[TUT] How to duplicate tags

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[TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by xxxshooter » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:32 am

This tutorial is for duplicating tags within the map.
Moxus wrote:How to make duplicate tags:
Tools Needed: Demo Hack 3.0 (Or HexEdit for manual Header changes), HHK.
Notes: If you wish to edit the duplicate tags, you may have to use HMT's Dependency swapper. On occasion, Eschaton won't show up the dependencies for the duplicate/custom tags.

Steps:

1. To start, open up the map which contains the tag you want to duplicate in Demo Hack 3.0. Once it's open, click the "To Full" Button. You can hide Demo Hack for the moment, we won't need it for a bit.

2. Now, open your map in HHK. After the programs loads the map, navigate to the tag class of the tag you wish to duplicate Click the triangle next to it, opening up the list of tags within that class. Select the one you wish to duplicate.

3. With the blue highlighting line over the tag you wish to duplicate, go to the "Tools" menu at the top of your screen. Click on it, opening the array of options. Click on "Export meta and references..." Note that we are NOT recursively exporting our tags. A little dialogs will show up with various fields for saving the tag.

4. To start, choose a name for the duplicate tag, typing in the text field next to "Export meta:". It's best (and may be necessary) to have a different name for the second tag, both for the game's sake and for the ability to know which tag is which.

5. Once you've typed in the name, let's take of actually saving. Generically, I find it's best to save temporary modding items to the Desktop, allowing for both quick access and quick disposal. Therefore, using the location selecting portion of the saving dialog, choose "Desktop from the side menu (assuming you haven't removed it).

6. Move the saving dialog away from the main map window. Look at the tag you're going to duplicate, and note the word before the first forward slash in the "Path" column for that tag. In the saving dialog, click the "New Folder" button. In the text field provided, type in the word we just noted. When you're done, click the "Create" button, or hit enter. You should now have a new folder with the name of the first word in the "Path" column. repeat this with the second word (however, if the second word is the name of the original tag, change that to whatever the duplicate tag is called). Continue this process of creating folders within one another until all of the words in the "path" section are their own folders, in the proper order as indicated.

7. With last folder we made selected, click the "Save" button.

8. Under the "Tools" menu again, click on "Import..."

9. Select the tag we just saved. Click "Open." HHK will now present you with another window. This time, select the folder before you reach the Desktop. The window should close, and your tag should be added to the list for that tag class.

10. Save, Quit HHK, and Demo hack the map back to Demo. You're done!
Have fun w/your new knowledge.

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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by G[v]N » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:27 am

And for those unobservant people who can't notice the small details, Moxus made this tut.
Just so you guys know.
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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by xxxshooter » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:36 am

Yes, thank you G[v]N for reiterating that fact.
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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by (KHC) Shadow » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:56 pm

one problem, after importing it nothin shows up in the d-swapper
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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by Fuel » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:15 pm

that can be fixed my importing something else >_>
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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by xxxshooter » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:16 pm

As said in the tutorial you will most likely have to use the dependency swapper in HMT, not Eschaton because it tends to not show up in Eschaton's D-swappa
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Re: [TUT] How to duplicate tags

Post by (KHC) Shadow » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:18 pm

ohh thank u shooter
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