I now got Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition
Hopefully it is the same, I think it is, so after the installation finished ill try follow the steps you explained, this might be a handy way to learn c++ by not really doing c++ code itself but a script in c++ that a program must understamd, maybe finally the light goes on in my head lol
edit: thanks angel
Now I can compile the ai dlls, but need to understand the structure first, I might try to make a empty ai and slowly add things to see how they work out lolAdded (02/June/2013, 11:59 PM)
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Due to several advantages of american conquest over cossacks, I decided to upgrade my work to american conquest 1. Im happy that I didnt do alot
in cossacks yet and the file formats are very similar so im lucky todo
just some copy/paste work and start editing american conquest.
Here's my list of advantages and disadvantages, american conquest had to win
Advantages:
> Support for terrain textures, better arrows, linking technologies instantly, garrisoned units can fire from a building, supports custom bitmaps in editor, animals and some other aoe2 features plus I have now a aoe2 mod attempt
Doubt:
> Editing the ai and/or game exe, someone claims that the source was released but I doubt ill ever get my hands on the ai's source code
Disadvantages:
> AI is less fun and more complicated and cannot be edited unlike cossacks, some work has to be done again, need to update my knowledge on the ac engine