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broken? umm. well, I've got my copy here until funky gets back to us: ColoursBinEditor.exe hope that helps xD

ah, apologies that I haven't responded; we noticed this post but I was busy patching some other stuff ^^ for anyone else having the same issue, I'll elaborate: once upon a time, in order to play missions with mods, players had to copy the mod files into the folders and stuff themselves. it was a huge pain in the butt since you had to back up everything, and then replace later with the original files when you wanted to play different missions Feda's upgrades to the Mission Launcher do this on the back-end, automatically copying mod files under CustomCampaignData where they're needed, when they're needed, and then replacing them with backup files when you're finished with the mission. this is how the mod files from one campaign get into your main data folder in the first place as for why they remain there and why the Mission Launcher doesn't replace them with the backups, that probably has something to do with the read-write permissions of the install directory. I don't really know how it works, but what I do know is that trying different install directories or adjusting the permissions for the directory you install to can remedy this issue I hope that helps anybody encountering the same issue

ugh💀 it was brought to my attention that some changes to the Set Tile Property and Add Concrete events have broken some such things on various maps. this issue probably sprung up with the recent addition of variables and all the cool stuff that enables us to do. alas, making progress sometimes means experiencing setbacks along the way... this amounts to little more than a visual error, but I refuse to leave that alone! before I go bugging dato and gruntlord to update their installers again (sorry💕), I'm just gonna give things a once-over to see if anything else is particularly broken. in the meantime, here's a patched version of the campaign for now: SS Campaign.zip I'll go ahead and edit this post when it's no longer an issue. apologies to all those inconvenienced!

hey there thanks for checking out my campaign! underneath the spoilers in its thread, which I see you've found already, there are videos and written strategy guides for each map ^^ for clearing a specific map, I'm not sure there can be better advice than referring to those! however, I can offer some general tips: Dune 2000 is a high-economy RTS. economy is the name of the game! see how many Refineries or Harvesters you can build before being overwhelmed. how greedy you are in the early game determines how quickly you get to the late game. generally, building just 2-3 Refineries and a few Harvesters per each one will be enough to sustain good production for the average macro-heavy campaign mission try to actually use the economy you build up too. if you hear, "Silos needed!" get into the habit of tabbing over to the Starport, clicking on the MCV 5 times and then right-clicking on it. why? because it depletes the Silos, allowing you to store more funds. this is not a thing that works in Summers' Solstice; cancelling your order will actually refill the Silos, so you'd need to dump funds by placing an order. other than that, remember that building 3 of a certain factory will max out production speed for related units. infantry can be tough to build diligently, but they DO make a huge difference if used carefully! if you can get used to being greedy and building units with the funds you accrue, then you'll wind up with a lot of units. that alone can guarantee victory against most AIs, but being efficient with them helps too. use Siege Tanks or Sonic Tanks against masses of enemy infantry, send Troopers in on Gun Turrets or Rocket Turrets before your vehicles get closer as well, prioritize important enemy infrastructure like Wind Traps, Refineries, production structures... or even just their Harvesters outside their base, if you can't crack into the base itself. vanilla AIs can be very defensive and stockpile lots of funds, so the Harvester thing might not be a good tip for vanilla maps, but it definitely works in some custom campaigns if you need more specific advice for or have questions about a certain Summers' Solstice map that the strategy guides don't cover, feel free to ask I'd be happy to help. otherwise, good luck and have fun!

not yet these have been expanded within the current limits. some original campaign level 9's were rather small, like somewhere around 90x90. some however, like H9V2 for example, was already at like 126 wide. so, that one was mostly expanded vertically, and the length of the map didn't gain any significant structural changes

awfully busy lately, but always good to see some new campaigns and stuff thanks for your contributions! here are those expanded maps. please feel free to use them however you'd like: as for the discord server, you can find that here: hope that helps!

copy that I hope you enjoy 'em!

ayyy poggers! I'll have to check this out too naturally, Nguyen is here this madlad has run every single d2k mission. I mean, like, every single one lol I look forward to seeing how these play out!

