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Command & Conquer: Legions (New phone game)
ApornasPlanet replied to ApornasPlanet's topic in Command & Conquer: General Discussion
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GenPatcher and GenTool Updates for Recent TUC Builds
Munja replied to Plok's topic in Command & Conquer News
Fortunately I had installed them to another PC with Origin, on March of 2023 and everything is ok. TUC launchers working without asking the EA application to be running. So I kept those installations for future-proof gaming. -
GenPatcher and GenTool Updates for Recent TUC Builds
Plok replied to Plok's topic in Command & Conquer News
If you mean the patched launchers, they are currently obsolete. Last month's update changed too much for them to be viable still. They are also completely useless for the Steam versions because Steam never used those launchers. To revert the games to a usable state, verify the files from EA App or Steam (whichever you choose to keep) and only apply the individual community fixes (GenPatcher/GenTool for Generals and Zero Hour, CnCNet patches for the older games etc.). -
GenPatcher and GenTool Updates for Recent TUC Builds
Munja replied to Plok's topic in Command & Conquer News
I made the mistake to update them through EA application and now the patched launchers don't work. They asking for EA background services to be enabled. The same occurs with the Steam versions. Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun and Renegade are ok, because I patched them with the modern patches. The problem is on Red Alert 2, Generals and Zero Hour, C&C 3 and RA 3. All patched with TUC launchers fix and Generals with GenPatcher and GenTools. -
Hey i want to learn how to mod ZH to my own liking but right from the start im having some issues. Im modding YR on CnCNet and know most of the things there is to it but this here in Generals is a bit more complex than i thought. I want to reenable/recreate most of the cut content that they left out due to time constraints. Stuff like the unique command centers. All the laser units were planned and the actual laser particle cannon. Tomahawk storm and cruise missile silo. Well i am unable to even find out how to make the Paladin tank buildable for superweapon general and without having to be promoted. I think i found the line regarding promotion, under Prerequisites, SCIENCE_PaladinTank? But what would i replace that with? Simply "none"? Or remove that line entirely? But i still cant find any line regarding on how to have it appear in WF buildlis Also i know that most of the command center models are there in the gamefiles except tank general but how would i make the game use the models? I assume i have to replace that line next to Model for every state? But what is the name of the cut model? Do those models have damagestate models too? I want to make some civilian structures able to be build by some generals for upgrades like toxin/nuclear bunker. Do i just copy and paste the .ini stuff from those buildings to the general i want to have it? But how to make it buildable? I want to have command center and barracks flags from US use the US flag. There might be one in the gamefiles, the aircraft carrier that gets destroyed by the GLA using the particle cannon is simply flying a blue flag ingame aswell but during the cutscene you can see very briefly that it actually had a US flag originally. I want to do the same with GLA and chinese buildings, i know theres a GLA flag from the scud storm but is there even a PRC/PLA flag ingame? And if so what would those flags be called? I see there is a flag section on the command centers in .ini. Lastly, I want to add units/structures and generals abilities from other mods. Mostly Shockwave and Chaos submod. Most likely i will just have to place the stuff i want from the mods .ini in the correct vanilla .ini right? But how does one transfer the models and make that stuff buildable? Thanks alot for your help!
