Proposed development of YR 1.002 Community Patch

[CannisRabidus]

the inis needed to enable the Assault game mode

What are you doing about FakeC4?

4. LAND RUSH - yuri's dog situation.
Does Yuri get dogs at start? What about the select all of type issue?

Can't really fix this unless you do a CR-type dogs mod.

In Purple, the installer has a default-enabled option to turn off show hidden objects, and I'm inclined to add it to the YRCP too. Opinions?

My opinion is, and I think most players would agree: Leave my settings alone. I set them as I set them for a reason.

9. That whole business with the TX terrain control inis I mentioned earlier. I need to get in touch with the TX guys for this

Why would you need terrain inis? The TX will have them. Or am I missing something?

10. Cannis, what exactly is wrong with the Robot Control Center? And what do I need to change to fix it?

Bah, make me go search for my own posts on other forums why don't you.
- Missing damaged animation for the Robot Control Center, plus other fixes.
The animations for the RCC suffer from incomplete and incorrect code. The code for the normal animation plays 19 of the 20 frames (1 is skipped), the shadow anims are never played, and the damaged anim never appears at all. What you see in the game when the RCC is damaged is the normal anim playing over the damaged building (which is why the antennas are mismatched)... and then 4(! fire anims are plastered over this mess.

First, go into RULESMD.INI and add GAROBO_AD to the end (not somewhere in the middle! of the [Animations] list, since it is missing.

Then, in ARTMD.INI, change these 3 sections so they look just like this:

Code:

[GAROBO]
Remapable=yes
Cameo=RBCCICON
Foundation=2x2
Height=4
Buildup=GAROBOMK
DemandLoadBuildup=true
FreeBuildup=true
NewTheater=yes
ActiveAnim=GAROBO_A
ActiveAnimDamaged=GAROBO_AD
ActiveAnimZAdjust=-50
ActiveAnimYSort=543
CanHideThings=True
CanBeHidden=False
OccupyHeight=1
AddOccupy1=-1,0
AddOccupy2=0,-1
AddOccupy3=-1,-1
DamageFireOffset0=-20,23
DamageFireOffset1=18,35

[GAROBO_A]
NewTheater=yes
Normalized=yes
Start=0
LoopStart=0
LoopEnd=20
LoopCount=-1
Rate=220
Layer=ground
Shadow=yes
DoubleThick=true

[GAROBO_AD]
Image=GAROBO_A
Normalized=yes
Start=20
LoopStart=20
LoopEnd=40
LoopCount=-1
Rate=220
Layer=ground
Shadow=yes
DoubleThick=true

Now all the artwork will play correctly. I have altered the fire anim code so only 2 fires anims play, which IMO is plenty for a short 2x2 building. Interestingly, this is not only a fix, but is technically an optimization, since instead of playing 5 anims when damaged, you now only play 3.

On the subject of building fixes, I would like to see the animated gap generator included as well if cannis was ameanable to it.

It was a pain in the ass to make. Let me own it as a CR feature for a while.