ah yeah, you can convert stuff with xcc mixer. I've encountered issues converting longer stuff, like music tracks might be pitched funny? but brief sound clips work just fine for some reason. if you have Thel 'Vadam Flippy's campaigns, he converted some Emperor tracks. I dunno if they're included in his campaigns or anything, but you would see what I mean if you have those tracks he converted

our pleasure good luck!

oh darn well, hopefully the new one can when you switch to it in developing new features we tried to take caution and not do anything too modern. even so, there are always the odd issues folks run into from time to time. 1998 game memes

ah, I believe I encountered that error once while attempting to change the status of a unit attached to a Carryall. try removing all Carryalls and see if you run into it again, and if not, you might need to add a caveat to some events that units being airlifted are not a factor that is, if you're using the latest editor and stuff. if you're still using oldschool Gruntmods and stuff... umm... I'm really not sure in that case ^^ I would need to have a look at the map myself to try to figure that out oh yeah sure, here ya go but if you say the 'newer program' can't run on that laptop... are you referring to Dunemaster? in any case, that campaign there does make use of new features, so... mission launcher 1.3 is linked in that thread, and you can find the latest patches in the OP of this thread here: if it's unplayable, Nguyen gave every map a playthrough ^^ his videos are linked under the spoilers in the campaign's thread

They work just fine for me. Didja try to download before making an account, make an account to report the issue, and then not try again? Since the files are linked directly to the forum, an account is required to download them. If you're referring to the second link, you'll find the most up-to-date exe in Klofkac's thread, which Cm linked just after the campaign download link. Klofkac designs the new features and stuff, so his thread is the place to go! Hope that helps.

zalu pointed out to me that this existed on H9V1's map expansion, in the bottom left corner that would have made this map expansion unplayable garbage! thanks for the heads up mate, it's fixed now also apparently H9V2 was a duplicate of O9V2's map file. oops. the reuploaded zip in the OP has the proper map file now: yep alright, that's all that's in the update. feel free to reach out some more or post here if any of y'all find any more nonsense, thanks

np <3 if ya got any more questions, feel free to poke me. I frequent the Landsraad server, pinned on this forum which Feda is also in. he's rather busy these days and unfamiliar with the newer features, but I'm sure he'd love to hear your compliments so I'll be sure to pass 'em along ^^ if ya check out the revamped Summers' Solstice sometime, I'd be curious watcha think of that one too

hey there mate ^^ aye, Feda's WotL campaign is cool the Giedi Prime tileset? recolored Arrakis tileset, IIRC done by dato, though I did some minor work on it as well regarding the Combat Tanks, that just requires adjusting their groups. here's how it works: five things are highlighted here: unit group, unit type, group assignment, owner side and prerequisite owner side basically, the Combat Tanks share a single unit group. only one unit type belonging to a group is available, resulting in what you describe - other factions' Combat Tanks cannot be built. all you really have to do is add two new unit groups under the left column for the other two Combat Tanks, adjust prerequisite owner side to match owner side, and that's that. the new unit groups should be called COMBAT_TANK so the name shows up properly if you want to edit the name, that requires text.uib editing. not difficult, just means you need another mod file is all ...oh yeah, and the Starport may only have a maximum of eight units, so you'd need to remove CTs entirely, use v2.1+ events to adjust Starport units, or settle on one sort of CT at the Starport anyway, as for the difference between owner side and prerequisite owner side, AKA owner side needed, those are this: owner side, the section at the top next to the sidebar icon, controls which faction owns which unit type. it's what determines that Atreides get medium Combat Tanks, Harkonnen get heavy and Ordos get light. prerequisite owner side determines that any Heavy Factory can build any Combat Tank, hence being able to build Atreides Combat Tanks from Harkonnen Heavy Factories as long as you're playing a faction that owns medium CTs. if you were to add new unit groups without changing prerequisite owner side, all factions would be able to build all Combat Tanks. in that scenario, even though Atreides and Fremen are the only owners of medium CTs, there's only one unit type assigned to that unit group, so that's the type built by any factions not ticked in the owner side section regardless. then, the unit type can be built from any factory. that said, the downside of this is that you can't build med CTs out of hark heavies anymore, or some other related combination, but at least you can build different kinds of CTs hope that helps!

