Known exe hacks, To be made modifyable in rules.ini Options

[Bittah Commander]

A first release of HyperPatch likely isn't far away... If modders who need to do certain hacks in Game.exe with a hex editor to get certain things to work for their mod decide to use it, they'll inevitably have to do those hacks again when they start using HyperPatch.
If they have to do these hacks again and again every time a new version of HyperPatch is released, it'll likely put people off (and some hacks possibly can't even be done again because the offset to do them at has changed and there's no ASCII text to search for), so I'm making a list of known hacks which should be made modifyable in rules.ini in so mods that use HP will remain compatible with every new version of HP that'll be released. If anyone knows of any known hacks (this means there's either mods that already use them or you or someone else knows how to do the hack) I didn't add to this list, please post them.

• 32 facings
• Max tech levels
• DropPod infantry
• AllowHiResModes enabled by default
• SidebarCameoText default value (possibly make its default value modifiable in rules.ini)
• UnitActionLines default (this is not really important, but I'd suggest you either disable this by default or make its default value modifiable in rules.ini)
• IsScoreShuffle (enabled by default)
• Filenames (rules.ini, art.ini, tibsun.mix, expand01.mix, etc.; low priority since they can always be easily found and replaced via ASCII search)
• Theater names (low priority since they can always be easily found and replaced via ASCII search)
• Theater template extensions (.sno/.tem; low priority since they can always be easily found and replaced via ASCII search)

[SeekSomethingNew]

Would it be possible to edit the .exe so that it allows objects using unittem/unitsno.pal pallettes to be lighted? (Example: stuff using the terrain pallette gets a greenish hue when in the vicinity of a green light post or when the map lighting is green).

BTW, when the game switches to Ion Storm mode, the above already happens as far as the map lighting goes.

DvD!

I have looked at this before but i dont quite get how it works, and when you mean terrain objects, you mean Fona, Tib Trees, Trees etc?...

[Rampastring]

DvD!

I have looked at this before but i dont quite get how it works, and when you mean terrain objects, you mean Fona, Tib Trees, Trees etc?...

I think he means the same as me; for example, civilian buildings get lighted green when there's a green lightpost near them. However, players' buildings do not.

I'm not exactly sure if the lighting gets applied to Fona, Trees etc, but I think it does.

And like DvD said, players' buildings do already get coloured by the lighting during Ion Storms.

[The DvD]

I think he means the same as me; for example, civilian buildings get lighted green when there's a green lightpost near them. However, players' buildings do not.

I'm not exactly sure if the lighting gets applied to Fona, Trees etc, but I think it does.

And like DvD said, players' buildings do already get coloured by the lighting during Ion Storms.

Yup, that's what i mean exactly. Wether the object gets lighted or not depends purely on the palette it uses, btw. For example, i once converted all Nod base buildings to the ISOTEM palette and set UseTerrainPalette=yes in art.ini. In-game, those base buildings were lighted just like the surrounding terrain. Reason for me not using this in TSTW is that it doesn't work for the building animations

Had a screenshot on Tumsun like 5 yrs ago..