Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject:
[Ares] Proper ThirdSide / YuriCountry Tutorial
Subject description: Fixing Westwood's quite confusing system for the side/country
This is a small tutorial aimed to give ThirdSide and Yuri their appropriate, Ares-powered side/country coding.
[ThirdSide]
UIName=Name:ThirdSide
Name=Yuri Country
Suffix=Yuri
Prefix=Y
Color=Purple
Multiplay=yes
Side=ThirdSide
SmartAI=yes
DefaultDisguise=INIT ;the default disguise for this side's spies
Crew=INIT ;the crewman to come out of destroyed/sold buildings
SurvivorDivisor=750 ;this is what the sell cost is divided by to yield survivors
AI.BaseDefenses=YAGGUN,YAPSYT,NATBNK ;these are his base defense structures
AI.BaseDefenseCounts=25,22,6 ;this is the base defense formula used to calculate how many defenses the AI will build based on base size.
LoadScreenText.Color=0,235,255 ;this is his regular red loading screen color.
ParaDrop.Types=INIT ;the infantry the paradrop will bring in. This supports vehicles, but in regular YR he only gets infantry
ParaDrop.Num=6 ;this is the number of the infantry paradropping in.
Sidebar.MixFileIndex=2 ; this is used to tell the game to load up the soviet mix file
Sidebar.YuriFileNames=yes ;this tells the game to use the special .mix files
;EVA.Tag= currently commented out due to non-functionality. You have to find this on your own.
[YuriCountry]
UIName=Name:YuriCountry
Name=YuriCountry
Suffix=Yuri
Prefix=Y
Color=Purple
Multiplay=yes
Side=ThirdSide
SmartAI=yes
File.Flag= yrii.pcx
File.LoadScreen=ls%syuri.shp
File.LoadScreenPAL=mpyls.pal
File.Taunt=tauyu%02i.wav ;the taunts used by this country. the %02i tells the game to load all 8 taunts.
LoadScreenText.Name=Name:YuriCountry ;this is the name of the country seen near the map preview box, normally on the country map
LoadScreenText.SpecialName=Name:YURI ;this is the name of the special object seen in the upper left of the screen
LoadScreenText.Brief=LoadBrief:YuriCountry ;this is the skirmish screen loading text
MenuText.Status=STT:playersideyuricountry ;this is the text on the bottom of the skirmish screen, seen when selecting a country
AI.PowerPlant=YAPOWR ;this is the building the AI will use to construct additional powerplants.
RandomSelectionWeight=1 ;this is the weight the country has when chosen in the random country option. It can be any value, with 0 turning it off from being chosen.
If you want a new sidebar, you have to use Sidebar.MixFileIndex=3, rather than 2. You won't need Sidebar.YuriFileNames if you have a new sidebar. _________________ Because Banshee saw fit to ban my other account for no reason, this is my new one. QUICK_EDIT
Nice tutorial, don't you need to add ThirdSide to countries too, or is that just a given? _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
That's a given, but you can simply append it to the end of the list. I didn't move GDI, Nod, Neutral or Special around at all. I just threw it at the end with no errors. _________________ Because Banshee saw fit to ban my other account for no reason, this is my new one. QUICK_EDIT
"ThirdSide" is a side tho & not a country, it doesn't need to be in the [Countries] list o.0
They still count as nations so it's a good idea to add them to the list, as they are already. _________________ Because Banshee saw fit to ban my other account for no reason, this is my new one. QUICK_EDIT
I mean, if you add a VehicleType to VeteranAircraft=, that works fine, too, right? _________________ #renproj:renegadeprojects.com via Matrix - direct link QUICK_EDIT
Hey m7 thanks for tutorial. But I somewhat had a problem with "LoadScreenText.Color=". Doesn't seem to work for me... Every time i change the color to purple it keep showing the loadtext color red.. Am I missing something? QUICK_EDIT
Owh so its a bug. Well I hope Ares team will fix this in Ares 0.2.
Also is the EVA.Tag= broken? According to the ares manual..
Quote:
Name of the INI tag to load from evamd.ini for this side's EVA (vocal interface assistant – e.g. Eva for Allied, Sofia for Soviet and Some Guy for Yuri).
Which means I should put..
Code:
EVA.Tag=Some Guy
But what I get was Sofia's voice... Even when I tried Eva I still gets Sofia's voice.. QUICK_EDIT
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