Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater Windows game

What DirectX does this game use? 7 or 8? I wish Reshade worked, at least it works in Line of Sight Vietnam.

Hey, does anyone know where I can find some discord groups or forums of active Deadly Dozen 2 players and modders?

Give me Map Editor for the First Deadly Dozen

still we need to extend render range of the grass, maybe via cheatengine or something to null out the function and or turn off lod calculation for grass and geometry maybe !

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extending weather render like say the rain particles seems to be working ok by editing .wfx and duble the rage and count

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how to add custom grass on new maps@tiles ?

seems to be some file with odd numbers and the name of the grass in a somehow order where the tiles are but its strange and needs some testing

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how to add map when pressing M on new maps ?

looks like you have to make a tga 24bit same size like the map say 256x256 or export the terrain map witch is the height map from lvl editor from file and esxport terrain map and save it in the GameData\Maps.za with same name as the map name

you can even edit the image with more fancy collors and buildings and stuff and ifo then save it to that path location

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paths for ai to follow ?

well looks simple for now
if a soldier haves a position of say 1,1,1 and you want to make him go to 50,1,50 you create the .pth file with the same name as the map and in the same location and use this formula for now like the one used in area2.pth

file start
1,3,1
50,3,5,0,0,0,0,0
*

file end
keep an empty row after *

i have seen the devs used to add +2 for the middle number which is the height so here its 3 compared to where the soldier is at 1, so maybe rise that path points by 2 is to make sure the ai will not fall trough the map by a hill or something so keep that in mind if you have hills you may want to rise the path point more or add more close to the next one

so now the soldier will walk from 1,1,1 to 50,1,50 then back to 1,1,1
if the starting path point is equal or very close to a soldier then that soldier will follow it automatically in game

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if you want to make a new map

say a map of 256x256 in size then after creation of the flat terrain you then maybe for sure want to manipulate it so using the terrain tool brush is not easy but you can import a .tga 24 bit black and white same size as the map 256x256 image, black is low say 0 height and white is 255 height
maybe google maps is a good idea for a realistic height map if you know how to extract the height map from real maps
meh playing with it is fun, i used a cloud photo and made it black an white and seems to make nice hills

I love playing with hex. My favorite hex editor is HxD. You can find it here: Mh-nexus.de

If you decide to download it and try it out you should open up your DDozen2.exe game executable. Then, on the toolbar at the top click Search, then Find. Switch the Datatype to Hex-values then copy the following hex values and paste them into the 'search for' tab:

85 C0 74 06 43 83 FB 1A 7C 8A 83 FB 1A 6A 00 75

Click OK. Now left-click and highlight ONLY the 75 at the end there. With it still highlighted, right-click on it and in the context menu choose 'fill selection' and enter 74 then click OK. Now on the toolbar at the top, click File then Save.

Congratulations! You no longer need to have the DDozen 2 disc in your CD drive to play the game and it can remain safely tucked away in that old shoe box in the closet. This works for both v220 and v235 game versions.

Enjoy!

What I mentioned in the Toolkit Readme about having to use the same textures when using .z3d files from the the first Deadly Dozen may not be entirely true(I successfully altered the texture name assigned to a DD2 .gr2 model this morning). This means it's possible create a completely new object by coping an existing game model and retexture it without also replacing the texture assigned to the original object you copied.

I plan to write tutorial covering this and other DD2 modding topics in the coming weeks.