How to fix super large building missing corner?

wofulo · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 19 Feb 2021

I made some real scale buildings. But they won't display properly in game. If I give them custom foundation, which did solve the problem, I can't move it in the FA2YRPsp map editor. I plan to make every building looks like the following. Is there any way to solve it?

By the way, anyway to add new technos in the editor?

Thanks.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 6:35 am Post subject:

FA2 doesn't know how to read the Ares custom foundations tags, so it will make any buildings that uses it the default size of 1x1. You can click click on the north most cell of the building to edit it's settings or move it.

Large buildings have problems with parts getting cut off or overlapping with other buildings or units. I've tried to fix these issues by editing the buildingz.sha file which controls the Z data for buildings, but had mixed results. You can read more about it here.

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wofulo · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 19 Feb 2021

Mig Eater wrote:

FA2 doesn't know how to read the Ares custom foundations tags, so it will make any buildings that uses it the default size of 1x1. You can click click on the north most cell of the building to edit it's settings or move it.

Large buildings have problems with parts getting cut off or overlapping with other buildings or units. I've tried to fix these issues by editing the buildingz.sha file which controls the Z data for buildings, but had mixed results. You can read more about it here.

Thanks. I noticed that people reported that it may cause some animation layer problems. Anyway, I solved the problem by giving them the biggest foundation in vanilla and expanding the bottom margin to 150 in SB. It works very well so far, I don't know the logic behind it though.

How about adding new units/buildings? I read an old thread saying that you need to make a standalone .ini and put it into the editor manually. It's too complicated. Has there been any improvement?
I heard that Mental Omega has made their won map editor.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:55 am Post subject:

Go to Options > Settings on the menu bar & check that "Support mission disks and mods" is selected. Also check that the path to the Red Alert 2 folder is correct. If they are both set then any new units you have added to the rulesmd.ini will usable by FA2.

As a last resort though, you can also put a copy of the rulesmd.ini file inside the folder were FA2 is installed to make it read any changes you have made.

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wofulo · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 19 Feb 2021

I seem to understand the problem. I use include function of Ares. The editor changes the model and shps I altered, but no new units because I never registered them into the rulesmd.ini. I used new ini files that are included into the rulesmd.ini.

Do I need a complete version of rulesmd for it to work for the editor?

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:41 am Post subject:

Yeah that would be the problem, as I mentioned before FA2 cant use a lot of the new features added by Ares. FA2 was made about 15 years before Ares was introduced, someone would need to make a new map editor that is compatible with Ares for some of its new features to work.

You'll need to make a copy of your rules file that has all the stuff from the new include files combined together specifically for FA2 for it to work properly.

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wofulo · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 19 Feb 2021

It turns out that it's not that bad. All you have to do is to paste your new register list into the rulesmd.ini. Thank God I didn't dissection the artmd.

All my new stuff displayed under the "other" and no name was shown. I didn't edit the scf file. Does this cause it?

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:42 pm Post subject:

I think FA2 uses the Owner= or AIBasePlanningSide= tags to decide which section of the menu to put buildings.

FA2 uses the Name= tag & not the UIName= for the display name.

So just adding the [BuildingTypes] or [VehicleTypes] list isn't enough, you also need to add sections for every new unit/building with basic stuff like Name= to the rulesmd.ini too.

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E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

As you are using FA2sp.dll extension for FA2, with FAData.ini -> [ExtConfigs] -> BrowserRedraw=yes, you can define your own categories under [Sides] and use [ForceSides] to place technos as needed. By default, all new technos are assigned -1 value and are placed under Others branch. You can define the index for every new unit etc. in FAData.ini to make those appear as you wish.

Check for details - https://github.com/secsome/FA2sp/blob/master/DOCUMENT.md

FA2sp should be checking csf and Name= in rules for names on the sidebar.

wofulo · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 19 Feb 2021

E1 Elite wrote:

As you are using FA2sp.dll extension for FA2, with FAData.ini -> [ExtConfigs] -> BrowserRedraw=yes, you can define your own categories under [Sides] and use [ForceSides] to place technos as needed. By default, all new technos are assigned -1 value and are placed under Others branch. You can define the index for every new unit etc. in FAData.ini to make those appear as you wish.

Check for details - https://github.com/secsome/FA2sp/blob/master/DOCUMENT.md

FA2sp should be checking csf and Name= in rules for names on the sidebar.

Thank you very much.