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                    ** Hexen BEHAVIOR De-compiler **

                                v0.50


DESCRIPTION:


    Ever wondered how all of those special effects work in Hexen?  This

program allows you to look at any of the BEHAVIORS in a Hexen .WAD file to

see how it all works.


    This version simply dumps the contents of the BEHAVIOR structure in a

format that is fairly close to the original ACS script source code.  With

some manual editing, it can be recompiled and put into your .WAD file.



FUTURE PLANS:


    Accept raw BEHAVIOR lump files in addition to those embedded in the

     .WAD file.

    Complete source code recovery - ie: the output can be fed directly

     into the ACC.EXE compiler without any manual editing.

     - Support the standard .acs files for constants & definitions

     - Customization file to allow you to assign names to variables

    Interpret arguments to functions and display compile-time #defines

     instead ( ie: 0 => SKILL_VERY_EASY, 5 => T_FIREGARGOYLE, ... )

    Re-compile back to raw BEHAVIOR format ( without ACC.EXE ).



REQUIREMENTS:


   1) A supported operating:

      a) OS/2 2.0 or higher

      b) DOS ( v?.?? or higher - tested with 5.0 & 6.22 )

      c) a Win32 platform ( Windows NT or Windows 9x )

   2) A Hexen .WAD file



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:


       HEXEN was developed by Raven Software for id Software.


  Thanks to the guys at id Software & Raven Software for creating Hexen.

  Ben Morris for publishing the Official Hexen Technical Specs

  Ben Gokey of Raven Software for releasing information about the script

   language and the script compiler.



ADDRESS:


     mroussea@pictel.com


