This guide will explain how to add enhanced healing to your Far Cry 2 game. This is a feature from Far Cry 3 where once you are out of healing syringes you can heal with one of the animations normally reserved for critical healing. To activate this you hold the heal button once you are out of syringes.
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Adding Enhanced First Aid to Far Cry 2
This guide will explain how to add enhanced healing to your Far Cry 2 game. This is a feature from Far Cry 3 where once you are out of healing syringes you can heal with one of the animations normally reserved for critical healing. To activate this you hold the heal button once you are out of syringes. I have a google docs version of this guide available here.
The attached files contain all of the changes described below but the guide explains how you can make them yourself.
Unpacking Files
The only commonly available mod unpacking/packing tools that will not cause crashes are found here: Moddb.com
This is a different set of tools than is listed elsewhere but the old method using bootstrap doesn't work for modern mods.
Download the mod tools and then follow these steps:
Unpacking worlds.fat/worlds.dat
- Find your “worlds.fat” and “worlds.dat” from your vanilla install within \Far Cry 2\Data_Win32\worlds\.
- Copy both files into your mod tools folder. Drag "worlds.fat" onto "Gibbed.Dunia.Unpack.exe". This will unpack the files and create a folder called "worlds_unpack" which contains all of the files.
Section 1 - Adding a new healing script
1. Find “main_avatar.gosm” within your “worlds_unpack” folder: \worlds_unpack\scripts\engine\objects\pawn\statemachine\.
2. Copy this file into the same directory within your “patch_unpack” folder: \patch_unpack\scripts\engine\objects\pawn\statemachine\.
3. Open “main_avatar.gosm” with notepad++ and find this section:
<State FullName="::Main Avatar/Common/Idle" Type="CGOStateAnim">
<Parameter Name="groups">
<Parameter Name="0" Value="Idle" />
<Parameter Name="1" Value="can_ironsight" />
</Parameter>
<Parameter Name="duration" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="signalpriorities" />
<Parameter Name="forceAnim" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="syncAnimDuration" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="animStateID" Value="Pawn_Generic_Movement" />
<Parameter Name="layerStateID" Value="Pawn_Generic_Aim" />
<Parameter Name="gestureStateID" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="followTerrain" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="MoveLayer" Value="-1" />
<Sink Name="Slide" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Main Avatar/Common/Slide/StartSliding" Signal="start_sliding" />
</Sink>
<Sink Name="random idle" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Main Avatar/Common/IdleCycleBreaker" Signal="cyclebreaker" />
</Sink>
</State>
4. Add the following lines anywhere in that section but I recommend at the bottom:
<Sink Name="enhanced first aid" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Healing/Healing/States/Entering Healing" Signal="enfirstaid" />
</Sink>
Your complete section should look like this:
<State FullName="::Main Avatar/Common/Idle" Type="CGOStateAnim">
<Parameter Name="groups">
<Parameter Name="0" Value="Idle" />
<Parameter Name="1" Value="can_ironsight" />
</Parameter>
<Parameter Name="duration" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="signalpriorities" />
<Parameter Name="forceAnim" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="syncAnimDuration" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="animStateID" Value="Pawn_Generic_Movement" />
<Parameter Name="layerStateID" Value="Pawn_Generic_Aim" />
<Parameter Name="gestureStateID" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="followTerrain" Value="0" />
<Parameter Name="MoveLayer" Value="-1" />
<Sink Name="Slide" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Main Avatar/Common/Slide/StartSliding" Signal="start_sliding" />
</Sink>
<Sink Name="random idle" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Main Avatar/Common/IdleCycleBreaker" Signal="cyclebreaker" />
</Sink>
<Sink Name="enhanced first aid" Start="0" End="100">
<Connection Target="::Healing/Healing/States/Entering Healing" Signal="enfirstaid" />
