Pravus
Sorceror
First I'd apologize for my lack of expertise. Its been about six years since I helped a friend with the development of his shard so I'm pretty green regarding current development tools and methods.
That said, I understand that applications like UOFiddler and GumpStudio have the capability to modify client files but I'm not familiar enough with either program or the 2d client's file structure to be able to figure it out myself yet.
What I'd like to do is patch functionality into the classic client to allow players to choose custom races other than the three currently implemented (I plan to keep the three current races but I'd like to add extra race selection buttons to allow the creation of extra races I've defined in my RunUO server code). Is this possible and, if not, does anyone have any suggestions for clever ways to allow for race selection once a player has "finished" character creation and loaded on to the server that wouldn't seem too confusing to a novice freeshard player?
That said, I understand that applications like UOFiddler and GumpStudio have the capability to modify client files but I'm not familiar enough with either program or the 2d client's file structure to be able to figure it out myself yet.
What I'd like to do is patch functionality into the classic client to allow players to choose custom races other than the three currently implemented (I plan to keep the three current races but I'd like to add extra race selection buttons to allow the creation of extra races I've defined in my RunUO server code). Is this possible and, if not, does anyone have any suggestions for clever ways to allow for race selection once a player has "finished" character creation and loaded on to the server that wouldn't seem too confusing to a novice freeshard player?