- engclass allows shows how to add classes to internal equipment
- The original intention was to modify this plugin to extend the amount of classes for other equipment types (weapons, turrets, shields)
- During the inventory/dealer hooks get_hp_type is called which is modified by engclass to return the new number.
- The issue exists that in normal usage get_hp_type for, say, weapons, returns the number 4. I have looked extensively into how it works, but cannot decipher why it returns the number 4, or what the implications of this are.
- There are clearly other parts of the code that are used to calculate whether guns are mountable what class they actually are, but I have been unable to locate or figure out what needs to be changed to make this work.
- If get_hp_type is modified to return the new number, then it will crash when the base game goes to call it on the weapon during opening the equipment dealer. - The equipment index, ids bindings, level index, mount description index, and mount list were all updated dynamically, so the issue doesn't exist there.
- We wrote assembly at offset 0x9659E to allow us to correctly read new gun hardpoint values. We effectively checked if the string was in our list of custom new class names, otherwise let the original code handle it.