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I legitimately forgot about that. Some things are better left out of one's mind... *shudders*
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The latest versions of Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection were published with new executables, which naturally caused incompatibility with several community tools, among them the irreplaceable GenPatcher and GenTool. However, their developers were quick enough to develop tweaked builds so everyone is on the same page. GenPatcher, the one-stop patching tool for fresh Generals and Zero Hour installations, received three versions by now - 2.07 beta, 2.07b and 2.07c. In addition to the new TUC releases being supported, the tool is no longer falsely detected by Malwarebytes, registry and serial key issues are adapted for the Steam version, and includes Windows Media Feature Pack among its redistributables that are installed if not found on the system. As for GenTool, the quality-of-life improvement tool for Generals and Zero Hour, version 8.7 brings the following changes: New Features Added compatibility with Generals and Zero Hour The Ultimate Collection (Steam, EA App) Added warning message popup for non-x87 compatible generals executables Fixed game version mismatches for various compatible executables Fixed missing hashing of scb files for game version hash generations Fixed C&C Online login kick by generating random ergc game keys when so required Added -showFrameCount command line argument to draw frame counts Fixes/Improvements Fixed severe performance degradation with Steam Overlay (GameOverlayRenderer.dll) Fixed crash on application boot with Windows XP 32 Fixed dysfunctional GenTool Updater in Windows XP Fixed theoretically unsafe code with Windows XP Fixed minor inaccuracy of FPS counter and FPS limiter Fixed incorrect terrain draw distance after changing camera height Changed Upload Player ID generation by adding another salt Improved game version names for uploaded txt files Removed forceful disabling of Origin In Game (IGO32.dll) Updater: Improved patch file formats and capabilities Updater: Improved the maps patcher for future map releases Updater: Removed the replacement of the Zero Hour no-CD game.dat Updater: Removed the replacement of the Generals Origin generals.exe EDIT (30 March 2024): GenTool was bumped to version 8.8 to fix a slowdown issue on Windows 11 related to the framerate limiter. To keep your installation of Generals and Zero Hour as up-to-date and stable as possible, download GenPatcher, then GenTool (as the former currently includes the previous version of the latter).
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There is also the Tencent abomination Red Alert Online. C&C perhaps would have been better left dead than to see that horror in the light of day.
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Not many of us left in forums in general :/ Everything's moved to Discord and Reddit, and even then not much is going on most of the time. As far as the franchise goes - since you left, we got a combined remaster of TD and RA1 in 2020, with an actual source code release. Just this month, pre-TibWars games made it to Steam. Several fan tools got made or tweaked, active mods are not as plentiful as before but the heavy hitters are still live and kicking. A lot happened, but there was so much dead air in between that it doesn't much feel like it.
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Greetings All, So whats new? Its been many years since I've been here or looked at the community. I'm a different person these days compared to when I left some 6 odd years ago. Trying to find my way around again. Who is still here?
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So I'm very late to this topic. Been away from the community for many years now. But extremely saddened by this news of Zee's passing. Gone way to young.
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Can't connect to C&C Generals - Zero Hour
frothier replied to frothier's topic in Tech Discussion & Support
I have tried to make an account with Revora for days trying to figure this out and it won't let me. But thanks. -
Good to know. Well on the vanilla github stuff, did you notice they have some pull requests on hold for 3 years or more ? They currently have 41 open PR on hold for apparently an infinite time, some without any comments in them except the 1st post which is from the guy who created the PR.I opened a PR when I started work on this, which was rejected, and never took the pain to make another one after that, it's clearly a waste of time, it's like they decided they didn't want to evolve... ! A pity anyway... It's even worse for the issues, currently 310 open issues. Notice that a project doesn't have to always fix all the issues, sometimes they can explain why they won't fix something before closing the issue, but here they just leave them here... ! For OpenRA, it's still a recreation of the games from scratch, based on nothing (well at least on the source level, they seem to use some assets from the games, some modified ones sometimes), so it's still some impressive work. It's surprising they didn't try to keep some more compatible mode, with their changes some missions become totally different to play and it's good thing you can skip some missions with their interface ! Anyway, no use to talk about it for now, at least for the source... Maybe there is something to do with these assets one day though. About assets, there was a translation mistake in the french audio files in tiberian dawn for ever, the woman saying "batiment" when you try to build a unit or anything else when she should say "construction". I fixed it by getting the "construction" word from another recording and put it to replace the faulty one, after all these years this one is finally fixed (it was ridiculous in french !).
