Playable Characters Mod (PCM) support

[lynxlynxlynx]

Originally reported by: Gennady Trafimenkov (Bitbucket: gennady, GitHub: gennady)

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User Scheinworld from BPF thinks it would be a great idea to support Playable Characters Mod (PCM) together with 800x600 mod.

It can be done only in ModPack project, not JA2-Stracciatella due to legal considerations.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/gennady/ja2-stracciatella/issue/39

[derSteFfi]

What is our standing on the ModPack idea?

[lynxlynxlynx]

Like it's noted, it's a separate project (hosted in a branch).

[ja2-derek]

Looks like it works by just copying in the assets. Created https://github.com/ja2-derek/mod-playable-chars

There is an PCM_SV_B005.exe in the ZIP file. Any idea what it does?

[lynxlynxlynx]

Maybe audio or image converter? Maybe it has a usage string, try -h or something nonsensical.

[ja2-derek]

And Darrel joins after marrying a female merc to the Hicks, despite what the README says about 1.13

EDIT: there is an assertion failure, could be related:

2020-06-30T16:29:53 [ERROR] game/Strategic/Strategic_Town_Loyalty.cc: Assertion failed in ...\ja2-stracciatella\src\game\Strategic\Strategic_Town_Loyalty.cc, line 214

[ja2-derek]

That EXE looks for fmod.dll and smackw32.dll. The icon looks like it is a replacement for JA2.exe.

No idea how it is different.

[ja2-derek]

And Darrel joins after marrying a female merc to the Hicks, despite what the README says about 1.13

EDIT: there is an assertion failure, could be related:

2020-06-30T16:29:53 [ERROR] game/Strategic/Strategic_Town_Loyalty.cc: Assertion failed in ...\ja2-stracciatella\src\game\Strategic\Strategic_Town_Loyalty.cc, line 214

Caused by HandleTownLoyaltyForNPCRecruitment(), and Darrel's Town ID is 0 (BLANK_SECTOR). Causes a Assertion failure, but safe to ignore.

[ja2-derek]

Migrated to https://github.com/ja2-stracciatella/mod-playable-chars

We can consider fixing that Assertion if it is accepted as a known case (bTownId == 0).

Closing this issue. We can follow up in the mod repo if needed.