Walen

I have completed the mod and it is available for download at PlanetCnC. If you think it is worthwhile to ul it somewhere else let me know. Black screen with VDMSound usually just means you didn't get the sound settings right though... it's a classic mistake. Just compare the VDM settings with the settings in C&C's CONQUER.INI. Once they're the same, it should work.Oh my, of course it works. Indeed, when I had run the dos version I recalled that the unit icons were yellow for GDI and red for NOD. I will propably reconsider making a special red version of the mod for NOD fans. I also noticed some other differences between dos and 95 versions. In dos ver. it ticks when progress is made while building and the screen is shaken when something big is destroyed. Any way of restoring this?

There was a link to a demo that contained original pics. Thanks man, it worked like a charm. Do the unit icons adapt? I have never noticed that, but again it was a long time sice I last played dos cnc. There is a single pic so this must change the palette, right? Surprisingly they do not look THAT bad or pixelous, only a bit blurred with the shiny high-res interface. I guess making the icon background brighter would help a bit. Unfortunately it refused to work for me for unknown reasons, as I already said here. Anyway modding is a better solution for me. Right now I have already swapped minigunner icon. There are quite a lot of icons so I'll think of a method of automating the process, but one way or another I should finish what I started sooner or later. I could provide the results then for someone else to use. And btw, do you know of any way of capturing game screen by any chance? There is something messed with palette change (8-bit <-> 16-bit) when the game is running, so all programs return either almost black screen or quirky colours.

This is becoming a modding help thread;) Well I have found a program that can manipulate mix files and got the demo that has the old pictures. I have already managed to extract a sample minigunner picture (E1ICON.SHP) from DEMO.MIX but cannot find it's counterpart in CONQUER.MIX in TFD folder (or in any other .mix file). I seriously hope unit icons are not hardcoded there... I also tried simply adding the icon file to CONQUER.MIX, hoping it will overwrite the new icon choice, but it didn't work. Generally I think the high resolution is fine, vga is a long dead technology. Cnc95 plays so much nicer than DosCnc. Only those pictures...

I am playing The First Decade pack's version of the fist Command & Conquer game (Tiberian Dawn I think). I remember the unit pictures from the dos version and want them back, very, very much. And btw, any tips on whether one can expect a 1.03 patch for TFD?

I just installed this classic and noticed the terrible unit and building pictures in the sidebar. How can I restore the original images??? Thanks for your help.