How Does FT Tools Work?

[Green Knight]

I'm very, very new to the editor of FT and started looking into how to use it online two days ago. I found barely any information asides from people who have made sprites and maps. The thing is, the FT Tools doesn't have any way to use assets as far as I can tell.

I came across a comment on a Steam thread that stated needing to download some sort of assets to use them. However, no information of where nor how to use the system. I'm just left with questions on how to even start using the FT Tools if there's no assets 'to' use?

I'm assuming I'm not looking in the correct places, although have found very little promise in figuring out how to use the feature.

[Hopper]

I haven't edited FoT for a long time so I'm pretty rusty. Checking the EDITOR_README.txt in the FoT folder is the best place to start.

There's really no need to download anything.
Just use any old zip program to open and extract the BOS files in the Fallout Tactics/Core folder. Once you figure out where all those BOS files are extracted to, you can edit almost anything.

For example. Correctly extracting tiles_0.bos to \Core\Tiles should allow you to see and place all the tiles (floors, walls, furniture, etc) in the Map Editor.

Extracting the maps (mostly found in the mis-core and mis-main files) will allow you to load up and edit all the maps.

[Green Knight]

Firstly, thank you Hopper! I assumed I didn't need to download anything and I was able to read up on the 'editor read me' text. I initially placed the files incorrectly as the tiles do now show up on 'Level Editor'.

I still cannot see the campaign ones when going to 'Campaign Editor' as of now. I'll try the same method as above. Thank you again very much for the time and effort of replying!

Now I just need to figure out how to save and use these levels, campaigns, and how to utilize and save the custom characters as well. I'm sure it's a similar format to what you already said. Regardless, thank you again.

[Hopper]

You're welcome. I'm happy to help, tho I am pretty rusty, you might have more luck over at the NMA forum.

Originally posted by Green Knight:

I still cannot see the campaign ones when going to 'Campaign Editor' as of now. I'll try the same method as above. Thank you again very much for the time and effort of replying!

Campaign missions need to be extracted to \Fallout Tactics\core\campaigns\missions\core
(Be careful not to overwrite any files already in there when you extract)

You open them with the Level Editor.

The Campaign Editor is for editing the world map, random encounters, recruit lists, quarter master lists and such. To start with that you need to extract the Campaign.txt found in the entities_0.bos file.

Originally posted by Green Knight:

Now I just need to figure out how to save and use these levels, campaigns, and how to utilize and save the custom characters as well. I'm sure it's a similar format to what you already said. Regardless, thank you again.

For saving maps, I used to always do it in this order...
Tools > Update Tiles Used
Tools > Refresh Border/Grids
Tools > New Occulsion Data (press yes to rebuild PVS)
File > Save

[Green Knight]

Thank you very much for all the help. I'll mess around with this, cautiously of course and hopefully improve.