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

[Crimsonum]

HMEC:
-hardcoded strength of 1250 iirc

Is this really true? I once changed the strength (was 800 in rules.ini) to 1000, and I thought it did get stronger. Of course I could just have thought it up myself

EDIT: There's likely something hardcoded about the Technician too. For example, it only gets spawned from certain units/structures when they get destroyed/sold. These include the Juggernaut. Even then, it's more likely to get a E1 than a CTECH out of the object. Oh, and I noticed the CTECH has no image= flag, yet it uses the Civ 3 image. In Firestorm, the Technician displays an empty frame while firing when panicked. There's no change in Firestrm.ini or artfs.ini relating to the CTECH weapon/sequence whatsoever, so I have no idea what causes this one either.

Another bug/hardcoded thing would be the Construction Yard. When sold, you get no infantry out of it, like you do when you sell any other building with crewed=yes.

I don't know whether these are just bugs or hardcoded stuff, as I have no access to the exe atm.

This post has been edited by Crimsonum: Feb 16 2010, 08:50 AM

[Rampastring]

Is this really true? I once changed the strength (was 800 in rules.ini) to 1000, and I thought it did get stronger.

It is, haven't you read the patch notes?

Tiberian Sun Patch
Version 2.03
May 31, 2000

Changes in V. 2.03
------------------
- Fixed bug that could have a negative impact on game
performance at the beginning of a multiplayer game.

- Fixed bug that could cause the game to lock up if a player
sold their last building after surrendering.

- Fixed bug that allowed cheating players to lock their opponent's
harvesters out of their own refineries.

- Mammoth Mk II hit points changed from 800 to 1200.

- Fixed a condition where a multiplayer disconnect would
occasionally fail to be reported.

So, Revolunionary should change the strength from the hardcoded list from 1250 to 1200.

I could also probably check the technician thing.. except that I got hit by pneumonia some days ago and I'm too lazy to move to the other PC where I have all the necessary tools for EXEs.. I just got some intravascular medicine for it -.-'

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Feb 16 2010, 02:50 PM