I found a better solution to activate god mode without performance reduction and no crashes.
Requirements:
- Bundle Extractor (
Link)
- Modding Tools. These are in the Tools folder of your game dir. If not, you can download it (
Link)
Instructions:
1. Launch Bundle Extractor and browse to
Gamedir > Bundles and then open the file
quick.bundle.
2. It should show a
folder called '
quick.bundle'. Click on
Extract Node and extract it somewhere. For the sake of this tutorial, I'll extract it to
C:\.
3. Open the extracted folder and then continue browsing through
Data > units > beings. Open the file
u_player.xml with notepad (right-click > Edit).
4. Use Notepad's search feature to search for the word 'god' (wthout the ' '). It should show a line mentioning god_mode. Set the value from
false to
true. Continue searching (F3) and do the same for all other mentions of god_mode.
Optional: Edit the u_teammates.xml to provide your team members with god mode too.
5. Browse to your game directory and open the folder
Data. Create a new folder called
units. Now
move the entire
beings folder into that folder.
Make sure you move the folder away from the quick.bundle folder so it's inside the game folder, not the quick.bundle folder anymore.
6. Open Command Prompt and browse to the tools folder (either in the game folder, or the tools you've downloaded). Browse to the folder where
bundler.exe is located.
7. Now enter the following command:
bundler -vvb quick-bundle -r C:\quick.bundle -D quick.bundle (I've extracted the quick.bundle folder to C:\. If you have it in a different lcoation, use that location instead).
8. When it's done, you should see a newly generated quick.bundle file in the same folder as the bundler.exe file.
9. Move the new quick.bundle to Gamedir > Bundles. Replacing the old one with the new one.
That's all. You now have god mode (white health icon) without slower game performance
I first tried to compile all files including the modified XML files, but for some reason it didn't activate God mode. But when the XML files are stored locally, it does work. So now you've basically have the beings-folder wih the modified XML files stored locally, but all other files still inside the .bundle file
Note: If you load a previously saved game and the health icon is not white (green or red), just press Esc to pause the game and then press it again to return. The health icon should now be white[Edited by RHochstenbach, 5/28/2010 11:36:39 AM][Edited by RHochstenbach, 5/28/2010 11:37:20 AM][Edited by RHochstenbach, 5/28/2010 11:38:48 AM]