XCOM EU Can someone pls give a hand in adding "timed production"

[Starman001]

With the new EW out, and finally being able to edit the ini's again, the only thing left that I find very bad is the "issue" that items are produced instantly...

 

Big Mods already changed that, but it doesn't seems to be in the ini-files, must be somewhere in the exe to activate the values in the ini first (since item have a time flag already, it's just not used)

 

Can someone please give me hand here ?

[PsyckoSama]

I'm interested in this as well.

 

I have some mod ideas that would be well served by this.

[Amineri]

Fortunately this is a one-liner ...

 

In XComStrategyGame.upk in XGItemTree.GetItemBuildTime change:

if((eItemCat != 3) || IsShipWeapon(eItem))
07 4E 00 84 9B 38 3A 00 6C 42 00 00 38 3A 24 03 16 18 16 00 1B 47 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 3A 00 6D 42 00 00 16 16 

to:

if((eItemCat != 3) && IsShipWeapon(eItem))
07 4E 00 82 9B 38 3A 00 6C 42 00 00 38 3A 24 03 16 18 16 00 1B 47 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 3A 00 6D 42 00 00 16 16 

Since ship weapons are in category 3 this will never be true, resulting in all items taking time to build.

[Starman001]

Thanks for that info. Can I do that with any free available hex editor ?

 

(edit)Hm... cannot even find that position with a hex editor inside the file

 

(edit2),.,... ok, searching for the hex-string brought up a result... changed 84 to 82, game starts and production seems timed... let's hope it's stable :) i wil now change the ini accordingly...

Edited December 18, 2013 by Starman001

[Amineri]

I can't really take credit ... this is the method that JL developed many months ago and has been used in Long War for the duration. So it should be pretty stable :).