Bringing CoP system to Clear Sky

[argosurvivors]

Open Xray is working great with latest version in Call of Pripyat. Instead of adapting Open Xray to Clear Sky it would be a good method to adapt Clear Sky to Open Xray. The original Clear Sky scripts can be changed to work like CoP. The levels can be recompiled in CoP system to be fully compatible. This way we could have the smooth Clear Sky which will be easier to work on. Take the current PDA problems, they can all be solved if the CoP PDA scripts are brought to Clear Sky, which I did for a test.

[ceciliabarks]

This goes against OpenXRay's goal of being as compatible with vanilla assets as possible; it'd also require mods to receive the same manual porting work to run.
While it would be nice to get a proper update for Clear Sky, this most likely won't happen from OpenXRay directly, though mods can always freely exist (and I for one would like to see this happen!).

[Xottab-DUTY]

The suggested adaptation contradicts with SOC/CS support goal: we want to support unchanged, vanilla CS/SOC gamedata.

But there is a positive part:
Despite the fact, that overall changing gamedata is not a priority of this repository, I was thinking about new mod project. It's interesting and beneficial to change the gamedata too. I'm not just not sure if I can handle more projects :)

Also, there is Return to Clear Sky mod, which aimed to port CS gamedata to COP engine. It has several bugs, and it's no longer developed, but it may be still interesting. The official thread is still available on the old AP-Pro website: http://old.ap-pro.ru/forum/94-90639-1.

[argosurvivors]

Alright I agree that game should be as original, Open Xray project is a big improvement already. Some vanilla game bugs can be a different project, like SRP mod.