Telepath Tactics Modding Guide

[Craig Stern]

Hello, intrepid modders! I've been writing a tutorial series on how to mod Telepath Tactics--as of today, I'm up to part 12 out of who-the-hell-knows-how-many.

Since there's a modding community here, I figured I'd stick up some links for folks that are interested in learning how to make stuff in Telepath Tactics:

1. Creating a new campaign, writing an introduction
2. Creating characters
3. Editing character leveling schemes
4. Making a new army roster, creating your first battle
5. Linking scenes, intro to battle conditions
6. Editing characters and objects with items and tags
7. Intro to dialogue trees
8. Intro to scripting
9. Changing battle conditions, advanced dialogue triggers
10. Advanced character tags
11. Recruiting and dismissing characters
12. Making battles with more than 2 armies

In the next part, I'm going to cover creating custom variables, then using them to impact dialogue tree navigation. You can follow along as I post more parts to the tutorial here. Feel free to post thoughts and requests for topics that you'd like covered.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Might get the game eventually when I can afford the price, so yeah. Watching close.

 

[Craig Stern]

Three new parts since I last posted! These provide an introduction to creating and manipulating variables, and using them to script cool systems:

13. Intro to variables, Creating and altering variables
14. Using variables to impact dialogue
15. Altering character stats, Using stats to impact dialogue

(If you didn't know how to code before, don't worry: these tutorial sections will give you a sort of rough introduction to some of the basic principles of it!)

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Okay, here's a noobish thing to ask but where do I install the map editor?

 

[Craig Stern]

Hey! That depends. If you're running a non-Steam version of the game, all you do is run the installer and stick it in the default Program Files directory, same as you did with the main game.

If you're running a Steam copy of the game, try relocating the map editor's install folder to Program Files > Steam > Steam Apps > common; that should hopefully do the trick (though I haven't tested it yet).

(Also note that if you're on Mac OSX, there's currently an issue with the OS that I have to work around that keeps the game from reaching into the Telepath Tactics install folder and grabbing tiles/other assets. That's on the agenda!)

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Yeah, I initially installed the durned editor without installing the game so it went all "This tile not found!" sort of errors, but curiously did the same thing even after I installed it.

Nevertheless I'll give it a go from my end, confirm it's working, then probably release my mod in the next decade or so.

 

[Craig Stern]

New tutorial part up:

16. Creating items

 

[Craig Stern]

New tutorial part up:

17. Creating scripts, tying scripts to items

 

[Craig Stern]

Two new tutorial parts since my last post:

18. Creating destructible objects
19. Putting script triggers on destructible objects

 

[Severian Silk]

Do you have a graphics tutorial? Do you support 32-bit sprites? Is a modern/scifi mod feasible?

Also, your site seems all sorts of fucked up right now. Fix it plz.

 

[Craig Stern]

So far, there are tutorials covering item graphics and destructible object graphics--I haven't gotten to the other kinds yet. Until I do, details on creating the other kinds of graphics are available in the modding section of the game manual.

 

[Craig Stern]

All right--after a wee bit of a break, I've decided to pick up writing modding tutorials again!

20. Making custom attacks