An Almost Complete Guide to Far Cry 2 Modding file - Far Cry 2: Detailed & Colourful Weapon Icons mod for Far Cry 2

That's a really cool idea and is definitely beyond the scope of the guide. I called it "almost" complete though because there's so much more that I'm sure it possible but hasn't been discovered. At the very least the guide can help point you to the files that might contain what you're looking for.

Your main difficulty with your suggested project is what you mean by undead. It's not possible to add new animations, you can just swap around those that are already there. What were you thinking of by undead?

I've never tried removing all missions but I bet that could be done without too much trouble.

I believe you're right and those in gamemodesconfig are those shown in the menu, I haven't tested it though. I'm 100% sure they don't influence actual weapon performance though, you'll need to do the steps in the guide for that.

The hitlocations stuff changes the damage you do to enemies, I'll make that clearer in the guide.

I found the exact same thing annoying, so in my mod I doubled headshot damage and it felt a lot better. It also offset the enemies being a bit bullet spongey when a single headshot put them down.

Are you using patch files from the default game or are you using a mod's patch files? Because a mod might have changed that. If you're using the default files then I guess that's how it is! Although make sure you're looking at the singeplayer weapon version

Ah yes, you need to replace the default weapon properties file with the one you extracted from worlds/tmpla/generated. Eventually I'll include a set of patch files that includes all of the necessary files

The purpose of the original file in patch_unpack/generated is for the official patches. So they were only patching the multiplayer weapons. The version in worlds/tmpla/generated is effectively the file they were patching, so it makes sense it includes everything.

Yeh you can replace it no problem, give it the same title and you're good to go. There are other examples that are the same, like weapons.xml and vehicles.xml.

No I've never noticed that! I only saw that screen for the first time recently though, even though I've played this game for years. So I would never have noticed any bugs. I doubt it effects weapon performance though, that would be much easier to notice.

Yeh it sounds weird and I don't know where you'd start trying to fix that!

Hi I think I've just replied to you in the modding discord.

I've never notice before that the machete doesn't cut vegetation so I have no idea if that's possible or not. I like your train of thought about masking it a short ranged projectile but as you say maybe that will break slash marks. I suggest looking into the different impact types and seeing what can be done. They can be hard to do anything with, I've tried a lot to make grenades break windows but could never get it to work.

And what do you mean my independent holster mod? The files attached to the guide or my old holster toolkit? I'll have a look and update them, I have some updates for the holstering method to add too. Thanks for pointing it out!

Hmm that is quite the puzzle... You've done the right thing by removing things one at a time and you should keep going! My thought is whether an entirely vanilla entitylibrarypatchoverride.fcb makes it crash. I've been in similar situations before, it's a pain in the *** and you'll probably have to redo a file or two but something is making it crash and you will be able to find it. Also are you using the tools included in the guide? Some older tools don't pack properly and cause crashes like you describe

Font would be difficult because they're stored in an image form with the letters randomly spread across one image. So technically possible but limited and challenging.

Language on the other hand would be a lot of work but not difficult. All the text is easily unpacked into text documents that can be edited with notepad++. There are a whole load of lines but you could replace an existing language with whatver you want.

On my end it looks different, I have the full \graphics\actors\anonymous_merc\ file path but that gets wiped and squashed into the 'xbg' folder once it's packed and repacked.

To describe how this works, let's start in \patch_unpack\ui\localized\pcwidescreen\eng\ui\sp_avatar.mgb.desc. This file lists the entries in the player select screen, and if we create a new entry then the game gets confused and uses the default playable character entry which is the first listed entry within xx_player.xml in the unpacked entitylibrarypatchoverride.fcb, which is normally called 'MainCharacter.PawnPlayer'.

We can make the changes required to 'MainCharacter.PawnPlayer':

The name shown in the save/load menu is scraped from the name of this entry, where as I changed it to 'MainCharacter.PawnPlayer.Anonymous_Mercenary' it takes the word between the second '.' and the '_', so the menu says 'Anonymous'.

For the actual player cosmetics I copied over the visual elements of an enemy mercenary from 'xx_enemy_archetypes.xml' and did some edits to remove any facial features, hats and scarves as then these models are used in first person the camera would be behind all these details. I also had to remove all the topless features as with the head skin removed the body was invisible, as while shirtless the torso and head were the same piece.

Once that was done I took 'merc_kit.xbg' from \worlds_unpack\graphics\characters\mercenaries\ and edited it to remove the same elements removed in the previous step. That's the 'anonymous_merc.xbg' which you've seen.

With all that lined up the Anonymous Mercenary works. It's hard to type all the details but if I can help further please let me know.

If you're able to select Anonymous Mercenary in the player select screen but still spawning as Warren Clyde then something is wrong with your 25_player.xml file. Make sure the correct file is there and that you've repacked entitylibrarypatchoverride.fcb and overwritten the original in the patch.