Hard Coddings (i know it has been asked before) Options

[Revolutionary]

As you may know i am working on gathering a collection of tutorials on hex/exe editing for the CnC games. whilst i was looking in the Tiberian sun game.exe using IDA Pro i decided to look up the string "Firestorm" and then GAFSDF (firestorm wall) when i found it it was next to GAWALL and NAWALL. More to the point i knew all 3 had hardcodded values (gdi/nod wall to do with howthey are built, FS wall its cost) although i dont have enough knowledge on the subject i noticed that GAFSDF had a referance to Cost . It occured to me that i have never seen an attemp at a proper list of Hard Coddings for any cnc game.


The question is are there more hardcoded rules changes you have found or can you help identify what has changed?

Rules Related
GAWALL, GAFSDF & NAWALL: cost=250, GuardRange=5
E2: Explodes=Yes
NAPOST & NAFNCE: BaseNormal=false
HMEC: strength=1200 (1250?)
155mm: ROF=150 & Speed=115.
ARTYHE: Made weaker
FIRE3: (i assume this should be here)

Superweapon Related
Droppods= only E1 and E2 to be droped, pod.shp
emp: PULSEBALL


Other (and those which i dont know if they should be included under rules)
CARYLAND & DROPLAND
METSMALL & METLARGE
APC: searches for APCW to use a "in water" version.
only 3 tower upgrades
GAPLUG: GAPLUG 2, 3, 4 and [nothing] for AI construction rules
IONSTORM
VEINHOLE, Tiberium (can have more than 1,3/4)
Civ buildings, units cars, mutant creatures (the list would be to long)
CollateralDamageCoefficient
INVISO: must be to do with tag being linked to the "animation"
GDIFACTORY, NODFACTORY, RADAR, BARRACKS, TECH & FACTORY (posibly, ill try to confirm it)
XGRYSML1, XGRYMED1 & XGRYMED2
GasCloudM1

This post has been edited by Revolutionary: Feb 16 2010, 08:19 PM

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

i think you've listed already everything, except
VEINHOLE
-iirc you can't create a second veinhole

Droppod SW
-E1 and E2 are hardcoded to be used
-pod.shp is hardcoded to be used as the decending pod

The question is are there more hardcoded rules changes you have found or can you help identify what has changed?
Amphibious-APC

If the game finds a unit with the ID "APC" it searches for another file with the suffix w "APCW" and uses this version for the water movement. I don't think there's anything else hardcoded for the APC.

METSMALL (something to do with why entries are missing)
METLARGE

Both are used by the triggered meteor shower using Action "58 Meteor Shower At..."
If one is missing in the ini coding, the game freezes (no IE) when it tries to spawn the meteor.

GAWALL (buildable in strips)
NAWALL
GAFSDF (cost)

all hardcoded to have GuardRange=5 to create the 5 walls in a row.

HMEC:
-hardcoded strength of 1250 iirc

155mm:
-hardcoded ROF

CARYLAND
DROPLAND
-is one of them missing, you get an IE
-used by landing dropship and carryall

NAPOST
NAFNCE
-hardcoded to make the laser fence logic work on them