here ya go MP_EX_Maps.zip what's this, you ask? umm that's all, i guess. have fun

it's not the same, but the closest we've got is OpenRA. there have also been new sprites made for OpenRA's recreation of d2k, and surely artists have more freedom with that platform. OG d2k is more limited in this regard N.N,> is around the Landsraad server on Discord, pinned on this forum, so feel free to drop by and poke him he'd be able to give you much more info about OpenRA stuff

oh hey! I remember this Outpost it's been ported in-game and used in Thel 'Vadam Flippy's campaign we don't have a way to scale big sprites to smaller forms in d2k. real size is real size, but you could draw something in high quality and then maybe most of the details would be maintained when it's converted to small sprite form 128x128 is the largest possible structure size, at 4x4 tiles hope that helps

hey fam! looking good so far but it doesn't appear you've added a download link! just the screenies above xD didja forget to attach the map files? coincidentally, I've been working on some expanded versions of the vanilla maps - redrawn maps that are bigger than the originals, but mostly similar in structure. I started the project because folks keep coming back to the vanilla campaign to edit it, but the original maps don't necessarily have that much room on 'em. so, these would be blank slates sans terrain, blooms, worm spawns, anything but mission settings and base structures, for folks to do as they please with. including modifying the terrain further, if they're so inclined! I'll make a new thread for that when they're totally done, but missions 1-8 for all three campaigns are finished being expanded. if you imagine that might apply to this project of yours, the work-in-progress assets are on the Landsraad server on Discord. you know, the one Feda posted in the pinned thread if not, don't worry about it but yeah, might wanna attach the map files to the OP here either way lol

oh absolutely like, I tried to balance my mod around, like, unit categories n stuff, but one of the results was that formations became even stronger. I guess that's okay when turrets were kinda sorta nerfed and units have some bulky alternatives that can hold the line nicely as turret substitutes, but still, meme balance and speaking of meme balance no lol yeah, it takes a long time to get the snowball rolling there >.> but one of the most satisfying parts of d2k is the snowball, at least after it gets going xD it should be a hurdle to get rolling, but after it does, is yay ayyy yeah! all the little things, like stationing Troopers near Spice fields to handle worms, the Carryall Harvester dynamic, the Starport for dumping funds and stuff, they all add up nicely. and now we have even more options like Mining Rigs to generate funds passively like tib spikes in C&C3 or oil derricks in RA2, cash crates can be placed on maps, other ways to generate funds via special scripted events are possible... lotsa cool ways to spice things up nowadays, but the vast majority of custom campaigns are oldschool due to, uhh, new features being fairly new and all that hahahahahaahahaha if only I were good XD I just took my d2k macro habits back to SC and, uhh... well, when a game you really like doesn't have unit queues at all, you just kinda get used to clicking stuff all the time, even if you never touch multiplayer >.> so SC was like "you have queues and also multiple factories." okay, everything dies i guess lol anyway, SC2 is alright it's just so damn formulaic. I imagine its custom campaigns are more interesting than the original campaigns, but I haven't really checked any out ah, you would have had to have captured a palace belonging to the Emperor. then it would allow you to train Sardaukar. that's kinda bothersome though there are a few imperial campaigns colored purple in Cm's index: but there are accessible Sardaukar, trainable or otherwise, that appear in other campaigns you might not expect. my Summers' Solstice campaign for instance permits Sardaukar, among other things, be trained later on for reasons. and if it counts, the main player commander uses Ixian-modified Sardaukar Elite power armor to do stuff and like Sardaukar Elites is uncrushable, cannot be suppressed, heals to 100% HP over time, but additionally has a minigun that can swap modes related clip from around the time when 'modular unit implementation' first became possible, or at least the first twenty seconds is the aforementioned unit: https://streamable.com/ji7kfi regarding Sardaukar themselves, there was actually a problem with their behavior, originally: https://streamable.com/mf0hhz this is one of lotsa things Klofkac fixed, a fix that's in the latest exes. kinda funny that their on-death damage was limited to position xD but now they do actually pose a threat to vehicles that try to crush them it feels pretty different to me, personally but it's definitely KKND and has the spirit of the game in it. it also has a neat third faction to murder all the humans and mutants and everything in-between with, so that's cool

