did you try googling it? I bet you can find it for download everywhere.

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Nottheking
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PostPosted: Mar 19, 2004 18:20    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
Try this:

http://www.k4d4th.org/pub/games/msdos/dos4gw/

Second of the Google results for DOS4GW.

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eargosedown
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PostPosted: Mar 20, 2004 01:06    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote
ok its downloading now. ill see if it works

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