So I took the time to figure out why PPTXT is refusing to add the lines... here's why.
The amount of lines in the file is predetermined from the header of the text file. PPTXT won't edit it, and makes sure that the amount of lines is the same. So PPTXT can't directly add or remove lines.
However, I was able to think up a little trick to change the amount of lines a given file has:
- Create a backup copy of the text script narc, dubbed "dummy".
- Extract all a/0/0/3 text files into a folder.
- Open up the dummy narc file in PPTXT, find the text file you have to edit, then determine how many new lines you have to add.
- Close PPTXT
- Open the individual text file (from step 2) in HxD or hex viewer, and look at 0x2. That's how many lines are currently programmed into that file.
- Current Lines Lines + New Lines Required = Total Lines
- Find a Text File with 0x2 == Total Lines Required
- Open the dummy narc in HxD and search hex "01 00 XX 00", where XX is for how many lines you want (in hex) -- you'll find it right after encrypted hex not in the middle of other similar hex.
- That is the start of a given text file; open kiwids with the dummy narc and find what file has that region of data...
- Make a copy of this text file that has the total lines required (files from step 2)
- Delete the textfile you want to expand, and rename the copy from the above step to effectively replace the deleted file.
- kiwids make a new narc of all the text files
- Open new narc with PPTXT, go to the textfile that you originally intended to edit.
- In another PPTXT window (run 2 copies), open original narc with PPTXT, go to the textfile that you originally intended to edit.
- Restore the dummy narc with the text from the original; you will be left with extra lines of text from the copied textfile.
- The remaining lines of text are yours to edit!
- Dummy narc becomes the actual narc with the extended lines!!!
with this you essentially copy other textfiles with bigger linecounts. copypaste restore the original text back and do whatever with the remaining lines, new lines to play with!
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Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 13th, 2012 at 11:11 PM.
k so the daycare has 0xA-0xB = 0x163, which corresponds to text file 355.
The first four bytes of this text file are [01 00 01 00], which means there is one line of text script for the one roughneck NPC -- I'm sure you already know this!
We need to add 8 lines to the text file in addition to the 1 pre-existing line... so we need a 9 long text file! Search the narc for [01 00 09 00]...
The first text file with 9 lines is file 31; so we copy it, make it the new 355, and then restore the old 355 text line that it had to restore compatibility. Here's the new text file for 355 if you want to rebuild the narc with this one and test it out.
sparse list of map -> location (~26%, major locations)
Code:0 White Forest 1 Black City -- 6 Striaton City 28 Castelia City 36 Castelia Left Pier (victini) 37 Castelia Leftmid Pier 38 Castelia Mid Pier 62 Nimbasa City 63 Nimbasa Gym 64 Outside Ferris Wheel 65 Nimbasa Pokecenter 66 Gear Station 67 Single Line (regular) 68 Super Single Line 69 Double Line (regular) 70 Super Double 71 Multi 72 Super Multi 73 WiFi Train 74 Train to Anville 77 Musical Building 79 Big Staduim Lobby 80 Big Stadium Bleachers 82 Big Stadium Field 84 Small Stadium Lobby 85 Small Stadium Bleachers 87 Small Stadium Field 88 House where Guy gives strength HM 91 Route Link Left from Nimbasa 92 Route Link Right from Nimbasa 93 Battle Institute 94 House next to guy who gives STR 96 Driftveil Town 97 Driftveil Town B1F++ 98 Driftveil Gym Ground Floor 99 Driftveil Pokecenter 100 Driftveil House (2nd right above with patrat) 101 Driftveil House (right above) 102 Driftveil House (2nd right) 103 Driftveil House (rightmost) 104 Driftveil Advice House (town hall?) 105 Driftveil Market 106 Driftveil House (left above) 107 Mistralton City 109 Mistralton Pokecenter 120 Opelucid City 136 Pokemon League 152 Dreamyard 154 Pinwheel Forest 157 Desert Resort 158 Desert Resort Deep 159 Desert Resort Route Link 160 Relic Castle 1F 191 Cold Storage (South Driftveil) 192 Cold Storage Interior 193 Cold Storage Crate (sage) 194 Chargestone Cave Exterior 195 Chargestone Cave Interior (1F) 198 Twist Mountain 205 Dragonspiral Tower 214 Victory Road 230 Giant Chasm 235 Liberty Garden 236 Victini Outer Chamber 237 Victini Inner Chamber 238 P2 Lab 240 Undella Bay 249 Skyarrow Bridge 253 Driftveil Drawbridge 255 Village Bridge 263 Marvelous Bridge 279 Entralink 317 Route 1 319 Route 2 321 Route 3 323 Inside the Daycare 324 Wellspring Cave 326 Route 4 329 Route 5 330 Route 5 Motor Home (ingredient) 331 Route 6 332 Season Research Lab 333 Mistralton Cave 336 Route 6 Rest House 337 Route 7 352 Challenger's Cave 355 Route 10 365 Route 11 368 Route 12 370 Route 13 374 Route 14 375 Route Link above White Forest 376 Abundant Shrine 378 Route 15 379 Route Link Left White Forest 380 Marvelous Bridge Route Link to Route 15 381 Poketransfer Place 382 Motor Home on Route 15 (Rotom Ditto Trade) 383 Route 16 384 Marvelous Bridge Route Link to Route 16 385 Lostlorn Forest 386 Lostlorn Forest Motor Home (Zoroark Event) 387 Route 18 389 Numeva Town 397 Accumula Town 406 Lacunosa Town 412 Undella Town 418 Anville Town 419 Middle House in Anville 420 Bottom Left house in Anville 421 Bottom Right house in Anville (lost item guy) 423 Route 17 425 White Forest Pokecenter 426 White Forest House
I don't have enough time at the moment, but I just wanted to thank you all for all the work. =)
Thank you so much!!!
