Hi Everybody

I'm currently setting out to do a small mod for myself in SWBFII. The general gist of the idea was to just edit the soldier/weapon/vehcile properties to something that suited me more. I was also hoping to overwrite .lvl files currently used by the shipped maps that govern object properties rather than creating custom maps with the new changes.

I was going to start with editing the 'Soldier' super class "com_inf_default.odf" that is packed in the ingame.lvl file. I started by testing to see if a custom made ingame.lvl file would work within the SWBFII program. And that is where my problem occured.

So i first create a new world using the Mod Tools. I then munged this new world with all options selected to create a ingame.lvl. I tried putting this created ingame.lvl in the SWBFII's "GameData/data/_LVL_PC" directory, overwriting the shipped ingame.lvl file. However, when i ran the game it, crashed.

This is the severity 3 error logged in the BFront2.log file:

• Message Severity: 3
  .\Source\SoldierAnimatorClass.cpp(654)
  Can't find soldier animation bank "human"

I'm not very savvy with the .lvl file composition, nor do i know what an animation bank is . So i don't know how this problem would be resolved. I'm currently thinking that the Mod Tools doesn't provide enough assests to compile a complete ingame.lvl or that the ingame.req file doesn't include all the needed files, but i could also be very wrong.

Would anyone know a way to create an ingame.lvl that can be used by the game. If that is not at all possible, is it possible to overwrite the properties i need changed in the "com_inf_default.odf" file within it's subclasses located in the various .lvl files in within the SIDE folder

Yeah, the shipped ingame.lvl munges much more than a normal one I think. Dunno what else would be in the req.

Well, it sounds like your mod would need all of the shipped animation banks, which can be found in the assets, but yes, it is possible to override com_inf_default from its children.

Replacing ingame.lvl would break MP compatability as well.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll try just changing the side's individual .lvl files now.

*EDIT* i found what was wrong, modtools couldn't find "xcopy" which was wierd. But its all good now and my ingame.lvl works and the particle effects for the awards are gone. As for multiplayer, i'm no good so it doesn't matter if i can't play it because i never do.