[froniki]

People prompt how to pass limit in 128 upgrades in CnC generals ZH???

[Vanguard]

It says LIMIT. Meaning you can't go higer than that.

[froniki]

I need to up it to maybe 512
and i need to know how can i do it?

[CodeCat]

You can't. There's a limit for a reason...

[froniki]

It bad very bad.....

[DeeZire]

Its not strictly a limit, its to do with 'bitwise functions'.

Each object (and in this case its properties) is stored in RAM as a binary string like this;-

0010100101001010

Each digit represents a property of the object, and some of those digits represent possible upgrade options. Where the digit is '1', the object has that property. Where the digit is '0' it doesnt. When you upgrade an object, you change the digit from '0' to '1'. Removing the upgrade changes the digit to '0'.

In programming terms, you take the binary string and perform a 'bitwise logical OR' on it. So, if the upgrade for 'extra armor' is this;-

0000000000000001

...and your object properties is this;-

0000000000101010

...then a logical OR will produce this;-

0000000000101011

... in other words, your object properties now gain the 'extra armor'.

Theres the programming lesson over with, what that means is that theres only so many possible combinations with which you can perform those functions in Zero Hour because of the way in which upgrades are stored as binary strings - and that limit is 128 (7 bits).

In simple terms - you cant have more than 128 but now you know why

[MisterGoid]

great response deezire

[CodeCat]

And KindOfs work the same way, just for your information. That's why you can't add any. And DamageTypes and DeathTypes probably work the same way too.

[Phoib]

Originally Posted by DeeZire

Theres the programming lesson over with, what that means is that theres only so many possible combinations with which you can perform those functions in Zero Hour because of the way in which upgrades are stored as binary strings - and that limit is 128 (7 bits).

In simple terms - you cant have more than 128 but now you know why

Or: Your total number of upgrades is 128. Which doesn't mean that each upgrade has to be tied to a single unit, so combining them using the same logic twice (so each upgrades gives an extra to 2 units) every time gets it to 256 upgrades for the total number of objects.

Just use more global upgrades, and you won't run into that limit too soon.

[Vanguard]

Exactly.