How do you make a map for Red Alert 2

crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

PLease if someone could tell me how to make a map for red alert 2. It would help me out a great deal.

Banshee · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

http://www.wagnerma.de (to download Final Alert 2) and http://www.cncgames.com (for RVMech's tutorials). Have fun!

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

THanks but wenever i download it a web page comes up with a whole bunch of wierd looking letters., What should i do.

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

What browser are you using?

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

Netscape.

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

Odd... Try using Internet Explorer to download it.

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John Galt · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

AFAICR, Matze screwed up his download script and ppl can't get FA2 1.02 from his site, look for mirrors or use 1.01.

crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

Awesome. I got it running and already made a level. But i have 2 questions. 1. How do i build a unit on a map and then when im playing in that map be able to control him. 2 how do i make units be able to be bought in like war factory or barracks ect...

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

1. Some kind of trigger.
2. Map modding. Copy the code that you would normally put in rules(md).ini into the map.

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

I think im over my head with this thing. Im not that much of a computer wiz and didnt get one word you said.

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

It is a lot to learn all at once.

I don't know much about triggers, so I can't help you there.

Inside the ra2(md).mix file is another file called local(md).mix and inside that is rules(md).ini. You can use XCC Mixer to extract it.

To change what units are buildable you change settings in the rules(md).ini file. Since you want to do it in a map, instead of changing code in the rules(md).ini file, you add code to your map, by editing it in a text editor.

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

THanx ill give it a look. Right now my main priority is to make new units and be able to use them. Thats would be so awesome if i could do that.

crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

i made a pretty cool level the other day and tried to play with it in multiplayer but whenever i would go to start a game it would say so and so dont have the map. But it doesnt say it will be trasnfered at the beginning of the game. Whats up with that???

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

Only some of the types of maps will be transfered at the start of a game.

I don't know which are which. If someone knows please tell me and I will add it to my FAQ page.

You may want to send the map to the other players some other way.

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Clazzy · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:35 am Post subject:

In RA2 it transfers .mpr filetypes, in YR it is .yrm. Westwood released filetypes in .mmx, and they have to be on both sides to work properly, the same goes for .yro, which is the YR one. Single player maps use .map, but multiplayer ones too if they're inputted into a .pkt file.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong there, AFAIK, it's right.

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

oooo. but could someone please telll me about triigers???

crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

so i guess know one knows anything about triggers

Clazzy · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

We do, there's just a lot to tell.

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crystalballer · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 25 May 2004

well is there anywhere i could find this info?

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

Try looking in the mapping forums at C-GEN, DGNF, and DeeZire.NET and in the tutorials sections that I link to on my tutorials page.

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