Also, thank you too, @Bond697, however PPTXT didn't allow me to add new lines, though Kaphotics seems to have a solution. I will try it out tomorrow.
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Lostlorn Forest -- Inside the Motor Home, not the Zoroark Script. Trying to figure out more structure of scripts
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Now that I kind of know scripts a little better, going to mod certain ones:Code:02 00 00 00 (Header) 13 FD (START Scripts) 2E 00 (Script Start) A6 00 (Start NPC Interaction) 47 05 (Play Sound, 0547) 74 00 (Turn NPC to face Player)? 3D 00 (Open White Text Dialog with)~couldnt get 3C to do anything.. 00 04 (Text Line)~ 00 00 (0) 00 00 (Screen Anchor Bitflag) 00 00 (Special Textbox Flag) 32 00 (WaitForInput) 3E 00 (WindowClose?) 30 00 (DoInstantly) 2F 00 (RestorePlayersAbilitytoMove) 02 00 (End Script) 00 00 (nothing)
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A6 set to anything else makes the NPC not interact with you, the script goes off but nothing happens. This means that this is the "Start NPC Interaction" line.
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0547 -> 0546 == soundless textbox pops up, changing it to 48 makes it play a different clonk sound, 49 makes it bzzbep etc
So this part determines what sound is played for the textbox
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Screen Anchoring of text message:
00 00 displays it where the player isnt (so the interaction between NPC and player is shown)
01 00 always has it anchored to the top
02 00 always has it anchored to the bottom
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Textbox Flag
00 00 has the default chat bubble
01 00 plays the !!! jagged edge sound and window border, imagine Belle's father.
02 xx is broken
Essentially these are just bitflags that cause something else to happen for the displayed text. Regardless of start sound, the game plays the jagged box sound instead.
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32 means wait for input (AB) to proceed
31->2E & 33 is close ASAP without input (there might be a slight variation in text speed)
34++ breaks
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30 is do instantly. Right after 2F looks like it restores player input for movement.
So long as the script doesn't call the game to hang, the 02 00 at the end restores movement so I really couldn't figure out what the ending hexes signified
Here's a little demo of the special textbox editing. For now it's simple hacks
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 14th, 2012 at 08:02 PM.
Still looking at script structures, namely the headers this time.
As we already know, there's data before 0xFD13. But what does it mean? It's the offset pointers for each script.
Here's an example image -- first portion being for the above post (with only one script for one NPC on the map).
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As you can see, the NPC scriptstart pointer is 0x00000002, which means "2 bytes after this position, my script starts".
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For the latter 3 examples, we have 3 NPCs in the Rest Home @ Route 6.
Script0 has a value of 0x0000000A, and the image confirms this is where the script starts (with 2E 00)
Script1 has a value of 0x00000091, and the image confirms this is where the script starts (...)
Script2 has a value of 0x00000022, and .....
As you can see, when adding new scripts to the script file, you have to insert the offset distance to it correctly!
edit:
make sure the script file is padded correctly at the end such that
(amount of data after pointers)%4 = 0, pad with 00 as necessary..... (this would include FD13 and all following data in the total amount)
basically just ensure that the file has n amount of dwords.
