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)

[OmegaBolt]

Well I don't know how to change it.

[Rampastring]

About a month ago I found out how to change the hardcoded Mammoth Mark II strength and I changed it to 5000 just to test it.. and it worked. Not sure if changing the cost of the walls would be as easy though (although it took me an hour to change the strength because it was the first time I was really using IDA and I wasn't familiar with its GUI, but now I could do it in a min).

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Apr 2 2010, 07:49 PM

[Revolutionary]

About a month ago I found out how to change the hardcoded Mammoth Mark II strength and I changed it to 5000 just to test it.. and it worked. Not sure if changing the cost of the walls would be as easy though (although it took me an hour to change the strength because it was the first time I was really using IDA and I wasn't familiar with its GUI, but now I could do it in a min).

my original way was very crude, i basicaly couldnt (at the time of that screenshot )remove the hardcoding so set it to apply the hard codding to "nothing" my methods works for the mammoth mk2, all 3 walls and ARTYHE but is very crude and will not work if i remember correctly for E2

ill work on this a bit more and have a look in to it deeper