New mod feature in the latest patch

jonwil · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 24 Jul 2005

CCHyper clued me into a new feature in the latest patch that modders will be interested in.
The engine now supports a file called gameconstants_mod.xml that will be read and used to override gameconstants.xml.

If for example you want to override the zoom levels, you would make a gameconstants_mod.xml that contains something like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<GameConstants>
<GameConstantsClass>
   <CNCZoomFactors network="client" overwrite="true">
      <ZoomFactor>1.0</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.15</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.30</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.45</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.60</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.75</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>1.87</ZoomFactor>
      <ZoomFactor>2.0</ZoomFactor>
   </CNCZoomFactors>
</GameConstantsClass>
</GameConstants>

You then change the numbers to whatever you want (the above numbers are the stock settings)
When the game loads, it will use these settings in gameconstants_mod.xml instead of the stock settings in gameconstants.xml. The overwrite="true" bit is important to make it work.

You should be able to override anything in gameconstants.xml this way (although exactly how much of that is actually useful to override I dont know)