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Help with Modding Zero Hour and some questions

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I am trying to mod Zero hour and I have a few questions regarding this.

 

I will explain what I am trying to do to make it easier to help out.

 

Basically what I am doing is trying to mod it so that I am taking all of the "benefits" of each general, and combinging them into the "vanilla" sides.. so I can play the "vanilla" factions and have all the strengths of the generals with none of the weaknesses.

 

So for example, I have started modifying the aurora bomber for vanilla usa.

 

 

Here is what I have done for starters just to test:

 

So far I have edited it to make it a fuel air aurora.

 

It has worked so far, however I am unsure how to change the icon to the fuel air aurora from the vanilla usa airfield.

 

I now want to add the point defense laser that the airforce aurora has.

 

I have noticed that to do this there needs to be an extra "behavior" under the AmericaJetAurora Object, however I see no way to "add" this extra behavior.

 

(I did this by comparing the airforce aurora object to the regular usa and superweapon ones... There is a 10th behavior for the airforce one with a "weapontemplate" AirF_PointDefenseLaser that needs to be added)

 

 

So my big question is... is there a way to export all of this into some kind of file that I can manually edit (that way I can add in new lines like a new "behavior" etc? Or is there a way within tibedit to add this?

 

Any other hints tips or advice would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

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I should add.

 

I looked into the tutorial on "adding" units since I thought this may be an easier way to do this (by cloning the unit I want to add)

 

but I don't have a clone button or anything like that

 

tibedjf7.jpg

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that is what it looks like for me, just have the "key/value" editor... how do I access the clone and other options?

 

edit: sorry the picture is so small must be an imageshack thing... I can make it bigger with this link (youd have to click it though)

 

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5776/tibedjf7.jpg

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My next question is:

 

I found the clone button, but only seems to work with certain upgrades on the right side of the window:

 

How would I clone an entire Unit? It doesnt show in the tutorial it just shows cloning an upgrade.

 

Anyway, my main question is... when you "clone" it... where does it appear? I can't seem to find the "clone" anywhere

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If you go to "General->Air force" for example, you will see a list of all the units. If you then clone it, it will show up at the bottom of this list under the name you enter.

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If you go to "General->Air force" for example, you will see a list of all the units. If you then clone it, it will show up at the bottom of this list under the name you enter.

 

 

Hmm

 

It doesn't seem to work (I'm mostly likely doing something wrong")

 

Here is what it looks like before I attempt to clone a unit (trying to clone the crusader tank)

 

preclonebn9.jpg

 

Now I am about to clone

 

preparepg1.jpg

 

Now I cloned it

 

clonedcn4.jpg

 

 

But as you can see at the bottom of the list it does not seem to appear. What am I doing wrong?

 

I think I can just go edit the ini files but would be nice if I could get this to working.

 

Thanks for your help

 

I don't get a dialogue to enter a name when I clone the object, it just seems to automatically do it.

 

Also I don't have 2 cloning options, the only option I have is to make an exact duplicate.

 

So I think that is the problem, is it possibly missing in my program?

 

I am also not able to right click on anything on the left (like the command button for it) to make a clone that way.

 

I did manage to clone it via editing ini files and importing a big back in, so I guess I will have to do it manually again but if you could help me on why the right click and whatnot aren't working correctly for me I would appreciate it (would make it much easier heh)

 

Thanks again

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You're cloning a "module" of the CrusaderTank. Not the unit itself. If you go up two levels in the tree (first to CrusaderTank, then one more to Vehicle). You will find a similar list of vehicles, where you can actually clone the vehicles.

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Yeah, I tried doing that also but there is no clone button available when I try to clone anything but modules for some reason. I'll see if I can get some screenshots of what comes up on my screen when I try that out.

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There is a clone (or add) button there... make sure you select the item you want to clone, and there should be a button like that. There is for me...

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