McPwny

if everythings black on the map editor it probably means that fa2 is looking in the wrong place for your ra2 folder. it could be a really old version of fa2 or set up wrong in that case. anyways you can try fa2sp which is a heavily modified version of the OG fa2 https://github.com/secsome/FA2sp or you can try world altering editor which is a more experimental but modernized complete remake of the map editor https://github.com/Rampastring/WorldAlteringEditor

it is its own dedicated .ini file that you can find by using xcc mixer and looking in ra2md.mix and then the localmd sub mix. once you see it it will all make sense, and all youve got to do is take the [genera] header i mentioned and the three lines i mentioned and put them in your map file. via text editor or via the ini editor built into fa2 both work fine

that looks like the entries on the list of buildings in a map, used to dictate building coords, owner, etc the secret lab stuff is in rulesmd.ini under the [General] header. the vanilla entries are SecretInfantry=SNIPE,TERROR,DESO,YURI SecretUnits=TNKD,TTNK,DTRUCK SecretBuildings=GTGCAN which means the game will pick one of these techtypes at random to give to the player upon capturing it. being a rules.ini entry, it is of course possible to add and edit these entries in the mapside ini

i tested that event ad nauseam and there just isnt any way to make it register individual houses like it does in single player. if you tell us what you are trying to do exactly we might be able to devise a workaround though

if your booting the game via the vanilla executable the maps will be read from the installation root folder (or any expansion mixes in the root folder) and the game will look for a .yrm file extension for yr maps and a .mpr file extension for base ra2 maps if your booting the game via the cncnet launcher, then the maps will be read from the maps>custom folder and the game will look for maps with .map file extension; you will need to change the file extension manually. thats assuming its a multiplay map. if its a campaign map then it wont be read by cncnet at all and it needs to be in the ra2 root folder and have the .map file extension

hey guys im just making a post here because i know that there is a gap between the modding community and the mapping one and i wanted to let everyone know about the recent new map editor for ra2 i wont make a drawn-out post but you can get it here: https://github.com/Rampastring/TSMapEditor/releases/ and dont forget to show rampastring some love for making this long-needed modernized ra2 map editor

that trigger action never has worked properly in vanilla multiplayer maps and just works for campaign. idk if mental omega maps use some kind of workaround hack or if something in their engine extension logic enables it.

adding new units requires editing the rules.ini and art.ini of the game and also putting the assets in a .mix file in the game folder. editing the AI requires editing the ai ini and writing in new sections. its fairly complicated and you may want to first try scripting the AI in maps before writing AI manually. all three of these ini files will be unique to each mod, meaning that you cant make them universally compatible across mods. you could however find an existing mod and offer to contribute to it so you dont have to specialize in so many things at once or have a monumental commitment to finishing it all yourself

looking at the soviet mission 01 for reference it looks like it just lists the filename directly in the 'briefing' entry of singleplayer settings. you can see the corresponding filename in the movie mixes via xcc mixer as for what input the trigger editor uses for action 100 'play movie', im not quite sure. its a numeric index and must be listed somewhere, but i cant find it atm

i think an mmx was actually a specialized .mix file that had the map + other data in it. if thats the case, then you may need to use xcc mixer to extract the .mpr from the .mmx 'mix' before changing it to .map on a side note, i wonder why we dont have this format of maps anymore. could in theory allow map packets to contain extra data opening new doors for map modders.

those ambient lights are actually a 1x1 foundation structure. the game renders them as invisible and passable to units, but they are still structures and structures cant occupy the same cell. if you use them on a map, its a good idea to put them on rocks or impassable tiles. fun fact about them is if you chronosphere an mcv into an invisible lightpost, it can disappear and make the game unfinishable.

add the code into the map [CACOLO01] Capturable=true you can do it via the fa2 ini editor, add the section CACOLO01 (dont add brackets to section name), then go to the section and add the key Capturable=true

so MaximumQueuedObjects= is a rules.ini tag and rules tags generally dont have settings in FA2. you can put modified rules code into a map though. there are 3 ways to do it 1 ) if its just a small snippet of code, you can do it manually in the INI editor in FA2. so in this case just go edit>ini, and click 'add' an ini section, enter 'General' since the key "MaximumQueuedObjects=" is under the [General] header in the ini. then go to that section, and add the key and input "MaximumQueuedObjects=99" and your done 2 ) if you are doing a lot of ini editing at once, then create a new ini file and write in all of the edits you want to insert into the map. in this case you would just write [General] MaximumQueuedObjects=99 save the ini, and hit "insert another INI file content in fa2 and insert it. this is how I usually do map modding 3 ) if you really know what you are doing... you can run the map through the ra2 map tool to de-compress the map code, then open the map in a text editor and input the entries directly into the map. the merit of doing it like this is it makes testing changes much faster, but opening and saving it in fa2 will re-compress the file

changing the renderer under options might or might not work. i can get screen recording working only with TS DDRAW (GDI) but the colors are off. im also curious to know if anyone has some advice on getting screen recording working reliably

its happening because your screen resolution exceeds the map size. its more of an issue with how the game behaves at large resolutions than an issue with cncnet. its kind of unfortunate, but playing at that res is usually not preferred anyways. on a side note, playing with super high resolutions generates a lot of lag ingame