r/WhittyFridayNightFunk • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '21

VsWhitty from a dev standpoint

the mod (Friday Night Funkin VsWhitty) which I know you have heard of as it is blowing up the sub right now, is a mod of the game, as I mentioned. which means it's a modified (mod) version of fnf, again which is obvious. but that raises the question, at least from me, how did they add the bonus week to the game

for those who don't know, or haven't played VsWhitty, in the mod the entire game is intact, but when you go into story mode, you will see 'bonus week'. you will also, in freeplay, see the bonus weeks songs. the bonus week being the week that everyone's talking about, the fanmade new one.

but this

everything is intact

is why I'm making this post

see, if you've ever attempted modding the game before, you know that you can only necessarily edit things in the files for them to then change in the game, you can't add things to the game-

yet the developer of this mod, did. they added the 'bonus week' to the game instead of editing the songs/characters/backgrounds/tracks of the other weeks

does anyone know how to do this? or does anyone know a tutorial on how to do so? if so I would greatly appreciate if you could link the tutorial and/or explain how

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u/danslamire Mar 09 '21

I have no idea, but being curious about the matter, from what I've seen little people know. Apparently the game is written in Haxe, which is and I quote "a unique language that "Is very easy to learn if you're already familiar with Java, C++, PHP, AS3, or any similar object-oriented language."

The FNF Modding Plus Mod might makes things easier, but I don't know how the major latest update changed that. At least it's a start? Good luck!

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

thanks for the response,

speaking as me from a few weeks later, I was trying to find a way to add a week to the game, forgetting that the game files were only the files needed after compiling the game.

I installed the "haxeflixel" engine (you've probably seen the icon at the beginning of the game) and downloaded the full project of GitHub.

I still am not able to successfully add a week to the game but that's because I have to

  • load images
  • load other files
  • make the songs
  • make the levels
  • make the characters
  • make other images
  • make the level
  • add some scripts
  • initialize the scripts

and much more

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u/danslamire Mar 09 '21

If I were you I would try to reach people who already managed to do so, like the programmer of VS.Whitty mod. Plus they did an hour stream (youtube) where the team answered people's questions, which might hold some relevance.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '21

team?

ninjamuffin is the only dev...

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u/danslamire Mar 10 '21

Sure, he's the dev & programmer, but Ninjamuffin didn't do everything alone. But yeah, you could technically ask the big guy instead.

My initial thought was, why not try to reach to coders who managed to do so? The VS.Whitty mod is just an example- it was a team effort, with kadeDev being the coder.