Ok so I've made some changes to the Shell now how do I munge it?

In VisualMunge, check Shell.

But it's the Shell in the assets folder.

Move it to /data_[yourmap]/. I would warn you that folks probably won't like shell mods. If you change the shell it's gonna conflict with the 1.3 patch, and folks won't like that. If it's for your own purposes however, have at it.

ok so I modded the logo .TGA and I munged and I don't see any change. Where would I see it. I want to see it when it's scrolling through who made the game and all.

All the logos fall under ifs_legal.

And you have to manually move over shell.lvl. It doesn't do it for you.

I looked in my mods addon folder and I don't see the shell there.

You have to copy your munged shell.lvl from your map's data_XXX\_LVL_PC\ folder and replace your game's shell.lvl at GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC\

If you have the v1.3 patch installed then your game will crash on start-up (v1.3 changes some functions in common.lvl that the shell uses). The only way to fix that is to uninstall the v1.3 patch before you replace the shell.lvl. Sadly I lost the source code to the v1.3 patch, so we no longer directly replace ingame.lvl, common.lvl, or shell.lvl. Depending on what your end goals are, scripting related things can be done through the use of a custom user script or a custom Galactic Conquest (cGC) script (the script doesn't have to add a cGC, it could mess with any global variables or load in new content). I think the cGC scripts are loaded at the end of shell_interface.lua.

[RDH]Zerted wrote:If you have the v1.3 patch installed then your game will crash on start-up...

It didn't for me. When I was playing around with the EntityMatrix stuff, I just moved the shell.lvl into a different folder and added the shell.lvl that I had just munged from the assets and it worked fine.

Ditto. I've used my own shell with the 1.3 patch. Not trying to contradict, just letting you know.

It didn't crash for me either. But still no logo change.

What did you change and where are you putting your shell.lvl?

When you first start the game up and it's scrolling through all of the logos.

That didn't answer either one of my questions, nay, it just repeated what you had already said.

Frisbeetarian wrote:What did you change and where are you putting your shell.lvl?

Oops. Misread the question. I changed the logo.tga file and I put my new shell in to my BF 2's GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC.