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Hach-Que

Adding the cameo images to the game?

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I've put my cmhero.shp into cameo.mix, but when I put that as the GI cameo, it comes up as missing cameo.

 

Can anyone help?

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NEVER edit the original MIX files for any reason EVER. Ideally, you make your own set of MIX files for your mod's assets.

 

Also, I'd stick to Westwood naming conventions. IE; cameos are name xxxxicon.shp with xxxx being whatever you need it to be.

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But then how does RA2 know to load my mix file? Do I have to specify it somewhere? How does it know that that .shp file is for cameos?

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The game will load any MIX file it knows how to do (IE; ecache(md)XX.mix, expand(md)XX.mix and elocal(md)XX.mix; with XX being a number from 10 to 99). Your custom MIX files go right into the \RA2\ directory and the game will read it.

 

Cameos aren't special files but you have to tell the game in the art file to USE it as a cameo (IE; Cameo and AltCameo).

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I've created teams2.mix and in it I just have cmhero.shp (and the XCC database file). I've opened ArtMD.ini, and I've changed the GI unit to use CMHERO as it's Cameo.

 

[GI]; GI
Cameo=CMHERO
AltCameo=GIUICO
Sequence=GISequence
Crawls=yes
Remapable=yes
FireUp=2
PrimaryFireFLH=80,0,105
SecondaryFireFLH=80,0,90

 

But in the game (and TibEd), I still get missing cameo.

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Call it something like cmhicon.shp and change it in the art file. Before that though, make sure the file is in your game's directory.

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Okay, I've done that. It still says Missing Cameo.

 

My icon file is located at \RA2\teams2.mix\cmhicon.shp (SHP TS)

My ArtMD.ini file has:

 

[GI]; GI
Cameo=CMHICON
AltCameo=GIUICO
Sequence=GISequence
Crawls=yes
Remapable=yes
FireUp=2
PrimaryFireFLH=80,0,105
SecondaryFireFLH=80,0,90

 

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I know, I was just explaining where the file is located like that :P

 

cmhicon.shp is in the teams2.mix file, which is under the RA2 directory.

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Now I see it. Your mix file is improperly named. The game doesn't know what to do with teams2.mix. You should name it ecachemd99.mix or something similar.

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Thank you! It's working now. I should probably add this as the last step in my guide. Done

Edited by Hach-Que

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