UE1 - UT Would this be possible (to easily edit this file)?

[Kerr Avon]

I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but it seems the best place to post my request, so please feel free to move it if it's wrongly placed.

Anyway, I want to be able to create my own custom single player ladder for UT (a series of matches against bots, for single player mode), but since I have no experience or aptitude for UT programming I was hoping I could manually edit the file from:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/sp-ladder/downloads

This mod gives a new single player ladder, and it's great, and I thought (hoped) that there might be a text file included that I could edit with NOTEPAD (or something) to change the maps used, and maybe other settings too. But the file is not editable (that I can see) so is it possible for me to somehow edit this mod to use the maps that I specify?

Thanks for any answers.



Edit: Using UT Package Tool (from http://www.acordero.org/projects/unreal-tournament-package-tool/ ) I've managed to open the file UCMenu.u, but can't find the map names to change them. Alright, so it was unlikely to be this easy, but it was worth a try (and maybe it is possible to do it this way and I'm just missing something obvious?).

Any ideas?

 

[Zur]

The short answer is that it requires programming.

 

[Kerr Avon]

The short answer is that it requires programming.

Pity. Thanks for answering, mate.

 

[Mortheus]

The short answer is that it requires programming.

But Im willing to try...

 

[Kerr Avon]

But Im willing to try...

If you do have the time, then would you consider perhaps making a mod that reads the ladder's parameters from a text file that the user can edit, say userladder.ini ,so that the ini file's settings would look something like this:

*************************

Game Type = Deathmatch
Map = 007complex.unr
Number of Teams = 2
Number of bots = 11
Time Limit = 20

Game Type = Last Man Standing
Map = castle.unr
Number of Teams = 6
Number of bots = 10
Time Limit = 20

Game Type = Team Deathmatch
Map = 007complex.unr
Number of Teams = 3
Number of bots = 10
Time Limit = 15


**************************

(obviously the settings for teams have no effect in deathmatch and Last Man Standing). This way the user can specify the maps to be used and everything else of importance. This would be a great addition for Unreal Tournament, I think.

 

[Mortheus]

I don't have any skills too, but learning wouldnt be so bad idea. I would make a new ladder, but I don't know where to start...

 

[Dozey]

I don't have any skills too, but learning wouldnt be so bad idea. I would make a new ladder, but I don't know where to start...

depends how your coding skills are.

 

[Mortheus]

Well I have done some illegal stuff such as hacks, but thats it. Can't I just give it a try or is it really-really that hard?

 

[gopostal]

It wouldn't be hard to do, I looked at the code.

The author posted this fairly recently, if you get his permission to alter his files I'll help you.