Yea , I would agree , the simpler changes that you seem to want to make , could all be achieved through the ini in a matter of no time , plus it seems that your really mostly interested in getting a few new models in the game for play. All you need to know in that case is what units you want to replace the models with and go find them in the apropriate faction ini.
Example. Get yourself a copy of FinalBig (or any other big extractor ) and extract Faction.ini . Put it in your C&C Generals/Data/ini Folder. (or ZH if that what you play.) Now go to the Edit/Find menu and do a search for AmericaVehicleHumvee.
It will hop you off to a spot in the code where you see this line.
Object AmericaVehicleHumvee.
Now a few lines under neath that is the conditionstate none model. Sits in a block like this.
Conditionstate None
Model = SAHUMMER
End
Change the model = to "YOUR MODEL" and all should be well.
Just remember all your textures have to be in C&CGenerals/Art/Textures
All your Models have to be in C&CGenerals/Art/W3D
Hope this helps and gives you a idea of how little is actually involved.
You don't need to do anything special. The only thing you need to do is make sure both players have the exact same mod. If you don't have the same mod, you can't join the game (it's greyed out).
So am I hearing this right: You need to REPLACE one of the units already there if you want to add a new unit? What if I like the existing units just fine, but want a new tank?
I also did a search for faction and faction.ini in my C drive and nothing shows up.
No, you can add new units without replacing others.
Faction.ini (and ALL of the INIs) are located in the INI.BIG file (in the Generals or Zero Hour directory). Go download XCC Mixer from xccu.sourceforge.net if you haven't already, open up INI.BIG, and extract the files to another directory. Then you can open the .ini in almost any text editor (i.e. Wordpad)
I ran into a problem of Win2000 not being able to open any BIG files in that editor you mentioned (It gave me an application error, then it quit) I'm gonna try the same thing on my home comp and see if I get the same error or if its just this work computer that is giving me troubles.
its a nice model and cameo resource!!
