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yeah or the Dune2000.exe, rather SOME features, like unit queues, are set up on a per-map basis for reasons like preserving the mappers' original intent and balance and whatnot on maps designed without queues in mind. hence why those would need to be added via the ini on a given map YOU want queues on. other quality of life hotkeys like type select (W), all units with unarmed exception (alt + E), deploy (D, but you need to delete the WOLProposeDraw line from your Dune2000.ini for that to work properly), that nifty B hotkey for repeatedly spamming certain kinds of buildings... all those are just baseline now

eh? yeah, you just overwrite the game exe I've run it on either modern version of d2k, gruntmods or dunemaster. and the current 1.6.7 install of gruntmods uses a prior version of Klofkac's advancements - this is just a later branch that gruntlord and dato haven't placed in their install packages yet

oh, that's great! I'm glad to hear it suits your purposes aye, dato gets too little credit. everybody stumbles across gruntmods first, and gruntlord does good work too, but we gotta shout out our boy dato!

it's this one I linked up there I left details in the latest post in that thread on enabling queues sounds like you've gotta enable cutscene stretching. in the Dune2000Config executable, click advanced settings, go to the video options tab, and check the "Cutscene Change Resolution" box. that should solve the problem otherwise, you could try setting up custom scaling through ddraw.ini. in your Dune 2000 directory, at least after you mess with the config exe, there should be both a dune2000.ini and a ddraw.ini. you can set GameWidth and GameHeight in the former and what you want it stretched to in the latter. for instance, try 1056 x 588 in the former, then width 1795 and height 1000 in the latter. and that'll make the game almost 2x zoomed, like this: which should affect everything in the game, including cutscenes. the original resolution of the game is 640x400, but that allows for only four icons on the sidebar the reason for the weird dimensions I suggested trying is because a new sidebar icon will only appear if there's enough space vertically, so if those dimensions are off, the sidebar will be screwy. as for horizontal, if those dimensions are off, there will be space between the sidebar and the battlefield. 1056x588 is one of those perfect combos that isn't too zoomed out, but still provides a good eight icons on the sidebar eh, idr how this'll work out in fullscreen though. I play in windowed to test crap all the time. anyway, I hope that helps

ah yeah, redundancies and all that. glad you figured out the problem! still, be sure to update to the latest from Klofkac's thread. it has a number of great bugfixes and new hotkeys, like B to queue or ready for placement the last structure you queued, and the much-requested unit queues feature, which can be enabled on any mission

that, I ain't sure of. I do know it works on modern machines though, so it'd at least serve as a great starting point!

you can try this thread dato is the same fellow who maintains the dunemaster version of Dune 2000

hmm, that's kinda odd. I might guess that some kinda video setting isn't playing nice with the game, but even the Mission Launcher ain't booting up? even if you double-click THAT one in your d2k directory, and don't go through the gruntmods launcher? can't say I've heard of this one before. feels like every machine has a different problem with this game lol I guess you could try the dunemaster edition. it's an install package like gruntmods, but maintained by dato rather than gruntlord. if one version ain't working at all for somebody, usually the other one does. you can find its thread over here: other than that, you can try making sure your game exe is the latest one. Klofkac fixed all sortsa bugs and stuff. you can find his devlog thread over here: which also contains the latest version of the editor, if that's of any consideration. the game exe here will work with either gruntmods or dunemaster can also swing by the Landsraad to bounce some things back and forth more quickly. that discord server's pinned in this thread here: here's hoping that helps though edit: oh yeah, and try running the game exe and mission launcher in admin mode. the gruntmods launcher too, if you wanna go through that. admin mode fixes some other problems; maybe this issue is related to permissions too lol

have you tried launching the game exe by itself? Dune2000.exe in your d2k install directory. it should work just fine. just keep in mind that the menu is NOT upscaled to whatever resolution you set the game to. cutscenes will be stretched though, if you have that option enabled you could also go through the Mission Launcher application. it won't have cutscenes, but you can access all sorts of custom campaigns

understandable. hey, the original features were upgraded too, and they're much easier to work with! knock your socks off with those there's beauty in simplicity. I'm certain spectacular maps can be made even without resorting to the fancy new stuff. and yeah, sure! here ya go hope that helps!

