[Mod] New Grants

[Nicotin]

Hello,

I were looking around the Game files and found out it is really easy to mod.

So I made a little mod which adds 3 new grants to the game.
I'm open for suggestions.

I couldn't find (maybe it isn't implemented yet) a way how to hide them untill you have an accountant. So it is an objective in all three grants to have an accountant.

Here is the link: Files

Just extract the archive and put the Data folder into your game folder.


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I'm also positive that I could make a new campaign or at least change the existing one to be longer.



Further me and a friend are translating the game into german right now.



Greetings,
Nicotin

[Illanair]

Alpha 1 - Modding is a go.

[Nicotin]

Grants and Campaigns are the only things (so far) that are easily moddable.

Sure we can do more. But these things take pretty less work to do.

[Springare]

I got one question: How would i install this mod? Because i played around with the graphics a little, but how to put it back into a functionally main.dat? Or is this not needed?

[Mas Tnega]

Just keep it in the /data folder.

[Springare]

Ok, maybe i overlooked something, but i don't see a /data folder anywhere. In my PA-Folder are:

screenshots-folder
main.dat
prison architext.exe
sdl.dll
sounds.dat

Using Win7 32Bit. I even searched in the save-folder, but obviously nothing was there.
If i want to look in the main.dat files, i rename it to main.rar and extract it. Then i got a main/data-folder where i find everything. But no preinstalled data-folder. Or is this manually extracting enough that the game uses that folder instead the main.dat?

[Springare]

Thanks a lot, and sorry for de-railing this thread a little, but now i can test the new grants

[Nicotin]

No problem. As long as you got it (and future mods) working everything is good^^

[XmAkiNA]

Fun fact: Existing files will override the .dat file, so you can just extract the mod as provided and it'll work.

[a__gun]

Fun fact: Existing files will override the .dat file, so you can just extract the mod as provided and it'll work.

I really do think thats the way every game should handle its data. Makes things so much easier

[Nicotin]

I'm open to suggestions for further grants.

I'd also like to collect ideas for a szenario.

[walki]

Awesome! Keep on going!

[NekoBaron]

This got me into thinking so I had a look into the lua files for the death row demo campaign and noticed some trigger commands for example.

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   Trigger.Create         ( "DeathRow_BuildInternalWalls" );
   Trigger.RequireObjective( "DeathRow_Building" )
   Trigger.RequireObjective( "DeathRow_BuildOuterDoor" )

So I tried doing similar code in the grants lua to make a second cell block grant appear when you finish the first one.

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   Trigger.Create            ( "CreateSecondCellBlockGrant" );
   Trigger.RequireObjective      ( "Grant_FirstCellBlock_Cells" )

Unfortunately Trigger objects don't seem to exist for the grants lua to use or cant be called this way and PA just crashes on load up, it seems like a good method using trigger objects and such so lets hope they can open it up for sandbox soon. Haven't tried making custom objective and grants during the DeathRow campaign yet though so there's a lot more playing with the luas to be had yet.

[Nicotin]

Yes I also played around with triggers and came to the same conclusion, (right now) they only work in the campaign but not the grants.lua

Which is sad because we could use them for unlockable grants.

[superspeck]

Huge thumbs up for this, Nicotin. I couldn't get a game going past 40 prisoners or so, the extra grants have gotten me where I'm able to continue building out with 80 prisoners and climbing on a small map.