Technical Data
or
"What we dun n' How We Dunnit"
In plain English,
these are the enhancements to the game provided by the patch:
*All TIE Fighter craft EXCEPT the container tranpsort are enabled
in xvt/bop. It was decided that there are enough freighter types
already, and that a newer cap ship (The NHKC) would be more
versatile.
*B-Wing, MTRNS, CRL, M/CRV, SSD enabled in Std xvt as well
*The following new ships have been added:
TIE Oppressor (T/O) in the tienew1 slot (10)
E-Wing (E-W) in the tienew2 slot (11)
Lancer Frigate (L/FRG) in the bulkbarge2 slot (31)
Star Viper (VIP) in the falcon slot (39)
Thyrian Class Space City (THYR) in the PLT/6 slot (65)
*Planetoids in BoP configured as follows-
sat2 - blue cloudy atmosphere
sat3 - orange cloudy atmosphere/gas giant
sat4- grey foggy atmosphere
sat5- dark and stormy atmosphere
mine5- terran planetoid
probe3-desert planetoid
nav2- barren/icy planetoid
pilot- urban/ "techno" planetoid
*These craft now have full featured piloting capabilities (full
functional weapon complement) TIE Defender (tiedlx), Missile Boat
(misbot), T-Wing (twing), R-41 (r41), Shuttle (shutt), Transport
(shutt), Scout Craft (shutt), B-Wing (bwing), ISD (shutt), CORT (falcon)
*All other craft are flyable w/ shutt cockpit but most lack
weapon controls
File Map
of SP Installation
XwingTie
frontxt.txt, strings.txt, specdesc.txt, Z_XvT__.exe
>Cp640
advhud.lfd, b12high.lfd, b2clk.lfd, b2high.lfd, b3clk-b.lfd, b3high.lfd,
bwhud.lfd, bwing.int, bwing12.lfd, bwingp.pnl, dlxhud.lfd, falcon.int,
falcon12.lfd, map640.int, map640.lfd, map640.pnl, misboat.int,
missbt09.lfd, missbt10.lfd, missbt12.lfd, misshud.lfd, missilep.pnl,
missup.lfd, r-41.int, r-4112.lfd, r-41p.pnl, rebelcrt.lfd, shutt.int,
shuttl12.lfd, shuttp.pnl, tieadvp.pnl, tiedlx.int, tiedlx12.lfd,
tiedlxp.pnl, tieopp.int, tieopp12.lfd, twhud.lfd, twing.int,
twing12.lfd, twingp.pnl, viper.int, viper12.lfd
>Ivfiles
(all opt unless specified) bwing, corvta, crusa, friga, lancer,
mislbt, nhkc, pasngr, patrlb, platca, rebtuna, spec640.lst, spec2640.lst,
spec3640.lst, tiedel, tienew1, tienew2, viper, gunplat, ltcal,
ssd
>frontres
frntspec.lst, promo.lst, spec640.lst
>melee
spfbalv4.tie, spfb2.tie, spfb4.tie, mission.lst
>Balanceofpower
(same filenames as xvt)
~>>Cp640
(same filenames as xvt)
~>>Iviles
(all opt unless specified) crusa, ewing, lancer, mine5, mislbt,
navb2, navb3, nhkc, pasngr, patrlb, platca, probe3, sat2, sat3,
sat4, sat5, spec2640.lst, spec3640.lst, spec640.lst, tiedel,
tieopp, viper
~>>frontres
frntspec.lst
~>>melee
spfbal.tie, spfbal2.tie, spfbal4.tie, mission.lst
EXE Notes
The Z_xvt__.exe
files have been modified mainly with common xvt editing tools
such as mxvted and the readily availiable uge modules for xvt and
bop, but to make them read the specie files correctly, 2 new Null-Slot-Activation-Coding
(NSAC) modules had to be made, which are availiable on the ImpTac
site. These modules allow you to do the more technical end of
enabling the 4 primary null slots. They are fairly self
explanatory; basically by making each null slot read from species
file #1, you merely need to add new opt names to the bottom of
spec2640, and then fill in the appropriate specie #'s in the
slots using the nsac module; it becomes fairly obvious if you
look at the patch exe with one of the modules.
OPT Notes
Besides the ones
from XWCS, all of the opts were original works, that were
retextured or modified in some form or fashion (aside from the
planets/atmospheres) with OPT Explorer, Xwa_tex_extract, ACE_DXF,
or various other tools.
Cockpit
Notes
The TIEDLX,
MISLBT, and TWING cockpits are credited to Marcus Edson. The R-41
is the work of Hernan, the Falcon of Andy Kroell. The crappy T/O
and VIP cockpits are the work of Maverick!
Known Bugs
Only one bug is
known to date, and that is that T/O, VIP, and E-W opts look
CRAPPY without 3-D Acceleration!!! Oh, and the B-Wing cockpit
does not function 100% correct in XvT