with level 2 finished, I'm gonna do it this way... details about each new mission will be done up in a new post (and I'll move the details for level 1 down here too), and while I'll only add onto the OP if there's some kinda new FAQ that pops up, I'll at least change the thread name to reflect how many playable missions there are. that way folks can keep up easily here's the original info for level 1: and here's some info on level 2: that's all for now. the OP's been updated with the new link and stuff. good luck and have fun

my pleasure, mate! ah, that's what the ini is for. the event import is one thing, that'll get you the events set up. the variable names, event notation, those kindsa thing are detailed in the associated ini. if you try exporting some events of your own, you'll notice the editor produces an ini of that too. at any rate, the names are irrelevant to the variables' functions; I've used variables called "MCVIndex" and "MCVHP" to get coordinates, for reasons yep, I've worked with Warcraft 3's map editor too. nice one, that the version I've got is v3.0. Klofkac just updated the editor & game exe over in his thread over here pretty recently: but we're often testing even more new features over in the Landsraad Discord server pinned at the top of the "Dune 2000" section of this forum. new releases like this only occur when things are considered stable anyway: basically, Klofkac's additions to the game weren't just new features we could make use of, but a new programming language of sorts that you can build your own new features on top of. it operates very logically too: you write variables to values with certain events and read variables as needed for other events. once you get an idea of it for the first time, it's not too difficult to come up with other systems! to break this particular system down further... event 89 checks for dead, untagged units belonging to any side. the side is written to the [Player] variable, and the unit meeting the criteria is indexed at the [Index] variable event 90 tags the [Index] belonging to side [Player] so the bounty can't be collected multiple times on one unit. event 91 uses a similar principle, checking the side whose unit attacked [Player]'s [Index] and writing that side's value to [Player2] if [Player] is not the same as [Player2], so the player can't kill his own units to trigger the bounty... ...then add 20 cash to [Player2]'s coffers. if you'd like some other examples, uhh... PsYcHo's been doing up a whole bunch of new maps, many of which which Cm has posted to this forum, that make use of new features like variables, I'm pretty sure. those would be good to have a glance at. my recent Arkanon-related maps also make liberal use of variables, though some of the systems are very complex, even if they are notated. feel free to ask for more info on a particular system if you'd like hope that helps though. if you swing by that Discord server I mentioned, feel free to ping me any time and we could do some speedier back and forth

I got around to looking at this myself. did a fresh install, installed only Flippy's pack, and found I was getting the same error on level 32. after testing a few things, it seems BLOXXMAS, a unique vanilla tileset that happens to be missing its .r16 graphic file by default, might be at fault. it only has a .r8, and maybe when Klofkac was trying to ensure backwards compatibility with the vanilla format we overlooked maps using this tileset. that could be why maps using custom tilesets, like mission 27, or maps using 'normal' vanilla tilesets like 30 or 31, launch properly although that needs to be investigated further, I was able to launch 32 by saving BLOXXMAS into the new .TLS format. here's that file: BLOXXMAS.TLS just drop that under your Dune 2000 folder in the directory CustomCampaignData > FlippysContent > FlippysContent (H) > Data > Tilesets and that'll fix the issue. dang 1998 game voodoo can be real pesky sometimes

hmm. I know we've run into this error before, but I'm pretty sure it was patched... I can't say for sure if Flippy arranged everything in his zip correctly either. if you haven't, grab the exe and associated files directly from Klofkac over here: it'll be in the OP of the thread. if that fixes it, it just means Flippy's missing something or another in his zip hopefully that's it

although the Starport is very strict about what it allows, the 20 cash thing would actually be rather simple. you just need a unit loop here ya go. this doesn't work perfectly, I just tried it with the new Drop Pods system and I guess cuz the pods are spawned via events the game doesn't really know what to do when they explode and kill inf. maybe need "Attacker is unit" criteria in the unit loop to make sure it doesn't give cash to side zero when something like this happens? bounty.d2kevtbounty.ini but anyway, it should still be a good example, even if it doesn't work perfectly. after the dropped sardaukar started killing stuff my cash went up by 20 each time. to import the above d2kevt, right-click the events rows and the import option will be there. the .ini is only there to give the variables the appropriate names here's how it works... hope that helps, mate. if you need any more help, feel free to poke me any time. I frequent the Landsraad Discord server pinned on this forum, so you're welcome to drop by there too. otherwise, good luck and happy mapping!