Adding more opponents in game.

I assume it is hardcoded in the sense that there are only 9 opponent "slots" on the selection screen, and I do not think you can add any more by editing the DXpack file. HOWEVER, it should be possible to add in more by editing the save files themselves. Of course, there is a limit to how many AIs you can have running simultaneously before they take up so much space that the game either crashes or slows to the point of unplayability, but I believe that the level would be extremely high, maybe 50+ opponents just guessing.

We can modify the Dxpacks to allow more slots. In Fact that work is handled already. Getting the game to allocate a Race Id to show in that Slot and then load that extra slot into the game is the issue.

I recall a mod once that had the player playing as the custom race and you played against all other AI including the Dread Lords.

Maybe there will be some info there that may be useful.

editing the dxpacks will not help. since whatever object you add does not have a hardcoded name, it will not be used by the game. Instead, it'll just be an empty box like the one shown in the dxpack. There's only so much you can do when editing dxpacks

Technically, you could just make a ton of races and then create a map that uses all of them.

-Dave

But then users of the mod are locked to using that one map. I would need to look at the map editor more to see what features there are. That may be the only way this will work but i think we would ditch the idea to allow greater flexability for the player.

Does this mean you can use the map editor to circumvent the ten race cap? If so , that is quite interesting .

You could also try using a custom scenario to get more races, but on that you may have the limit of 9 races + custom + dread lords.

Although this is not a terribly good idea for a mod, it may techically be possible to add races into a save file itself using a hex editor, IF you knew what the correct groupings were and were willing to do this for every single game.

the problem with using a scenario to overcome the race cap is that you're locked into using 1 race

Yeah that would be too limiting.

I think we will can this idea and concentrate on getting more races selectable to play showing up, though that seems as futile.

btw, who's "we?" What mod?

Its a mod a few of us guys in the ToE are working on. We're no where near ready to give out any details and we are still in the developing phases but its very extensive and unique.

You could create one scenario for each race to play, a bit of a hack I know, but seemingly the only way.

i thought about that, but who would want to have to look through a thousand different scenarios to find the right one?

You guys have some interesting ideas, Got me thinking...

Hmmm maybe 24 though. I think having 24 custom maps to accomodate each race might be ok.

Still though, need to have those 24 races show as playable...(dreams)