changing a mod(IRM in paticular)

I am sure Falen Haven would be only to pleased to help I would drop him a PM if I where you Moding For SEV is a cooperative project

IRM itself borrowed code from BM. CaptainKwok shared coding inspirations with Maran and Fallen Haven. There's a reason why Fallen Haven's put his AI scripts as open source bundled with the mod itself.

Naturally, the polite thing to do would be to discuss with the relevant people first and to include them in some sort of "Credits to..." document/.txt/mod-definition/something. But you certainly shouldn't start from scratch.

Heck, I always immediately edit the Settings.txt of BM (and now IRM) as soon as I get it to tweak it to my personal tastes (e.g. much more Near Miss and Critical hits). AI adjustment is currently beyond my skill set (and I've too much to do to learn the programming language) so there's a limit to how much I can tweak in the data files but I take it for granted that this is an open source project and everyone's trying to get the most out of the game in their own way.

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Playing Touhou games (Go here if interested . No, nobody else is that good/insane as that replay). No rush for SE V bug fixing.

I follow the philosophy of the open source, i don't mind using someone else code or if someone use mine. I don't understand all the game code and obviously someone is going to figure out things i haven't, or find a better way to code something i did. What's important to me is the end result, not the pride of having coded something that no one else can use...

We can do great things if everyone pool their knowledge to make this game better.

Actually, I've downloaded your IRM mod, FH, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. You did a LOT of number-crunching and re-balancing. Kudos all around!!

I'm taking you up on your invitation and have already begun doing some modding. The hardest part is being meticulous about recording all the changes I make. I know that someday you'll come out with an update and I'll have to port over my changes if I'm to "stay current". Thanks to you and the Captain for such fine work!

"Do not be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DVader

Kato wrote:

Actually, I've downloaded your IRM mod, FH, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. You did a LOT of number-crunching and re-balancing. Kudos all around!!

I'm taking you up on your invitation and have already begun doing some modding. The hardest part is being meticulous about recording all the changes I make. I know that someday you'll come out with an update and I'll have to port over my changes if I'm to "stay current". Thanks to you and the Captain for such fine work!

I have a new release comming, probably today. It fix a few game ballance issue, fix some ai flaws i had introduced in the last few versions and make the minister works with my mod. This should make my mod a lot more fun to play.

Kato wrote:

I'm taking you up on your invitation and have already begun doing some modding. The hardest part is being meticulous about recording all the changes I make. I know that someday you'll come out with an update and I'll have to port over my changes if I'm to "stay current". Thanks to you and the Captain for such fine work!

Yeah, the meticulous recording of changes can be a real pain, especially if you make lots of changes at once then start removing them because they cause problems. Also you need to add comments (in scripts) where ever it's possible to let people know what you did or help yourself when you try to fix a bug.

At the rate i make changes and the size my mod has become, it's quite hard to keep track of all the changes...

FH, wish everyone did that. I can't recall how many of the recently released mods include versions of the Main scripts. Not all do...guess some feel the need to keep it under wraps. Liked your mod though and appreciate that openness.

Was a nice touch on the Crimson Mod as well that it made available a rar of the script files in text form...very cool. Being able to see the logic is a great way to learn.