It is Modding Time!

Banshee

So, wanna get ready to mod Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars before the game launchs? Thanks to someone known as kmx, you can do it (Thanks Issvar at EA forums for finding it)!

Many files inside the .BIG files of the demo are compressed. You can extract them with FinalBIG or XCC Utilities. Once you extract it, use the BIG4Decomp to decompress the file.

I'd also like to thank the author of this program to distribute a .DLL that does this dirty job with it. Today I've took a long time of my day to code yet another BIG Viewer and, with this DLL file, I'll be able to decompress these files, since my program is already able to detect when a file is compressed.

Of course, this is not enough. Jonwil has posted a lot of interesting information about what the modding info he found out so far.

In other news, Siberian GRemlim has a fully working string editor for C&C3 and he should be releasing it soon.

Anyway, start your engines and get modding. If you have any doubts or you wanna research all modding aspects of the game with us, use our CnC3 Editing Forums.

TerroR · General **Joined**: 25 Aug 2002 **Location**: UK

hmm it's all confusing now. Only files I reconise are the ini's...

1. wnd the new w3d?
2. what is fxo?
3. what is imp?
4. what is cdata?

CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

i knew it , didnt take long XD

Banshee · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:

.cdata files are .DDS files, as far as people could find out. I'm not sure what are these wnd files yet, but as far as their names shows, something related to the game interface. fxo are the effects with shaders...

John Galt · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

Note that the string file (cnc3.str) contains all the mission briefings, unit descriptions and the like from the full version. Read it for amusement. (Or a painful example of how good stuff turns to crap when EA touches it.)
17 missions for GDI, 17 for Nod and 4 for the Aliens. Blah.

(For the record, Apollo showed me that and gave me the .str file.)

(Edited: was counting briefing videos instead of actual missions, bugger.)

Oshog · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject:

27 missions for Nod? I feel some boredom...

gufu · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject:

you gotta love CnC community Very Happy

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kmx · Guest

Updated .dll, with support for really biiig files such as .bin

http://rapidshare.com/files/18916094/big4decomp.rar.html

Banshee · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the heads up Smile

. I've updated the mirror here.

gufu · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

How to find cnc3.str?

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Soviet_Deso · Guest

WND in generals were the files that had to do with all the interface(buttons, command bars, special powers, ect..)

gufu · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:53 am Post subject:

Um - how do you use big4decomp to open that string file?

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Wiziwig · Soldier **Joined**: 09 Dec 2005 **Location**: New Zealand

Can someone tell me how to get this program to work? I'm lost on how to get it to decompile something.

In b4 lurk moar.

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John Galt · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

Those not afraid of spoilers can get the .str file here (and read some spoilers I posted along with it).

Ingoneur · Guest

Banshee wrote:

.cdata files are .DDS files, as far as people could find out. I'm not sure what are these wnd files yet, but as far as their names shows, something related to the game interface. fxo are the effects with shaders...

cdata files are encrypted data... EA don't want you to modificate the Demo!
bin are some compressed .dds files