Adding a new Side

Minimal version: 1.05

This Tutorial is designed to aid people using the RockPatch in the creation of a completly new side.

Adding new countries

I recommend to check out the tutorial about how to add new playable countries, which covers everything you have to do in order to add new countries for your new side.

Adding the new side

Head to the [Sides] section in rulesmd.ini. There you should add your own side (name can be customized) after ThirdSide:

[Sides]
GDI=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance
Nod=Russians,Africans,Confederation,Arabs
ThirdSide=YuriCountry
;New Side, it's important that your fourth side is also 4th in the list!
FourthSide=NewCountry ;you can use any name for the side and add any country to it
Civilian=Neutral
Mutant=Special

Now, head to the BaseUnit tag in the [General] section and add your new side's MCV to the list.
Note: that all the countries of the new side must be in the Owner list of the new base unit!
In the [General] section, create the FourthPowerPlant tag and attach a valid building type to it, which will be the power plant of the new side (required for AI!).
Note about buildings: with the RockPatch, the game should recognize every first letter for BuildingTypes as valid. This means that you can use different theater shemed buildings with any first letter (i.e. "KABRCK", "SUCNST" etc).
To use a special loading screen text color, you can add the FourthLoad tag to the [Colors] section.

Also FourthDisguise, FthParaDropNum and FthParaDropInf tags are available.

The following tags should be added in order to get a working AI:

[General]
FourthSurvivorDivisor=[number] ;currently, this is only known to allow one survivor
FourthBaseDefenseCounts=25,22,6
FourthCrew=[InfantryType] ;works, but see note at survivor divisor

[AI]
FourthBaseDefenses=[defensive buildings]

Requirements for the new side

The new side needs all the basic factories and structures (ConYard, Barracks, Ore Refinery etc.) which all the other (playable) sides have as well.
Attach the value 3 to the AIBasePlanningSide tags of the 4th side's buildings.
Note that the ConYard and the MCV must not be owned by any country but by the new side's countries!
Also don't forget to add the naval yard to both the Shipyard tag and the BuildNavalYard tag!
Another thing which is required is the existence of the sidec04.mix file. Simply clone sidec01.mix or sidec02.mix and either leave the graphics inside or edit them for your side.
If the file does not exist and you want to play as the new side, the game is about to crash.

Since RPCE, you can add a fourth EVA. Simple put Fourth=[file name without wav] in EVAMD.INI file
If you didn't add EVA for 4th side, you will not been listen any EVA voices in game at all.

[DialogList] 
1=EVA_NuclearSiloDetected 
... 
    
[EVA_NuclearSiloDetected] 
Text=Warning: Nuclear Silo detected. 
Russian=csof001 
Allied=ceva001 
Yuri=cyur001 
Fourth=cfth001 ; New 
Type=QUEUE 
Priority=IMPORTANT

Finally, the 4th side requires AI triggers. If no AI triggers exist, the game crashes. Set the trigger's side to 4 in order to make it work for the new side.

What's not done yet

There is still a lot to do to complete the support of a 4th side in the Patch.

 

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Last change: 25.12.06