C2C DLL features

• Savegame compatibility between versions including modifier recalculation
• No limit on the number of resources
• Building and unit filters, grouping and sorting (including a Python UI counterpart)
• Build lists (including a Python UI counterpart that allows to define build lists on a separate screen and reuse them)
• Viewports (displays a viewport into a big map instead of the full map to save a considerable amount of graphics memory)
• Game Object Wrappers (abstraction layer for the major game objects to write generic code that is partially based on XML)

• Caching of some modular XML info in files (speeds up second start of C2C considerably)
• XML change detection to recommend modifier recalculation
• Delayed resolution mechanism (avoids 2 or 3 pass XML reading when used)
• A lot of additional tags

• Generic property system (XML defined properties that can have a lot of different behaviors)
• Outcome system (chance based outcome lists for animal kills and special missions)
• Expression system (expressions written in XML are dynamically evaluated on a game object, e.g. used for complex dependency conditions)
• Multi Feature Mod (more than one feature on a plot)
• Combat Mod (a lot of mechanics that make combat more interesting)
• XML based animal spawning

• Contract Broker (units advertise for work and are contracted where they are needed or new ones are built where most suited instead of only where they are needed)
• AI for generic property control
• Subdued Animal AI
• Many improvements to all areas of the AI

• Fast and optimized pathing generator with more features than the standard one
• A lot of additional information caching in performance critical functions
• Optimized trade plot group handling
• Multithreading of generic property solver and animal spawning (more to come)

ls612 said:

You should post this to the main C&C forums somewhere so the general modding community will see it.

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Il Principe said:

It should be mentioned, that viewports is not just saving memory.. it is a live saver. since I use them I´ve never seen a MAF, on gigantic maps.

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AIAndy said:

MAF = Memory Allocation Failure
To avoid MAF's you have to reduce the amount of memory used.

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Il Principe said:

I know
But if this is for advertising, "banishing the dreaded memory Allocation Failure" just sounds good
And I am not sure that everyone is aware that the MAF is a video ram issue. Sure , modders probably are. But not all players that might be interested to try out c2C

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