ini editors in red gen read!

tecnofreak · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2003 10:11 pm Post subject: ini editors in red gen read!

i have re made the sides and this is the code:

; *** House (players) List ***
; Each side has some basic controls on how they behave (when
; controlled by the computer. Here is the list of available
; house types.
[Countries]
0=Americans
1=GLA
2=China
3=GDI
4=Nod
5=Neutral
6=Special

; ******* Side Type List *******
; The combantants can be grouped according to side.
[Sides]
GDI=Americans
Nod=China
ThirdSide=GLA
Civilian=Neutral
Mutant=Special

please take head and use this!

Banshee · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 12:24 am Post subject:

The sides have their "Generals" which differ the strategies and blah blah blah etc etc explained in Generals site. USA has NATO and some others and I believe that each side has 3 Generals. Coincidence? Huh... just a thought.

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

which would mean splitting each side down 3 more times so we'd have a total of 9 sides. Could be done. Think you manage that tec?

One Of A Kind · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 10:09 am Post subject:

It'd be easier if we could just rename the countries that are in there here's the list...

[Countries]
0=Americans ;USA Command 1
1=Alliance ;USA Command 2
2=French ;USA Command 3
3=Germans ;China Command 1
4=British ;China Command 2

5=Africans ;China Command 3
6=Arabs ;GLA Command 1
7=Confederation ;GLA Command 2
8=Russians ;GLA Command 3

With YR there's Yuri's entry on the list but it shouldn't be hard to disable it or find some way of using it. I'm sure its easy enough to just change the country names and change the flags, rather than risking renaming the list (which it does warn against in the rulesmd)

I'm not trying to get at techno's way of doing it here, i'm just offering my own opinion on what would be easier and safer to do but its up to you Tratos...

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Quote:

With YR there's Yuri's entry on the list but it shouldn't be hard to disable it or find some way of using it.

Like a 'secret' side exclusive to the mod? And renaming them sounds a lot safer, i have managed to accidentally disable all sides except america before know whilst altering them. Which was not good.

tecnofreak · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 9:49 pm Post subject:

look i figured it all out....as for the extra command.....why? we only need one for each....plus it saves us making too much work and offers more explicit choise per side.... i figured out how to fix the sides.

[Countries]
0=Americans
1=GLA
2=China
3=GDI
4=Nod
5=Neutral
6=Special

[Sides]
GDI=Americans
Nod=China
ThirdSide=GLA
Civilian=Neutral
Mutant=Special

**Country stats**

[GDI]
UIName=Name:GDI
Name=GDI
Suffix=Allied
Prefix=G
Color=Gold
MultiplayPassive=true
Side=GDI
SmartAI=yes

[Nod]
UIName=Name:Nod
Name=Nod
Suffix=Allied
Prefix=G
Color=Gold
MultiplayPassive=true
Side=GDI
SmartAI=yes

[GLA]
UIName=Name:GLA
Name=GLA
Suffix=Soviet
Prefix=G
Color=Gold
Multiplay=yes
Side=ThirdSide
SmartAI=yes

[China]
UIName=Name:China
Name=China
Suffix=Soviet
Prefix=G
Color=Gold
Multiplay=yes
Side=Nod
SmartAI=yes

[Americans]
UIName=Name:America
Name=America
Suffix=Allied
Prefix=G
Color=Gold
Multiplay=yes
Side=GDI
SmartAI=yes

[Special]
UIName=Name:Special
Name=JP
Suffix=JP
Prefix=J
Color=Grey
Side=Mutant
SmartAI=yes
MultiplayPassive=true

[Neutral]
UIName=Name:Neutral
Name=Civilian
Suffix=CIV
Prefix=C
Color=Grey
MultiplayPassive=true
SmartAI=yes
Side=Civilian

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

looks good, does it work?

tecnofreak · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject:

no idea.... i know y don't you test it

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

cant i gotta go to work i'll do it on sunday and give u an update in the chat.

One Of A Kind · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject:

Update - Well for me at least it doesn't work, i keep getting internal errors and it might be something to do with the warning westwood gives us in the file.......

Quote:

; PCG; WARNING; Do not remove, override or reorder the major 9 houses for skirmish or LAN game maps. These need to go into the house types array first and without interruption by other types of houses, or we will get evil crashes.

Clazzy · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

It's much easier just to use existing ones instead of renaming, if you really can't remember which one's which then put a omment along with it.

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One Of A Kind · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah that's what I've done, used the existing countries and edited the csf accordingly (although I've added in the Generals select feature which was taken out of Generals itself)

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Good, that was one of the best bits about generals

One Of A Kind · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject:

yeah, as it stands i've just got to disable yuri. (I'm going to do that once i move on to sorting out the AI so I can knock Yuricountry out of all the AI teamtypes and stuff so I don't kill the game by disabling it)

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

DONT DISABLE YURI, we need him for the third MCV option for one of the sides!!!!!!!

One Of A Kind · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject:

don't worry, i'm on about disabling the yuri country, not the side itself. I've already got Russia, Confederation and Arabs using all Yuricountry's units and structures so to disable that one country won't be a problem, trust me.

Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Ok then, you had me worried there for a moment.

One Of A Kind · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject:

lol, damn those temporary bouts of insanity Wink

LtGenLewis · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:52 am Post subject:

This is a little off topic, but Im sort of doing the same thing as yall. Im MODing RA2 to be a Desert Storm version... and I was wondering if one of yall, might tell me how to disable certain countries?

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hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

U should ask this in the RA2 forum we have here at PPM.

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