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INI Editor[message #327083] Thu, 24 October 2013 13:37 Go to next message
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It's a big feature of 1.13 and often overlooked. It can dramatically change your game so I'm putting together this series where people can discuss each INI entry and offer suggestions for more realistic/fun settings etc...

I won't put them all up at once, but eventually we should have a database of recommendations for each INI. So post your settings and reasons why you use them!

Please include a version number at the top of your post to keep info relevant. E.G. 1.13 v6484 (Press V in game to get version number if you're unsure.)

GENERAL SETTINGS

1.System Limit Settings
2.Data File Settings
3.Recruitment Settings
4.Financial Settings
5.Troubleshooting Settings
6.Graphics & Sound Settings

TACTICAL SETTINGS

7.Tactical Interface Settings
8.Tactical Difficulty Settings

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INI Editor[message #327126] Fri, 25 October 2013 01:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Asthner
I play with the INI tweaked for a more full-scale war feeling. More money at game start (though not a broken amount), a few other changes, including MAX_STRATEGIC_ENEMY_GROUP_SIZE at 64. These kind of numbers don

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INI Editor[message #327127] Fri, 25 October 2013 01:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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INI Editor[message #327130] Fri, 25 October 2013 02:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Cool, If you want to add them to the appropriate INI as I add them that would be great. Just mark them Full Scale War so we can have a set.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327139] Fri, 25 October 2013 11:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok, I

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Re: INI Editor[message #327140] Fri, 25 October 2013 14:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Cool,, I didn't want to flood the forum with posts so i'll add the rest gradually, i can put your settings in as I do. When I'm finished i'll link all your posts into one thread.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327371] Thu, 31 October 2013 12:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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after updating SVN as usual I cannot start ini editor. It says:
There is an error in xml document (5911,97)
while loading XML Description File.

I reverted all changes to Tabledata folder, but still cannot launch ini editor.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Re: INI Editor[message #327373] Thu, 31 October 2013 12:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The only xml the ini editor should ever need to read is one of those in the root folder. Should have a pretty obvious name.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327375] Thu, 31 October 2013 12:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The only xml the ini editor should ever need to read is one of those in the root folder. Should have a pretty obvious name.


revert them too even before posting my problem - no success

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Re: INI Editor[message #327376] Thu, 31 October 2013 12:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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after updating SVN as usual I cannot start ini editor. It says:
There is an error in xml document (5911,97)
while loading XML Description File.

I reverted all changes to Tabledata folder, but still cannot launch ini editor.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

until its fixed in the trunk you can manually edit the file INIEditorJA2Options.xml
There is a missing '=' in line 5911.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327377] Thu, 31 October 2013 13:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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after updating SVN as usual I cannot start ini editor. It says:
There is an error in xml document (5911,97)
while loading XML Description File.

I reverted all changes to Tabledata folder, but still cannot launch ini editor.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

until its fixed in the trunk you can manually edit the file INIEditorJA2Options.xml
There is a missing '=' in line 5911.


Thank you, Moa!
I just need to point out new exe version in ini.

edit.Great! it works now.
the error was in "maxvalue"255""

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Re: INI Editor[message #327378] Thu, 31 October 2013 13:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Fixed it in revision 1850. Thanks for reporting.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327379] Thu, 31 October 2013 13:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Guys,

please change Clock settings-> Fast forward key-> link for Virtual key codes website is not working

Working one is
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd375731(VS.85).aspx

[color:#FF0000]edit 2[/color]
there is a typo in ja_options, line 2616
treshold

I added 1 missing descrition to INIEditorJA2Options in English and Russian.


TRUE: A gun can be repaired by mercs with technician/engineer trait (New trait system) beyond threshold.

