Now ground units can cross rivers over "solid" bridges.
See readme for file placement info.
5/22/2003
84kb
This new .exe has been hex-edited to create
new platoons containing Cobras, Hinds and Hokums, as well as platoons with Blackhawks and
Kiowas armed with MG's. Also Infantry can now be hidden in some houses, and Red/Blue FARP
units are available.
Now with Blackhawks that shoot beack, and
PLATOON: 142 is a solo OH-58D Kiowa.
Two missions uincluded.
1/20/2004
500kb
Used for positioning objects on tiles, and roads/cities on maps. A bit cranky in spots, but it works.
(Access database file. Access2000 required)
2/5/05
725kb
using Alessandro's new Java code.
He wrote it for EAW, and some of the hardpoint codes are slightly different.
He also was kind enough to send me his source code if any Java heads want to work on it further.
Shows the tile and their sequence when used in the original maps.
Also included in the Whole Shmear, below.
shades_compare_revB.xls
133kb
This zip contains basically everything I have related to map making in GS:
-A spreadsheet identifying all the tile RGB values for the various original GS maps
-Utilities, such as Mapedit, M1Edit, Ultraedit, XVI32
-Notes from EAW and M1TP2 researchers
-Most of the known GS and M1TP2 maps converted to the .lcm format used by MapEdit. (Remove it's header and strip out all the "00 00 00" strings to convert to shade.dat) These have general land use tiles applied, and are ready to be "naturalized" (VLad and Mekong not included; I'd rather finish them myself since I'm well along on them. Hmmm. I guess I haven't converted Israel N/S yet...) Sweden is in there, but the scale is whacked, so...)
-Two terrain tile "palettes" for use with MapEdit: GS_CZtiles.lct.bmp, and GS_NPtiles.lct.bmp . These are the tiles sequenced as in the original GS Czech and NPoland maps. (What a cast-iron bitch THESE were to make...) We need a desert one, but these could be used for desert maps to place coast (NPTiles and city tiles.
-Several CZ/UKR "noise" palettes. (pcx and PSP .pal files). These are random noise images made up of tiles of a certain type, such as all the forest or grass or farm tiles. Useful to "paint" large areas with. (Caution: I did these a while ago, and I have a vague memory that there are some odd tiles mixed in somewhere.) I don't seem to have done the same for the NPoland tiles, but the concept is easy if anyone wants to make them.
You can read the details of this process in the Workshop area of Pilot Officer Prune's website.
4.3MB
(revised and expanded 10/26/02
This zip contains basically everything I have related to map making in GS using TK's Terrain Editor and Keith Bedford's converter utilities.
Also includeds a set of GS tiles converted to BMP for use with the Terrain Editor, and cross-reference CSV to make new maps using the North Poland tile set.
No readme. See SimHQ posts under Strike Fighters forum for info about the terrain editor.
8MB
1/20/2004
Egypt, Iraq, Lybia1, Lybia2, Moldavia, National Training Center, Poland, Vladivostok
(Unfortunately, we can't just drop these into GS. They need a shade.dat file to arrange the tiles used in GS.)
M1TP2Worlds.zip
1MB
The airport tile with grid for object layout (includes mission)
by fng2k 4/10/2002
includes road.pcx and trebun.pca textures. See readme for details.
Very beta. NOT for distribution.
namtile_beta.zip
2.4mb
The Keys to the Kingdom...
Cat file extractor utility
Instructions included. Also works for M1TP2 files.
Please us only for the benefit of Microprose Sims.
(updated 2/2/04 with additional file lists)
The Mother Lode...
This Excel spreadsheet contains details of four major data tables in the gunship.exe. One of the original members of the Gunship development team generously and laboriously provided all the field names. (He prefers to remain anonymous for now.)
Includes offset info for these tables, plus the other 24-odd tables I've found but don't yet understand.
This contains the tables holding parameters for:
- Platoon composition
- Vehicle details, including weapon loadout
- Weapon specifications, including blast values and guidance type
- Locations on each vehicle for apparent weapon launch point
- Armor strength values
- 3D object ID (in progress)
GS_exe_data8_04.zip 83kb
LAST UPDATE: 8/09/04
More tables...
Plus if you want to do some hex editing, try this very nice freeware app named A.X.E.
axe20.zip 218kb
And here is a bookmark file for A.X.E. so you can get to all these tables easily: Just save into the same directory as A.X.E., and use File>Import Bookmarks
Also includes structure definitions, which makes editing much easier. Save both into your A.X.E. folder. Updated 08/09/04
You can download a list of all the files references in gunship.exe as an Excel spreadsheet.
This is a listing of the external files referenced in gunship.exe. It was cleverly extracted by dcs in 12/2001.
NOTE: All files listed may not have actually shipped when Gunship was released. Comments
by fng2k. This list will be updated as more information is developed. Error reports
welcome.
GSallfiles.zip
38kb
It may sound simple, but this was a BEAR to put together...
GS3db3dzPCX.zip
42kb
Alot is gibberish, but there is enough tantalizing stuff in here to make it plain that alot of code and/or data tables are in the .cat files.
I have a way to extract them, but only if I know their original path and name.
Guesses welcome...
images_cat_strings.zip
840kb
The original mission editing guide by Frank D and Rudi Klaes. This contains lots of reference data, including tables of all the platoon codes. In MS Word format.
Missionedit_rudi.zip
28kb
Gurney's notes on the format of 3DB and 3DN files.
Also included is a utility to convert 3DB files back into 3DZ files. (However, many 3DB files use 2 or more more skin textures per object, which makes them unusable as 3DZ files...)
Brilliant detective work by Gurney!
90kb
Keith Bedford October 2002
Merges custom flight models into the Current Gunship flight model file (Both the specific Helo flight model and the related control sensitivities) Assumes Gunship is installed in C:\Gunship!
Allows replacing a single FM when applying mods
Includes readme.
FMTool0r3.zip
63kb
(needs VB3 runtime 225kb)
Vbrun300.zip
By Alessandro Borges. Used to edit 3D objects. If you've never done 3D object editing, the learning curve is a bit steep, but worth it. This is how we make old stuff into new stuff. Note: Win98 only- doesn't like XP.
There is a wealth of knowledge about this side of things in the EAW community.
This link goes to Alessandro's website
(includes a utility to write a 3DZ out to a txt file for manula editing.)
Let's us do things like this:
In many cases, Gunship did not include a 3DZ file for every object, only a 3DB file. This nifty little app can convert some of them back into a 3DZ, so they can be edited. It can also write a 3DB out into a text file.
Brilliant reverse-engineering by Gurney.
93kb
Make 3DZ objects larger or smaller. Texture mapping is unchanged.
Approximate conversion values:
EAW=Gunship*0.2
Gunship=EAW*9
13kb
(click to view)
Use in GS (sorta) as:
data/cockpits/gunner/apacheF3.pcx (or havocF3.pcx or tigerF3.pcx)
(click to view)
(click to view)
Gunship!\Data\World\Belarus(or other)\tiles.txt
In the last section "weather variables", raincolor.
Still looks like falling paint to me, but feel free to play with it...
