CharacterWads

AudioBoom

AudioBoom

• Jun 8, 2014

• #1

Is there any way I can get the character WADs already in the game data as regular WAD files. I want to explore them a little but I cannot find them in the folder I installed SRB2 to. Anyone help?

 

Inazuma

Go on, I dare you!

Moderator

Sonic Team Junior

Judge

• Jun 8, 2014

• #2

player.dta

 

AudioBoom

AudioBoom

• Jun 8, 2014

• #3

Can I open .dta files with Slade? Or another program?

 

DrStephen

My PhD is made out of foam.

Judge

• Jun 8, 2014

• #4

XWE can open .dta files. It's my favourite WAD editor.

 

Inazuma

Go on, I dare you!

Moderator

Sonic Team Junior

Judge

• Jun 8, 2014

• #5

Yes. Slade is actually the kind of program that you'd want to use for Character wads. I personally use Slade for 90% of Srb2 related things. It's really useful

 

wolfs

Watch Symphogear

Administrator

Sonic Team Junior

Kart Krew™️

Judge

• Jun 8, 2014

• #6

Zero_the_artificial said:

XWE can open .dta files. It's my favourite WAD editor.

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Please don't use this, unless you want player.dta to be corrupted.

 

AudioBoom

AudioBoom

• Jun 8, 2014

• #7

Slade won't work now. Everytime I load a WAD it stops working, then I have to close it...

 

Metal Blake

Like in the dirt?!?

• Jun 8, 2014

• #8

Wolfy said:

Please don't use this, unless you want player.dta to be corrupted.

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Heh, funny enough, since I use xwe and wanted to explore music.dta (for the midis for known reasons) and I read xwe can corrupt files, I actually made a copy of music.dta on my desktop.

So yeah, word of warning AudioBoom, if you do get xwe, play it safe and make a copy of any files you explore, in case xwe breaks them.
However, if you do get slade working again, it would be best to stick with that.

 

SteelT

Developer

Sonic Team Junior

Kart Krew™️

• Jun 8, 2014

• #9

Keep in mind that player.dta only has the sprites for Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. The S_SKIN lump for each character is hard coded.

 

Monster Iestyn

Fangtastic

• Jun 8, 2014

• #10

Only Sonic's S_SKIN is hardcoded actually; Tails' and Knuckles' S_SKINs are there at least.

 

Sapheros

Member

• Jun 8, 2014

• #11

Monster Iestyn said:

Only Sonic's S_SKIN is hardcoded actually; Tails' and Knuckles' S_SKINs are there at least.

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Is that because of the patches? Because when I look at the log on startup, it says: added skin "tails" and added skin "knuckles"

 

Joosp

The journey no one knows but you

• Jun 8, 2014

• #12

Duon the Adventurer said:

Is that because of the patches? Because when I look at the log on startup, it says: added skin "tails" and added skin "knuckles"

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If I had to guess why, I'd say since the game is based off the Doom engine it must already have a player character to start off with. In Doom, this skin would obviously be Doomguy himself. SRB2 probably has Sonic hardcoded for that reason.