[color:#CC0000]Оружие может быть полностью починено наемником-техником/инженером[/color]





I can translate some english descriptions to russian, or add some missing descriptions as well.
Let me know if I can help.

p.s. I do not know why the forum does not like Russian language.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327383] Thu, 31 October 2013 15:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The forum uses the ancient iso-8859-1 charset, so no "exotic" characters for us. Wink

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Re: INI Editor[message #327384] Thu, 31 October 2013 15:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The forum uses the ancient iso-8859-1 charset, so no "exotic" characters for us. Wink


that is not totally true!
well look at first sentence here. it is in Russian and readable.
http://www.bears-pit.com/board/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/223126/gonew/1/Night_OPs_Manual.html#UNREAD

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Re: INI Editor[message #327385] Thu, 31 October 2013 15:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Problem with the browser?

Here is the Russian description for "MAX_NUMBER_MILITIA_IN_TACTICAL" (copied from INIEditorJA2Options.xml):

Устанавливает максимальное количество ментов на одной локации. Варьируется от 16 до 64, по умолчани = 32

edit: Code tags don't work as well.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327386] Thu, 31 October 2013 15:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Problem with the browser?

Here is the Russian description for "MAX_NUMBER_MILITIA_IN_TACTICAL" (copied from INIEditorJA2Options.xml):

Устанавливает максимальное количество ментов на одной локации. Варьируется от 16 до 64, по умолчани = 32

edit: Preview looks nice but then...


yes I have the same problem. Preview looks fine but when I publish post - it looks like above.

I am using Google Chrome

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Re: INI Editor[message #327387] Thu, 31 October 2013 15:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If you want to provide some translations best way is to translate your file and upload it somewhere. This can then be merged with the GameDir.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327389] Thu, 31 October 2013 16:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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@Cyrillic letters:
IIRC it's because HTML is disabled by default for posting here.
Don't know though if and how to change this for a post.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327393] Thu, 31 October 2013 18:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Asthner
The forum uses the ancient iso-8859-1 charset, so no "exotic" characters for us. Wink

that is not totally true!
well look at first sentence here. it is in Russian and readable.
http://www.bears-pit.com/board/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/223126/gonew/1/Night_OPs_Manual.html#UNREAD


Mods are allowed to use HTML and special characters to post. And the forum uses UTF-8 encoding. Check the source:

meta charset="utf-8"

But I cannot allow everyone to post HTML and special characters for obvious reasons. [color:#CC0000]Ask a mod to edit your message and post it as HTML if you need to show off a message in Russian or any other special chars language.[/color]

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Re: INI Editor[message #327396] Thu, 31 October 2013 18:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Code tags won't work as well. Shouldn't be a problem. Uploading a file somewhere is always a valid option.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327397] Thu, 31 October 2013 18:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Code tags won't work as well. Shouldn't be a problem. Uploading a file somewhere is always a valid option.


I was wrong, check my post. It's not about code tags, it's about HTML special chars which are disallowed. But any mod can edit this kind of posts and repost them as HTML to fix them. I just did that above.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327403] Thu, 31 October 2013 19:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Code tags won't work as well. Shouldn't be a problem. Uploading a file somewhere is always a valid option.


I was wrong, check my post. It's not about code tags, it's about HTML special chars which are disallowed. But any mod can edit this kind of posts and repost them as HTML to fix them. I just did that above.


oh. ok, I guess I will upload files instead of asking moders.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327406] Thu, 31 October 2013 19:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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@Shanga: not from my perspective, it doesn

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Re: INI Editor[message #327444] Fri, 01 November 2013 13:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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@Shanga: not from my perspective, it doesn't. Wink


Well, Control Panel has UTF-8 apparently, but the rest of the forum is still 8859. They promised a complete switch/conversion to UTF-8 on UBB 8.0 but God knows when that's coming. Manual switch is possible, but has problems:

Quote:
It's a pretty big process to convert the database to utf-8 but one we're doing for version 8. You might be able to get away with just changing the charset in the languages/english/generic.php to utf-8 and see if that works for you. Side effects might be some multi-byte characters not displaying properly.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327867] Sun, 10 November 2013 18:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Guys,

I added missing Russian translations of Sections to descriptions in INI editor.

http://rghost.ru/50079320

Now every Section description is available in Russian. It is not final version, but most of it.
Next time I will go through all items inside sections.

