Old TA Source code

• Kinboat Source : 3do builder, annihilator, Cob Builder, GAF Builder, TA unit Manager, exemple for using JoeD-HPI dll and the TA format files (Some files are missing or outdated when compared to this site repository but it's still a nice reference).

• JoeD source : Other fun stuff :HPI util source, HPI viewer source. (I know there's some missing stuf but I didnt download it back then when it was still available). 

Download here

Commongui.gaf

I monkeyed around a bit with the commongui.gaf . It used to be impossible to edit, but there's a workaround. I used the trick C_A_P gave me for TA:K gaf files having a similar problem. It mainly involves extracting all the data and re saving it with Gaf Builder so that it's in a format it likes. It would seem that this was caused by compressed sequences and NOT by commongui.gaf being a large file. For those interested in how it works, here's a link to C_A_P explanation, browse down to the section called "GafBuilder Pro 2.5 and less".

I put up a copy of my result in the utilities section. It works at 90% but there's a slight problem with in game build menus. It would seem compressed sequences react differently than uncompressed and so the offsets are bit off. I'll have to correct them manualy but in the meantime it's a pretty cool file to have since it gives you a template for skin creation.

Download here

3do to MS3d importer

Milkshape 3d official homepage is : http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/
Note : there's a 30 day free trial

IMPORTANT : For those who do not know how to extract TA textures, here's a zip with all of them : Ta Textures.

Version History :

-=Version 1.1b=-

• I believe I found the bug that caused crashes on win98 machines. As a matter of fact I'm suprised it didnt crash EVERYWHERE. I was deleting the same memory twice.

-=Version 1.0b=-

• Tidied up the code a bit

• When you typed the path to a file or directory instead of using the browse option, that path wasnt used.

• When there wasnt ONLY .gaf in the directory, it crashed.

-=Version 1.1a=-

• -Fixed an atrocious memory leak that caused crashes on non NT/2k machines.

-=Version 1.0a=-

• First release, hopefuly no bugs (riiiiight).

Coming soon : 
An animation plugin for MS3D, it's the same idea as Servo, except this one doesnt crash or wont be as buggy since its integrated in MS3D. It should be ready in a week or two, as soon as I have time to start on it.

Multi Dump 3.0

Multi Dump... mmm sounds like yet another HPI program™ *yawn*. Well you ARE correct ^_^. On the other hand, while it still does the same thing as the other HPI programs, it allow you to do it on a larger scale. For example, say you want to take all the hpi, ufo, gp3 etc in your TA directory and uncompress them into a directory. You open HPI view, open the first file, dump it, wait, close it, open a new file etc etc. With multi dump, you only have to target the directory where the HPI, GP3 etc are and select the target directory for dumping and you're set. 

Of course this isnt all ^_^. The main new feature of multi dump, is that it allow you to combine multiple archive into one in a single operation. Let's say you just downloaded Merciless Creations unit pack for TA (a very good one btw). Well whooops there's like 20 files into the "pack". Have fun enabling and disabling them. Well no you can just target the directory with all your MC files, and have them recombined into a single file. Pretty handy.

Ta Profiler 1.0

Ta Profiler makes a geological survey of TA maps. It shows the metal concentration, energy, geo vents etc. The original idea was by Slower and I still use his program as the core for Visual Ta Profiler. There's a link in the readme to his page and program. :

 Get TAP here!
Get the source code here!

The Future

The Gui Editor is half done thought I dont know when I'll start working on it again, screenshot is following :

Visual Nanoforge

This project is huge in it's scope. I planned to add many features to the original, menu editing, armor library etc. Althought the core libraries are pretty advanced and nearing completion, the interface still need a lot of work. I'm at v4.0 of the interface ie : I scraped everything and just restarted. No idea when it'll be done.