New Weapons in Hawx

[Nightwolf]

I've had some limit success in getting new weapons to work on the player aircraft. Below I will post some screenshots of my progress thus far. I won't post it all, too many pics to show. I will provide a link back to where post it all if anyone wants to check it out or might be able to help me get further.

I think there are only 3 files that are restricting me from being able to get what I want done accomplished with adding the existing un-used models and make them work plus perhaps adding new weapons that aren't even in the game. Those files are:

Weapons.mdl

Weapons.mpack

WeaponsDescriptions.mpack

I know bburn made an extractor/recompiler for the entities.mdl and that's been a big help in creating new weapon packs as well as adding what weapons I have to the game. But I haven't been able to reach him here about making a similar program for the Weapons.mdl. If anyone has any programing skill and can make such a thing for any of these files, I would be most thankful. And I am sure I'd be able to get more done. Come so far and I still feel my hands are tied. Here are a few shots of things I've done.

Exocet AM39 Anti-Ship Missile launched from a Rafale C

AGM-84 Harpoons on a F/A-18E Super Hornet

GBU-32 JDAM (guided bomb) on a F/A-18C Hornet

There's more info and screenshots at the following link. Really want to get into those 3 files

http://www.hawxforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=...28&start=20

[Nightwolf]

I tried to renamed the weapons.mdl file "entities.mdl" and use bburn's extractor. By doing that I was able to take a closer look at the files inside. However, since the recompiler wasn't written with the weapons.mdl in mind, I wasn't able to recompile the file. And since the .mdl files do not work like the .pak files you cannot simply make a folder and put stuff in it to override the .mdl. Which means, even though you can get a closer look and make changes to them, you can't use them in the game still.

What I found in the weapons.mdl is the targeting and guidance systems for the weapons in Hawx. This would be useful in creating new weapons. Or even editing existing ones.

Sadly the same process cannot be used to look closer at the .mpack files. I tried.

[Nightwolf]

After extracting the .bin files from weapons.mdl and looking at the extractor/compiler, I began to watch the extractor closely, finding the number values needed to recompile the files.

I came up with this:

RadarGuidedMissile_old.bin,2091

BasicMissile_Wingman_old.bin,2821

ExocetMissile_DeathSt.bin,1089

RocketLauncherRocket.bin,1801

PROTO_EngagePlayer_lvl2_no_DMG.bin,4352

PROTO_EngagePlayer_DMG_AI.bin,140

MLRS_Rocket.bin,942

HeliMissile_DMG.bin,760

HeliMissile_DMG_old.bin,417

PROTO_EngagePlayer_lvl2.bin,4294

PROTO_EngagePlayer_lvl2_old.bin,4298

PROTO_EngagePlayer.bin,3771

FreeFallClusterBomb.bin,1352

Missile_AF1_Attacker_EngageAI.bin,2152

DecoyLarge.bin,79

SamMissile_Scene.bin,98

Multi-shotAGmissile.bin,1670

BasicMissile_AirBase_EngageAI_OLD.bin,2412

AgileMissile.bin,646

multi_BasicMissile_air.bin,738

ClusterBombProto.bin,1041

BasicMissileTurn.bin,2564

FreeFallBomb.bin,1260

BasicMissile_MP.bin,2786

AntiShipMissile.bin,340

StingerMissile_old.bin,2108

ALRAAM.bin,1031

FFAR.bin,1021

FFAR_old.bin,970

BasicMissileAC.bin,2137

BasicMissileRG.bin,48

Decoy.bin,794

ClusterMissile.bin,1303

MiniBomb.bin,1027

SamMissile.bin,783

HeliMissile.bin,447

Maverick.bin,3242

Multishot.bin,490

DummyRocket.bin,2746

BasicMissileAI.bin,1558

Test.bin,2097

SamMissileNC.bin,150

ClusterBomb.bin,1318

FreeFallBomb_old.bin,1011

BasicMissileAIStall.bin,1685

BasicMissile_AI_Scene.bin,168

BasicMissile_AI_Level2_.bin,1689

GroundBasicMissile.bin,1421

SamMissileLowEvasion.bin,793

BasicMissileMP.bin,842

StingerMissile.bin,1403

ExocetMissile.bin,1937

ExocetMissile_LR.bin,353

BunkerBuster.bin,337

SAM_Missile_Level1.bin,2110

BasicMissile_AI_Level1.bin,2079

BasicMissile_AI_Level2.bin,663

BasicMissile_AI_Level3.bin,657

BasicMissile.bin,2135

RadarGuidedMissile_MP.bin,803

BasicMissileJaguar.bin,914

SamMissile_lvl2.bin,292

SamMissile_lvl1.bin,2308

BasicMissile_AirBase_EngageAI.bin,2855

MissileSceneFighter.bin,164

FreeFallBomb_AI.bin,1040

BasicMissile_AirBase_EngageAI_clean.bin,2778

StingerMissile_Scene.bin,107

multi_BasicMissile_air_MP.bin,981

SamMissile_2.bin,93

SamMissile_lvl1_proto.bin,5735

Deathstar_MainMissile.bin,5641

SamMissile_Trajectory.bin,3710

ExocetMissile_KillAll2.bin,1946

AgileMissile_MP.bin,469

BasicMissile_AirBase_EngageAI_clean2.bin,2779

BasicMissile_Wingman.bin,2652

PROTO_EngagePlayer_DMG_AI2.bin,209

RadarGuidedMissile.bin,????

The "????" is the value I seem unable to obtain now. The extractor moves so fast I can't pause it fast enough to catch that last line.

I recompiled the file with what I knew and tried different values, just guessing for the RadarGuidedMissile.bin but can't figure out how to find it. Anyone know another way? When I slip the new weapons.mdl into the Common folder everything is fine except the Radar Guided Missile in single player. So I know it's due to an incorrect value with that file. If I can find or someone else knows how to get it another way, it could possibly be used on new weapons, or editing existing ones. Like maybe even getting the MultiAA to function more like the MultiAG only in the air.

[Rocky]

I wish I could help, I have no clue with this stuff though. You are making progress though, stick at it!

[Nightwolf]

Cool I found it finally. I only just started learning C++ and have no prior programming knowledge, other than 10 years of modding experience, but by using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition I was able to load bburn's extractor into it. Then was able to run the extractor and get the missing value since the process was slowed down.

I can't write any programs yet but hopefully progress continues. When its all done I plan to release a Mod with the unused weapons and more.

Now if only I can figure out a way to get into those annoying .mpack files