</Sink>
</State>
Section 2 - Adding the controls
1. Find “inputactionmapcommon.xml” in your “patch_unpack” folder: \patch_unpack\config\.
2. Open this in notepad++ and find the following section:
<!-- Gameplay controls action map -->
<ActionMap name="common_gameplay">
<Import actionmap="common_gameplay_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_use_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_heal_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_jump_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_crouch_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_grenade_remap" optional=""/>
<!--Keyboard-->
<Binding input="kb:space" action="press" signal="jump"/>
<Binding input="kb:c" action="press" signal="crouch"/>
<Binding input="kb:e" action="press" signal="use"/>
<Binding input="kb:h" action="press" signal="heal"/>
<Binding input="kb:q" action="press" signal="throw_grenade"/>
<Binding input="kb:f" action="press" signal="select_next_throw_gadget"/>
<!--Demo keys-->
<Binding input="kb:^" action="press" signal="start_rain_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:&" action="press" signal="stop_rain_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:*" action="press" signal="start_time_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:(" action="press" signal="start_storm_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:)" action="press" signal="stop_storm_demo" />
<!--Gamepad-->
<Binding input="pad:a" action="press" signal="jump"/>
<Binding input="pad:y" action="press" signal="use"/>
<Binding input="pad:b" action="press" signal="crouch"/>
<Binding input="pad:left_shoulder" action="press" signal="heal"/>
<Binding input="pad:right_shoulder" action="press" signal="throw_grenade"/>
<Binding input="pad:right_thumb_push" action="press" signal="select_next_throw_gadget"/>
</ActionMap>
3. We are going to add a line each to the keyboard and gamepad sections that says if we hold their respective heal buttons it will execute our healing script. These lines are:
<!--Keyboard-->
<Binding input="kb:h" action="hold" signal="enfirstaid"/>
<!--Gamepad-->
<Binding input="pad:left_shoulder" action="hold" signal="enfirstaid"/>
I have added the lines in the example below:
<!-- Gameplay controls action map -->
<ActionMap name="common_gameplay">
<Import actionmap="common_gameplay_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_use_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_heal_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_jump_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_crouch_remap" optional=""/>
<import actionmap="common_grenade_remap" optional=""/>
<!--Keyboard-->
<Binding input="kb:space" action="press" signal="jump"/>
<Binding input="kb:c" action="press" signal="crouch"/>
<Binding input="kb:e" action="press" signal="use"/>
<Binding input="kb:h" action="press" signal="heal"/>
<Binding input="kb:h" action="hold" signal="enfirstaid"/>
<Binding input="kb:q" action="press" signal="throw_grenade"/>
<Binding input="kb:f" action="press" signal="select_next_throw_gadget"/>
<!--Demo keys-->
<Binding input="kb:^" action="press" signal="start_rain_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:&" action="press" signal="stop_rain_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:*" action="press" signal="start_time_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:(" action="press" signal="start_storm_demo" />
<Binding input="kb:)" action="press" signal="stop_storm_demo" />
<!--Gamepad-->
<Binding input="pad:a" action="press" signal="jump"/>
<Binding input="pad:y" action="press" signal="use"/>
<Binding input="pad:b" action="press" signal="crouch"/>
<Binding input="pad:left_shoulder" action="press" signal="heal"/>
<Binding input="pad:left_shoulder" action="hold" signal="enfirstaid"/>
<Binding input="pad:right_shoulder" action="press" signal="throw_grenade"/>
<Binding input="pad:right_thumb_push" action="press" signal="select_next_throw_gadget"/>
</ActionMap>
And that’s it! Don’t forget that you need to hold the heal button once you’re out of syringes.
Packing Files
1. Drag your "patch_unpack" folder over "Gibbed.Dunia.Pack.exe" and this will create "patch_unpack.dat" and "patch_unpack.fat". Copy these and go to your Data_Win32 folder (Steam\steamapps\common\Far Cry 2\Data_Win32). Delete your original "patch.dat" and "patch.fat", paste your copied files in and rename them to the same.
Well documented! Thanks.
Nice!