Wasteland 2: now with improved modding capabilities!

[lexo1000]

Hey,
1 : Sound in main menu work fine now.
2 : Attributes and skills tooltips are ok. I talked about derived stats like Chance to Evade, Combat speed etc. Tried with vanilla CSharp and tooltips doesn't show up also. So I was wondering if it was possible to add tooltips with modifiers for these Derived stats (simple QoL update but if it is too complicated, forget it
3 : great thanks

[lexo1000]

Please could you also fix the ambush icon position? : https://imgur.com/a/oechGfl

[Executor_]

Taking a bit longer than expected to add the extra tooltips as it requires backporting a bunch of code from 0.9.5. While working on that, I noticed a bug with the Attribute tooltips, wherein multiple Attributes would claim the same actionPoint on the tooltips if they were partially contributing to it. Strength, Intelligence, and Speed all give 0.25 actionPoints per Attribute point and that's causing issues.

[Executor_]

0.9.4zx now available here

BASE GAME BUG FIXES

• previously saved speaker settings were not being loaded on game start

UPDATED GAME BUG FIXES

• the tooltips for Strength, Speed, and Intelligence were sometimes incorrectly reporting how many actionPoints they were contributing

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• added additional tooltips on the character screen
• clown costume worn by PCs with the Raised in the Circus quirk can now be disabled by going to the Modding section in the Options screen

Please could you also fix the ambush icon position? : https://imgur.com/a/oechGfl

That'll take a bit of work to resolve. I need to experiment with various possible fixes.

[lexo1000]

These new tooltips are great thanks !

I know that other Unity games offer a render scale option which allows to remove jagged edges. Do you think it would be possible to implement this kind of setting in Wasteland 2?

An other suggestion is about item weight display. Could you make the tooltip when hovering the cursor on an item show total weight when many of them are stacked and not only the weight for one? And keep standard weight in item description window (the window that open when double click on it)

Thanks in advance

[Executor_]

I know that other Unity games offer a render scale option which allows to remove jagged edges. Do you think it would be possible to implement this kind of setting in Wasteland 2?

Haven't seen anything like that. The in-game anti-aliasing setting doesn't seem to do anything.

You could use supersampling enabled via your video card driver. For Nvidia, go into their Control Panel --> Manage 3D settings --> Global Settings. Check off 4.00x in DSR Factors and set DSR Smoothness to 0%. AMD has something similar. Then start the game and in the Display options, select the newly available resolution that's 4x the pixels of your native resolution, ie. if you're running normally at 1080p, 4K will now be possible. If you're on 4K, pick 8K, etc. The game will be rendering at a much higher resolution then downsampling which is the best way of dealing with aliasing. As long as you have a decent video card, the game isn't very stressful on the GPU, and I haven't seen any performance problems with running the game at 8K.

An other suggestion is about item weight display. Could you make the tooltip when hovering the cursor on an item show total weight when many of them are stacked and not only the weight for one? And keep standard weight in item description window (the window that open when double click on it)

Right now, the tooltip is already showing the total stack weight on the tooltip. But I can change the description window when you right-click on an item to show the per item weight.

[lexo1000]

Unfortunately, DSR doesn't work in this game (same for all Unity engine based games in fact). You can select an higher resolution in option menu but the game keep the native resolution so no change at all. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/d ... y-3d/44248

Right now, the tooltip is already showing the total stack weight on the tooltip. But I can change the description window when you right-click on an item to show the per item weight.

Yes that's what I meant

[alex33783378]

Hello! Tell me, please, I want to increase all NPCs HP by two times, I was prompted to put in the maxHitpoints.mson file like this: initialValues: [

{
when: [Situation.NPC]
tooltipId: ""

subset: [Situation.Always]
operation: Operation.Multiply
value: 2.0
}
]
And HP has indeed doubled. But there is a problem, I go to a new location for all NPCs, HP has doubled, I save the game, I leave the game and I go back to load the save game, and all NPCs have health reduced by half again, but only half of the maximum health is shown, for example: 540 HP out of 1080 or 150 HP out of 300 And so all the NPCs have a problem?

[Executor_]

0.9.4zy now available here

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• weight displayed will be for a single unit on the popup screen when you right-click on an item

MODDING

• changing NPC maxHitpoints will now properly function; before, current hp was being capped at the default hp total during map loading

[alex33783378]

Thanks! Works

[Citizen_P]

There does not seem to be a way to save both the ag center and Highpool using the mod toggle and have the quest log update correctly: you are instead able to install both transmitters at both locations and the fail trigger is never applied after the first is installed, halting the main quest. You have both positive results pending the failure of the other in your quest log; Rangers in the citadel acknowledge both victories. I've played through twice, the first I went wandering to the Prison (found the icon, not because I was pointed) and the brig related NPC was not present; on the second attempt I completed the AG center and returned to the Citadel to see if the dialogue would trigger, but it didn't.

[Executor_]

0.9.4zz now available here

Make sure to also download the Localization.zip as it has been updated and extract the contents into your "...\Wasteland 2 Director's Cut\Build\WL2_Data\StreamingAssets\Localization\" folder. Thanks lexo1000 for the help with the French translation!

FEATURES

• added supersampling antialiasing (SSAA) to the game, available in the Display Options
  • will internally render at twice the resolution width and height before downsampling for output, producing much better image quality than other forms of antialiasing
  • no blurriness like with FXAA
  • particularly effective at lower resolutions like 1080p
  • much more GPU-intensive as four times the pixels need to be generated, ie. 1080p --> 4K, 4K --> 8K
  • UI not affected, still need to figure out how to get that working
  • screenshot comparisons at 1080p (zoom in to see the actual differences):
    • no AA: https://imgur.com/a/pvFgH9z
    • FXAA (game default): https://imgur.com/a/xUER4Sc
    • SSAA: https://imgur.com/a/4yYJyl7
• completely rewrote code for overhead health bar and icons, should now remain a more consistent distance above a character's head, and icons (such as the merchant indicator) should no longer end up being overlapped by the health bar

UPDATED GAME BUG FIXES

• option to save both AG Center and Highpool removed, would require too many changes for the story to make sense
  • if you already saved both settlements, should now be able to progress main quest

MODDING

• camera spline positions are now moddable; located in Game.mson in the "Table" folder
  • y corresponds to the camera height, z to the distance from the focal point, and angle is relative to the horizontal

Make sure to delete Game.mson file in your "Mods\Export\Table" directory to ensure it gets re-exported.

Also, I was wrong earlier about the game's antialiasing not working, I got confused by some built-in Unity antialiasing settings while Wasteland 2 has it's AA options (FXAA/NFAA/DLAA) implemented elsewhere, in a DLL I don't normally glance at.

[Citizen_P]

Thank you, I can verify that my save with both towers moved forward and provided items. My quest with only 1 tower completed, allowed me to fix the second tower, updated the quest and provided the transmitter to complete the quest. Everything is setup to allow you to continue,

Thank you for your attention!

[Executor_]

Let me know if you experience any other issues with the main quest.

[lexo1000]

Awesome that you achieve to implement MSAA good job!

[FYKC]

Thanks for your continued work on this game!

[davoker]

Omg, thank you for following Executor, I've been absent-minded for a few weeks and several versions have come out, I see many improvements and corrections, thank you very much!

P.S: This is a mod officially since you released it, but it has no name, give it a name! hehe