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Acknowledgements

szapp edited this page Mar 30, 2019 · 2 revisions

Although Ninja is a one-man project, there are a few people that I want to extend my gratitude to. I would like to thank Cryp18Struct for his aid in preliminary tests regarding loading of Ninja 2.0 and Nico “NicoDE” Bendlin (@nicodex) for confirming deprecated functions of the Gothic engine.

Introduction
    Virtual Disk File System
    Formats
        Single File Formats
        Collected File Formats
    Limitations to Overcome
        Scripts
        Animations
        Output Units

Solution
    Implementation
    Patch Structure
        VDF File Tree
        VDF Header
    Batch Script
    Inter-Game Compatibility

Inject Changes
    Daedalus Scripts
        Overwriting Symbols
            Naming Conventions
            Preserved Symbols
        Initialization Functions
            Init_Global
            Menu Creation
        Ikarus and LeGo
            Initializing LeGo
            Modifications to LeGo
            PermMem and Handles
        Daedalus Hooks
        Inserting NPC
        Disallow Saving
        Helper Symbols
            NINJA_VERSION
            NINJA_MODNAME
            NINJA_PATCHES
            NINJA_SYMBOLS_START
            NINJA_SYMBOLS…PATCHNAME
        Common Symbols
        Localization
    Animations and Armor
    Output Units

Other Mechanics
    Remove Invalid NPC
    Safety Checks in Externals
    Preserve Integer Variables
    Detect zSpy
    Incompatibility List for Mods

Technical Details

Applications and Examples
    Add New NPC
    Set AI Variables
    Add New Dialogs
    Add New Spells
    Add New World
    Translation Patch

Debugging
    Console
    Logging

Installation
    Requirements
    Instructions

Troubleshooting
    Is Ninja Active
    Is Patch Loaded
    Error Messages

Download

Checksums
    Setup
    In-Game

Changelog

Support this project  

Acknowledgements

Contact and Discussion

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