Tutor needed

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Hi all i know this is a bit of a stretch an all but is there any one out there willing to teach a guy how to work on a mod's coding? i would use the help guides and such but there out of date and i wish to make a rebellion mod.

i'm talking .entity files and the sort.

 

any help or vague interest would be appreciated  thank you.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Must be due to this influx of 4x Space Games we've been getting that the genre has been rejuvinated quite a bit.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

yeah i saw that thread, i'm asking if there is a chance of a more personal interaction. possibly

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Most modders are willing to answer direct questions or link you to direct resources...most modders don't have the time to do much more than that, sorry mate....

I'll give you a first goal....learn how to convert files from BIN to TXT...if you've already mastered that and have the batch files, great...if not, learn how or else you won't be able to mod anything...

http://soase.x90x.net/?i=modding/ConvertData.html

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ezah, reply 3
yeah i saw that thread, i'm asking if there is a chance of a more personal interaction. possibly
End of Ezah's quote

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 4
Most modders are willing to answer direct questions or link you to direct resources...most modders don't have the time to do much more than that, sorry mate....
End of Seleuceia's quote

Aye, Ezah I'll recommend my first point in that other thread. If you really want someone to "tutor" you, you need to be helping an existing mod project first. We see too many people say they're going to make a cool mod and never do it. By working with an experienced modder on his mod, he'll invest more in teaching you because he'll get something out of it. Otherwise as Seleuceia says, we do maintain threads with up to date materials and are glad to answer direct questions, but we don't have the time to teach someone step by step.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 4

I'll give you a first goal....learn how to convert files from BIN to TXT...if you've already mastered that and have the batch files, great...if not, learn how or else you won't be able to mod anything...

End of Seleuceia's quote
">http://soase.x90x.net/?i=modding/ConvertData.html[/quote]

 

i like this goal system, its something work on. is there a chance of getting pointed to a thread that help with converting in rebellion, cos the site only says about trinity and some of the files asked for aren't in rebellion.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

For rebellion, you only need the ConvertData...you can however create the batch files using the info at that link...you will need a different batch file for each file type (entity, brushes, mesh, etc.), but I'd start with entity as that's the most important one to start working with....