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Die deutsche Dark Omen Version wird nicht unterstützt. Die ganzen Texte sind fest in der EngRel.exe reinkodiert, daher wäre es ein Riesenaufwand, den Mod Selector mehrsprachig zu machen.

Du kannst aber die Deutsche Sprachausgabe bekommen, dazu musst du im Sound-Ordner SP_DEU nach SP_ENG umbenennen.

That darkpatch.dll won't work with the German version. You have to take the EngRel.exe provided in the mod package of which converts the game to English. But the sound samples should still be German, only the text will be English.

Do you also see entries of ".CUR" or ".ANI" files in "Dark Omen\Graphics\Cursors" redirected? FindFirstFile is usually part of the "Your DO install is incomplete" check.

Looks like Cursors are created with "LoadCursorFromFileA" and if this doesn't go indirectly through CreateFile or MapViewOfFile it's not redirected.

And looks like the cursors are only initialized on Dark Omen startup, so changing the mod would not change them back.

Actually I like that they aren't redirected because this is imo a user decision which kind of cursors they want.

Ah, thats a side effect of too many maps? Okay, because my test file contained 100 .
Good then I will know that I fixed it ^^

Should work now. I updated the "latest version" link in the 1st post of the topic.


https://github.com/Ghabry/Dark-Omen-Mod-Selector/commit/0ab78f307a240db003055328ee02863916a2561d

About the Battles.ENG size issue. Looks like the buffer where the map list is copied to has a fixed size but the application doesn't check it and the additional map data is written into other Dark Omen data structures and corrupting them o.O

No idea why but I can't get the pre-battle scene (where you select army and map) to open. It automatically closes and returns me to the first multiplayer-scene (Play/Edit Army). So I will try to fix this blind.

In theory I know what must be modified . Will increase the limit to 200 entries.

First isolate if it's ddraw.dll or darkpatch.dll. Does original PRG_ENG start with ddraw.dll in the folder?

Does modded PRG_ENG work without ddraw.dll in the folder?

Otherwise it must be darkpatch.dll. Though no idea what the problem is then, have no Windows 8 :/

I analyzed this error two weeks ago because I had no setup available and the same issue.

Go to "Programs and Features" and click "Add/Remove Windows Features".
And under "Outdated/Inherited components" (No idea how it is called in English) tick "DirectPlay".

Accept the changes and DO should start.

Global CTL functions sounds interesting. Conviniently Dark Omen has one function to do the function number -> address mapping so in theory it should be feasible to simply parse a 2nd CTL file which contains "global functions" and then to hook this lookup function... Will check how hard this is.

Aaah, yeah. That stuff. Was documented here: http://wiki.dark-omen.org/do/Talk:DO/ARM#Unit_Type_Bitfield

Okay so CTL had only a unit type but no race check. good.

Olly your requests are probably too complex for single opcodes. That should be achievable through smart ctl usage I assume.

Cuthalion: proper random is easy to add
Guess I could also provide old opcodes which take a register argument instead of only constants, will add more flexibility (e.g. for addmagic)
How is the unit race specified in wh32edit?

Never heard about pcem. Interesting tool for old games

The latest version of the "Mod Selector" added support for custom CTL commands. To use them you need the latest version of ctldis, too.

Currently implemented commands:

set_deployment_limit n - Sets the deployment limit on this map to "n". Call before "wait_for_deploy" in .func 100.

Any ideas for further commands?

Well I meant that you have to remove the ddraw.dll of aqrit which provides XSlots because our codes conflict now.

So ddraw.dll is free for other things like this dgvoodoo lib.

Updated ctldis again. Together with the latest version of the Mod selector (released today) you get the new opcode

set_deployment_limit n. Where n is obviously a number of how many units are allowed to be deployed.

Put it in .func 100 anywhere before "wait_for_deploy" obviously.

[Update!]

Update!

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This version merges aqrits changes provided by his ddraw.dll into darkpatch.dll

This means: Delete ddraw.dll before running EngRel otherwise bad things will happen!

XSlots works now without restarting Dark Omen after switching a mod (at least I think so, tell me if you observe any unexpected behaviour).

New: Custom handler for CTL OpCode 0xf1, see the CTL thread.