New WC Toolbox Release Adds WC2 & Academy Support
UnnamedCharacter is back with an awesome upgrade to his WC Toolbox application. The program allows aspiring modders unprecedented ease of access to play around with and tweak some of the core elements of the original Wing Commander games. Previous versions have allowed for ship editing, revision of the in-game text, new copy protection questions and more! Today's update is a sizable rewrite that will enable greater flexibility for future upgrades. It also provides initial support for WC2 and Academy. The screenshots below show how some of the hot spot verbiage can be tweaked. Some of the editing process may be challenging to those with no prior coding experience, so please work with your fellow Wingnuts to learn the ins and outs as necessary. You can grab the program at the CIC Forums here.
Work on the toolbox has continued and this release has substantial changes. There are major API/XML changes, resulting in breaking backward compatibility. The code base has been refactored making it easier and quicker to add support for new file types.The ability to edit strings in the WC1 executable has finally been added; only a few strings are supported at the moment. For this release I was more concerned with getting the functionality in place and will tackle the tedious work of finding additional string pointers in the future. This release also begins support for WC2 and WCAcademy; only a few file types at the moment: COMM, DIFFLEVL, INTELSHP, PALETTE, SPEECH, WAVEINFO, etc.
This will most likely be the only update for this year; Merry Christmas everyone.
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