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Re: INI Editor[message #327921] Mon, 11 November 2013 09:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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@E1vS: Thanks, I just committed.

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Re: INI Editor[message #328994] Sun, 15 December 2013 13:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was wondering is there any chance to store my ini settings when updating (reverting) through SVN to new Ja2options.ini file? because every time new ja2options.ini is available merging is not working, and redo all my settings again (same goes to xml files as well)

is there any dedicated software that could merge files? or maybe I am doing something wrong with Tortoise SVN?

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Re: INI Editor[message #328995] Sun, 15 December 2013 13:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Why don't use standart ini merging?

;******************************************************************************************************************************
; Merging of INI files across the various profiles as defined at [vfs_config] in vfs_config.XXX.ini
; Settings is read from right to left, with 'UserProf' as the topmost/first order. Use ',' to include/separate other INIs
;******************************************************************************************************************************

MERGE_INI_FILES = Ja2_Options.ini

As for xml merging, TortoiseMerge, WinMerge or various xml-merging programs (Altova DiffDog or similar) could help.

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Re: INI Editor[message #328996] Sun, 15 December 2013 14:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Why don't use standart ini merging?

;******************************************************************************************************************************
; Merging of INI files across the various profiles as defined at [vfs_config] in vfs_config.XXX.ini
; Settings is read from right to left, with 'UserProf' as the topmost/first order. Use ',' to include/separate other INIs
;******************************************************************************************************************************

MERGE_INI_FILES = Ja2_Options.ini

As for xml merging, TortoiseMerge, WinMerge or various xml-merging programs (Altova DiffDog or similar) could help.


i do not see these lines in my ja2options.ini
or am I looking to wrong place? again if I updated gamedir via SVN I see ja2options.ini merged in log, however new lines with new settings do not appear

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Re: INI Editor[message #328997] Sun, 15 December 2013 14:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You can add this line
Quote:
MERGE_INI_FILES = Ja2_Options.ini
to your ja2.ini file in your root ja2 folder

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Re: INI Editor[message #328998] Sun, 15 December 2013 14:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You can add this line
Quote:
MERGE_INI_FILES = Ja2_Options.ini
to your ja2.ini file in your root ja2 folder


done.
it means when I revert changes in ja2options.ini (question marked file) my settings will be saved?

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Re: INI Editor[message #328999] Sun, 15 December 2013 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As far as i understand this feature, options from ja2_options.ini placed in your profile dir override options from any other ja2_options.ini, keeping any newly added options unaffected.

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Re: INI Editor[message #329013] Sun, 15 December 2013 18:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As far as i understand this feature, options from ja2_options.ini placed in your profile dir override options from any other ja2_options.ini, keeping any newly added options unaffected.


but at the same time it means that new code written in ja2_options.ini in data 1.13 will not work, right?

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Re: INI Editor[message #329031] Mon, 16 December 2013 11:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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As far as i understand this feature, options from ja2_options.ini placed in your profile dir override options from any other ja2_options.ini, keeping any newly added options unaffected.


but at the same time it means that new code written in ja2_options.ini in data 1.13 will not work, right?


No, thats not true. New options in data 1.13 ja2_options.ini WILL WORK.

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Re: INI Editor[message #329033] Mon, 16 December 2013 12:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No, thats not true. New options in data 1.13 ja2_options.ini WILL WORK.


so what should I do then?

put my ini in profiles/UserProfile_JA2113

and it will combine both newly acquired ini via svn with my settings?

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Re: INI Editor[message #329035] Mon, 16 December 2013 12:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Get WinMerge

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Re: INI Editor[message #329067] Wed, 18 December 2013 16:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No, thats not true. New options in data 1.13 ja2_options.ini WILL WORK.


so what should I do then?

put my ini in profiles/UserProfile_JA2113

and it will combine both newly acquired ini via svn with my settings?


Exactly

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Re: INI Editor[message #360812 is a reply to message #329067] Mon, 03 August 2020 22:45 Go to previous message
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How do I make myself have infinite action points?

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