D A I K A T A N A   E D I T I N G

What is editing? Put very simply, editing an existing retail game means you can use what's included with the game (art and programming assets) and modify them to your own liking. One example would be using the art for Episode 3 and creating your own deathmatch map to run around and play in. This is a very simplistic example, of course, and depending on how technically proficient and persistant you are you could concievably create a whole new game. People do this, in fact, and have been doing so for years. What most people end up doing is creating their own singleplayer and multiplayer maps, but people also create new skins, models, or even huge modifications that completely change the gameplay.

Definitions

TEXTURE A flat piece of art that is wrapped by the game around models or level walls, in order to make it look like something.
MAP The world you see and run around in during the game.
MODEL A three-dimensional object in game... can be your weapon, or other player, monsters, or wall decorations.
TOOLS Programs that users can utilize to make their own stuff.

Implementing the console in Daikatana

What is a console? In games powered by the quake engine, there is a method of passing commands and variables straight to the engine through a command-line-like interface. This interface is called the 'console', and is activated by hitting the tilde key (~), which is up next to the one (1) button.

How do I activate the console? Running Daikatana normally means you cannot access the console. In order to get it, you have to use the +set console 1 command-line parameter when first starting up the game. This can be done several ways.

• From the RUN line (Click the START button, then Run), BROWSE to your Daikatana executable in your Daikatana directory, then add the +set console 1 line outside the quotes. It will most likely end up looking like this: "C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Daikatana\daikatana.exe" +set console 1
• set up a batch file in your Daikatana directory. Using a text editor, make a small text file called daikatana.bat that contains the following line; daikatana.exe +set console 1. Then just run that file instead of your usual daikatana.exe
• Use a text editor to open AUTOEXEC.CFG, CURRENT.CFG or your individual user config file (all found in \Daikatana\data\) and put in the command "console 1" with no quotes. Backup your files before you mess with them.