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| Author: | zerker2000 [ Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Binary tinkering |
As I imagine this is frowned upon, would I run afoul of any licenses etc. if I modified the CC executable? For that matter, will I be warned for this post? I want to try patching menu text back into Brutality, but feel like I may end up violating something. |
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| Author: | trystanr [ Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
As long as you have bought the game, I believe it should be okay to edit the files you wish to edit. |
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| Author: | Duh102 [ Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
There is no law against modifying your game for personal use, but distributing the modification is illegal. You'd have to contact Data about that. |
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| Author: | zerker2000 [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
Distributing the modified version, or the modification itself? I may be overestimating people's ability to apply a bspatch, but I don't think legality would be a concern in that case(unless it contradicts forum rules?) As for contacting Data, unless I'm missing something major, a) I would not expect a response within a week and b) it would make more sense to ask him to spend half an hour commenting out the relevant two lines of code. |
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| Author: | Duh102 [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
I do not know, sadly, and I don't want to tell you the wrong thing, so again, I'd say get in touch with Data. And contrary to popular lore, you can usually get in touch with Data within a few hours via IM. I'll ask him next chance I get to take a look at this thread and get back to you about it. |
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| Author: | Gotcha! [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
I doubt there's a problem with modifying it for personal use, but distributing the .exe file, whether modified or not, would be illegal, for obvious reasons. |
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| Author: | zerker2000 [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
Well in that case, @Data, could you by any chance
Gotcha! wrote: I doubt there's a problem with modifying it for personal use, but distributing the .exe file, whether modified or not, would be illegal, for obvious reasons. |
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| Author: | Sims_Doc [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
I so wish data would create a open source version of Cortex Command, even its only B23 or B24 i would be happy. |
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| Author: | Data [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
what's this hovertext you speak of? distributing a modification is fine.. we're not that anal. |
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| Author: | Dauss [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
Data: I think he means the text that hovers over actors and displays their health and team. |
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| Author: | zerker2000 [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
Yes, see this thread. As far as I can tell, Crow nulled out a bunch of resources in Base.rte, which produced the desired effect at the cost of menu text. Skipping the "draw stuff over actors and weapons" routine in code should work somewhat better. |
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| Author: | Squeegy Mackpy [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
It's a pretty hacky method, but you could always change the actorheight of everything to some insanely high number so you never see their hud. Actually there's also a HUDvisible flag (or something like that) in lua you can use. A level script with "For all actors in moveablewhatsit actor.HUDvisible = false" would suffice. |
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| Author: | Kettenkrad [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
Couldn't you just... change HUDVisible... in the .ini? Or am I missing something :/ |
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| Author: | blargiefarg [ Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Binary tinkering |
I'm quite confident that distributing something like an IPS patch for CC is completely legal. IPS Patches don't distribute the executable itself, only the CHANGES, so basically if you made and distributed a patch of any binary modifications you made to the CC executable, Data can't really complain since you're just distributing YOUR work--not his. |
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