How can I change team names?

[Eldamir 0]

Hi there, I`m new at mod-making, so I ask you for some help.

 

I have Red Alert 2: Yuri`s Revenge and have downloaded XCC Mixer. Now, everything I want to do is to change the team names in the game, I mean the names of the countries I can play with. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that, it's too complicated for me.

 

I would be very grateful if somebody tell me how to do that - which files do I need to change and how.

 

Sorry if there is already such a topic, I looked for it but haven`t find any.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Extract the CSF file, open it with the XCC Mixer's string editor, find the countries and change the existing name into what you want. That'll change the names in-game but you'll have to modify the loading screens yourself.

[Eldamir 0]

Eeeerm...

 

Thanks for the post, but I'm afraid I didn't understand what exacly I have to do...

 

Well, I've got following programs: XCC MIX Editor, XCC AV Player, XCC Mixer and XCC TMP Editor. I opened a file in my Red Alert 2 folder called language.mix. It contains some files and the last of them is ra2.csf (it's the only .csf file I've found). I extracted it to a separate folder and tried to open it with the XCC-programs, but I couldn't. What should I do now? :?

 

Extract the CSF file

Is this file 'ra2.csf' in 'languages.mix' the one you talked about?

 

open it with the XCC Mixer's string editor

I didn't manage to open ra2.csf with XCC MIX Editor or with XCC Mixer, because these programs work only with .mix files.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

XCC Mixer's string editor

[Eldamir 0]

Big thanks, I've done it!

 

I also made a new flag and load screen, but how can I put my images into the .mix file in order to replace the originals with the new ones?

 

I extracted local.mix, where the flags of the counries are stored and tried to replace one of them and insert a flad that I've made (with the same name and in the same format), but XCC MIX Editor always fails to save these changes, so as a result the flag remains the old one in the game...

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Use an expand mix. Never edit the default files. Expand mixes take priority over stock files.

[mongoose41 0]

Use an expand mix. Never edit the default files. Expand mixes take priority over stock files.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is an expand mix?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Custom mod mix file usually.