| Question about the STB. [message #57546] |
Mon, 07 June 2010 12:07  |
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asmcint
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I have a question about the STB. Specifically, what avenues in modding would open up if someone were to crack it in all it's entirety and be able to edit everything within it? I know a bunch of impossible crap would become possible, but I wanna know details.
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| Re: Question about the STB. [message #57548 is a reply to message #57546] |
Mon, 07 June 2010 12:52  |
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JohnDoe
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If we had complete knowledge of the STB, we'd be ethereal, you know, like incorporeal metaminds. We'd lose our physical form as our bodies are not capable of holding that knowledge. But let's pretend that this was not the case.
We could copy/paste WAD LEVs, corresponding STB LEVs, change the landscape world coordinates (STB LEV), then change the landscape however we desire. This includes trees, rivers, stuff of that sort. The terrain and the terrain effects that are called can be edited. And we already know enough about the heightmaps in the WAD LEVs that we can change the heightmap to accommodate altitude changes in the landscape. Then we could throw in an entry in the STATIC_MAP_COMMON_HEADER for our new map. The last step is one that we can do: Add the map to the game via the WLD.
We'd still have to completely figure out the navdata in the WAD LEVs, and then we'd be able to create completely new worlds. It's one of the holy grails in Fable modding.
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| Re: Question about the STB. [message #57555 is a reply to message #57548] |
Mon, 07 June 2010 15:01 |
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asmcint
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Thanks. So now I understand a bit more fully why that one guy was banned from either here or projectego for claiming to have cracked the stb. And now I realize how much of a big deal just what can be done with the stb is. Thanks again. or as the Japanese would say, Domo-Arigato.
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