hehe I was only being hyperbolic; it's entirely fair to critique d2k on its own merits still, it's good to look at it through the lens of the past era and its own history. it being a dune 2 remake, taking obvious inspiration from C&C, what it did differently, and how exactly it succeeded or failed in that regard I replayed SC recently! BW mission design is great, but the original has so many cheesable maps it's just... kinda nuts xD speedran the hell outta original but BW decided to macro up and kill everything on most of the maps cuz the OG left me wanting af. that was fun! I mean, BW still has a lot of cheesable maps, but the mission design and objectives are better in general. like if you wanna meme on the zerg hives on BW terran 03, sure, the hives can easily be hit from certain angles or spots by bunkers or sieges, but at least you have to take out four of them lol yeah! Carryall drops are a classic, just ask Cm how much he loves them and then suffer when that one tile behind your base is actually dangerous because he put a fucking drop there WHY?! no reason, Cm logic lol anyway yeah, and thankfully there were a lot of macro maps! I can certainly do without the no-buildings nonsense maps with the classic design style xD hell, delete the spice-mining maps while we're at it, and hark 6 because you can just yeet into the ord starport and it's over lol I replayed TD / RA recently too and those no-build maps made me suffer 💀 there have been some more modern no-build or limited-build missions that were okay though, more detailed and stuff. I think every mapper does them. even I do, but I tried to make them short or convey something important, or both, like S02V2 introducing a hero unit in a perilous situation and forcing the player to make sacrifices to defend it, or SBON1 being literally only five minutes long xD aye, I'm familiar! KKND is another classic. a janky classic, but lotsa fun. and it had a lot of macro maps too, to my recollection like, exploding scorpions? giant autocannon tanks? the funny briefing text? other fun, over-the-top stuff like that, count me in xD

I'm sure the devs factored in modern esports metagaming when designing their 1998 RTS campaign missions really though, it was still the 90's when this game came out. Starcraft took seven years or so to perfect. if it were after that became a huge e-sports thing, it would be a different story, but you have to remember the history of games in general, let alone RTS games. campaign maps used to be designed in a much more free-format way! it resulted in weird things happening, like A5V1's Harkonnen defensiveness or H7V1's Atreides defense area, things that hinder the player from doing normal things like scouting, but it's kinda hard to polish things for modern tastes and a modern understanding of game mechanics in a weird era for games like the 90's, yeah? if you're looking for a more modern campaign, it sounds like you'll want to check out some custom campaigns

default AI defense area behavior works like they basically draw a box around their structures and if an enemy unit is in that box, they defend their base. the hark base on A5 is shaped in such a way that there's a bit bigger of a box out in front of their structures than usual, which is the most likely culprit. the size of the box also affects guard group size scaling, which is why they're notoriously defensive on that mission FYI, their protect strength is only 10% on A5, so poking their harvs isn't really the thing that bothers them lol anyway, the terrain is very chokey and can be used to your advantage, especially around the Starport where Harkonnen units have to trickle in. get some Gun Turrets there, put some Siege Tanks and Troopers nearby, and see if you can't poke the enemy on purpose to lure them in that direction with a fast unit like a Trike

rapid, repeated move + guard or move + stop commands can be pretty good with some units, like Combat Tanks if you have an ally on the map, you can capture one of their structures as if it were an enemy structure by selecting an Engineer, holding ctrl and clicking on it, similar to ordering another unit to force-fire they're not weird cyborg people the mentat who advises you in d2k may be illegal technology, something the Ordos make a lot of use of between a thing like that and stuff like Deviators. they could still be a mercantile faction, what with buying pricey weird stuff and hiring mercs here's some info about Edric O: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Edric_O Emperor nailed the aesthetics what with all the different factions and their homeworlds and different soundtracks and stuff, but fell short in the gameplay department. at least, that appears to be the general consensus around these parts. maybe the multiplayer boys see more to it, but the campaign being structured the way it was didn't help the single-player experience people still take inspiration from it to this day for stuff elsewhere, like some new tilesets we have in d2k as for d2k, it'll always be the underdog, but its dynamics, atmosphere and macro game remain quite enjoyable and in some ways unique ^^