Vin’s animated text mod

[alnigor]

Hello everyone!

Tell me if there is a version of the mod Vin’s animated text mod for the last patch of the game-4.03. I only found the version for 4.01 and it certainly doesn't work. Or someone may be able to suggest how to modify the mod version 4.01 for 4.03

Thax!

[Holman]

Here are some instructions for updating Vin's Animated Text Mod yourself. I copied them from this board (I think) years ago, but unfortunately I can't remember who supplied them. (Thanks, whoever you are!)

You'll need a copy of the mod itself, but an outdated one is fine, since you'll be editing it.

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If you want to update the mod yourself when a new patch appears, it's not hard:

--RezExplode the newest brz archive containing the new strings.txt (e.g. final blitzkrieg v200.brz).
--Locate the Animated Text Mod folder, rename the strings.txt in this folder to something like strings_old.txt.
--Copy the exploded strings.txt from step 1 into the Animated Text Mod folder.
--Open both files (strings.txt , strings_old.txt) in Notepad++. Use the Notepad++ plugin "Compare" to easily compare both files.
--Locate the "Soldier State Display" section, it should also show the most differences in the "Compare Nav Bar" (currently around line ~5200).
--Copy the animated text blocks one to one from the strings_old.txt into strings.txt.
--Save strings.txt, delete strings_old.txt.

(Generally you shouldn't mix strings.txt from different games. But I guess it is noteworthy that the strings.txt is an "engine-file", as such it is not really specific to a single title like CMFB or CMBN as such. For example, modern CMBS strings like "Laser Warning" are also in strings.txt files for the WW2 games.

I quickly compared the strings.txt for CMFB v2.00, CMBN v4.00 and CMRT v2.00:
They are all three identical, so if you updated one, you could simply copy it across to the other games.
I'm not recommending to do this though, just to be on the safe side. But if you do a comparison of the unchanged original files first and find them to be identical, it should work.)

As new patches get the games out of synch, update each individually.

 

[CMFDR]

Vin's Animated Text for CMBN, patched to version 4.03.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5vng60nqnbh8e1/AnimatedTextCMBN403Heavy.zip?dl=0

[JM Stuff]

Very nice a "little Belgian"come back...  and hope we recieve something very awaiting merci mon ami !

[JM Stuff]

3 hours ago, 3j2m7 said:

Very nice a "little Belgian"come back...  and hope we recieve something very awaiting merci mon ami !

hop not hope !