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pretty much that's it for 'hacking' the scripts and overworlds, all that's left is to pound out the rest of the script functions (like above post) and have tools
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 16th, 2012 at 04:55 AM.
more scripting adventures; this time: warping
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other commands functions I've finally nailed down:
After recording that video, I realized I forgot to clear the text from the screen. So, I added that line right before the warp script after the 0030... so the proper ending part of her script wasCode:2F 00 - clear dialog box
======Code:0030 - do instant 002F - clear dialog 00C2 - warpto with fadetoblack (64 bits following with conditions m,x,y,f) 0078 - map 01A9 - x coord 00AE - y coord 0000 - facedirection (0 up, 1 down, 2 left, 3 right) 0002 - end
I looked at other scripts and there's some that determine the variables for the displayed text. The Rotom for Ditto trade has this:
edit: some more instructions similar to the warp command, haven't bothered figuring out the condition structure after the instruction though:Code:57 00 01 DF 01 Trade Recieve Rotom -- TextVar1 = Rotom 57 00 00 84 00 Trade Give Ditto -- TextVar0 = Ditto thus, 0057 xx YYYY is the structure of this function 0057 - get-text pokedex(i) 01 - text variable number 01DF - i ~ pokemon hex This makes it display what Pokemon the person wants to trade.
Code:C1 SandPit Falling (directionals?)->position C2 WarpTo M,X,Y,Face (auto level) With FadeToblack/Sound C3 WarpTo Union Room C4 WarpTo MXYZ,Face No FadeToBlack/Sound change C5 Start Surfing? C6 Gooey Directional? (Bug Gym) C7 Cut Animation and Subsequent text? C8 Warp Out animation.... maybe the undersea "out of breath"?
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 15th, 2012 at 03:34 PM.
so many post bumps, but hey im doin shit
Getting into more custom stuff:
Modified zonedata to change the battlepads and allowing the bike on the map
Modified overworld to change the NPC sprite to Mew
Modified script to trigger encounter with a level 10 Mew
Didn't bother trying to change the playsound to mew's cry, rather not waste time searching for that hex... additionally didn't bother changing the text as it's trivial
Code:002F - close text 0178 - proc battle 0097 - pokemon # 000A - level 8021 - I have no idea what this shit is but it makes the overworld pop back up after the battle 017B - it also removes the NPC from the map 8010 - since the NPC spawn doesn't depend on any flags, the NPC will re-appear when the map is refreshed. 0009 - taken from musharna's spawn, maybe each map has its own set of flags which can disable events? 8010 0008 0001 0011 0001 001F FF 0010 0000 006C - this might be the flag setting to prevent re-spawning 0000 0023 02EC 0179 0002 - originally 001E, changing to 0002 gave player control back asap 0002 - end
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 15th, 2012 at 11:33 PM.
Teleportation script
BE - Soundless Map Change (no animation, just fade to black and to new position)Code:2E 00 - Start Interaction Script .. other data BF 00 - Warp (spinning upwards, fade, spinning downwards, land) MXYF 89 00 - M 1F 00 - X 30 00 - Y 00 00 - Face 30 00 - Do Instant 2F 00 - Close Crap 02 00 - End
C0 - Door exit sound warp, might use stored variables for positions (doesn't MXYF)
After checking the DPP scripting wiki, I noticed that most of BW's are in the same relative order as DPPHS's format. Of course there are new/deleted commands & parameters, but it's a good resource to get a general idea of what a particular command does.
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 16th, 2012 at 03:49 AM.
0085 xxxx yyyy ???? - opponent0, opponent1, ????
0086 xxxx yyyy zzzz ???? - ally, opponent0, opponent1, ????
No idea what ???? is for.
Code:some script commands with some sense so far 0000 nop 0001 nop1 0002 -- 000C XXXX XXXX 0012 xxxx 001A xxxx 001E XXXXXXXX 002F - 0030 - doinstant 0032 - waitbuttonthen 003C 0400 xxxx yyyy zzzz aaaa textA 003D 0400 xxxx yyyy zzzz textB 003E - 003F - 0046 xx xx 0049 textC 004C xx 0057 xx XXXX Text Variables 0085 xxxx xxxx zzzz start 1v# battle with ???? 0086 yyyy xxxx xxxx zzzz start 2v# battle with ???? 0098 xxxx PlayBGM 00BE mmmm xxxx yyyy ffff f2b mapchange nosound 00BF mmmm xxxx yyyy ffff spinwarp 00C0 soundless variable door warp 00C1 sandpit 00C2 mmmm xxxx yyyy ffff f2b mapchange with sound 00C3 goto union 00C4 instant change, bad 00C5 play surf anim 00C6 gooey push 00C7 play cut anim 0178 dddd ll wildencounter dex level
Last edited by Kaphotics; Jun 18th, 2012 at 08:29 PM.
I can provide a little insight on that last one...
0085 xxxx yyyy ???? - opponent0, opponent1, ????
0086 xxxx yyyy zzzz ???? - ally, opponent0, opponent1, ????
The ??? is what decides whether the battle is a loss if you die iirc. If it's set to 0 then it plays out normally, if it's 1 then even if you lose the game continues on as if you won. It's something to that effect in HG/SS so I assume it works the same way.
But much thanks for looking into this, it's very nice to see some scripting progress finally! The structure does look very similar to 4th gen indeed.
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