Switching Captain's Cabins?

Brenda · Jun 11, 2007

One of the coolest features of the Builds is the ability to go in the Captain's Cabin and love all the different ones. Of course, I have my favorites which is why this thread. Now that I have Build13 Update3, before I start a new game, I was wondering if one of the wonderful modders here could help me switch the different cabins around?

If it is not too hard, I would like to put the one with the "head" in the frigate with red on black and I would like to put the one taken from Age of Pirates* in one of the 1st or 2nd rate ships. (*The cabin where the stern windows look out to a small deck and there is a globe in the starboard corner near the desk.)

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konradk · Jun 11, 2007

Hi.

First I must tell that cabin for the ship is taken by going from refShip.AbordageLocation in PROGRAM\Ships\Ships_init.c for a given ship until reaching final deck (which usually is one of the cabins). For example, for the ship <i>frigate3</i> (which is red-black frigate you mentioned, I think), that line is as follows:

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>refShip.AbordageLocation = "BOARDING_CORVETTE";</div>

Now, if you check location with id of "BOARDING_CORVETE" in PROGRAM\Locations\init\boarding.c, you should notice that the last line, defining which deck to go after that one when boarding, looks like this:

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "NEXT1_CORVETTE";</div>

The deck "NEXT1_CORVETTE" will have reference to "NEXT2_CORVETTE", and that one will lead to "Boarding_Cabin2". If we change that reference from "NEXT2_CORVETTE" from

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "Boarding_Cabin2";</div>

to, for example:

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "Boarding_Cabin3";</div>

This way we would change final cabin for all ships with "BOARDING_CORVETTE" set as AbordageLocation. However, that's not a case, as we want only to change cabin for that particular ship.

I propose to do following:
1. In file PROGRAM\Ships\Ships_init.c find part of code with definition of frigate3 (I skiped less important parts of code using [...] symbol):

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Frigate PIRATE from A&M
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // PS -->
    makeref(refShip,ShipsTypes[n]);
    n++;
    // PS <-- makeref(refShip,ShipsTypes[SHIP_FRIGATE_PIRATE+21]);
    refShip.Name            = "Frigate3";
    refShip.All                = "Frigate2"; // PS
    //PRS3 - refShip.Nation            = PIRATE;
    refShip.id                = refShip.Name;
    [...]
    refShip.AbordageLocation = "BOARDING_CORVETTE";
    [...]</div>

Then, change that bold line to following:

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>refShip.AbordageLocation = "BOARDING_FRIGATE3";</div>

2. Add following code to file PROGRAM\Locations\init\boarding.c, for example, after lines

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>    // -------------------------------------------------
    // -------------------------------------------------
    // ------------------------------------------2 class</div>

<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>    //ID
    Locations[n].id = "BOARDING_FRIGATE3";
    locations[n].id.label = "Boarding deck";
    //Info
    Locations[n].filespath.models = "locations\decks\udeck2";
    Locations[n].image = "Boarding.tga";
    //Sound
    locations[n].type = "deck";
    Locations[n].lockCamAngle = 0.4;

    //Models
    //Always
    Locations[n].models.always.locators = "udeck_l";
    Locations[n].models.always.l1 = "udeck";
    //Day
    Locations[n].models.day.charactersPatch = "udeck_p";
    //Night
    Locations[n].models.night.charactersPatch = "udeck_p";
    //Environment
    Locations[n].environment.weather = "true";
    Locations[n].environment.sea = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "NEXT1_FRIGATE3";

    n = n + 1;

    //ID
    Locations[n].id = "NEXT1_FRIGATE3";
    Locations[n].id.label = "Boarding deck";
    //Info
    Locations[n].filespath.models = "locations\decks\deck1";
    Locations[n].image = "Deck_01.tga";
    //Sound
    Locations[n].type = "deck";

    //Models
    //Always
    Locations[n].models.always.locators = "deck1_l";
    Locations[n].models.always.l1 = "deck1";
    //Day
    Locations[n].models.day.charactersPatch = "deck1_p";
    Locations[n].models.day.fonar = "deck1_fd";
    //Night
    Locations[n].models.night.charactersPatch = "deck1_p";
    Locations[n].models.night.fonar = "deck1_fn";
    //Environment
    Locations[n].environment.weather = "true";
    Locations[n].environment.sea = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "NEXT2_FRIGATE3";

    n = n + 1;

    //ID
    Locations[n].id = "NEXT2_FRIGATE3";
    Locations[n].id.label = "Boarding deck";
    //Info
    Locations[n].filespath.models = "locations\decks\deck2";
    Locations[n].image = "Deck_02.tga";
    //Sound
    Locations[n].type = "deck";

    //Models
    //Always
    Locations[n].models.always.locators = "deck2_l";
    Locations[n].models.always.l1 = "deck2";
    //Day
    Locations[n].models.day.charactersPatch = "deck2_p";
    Locations[n].models.day.fonar = "deck2_fd";
    //Night
    Locations[n].models.night.charactersPatch = "deck2_p";
    Locations[n].models.night.fonar = "deck2_fn";
    //Environment
    Locations[n].environment.weather = "true";
    Locations[n].environment.sea = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding = "true";
    Locations[n].boarding.nextdeck = "<cabin_id>";

    n = n + 1;</div>

where <cabin_id> should be replaced with one of following: Boarding_Cabin_small, Boarding_Cabin_medium, Boarding_Cabin1 or Boarding_Cabin3 (I'm sorry, I didn't understand which cabin is with "head". Boarding_Cabin_small is, as name implies, small one with two cannons on stern, Boarding_Cabin_medium is that with desk in corridor and fleut model on desk serving as weaponslocker, Boarding_Cabin1 is stock PotC where Malcolm talks with main character at the start of the game, and Boarding_Cabin3 is second cabin "borrowed" from AoP (the current setting, Boarding_Cabin2, is also cabin from AoP).

3. Reintialize or (better) start a new game and check if that works. If not, leave here a note and I'll make necessary changes for you (I'm sorry I didn't do that now, but I don't have your version of PotC).

I hope this helps.

pirate_kk

Brenda · Jun 12, 2007

Thanks Pirate_KK, this looks like exactly what I wanted. Give me a couple days to try it, then I will report back to let you know how it went. Of course, if I have problems, I will be back sooner.

I'm sorry, "head" is the nautical term for bathroom, so the one I was referring to is Cabin_ medium and the other one would be Cabin_3. And yes, Frigate3 is the one with Red on Black, but I have not decided yet which 1st or 2nd rate ship I want to modify. Kind of leaning toward the Warship, but I have not seen them all.

Switching Captain's Cabins?

Brenda

Landlubber

konradk

Privateer

Brenda

Landlubber