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[Stino]

the BFME ini files are on the blitz 3 site: www.derelictstudios.net/blitz3

[AdmiralGT]

*Drools*

Ok, after having looked through some of it, has anyone noticed the severe lack of Damage types. Damagefx lists just 6 damage types and there will presumably be a User_1 and User_2 leaving us with just 8 types.

There are a few other interesting ini's, weather.ini could be interesting, pathfinder.ini seems utterly useless as does LivingWorldLogic.ini, the rest look vaguely similar to their Generals counterparts now just arranged nicely into folders. The living world looks easy to modify but I just get this impression that the streamlining has eliminated a lot of things and replaced it with very few things.

Edited by AdmiralGT, 07 December 2004 - 09:05 PM.

[Hostile]

Notice also the weapons. Some have named ranges like Legolas bow and some have numbers like Golems sword. I could not find anywhere that listed what the ranges were for named ranges.

[Mastermind]

Named ranges are apparently defined constants. I have a link that appears to list them.

[AdmiralGT]

Thats just part of gamedata.ini which suggests to me that you can alter those definitions to what you want. Does seem a bit weird how it defines a constant in a different ini, why not just use a number in the first place......

[Destroyer]

well, if you just made some major change to what those numbers represent, it would be easier to change them in one quick list

[Hostile]

Forgot about that document, still seems redundant though MM. I guess it's more newb friendly.

[Mastermind]

I don't know though. So far I've been unable to get BFME to actually use any changes I make. I'm assuming they use the same directory structure as Generals (as seen in the BIG files), but it doesn't seem to work.

[Mastermind]

Just for those who might have read this topic. I've got it working now, but so far the game seems only to want to read from ini.big. With a little help from EA (ha), this could actually lead to a good ingame swapper.

[Hostile]

Seems we will actually have to resave back to .big based on what you say...

[Mastermind]

Yeah. That's exactly how I got a small mod to work. I'm still working out the art code, so no new units yet. I also have to figure out how to get turrets working. For now though, it's bed time here.

[AdmiralGT]

Am I the only one who finds it really annoying that it only reads a new .big file. Ok thats great for a finished mod since it will have to be stored in one/several .big files but when i'm actually modding I frequently change one value and retest for balance issues, add 1 new unit. This means I can only edit inside of a .big file and thus only edit one file at a time, normally I have 6-10 files open which I edit all at the same time for Generals and copy and paste bits that refer to each other, how can I do that now?

[Hostile]

I feel your pain, I do the same. If MM is right than this will slow up the tweaking process. Still wondering how wonder boy (MM) got the game. I'm still waiting for Best Buy's shipment to show up!

[AdmiralGT]

Fingers crossed I should get mine Saturday, thats if Amazon ship it to me on Friday. There normally quite good at shipping on time, but its got a delivery estimate of 22-23 November 2004 on it which makes me wonder.

[ambershee]

Amazon are shipping on December 09, to arrive minimum December 10 :/

I'm still waiting for my copy too

[Mastermind]

You need a Hex editor. If you open the .big file with a hex editor, you should see the first 4 characters that say BIG4. With your hex editor, change that to BIGF. It will then work with any released big editor. As for getting the game, I just went to my local EB Games on the 7th, and they had it in stock on the shelves. I called them on Monday to see when they would have it, and they said the 7th.

[Stino]

watch THIS

[Mastermind]

Deezire just posted some helpful information. If you add -preferLocalFiles to the games command line, it will use the file directory rather than reading just from the *.big files.