Fixing the Rohirrim-WeaponToggle Glitch

Tutorial for Battle for Middle-earth II BFME 2, Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch-king ROTWK

Sulherokhh

Category:	Code
Level:	Intermediate
Created:	Saturday August 11, 2007 - 9:50
Updated:	Sunday October 7, 2007 - 1:49
Views:	5226
Summary:	Quickly done, if you don't get confused.

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This is a straightforward coding fix, quickly done and easy to implement.

These are the parts in rohanrohirrim.ini you will need to adjust. It's just the default-modelcondtions' flags (that determine at what time the bow/spear are shown/hidden) and the actual switching animations.

The funny thing is this. EA's layout is logical and faultless, yet they use a flag ('SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2') that the development team seems to have forgotten to implement. It is a temporary flag that is set, when you are just about to toggle the weaponset, who's flag is incidentally set or removed immediately. Now, the thing is that the flag 'SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1' is used correctly, and not only that, it is also used when toggling back! (Instead of 'SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2' as EA had planned)

So, to make it work all instances of 'SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2' need to be replaced by 'SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1' and at certain points the flag 'WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1' needs to be an additional condition.

So here it is. You can just plug in the pieces of code, replacing the old code, or just do the changes manually:

Code

;-----Spear-----

DefaultModelConditionState

    Model = RURohrm_SKN

End

ModelConditionState = SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1 WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1 ;added WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1

    Model = RURohrm_SKN

End



;-----Flaming arrows + bow-----

ModelConditionState = WEAPONSET_PLAYER_UPGRADE USER_2 SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1 ;was  SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2

    Model = RURhrmArch_SKN

    WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY FIREAROWTIP

    ParticleSysBone = FireArowTip arrowFire FollowBone:Yes

End



ModelConditionState = WEAPONSET_PLAYER_UPGRADE USER_2 WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1

    Model = RURhrmArch_SKN

    WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY FIREAROWTIP

    ParticleSysBone = FireArowTip arrowFire FollowBone:Yes

End



;-----Bow-----

ModelConditionState = SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1 ;was  SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2

    Model = RURhrmArch_SKN

    WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY FIREAROWTIP

End



ModelConditionState = WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1

    Model = RURhrmArch_SKN

    WeaponLaunchBone = SECONDARY FIREAROWTIP

End



...



; Swapping to spear -----        

AnimationState = SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1  ;---- was SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_2

    StateName = State_PuttingBowAway

    Animation 

        AnimationName = RURhrmArch_SKL.RURhrmArch_WPNA ; putting bow away.

        AnimationMode = ONCE

        AnimationSpeedFactorRange = 0.5 0.6 ; Needs to match one second, approx.

    End

    ; Flags = START_FRAME_LAST

End



...



; Swapping to bow -----        

AnimationState    = SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1 WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1 ;---- added SWAPPING_TO_WEAPONSET_1

    StateName = State_PuttingSpearAway

    Animation

        AnimationName = RURohrm_SKL.RURohrm_WPNB ; putting spear away.

        AnimationMode = ONCE_BACKWARDS

        AnimationSpeedFactorRange = 0.5 0.7 ; Needs to match one second.

    End

    Flags = START_FRAME_LAST

End

So, that's it. :P

If somehow you find that this doesn't work for you, tell me.
I would also like to know if it actually DOES work for you, so please leave a comment if you use this. Thanks. :P

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Edit^1: I redone formatting.