Problems with C4/Chronoshift Q/How to display custom text in main menu?

patric20878

Hello all,
How do I deal with the bug in Ares that causes SEALs/Tanya to die upon C4'ing a naval structure? I've been temporarily having them use a replacement "FakeC4"-style weapon for buildings instead, but it renders them unable to blow up bridges by entering a bridge hut. It also seems to disable them from shooting oil barrels with their primary weapon, instead making them attempt to C4 oil barrels. Unideal.

Also, is there any way to make a unit only chronoshiftable by its owner, not by any other players? I'm trying to make a unit of mine immune to offensive chronoshifts (e.g. teleporting it into water) while still retaining the ability for me to chronoshift it where I want.

Lastly, how do I display custom text in the main menu? I'm finally almost done with the mod I've been developing seriously for the last 3 years, starting since 9 years ago. I'd like to display my mod's title and my name there as credits.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 9:53 am Post subject:

Units with C4 can be caught in the blast if they can't exit the building foundation before it goes off. You can try increasing the units Speed= or C4Delay= to give them more time to escape.

You can't limit chronoshift by owner.

I presume you mean the animated logo in the main menu screen, its a bink video file called ra2ts_l.bik that you can find in the language/langmd.mix file. You can download Bink Video tools here and use it to convert an image or video into bink format.

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patric20878 · Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 7:44 pm Post subject:

Setting C4Delay to a high value (like 10000) on the unit didn't seem to do anything. Structures still explode just as soon and the unit still dies.

Unfortunate for the chronoshift topic. My mod has super expensive superunits I want to prevent being killable by Chronoshift cheese, while also letting them get teleported when I chronoshift them. Too bad if it really is impossible.

And I meant adding text to the main menu, not editing the animation there. The lower right of the main menu that normally shows the game version could be a good place to put the text.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat May 02, 2026 11:28 pm Post subject:

You can't add new text to the menu, only edit the text that it already there.

If you want to add your mod name next to the version number you can edit the game version text (GUI:Version in the csf file).

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patric20878 · Posted: Sun May 03, 2026 2:12 am Post subject:

Ah. Seems the text controlled by Gui:Version doesn't have enough space to include both my mod's and my name, so I guess I'll have to put it somewhere else. No clue where...

And anything to add about the C4 issue?

Mig Eater · Posted: Sun May 03, 2026 8:11 am Post subject:

Well as I suggested most mods replace the animated logo with their own mod name.

C4Delay= is a global tag in the [CombatDamage] section of the rules and doesn't work on individual units.

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patric20878 · Posted: Yesterday, at 12:03 am Post subject:

Is there any other area in the main menu I can add text to? I'd like to avoid changing the animated logo and stick to text only.

Also, upon setting C4Delay from 0.03 to 0.5 in the [CombatDamage] section, I saw that it seems to cause the C4 infantry to die shortly after C4'ing the building anyways, quite a bit before the building even explodes. So that didn't work either.