[SHOGO - Mobile Armor Division]
Installing the Shogo Editing Tools
  
       
  To be able to edit Shogo, you'll need the Shogo Editing Tools, you can grab a copy at PlanetShogo. After you downloaded the zip file, extract it into a temporary directory, and then run setup and install the tools. After that, you'll have to extract all Shogo resources to be able to work with them, or edit them. This can be done with LithTech's resource utility which is not located in the Shogo Editing Tools folder in the Programs Menu. You'll have to use it at the command prompt.

[Resource Directory Structure]To extract the Shogo resources, first create a directory where you want to extract them to, e.g. "c:\Riot". After you've created the new directory, start MS-DOS Prompt. Make sure your Shogo cd is in your cdrom drive. Then go to the directory where you installed the tools (e.g. c:\games\shogo tools) and type the following commands at the command prompt:
  • bin\lithrez xv [cdrom_drive]\data\shogo.rez [new_dir]

    This will extract all of the Shogo resources except for the sounds

  • bin\lithrez xv [cdrom_drive]\game\sound.rez [new_dir]

    This will extract the sounds

  • bin\lithrez xv [shogo_game_dir]\shogoop.rez [new_dir]

    This will update some of the resources

  • bin\lithrez xv [shogo_game_dir]\shogoop2.rez [new_dir]

    This will also update some of the resources

[cdrom_drive] is the driveletter of your cdrom drive (e.g. D:)
[new_dir] is the new directory you created for the Shogo resources to be extracted in
[shogo_game_dir] is the directory where you installed Shogo to (e.g. c:\games\shogo)

Note that the Shogo Tools Setup program also installs some levels (.ed files) in a "Levels" subdirectory in the root of the installation directory. To be able to edit these, you'll have to copy these levels to the "Worlds" subdirectory in the directory where you extracted the Shogo resources to (this subdirectory will be created when you extract the Shogo resources, see image above of Resource Directory structure).

Now you're all set to start editing!! Just start DEdit, and open the project file "Riot.dep" which will be in the root of the directory where you extracted the resources to.