New to red alert 2 editing a few questions

irjason · Civilian **Joined**: 20 Apr 2008

Hey all, First post woop woop. Me and my friend lucy.. have been playing red alert 2 over a net work.. i downloaded a program to make custom map's very basic program.. figured that out in secounds.. made a nice flat map so we could make a huge army etc.. but i started to use TibED to edit what thing's do.. such as price of tanks etc.. making them cheaper to run faster.. so we don't spend 6 hours last yesterday opps.. hunting box's and resource's so we can build a kick ass army! i set thing's up and transfered all the file's to my friends lap top.. but when we create a network game.. my team is fine.. but after a certain amount of time her team just randomly blow's up. anyone have any idea why this would happen. and is there any tool's out there to be able to edit the gfx side of thing's e.g. changing the gfx of tank's etc.. to make my own custom tank's in photo shop? help plz! =] n thanks in advance! Very Happy

Thing's in tibet i changed are as follow's if it helps u figure out what is wrong.

Changed Price Of Following:

Changed Allied Priston Towers to 100 Resources Each.
Changed Allied Pill Box to 100 Resources Each.
Changed Allied Patriot Missiles to 100 Resources Each.
Changed Soviet Flak Cannon to 100 Resources Each.
Changed Soviet Tesla Coil to 100 Resources each.
Changed Teleporting Dudes! to 100 Resources each.
Changed Allied and Soviet Power plant's Cost to 100 Resources each.
Changed Allied and soviet War Factory Cost to 100 Resources Each.

Other Changes:

Changed Allied and Soviet Power plant's to 1000000 Power each.
Changed Tech Oil Derrick From 200 to 2000 Resources per second.
Changed Allied And Soviet Construction Vehicles to be able to be used on both teams.
Changed Speed of Soviet and Allied Ore Miners to 10.
Added sniper to all teams.
Added Spy Sat to all teams.
Added Cloning vats to all teams and made them unlimited.
Added Grand Cannon to all teams.

Thats about it thx again in advance!

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

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but after a certain amount of time her team just randomly blow's up

It's a piracy thing. Err, just reinstall RA2 and see if it helps. If it doesn'thelp you need to do something with the registries which I unfortunately don't know.

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

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Sorry, dcoder and mei's posts were still here when I posted that.
Tanks are voxels (made of cubes positioned in 3d space) and you can only do them in photoshop if you make each layer then compile them (I think).

The best thing to do is to d/l some from somwhere and look at them using the tools from the front page.

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irjason · Civilian **Joined**: 20 Apr 2008

Well.. that suckz.. wanted to mess about with my friend on it #Tongue

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

There's lots of tutorials around this site, so I suggest you to check them... and get rid of TibEd.

Here's some useful links:
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8765
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11081

irjason · Civilian **Joined**: 20 Apr 2008

awh thx.. =] was just the first editing thing that came up when i used google #Tongue

Banshee · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject:

From PPM FAQ wrote:

Question: In Red Alert 2, all my units explodes in about 10 seconds. Why?

Answer: Nobody really knows why this thing happens. It might be because you have edited something you shouldn't, but problems in nearly all cases have been after editing the game in some way. To fix it, you must re-install Ra2.

http://www.ppmsite.com/?go=ppmfaq

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

@Banshee: Mostly it's caused by invalid RA2 registry files and addresses, like manually changing folder address in registry may cause explosion in 10 sec.

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

Mostly your units exploding after 10 seconds is a copyright protection issue, WW implemented it to protect against illegal copies of the game. My guess would be that either your friend has a copy of the game they didnt legally purchase from a reputable seller, or that when you copied the files over you copied something you shouldn't have and invalidated their install.

Banshee · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:31 am Post subject:

DonutArnold, editing the registry is one of the inumerous ways to trigger the copyright protection thing that explodes units in 10 seconds.

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

@Tratos, Banshee: Okie. Known any other ways?

General bert · Civilian **Joined**: 11 Dec 2007

If you have two installed versions of the game on the same computer it will explode as well

DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

Well, I suppose that playing with the previous install may cause explosion because there can only be one reg file from the game (excluding per-user reg files) and the game recognizes that the installation path address is not correct in the regfiles. Try to play the newest installed version.

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

General bert wrote:

If you have two installed versions of the game on the same computer it will explode as well

Why would you? Its much easier to just have multiple copies of the same install running from different directories, allowing you to run multiple mods without having to enable/disable.

Palkia323 · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 10 May 2008

I would download the inis not TibED!Anyways if u tell me what u want i can do it and email or post the changed inis!

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