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Note, since the release of the source code, I have kept a close eye on the source when researching any issues I've found, and have reported them on the VanillaConquer bug tracker. So some stuff is on there. Some of the stuff mentioned there will make its way into a new version of this patch which I'm preparing. OpenRA never cared about keeping any parity with the original games, though. It's basically just its own game, in a C&C skin. I don't see much of a point in it from a C&C preservation / patching point of view.
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Oh well slow bug fixes on my part, fixed the credits number which could get totally crazy in 64 bits because of a %ld with an int. And fixed the bug where if you capture an ai refinery with a harvester in it and then sell the refinery, the ai will rebuild its refinery asap which is normal, but it will buy another unneeded harvester just before getting the free one which comes with the refinery ! This one was quite tricky, just added a delay based on JustBuilt, which is reset when the free harvester is given. It does wonders ! Also added the support for the [mod] section in conquer.ini and ModName inside to load a mix, and you can do it from the command line (useful in linux) with the -mod switch. Also f4 unshrouds the map all the time now, you don't need to mess with a Debug_Flag... I should look in the languages soon...
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I agree, but too bad the code is in c#, I could have borrowed some good ideas from them (their display is great, their gui is great (the one in c&c95 looks not too bad but it's actually totally dumb when you program it), and you can stack multiple units to be built).
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Precisely why all other open-source projects steer clear from it. It moves away too much.
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In case you didn't know, openra seems to be written in c#, there : https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA contrary to what the name seems to say, it's not limited to red alert, it recreates cnc, red alert and even dune 2k ! All this without the westwood source, quite impressive ! Now there are also some big differences in the game play, clearly their main target is the multiplayer game even if you can play the single player missions, all missions are available from the start through their interface. Lots of good ideas inside anyway... !
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The game has no official release in Russian. I'm aware there were some groups that translated and released the game in Russian however
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where russian pack?
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Can't connect to C&C Generals - Zero Hour
Plok replied to frothier's topic in Tech Discussion & Support
This isn't the C&C:Online support forum, nor do we have resources to help with networking issues there. Please direct support requests here: https://forums.revora.net/forum/2735-cconline-support/ -
Yeah well the issue was about music not starting in a multiplayer game, I can't be sure about that, I didn't try multiplayer. I have tried launching my fork of vanilla-conquer from your directory and it seemed to work fine for what I tested so far... but of course, no special language support or anything like that yet. Yeah not that long ago you are right, I thought there had been a previous release of the source prior 2020. And this release in the remastered version is quite frustrating, you get the source for 2 dlls, but the program which calls them is a black box, so it's very hard or almost impossible to use this to target another platform like linux. Plus I looked a bit at it and couldn't find some of the changes I see in their game so I am quite puzzled ! Anyway, I played a little with the code, just starting to know it, so it's far from the binary patching you made, but still having fun anyway. I made a fork of vanilla-conquer here, and adding stuff slowly : https://github.com/zelurker/Vanilla-Conquer/ For now I just added the funpark mission to the list of new missions as you did, seems like a good idea (it was done also by the remastered version). And I fixed a bug where it doesn't find the theme songs from themes if using some language different from english, because it just can't find the original titles used in the theme files in this case ! (using a french install). I'll probably look into adding these console missions next, and your other language support looks like a neat idea, so maybe later... I wanted to add the function where you can stack a few units to be built in the remastered version but couldn't find this in their code !!! I might try to do it from scratch later. For info on my side, fluent in C, less in c++ but I manage, less in asm, and not at all in c# ! (it's probably because I am a linux users and it's rare to use c# in linux). C is very close to a kind of universal asm in fact, that's why it was created at the origin, so you should like it if you really get into it !
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I used powershell to test the connection and these are the results I got: [INFO REDACTED] I’ve tried creating an account on the forum and I’ve joined the discord for help so I’m hoping this email reaches someone who might be able to help me. I’m trying to crate a new account on C&C Generals Zero Hour Online and I keep getting this error: "Could not connect to C&C Generals"
