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1. File Swapping Preamble It is possible to get assets into the game that, for whatever reason, the programmers decided not to use in the final release. This includes characters like Jawas, Buzz-Droids and Zam Wessel, plus vehicles like Luke's Landspeeder, and Anakin's yellow Hot Rod. It also allows you to fly ARC-170 fighters in place of Jedi Starfighters in the battle for Coruscant.
It simply involves copying, for example, the jawa.hgp to the \protocol\ directory and renaming it tc14.hgp (remembering, of course, to put the original tc14.hgp file into a safe \backup\ subdirectory. The catch is that if the character you're overwriting has a different animation sequence to the one you're trying to get in-game, the character will be a huge jumble when you look at it in game. It is simply trial and error and educated guessing that will allow you to find a suitable character to overwrite.
The info above should be enough to let the more advanced modders progress. I'll explain it in more detail giving an example or two for the novices in the coming weeks. |
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