mduvall

Interesting. Now that you mention it, I've also tried OpenRa a couple of times and I also just didn't like it because it was so different from the original. At any rate, yeah, my intent is to clone the existing game as is, and then to potentially have a version with a few tweaks. But this is all a long ways off.... One thing I learned from my Robotron clone is that it's actually very hard to tweak the gameplay of an existing game and have it still be fun and balanced. For example, I thought it would be fun in Robotron to have a shield that the player could activate for a few seconds, but that ended totally unbalancing the rest of the game and making it much too easy. So then I tried to make something else harder to balance it back, and I found it very difficult to get it just right and still be challenging AND FUN. It made me realize that the 'programming' part of the game is VERY different than the actual game design. And the game design is MUCH harder to get right.

@Nyerguds - Thanks for that additional info. I'll dig into to all that when I get to that point. @AchromicWhite - My project is at: https://github.com/mike-duvall/mike-and-conquer, although I'm not sure how interesting it will be. There is not much there yet and it's going to be slow going, since I'm only putting in about 30 minutes every other day on it. My initial aim is to just recreate the original C&C functionality exactly as is. I might experiment with new new stuff later, but like I said, it's going to be slow in coming. This is just something I do as a hobby purely for my own entertainment. (So far I've also done a Robotron clone and a Bomberman clone) If you are really interested in more fully realized C&C re-make, you might want to take a look at http://www.openra.net/

Yep, that did it for me. Got it working. Many thanks!!!

Excellent! I'll see what I can make of all that. Thanks for your help!

The 'Register' link on this page: "http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php", appears to be incorrect. I clicked on the Register link and it gives me a 404 - Not Found. I looks like the Register link is using this URL "http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.phpaction=register" when it should be using this URL "http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php?action=register" I manually changed to use the second URL and was able to register. -Mike

I'm attempting to do my own remake of the original command and conquer(yes I know several others already exist), and I need some help figuring out what the color palette is for drawing NOD units. I've successfully read the SHP file for the minigunner and have drawn it on the screen using the correct colors by reading the color palette in temperat.pal file. However, I now want to draw the minigunner with the correct NOD colors, and I can't figure out what they are. I gather they aren't in a PAL file but are some how hard coded into the EXE? Is that true, and does anyone know what the correct colors are? My apologies if this has already been asked and answered. I search the forum but could not find anything. -Mike