So I finally installed the shock wave mod. I just copied the ZH directory at the advice of someone on here, and installed on the second one. I must say, that is a prety neat mod. I definately like the fact that each of the factions are COMPLETELY different than each other. The only downside is that there are no scripts. I noticed on the web page that it says they are in the process of making them but I wonder if they will ever release them or not (maybe they have and I'm just behind here). I may try to create the scripts on my own, just modifying ones for similar generals... I'm not entirely sure if that will work though becuase I've had issues with that in the past for just ZH units when I give another team a unit they didnt have, the scripts causea crash if I try to make the team build someone elses unit even if its in their command set. I think it has something to do with the "side" they are on... I dont know.

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If you want to create your own scripts for a mod that has completely different units from the original scripts, you sure got your work cut out for you. What you'll need to do is make sure there is not reference to the old units in the script & teams.

Yea it will be rough im sure, but its fun. I dont want to do it though if the makers or ShockWave are going to make them anyway, im sure their will be better so I'd be wasting my time.

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The patch for Shockwave mod is coming out soon, but they ran into a crash bug problem. The patch will not add AI to the new generals. It will add the scripts for Shockwave though. Shockwave is the best mod I've ever played.

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Shockwave already had scripts with it, they were just the original ones from zero hour plus a couple extras so that the original 3 generals would still function correctly. And they put in a script for those three to rebuild the CC's as well. I may go ahead and see if I can't make one of the new generals playable... I must agree with you U-W, Shockwave is easily the best mod that I have tried, and far better than I thought any mod could be!

Maybe I miss understood what you meant by, "It will add the scripts for Shockwave though". It seems it contradicts your earlier statement??

EDIT - One more thing, lol, the makers of shockwave put thier files into .big format as you would expect, but they manually changed it to .gib! Now, unless FinalBig can open files of type .gib then I think it was a smart and sneaky move on their part. Took me a while to notice, I was trying to find some stuff and just couldnt get my hands on a single SW file... till I noticed the file extension.

Also, about every other game that I play with the SW mod as soon as its over, and it says "You are Victorious" it crashes and goes to the desktop. The release crash info just says Game Engine:Update... which doesnt give me anything. Have you heard of this being a common error?? It only happens on game end.

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You can easily get around that by changing the file extension back to ".big".

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Top quote: I forgot to say that the patch will new units and let the AI build new units.

Bottom quote: I get that error sometimes, it is common and the Shockwave team will fix it. The patch is done they just can't find the crash bug causeing it. Once they find the bug then it will be released. 😄

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Awesome, glad im not the only one getting it.

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The Shockwave patch is out!

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sweet!! Im excited to check it out. Yea, Commie, I got them open no problem, but while browsing with FinalBig I couldnt see them since they werent of that file type, thats what took me so long to find them. I got a good laugh once I realized what they had done to the extension... although I have another question. Some of thier files that I took from the big file such as the ObjectCreationList.ini file are scrambled somthing awful. Any ideas how to fix this? I can upload one if you don't know what I mean.

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Yeah shockwave is great, except the fact that I can't seem to edit/add new colours with it installed

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It uses its own .big file, things are different using shockwave.

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