So, basically i'm wanting to make a very simple full conversion mod.

First thing i'm trying to do is make Generals consist of as little as possible; one side plus civilian and observer, a dozer and a command building.

My mod file has a few empty INI files, trying to override the original INIs so that nothing remains except for my two objects and their essentials [armor, locomoter, etc.]. It's still trying to find missing locomoters and stuff though. What are all the files i need to override with empty files in order for this to work?

i've attached what i have so far.

Edited by user Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:43:38 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

i know, but you only have to override certain ones in order to wipe the game.

Some files, like armor.INI, only ever do anything if they're called apon. If i override all the files that start the process of calling other files, the game shouldn't care about any of the others, i don't think.

The second thing i'll try is putting empty versions of every file. Didn't want to do that before because it would clutter my mod file, but i can just use a second one and combine them together if i release this mod. So, basically what you are saying.

Thanks for the help

Well i'm wanting to get rid of everything so i can start from the ground up on the mod

but.. i have to make it complicated..

not sure. lol.

Indeed.

I made a mod with your files and the empty object files and went into world builder, as i expected it still didnt work

it said you needed some default things like the noarmor armor and OCL large structure debris in object creation list

after copying these from the original game, world builder just couldn't load and showed no indication of what was wrong

i did a bit of digging into the default files for the game and the problem is very deep in the game

i think your going about this mod all wrong
i think you should add a gunners faction not remove everything and add it
if you simply stop the other factions from showing in skirmish and just have gunners would that work

EDIT:i cant remove USA CHI and GLA vanillas but i have made their starting units the same as gunners
also i added commiedogs skirmish on main menu so that you cant accidentally try and start a campaign

here is a .big file for that

please note this is not a great point to build the game from as the old factions are still there but you can build up the gunners faction
to add objects i would suggest giving each one its own ini file in ini\object
and i would suggest adding command buttons, command sets and other similar data to the bottom of their ini files
the ai will not build unless you make the skirmish scripts and ai data file

if you ask me this is the most pointless mod ever
if people wanted to rebuild the game it would be better to radicaly edit the existing factions not remove them and start from scratch

Edited by user Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:28:18 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The gunners is what the original mod called the empty faction

In the 0099mod that was originally put on this thread