CharacterWads

[AudioBoom]

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]

player.dta

 

[AudioBoom]

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

 

[DrStephen]

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

 

[Inazuma]

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]

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

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

 

[AudioBoom]

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

 

[Metal Blake]

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

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]

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]

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

 

[Sapheros]

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

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]

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

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.