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Article #27011Re: Using Mods
From: HeXetic
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:40
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:40
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There's no need to be so drastic. If you can isolate each mod into a single BIG file (use a utility like FinalBig to do this), then you can take advantage of a feature introduced in v1.4. From the patch readme for 1.4: -- - Added a new command line for mod developers that lets Generals run user-created content. Simply add the "-mod" command line after the generals.exe target path, followed by the name of any user-created .big file or user-created directory. The correct path would like this: "C:\Program Files\EA Games\Command and Conquer Generals\generals.exe" -mod MyGeneralsMod.big. All user-created content must be placed in the "Command and Conquer Generals Data" folder within your "c:\Documents and Settings" directory. -- Basically what this means is, if you package a mod into a BIG file and dump it in your \My Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Data\ folder, you can set up Generals with a command-line parameter to play that mod. This way you keep your core Generals installation folder 100% clean. -- - Tim G. "Ned O'Tennis" <digitalice@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:lbxMb.24121$Ee1.21239@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com > Hi All, > > I really like using mods, but eventually after 'addiing' and removing > several times zero hour gets corrupted. Can you load mulitple copies of > Zero Hour on your hard drive? Is that the best way for dealing with > multiple mods? > > > Thanks, > > Rob
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