#0001 -- ThirdSide And More... Options

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HyperPatch Development Discussion #0001

Alright, first discussion topic of the sub forum!


Topic Theme: Adding full support for more than two houses into the game engine.

Ok then, now how should i go about coding this up? Remember this includes everything that is house related, Loading Screens, Sidebars, EVA Speech and so on. There are many ways to do so, but i want to hear what works best for the modders themselfs!

Remember to think simple, while try to expanded as many hardcoded problems as we can. I can add new INI keys to HouseTypes, so if you wish, you can suggest a full list of keys to be definable on the HouseType in the INI.

Have fun and remember, its just a game at the end of the day, dont take it too seriously!

Basically anything goes here, as long as your polite and respectful to peoples views and to myself, i wont take action towards you like deleting your posts or even getting you banned from the Tiberium Web forums itself if it has to come to that. I want to lay them rules down in the first post, and i hope people stick to this.

-Hyper

This post has been edited by CCHyper: Aug 3 2009, 12:12 AM

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I'm not a member of any mod (atm), but I once tried to create a third side and that sounds to be a great system for making new sides (and especially for new sub-factions).

Moving the [AI] section also sounds great. How about adding these two keys there too? (this way we can have more "personalized" AI, like some subfactions would be really aggressive (high value in ComputerBaseDefenseResponse) and some would pretty much just build defenses).

Also, how are you going to add these tags for the new sides (or, are these tags even used at all in base TS? Too lazy to check the exe now )?

Maybe add also them to the [<Faction/Side>] section, with some"BaseDefenseCoefficient" name for the key.

I can add code to the game via "hacking" the games code, or hooking as some people like to call it. To do this i have to add space into the executable.

I could in theory add any global value to be house specific, so keep giving suggestions!