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  On 12/12/2013 at 9:19 PM, wildnfree said:

are the side arrows on the soldiers load out screen working for soldiers 7+ yet?

No.

 

I've been holding off working on it due to multiple reasons.

 

The biggest reasons are:

  • Very promising modding tools are currently under development and I expect the resulting tools to make the work significantly easier, faster and even future compatible (remember patch 1 anyone?).
    • Doing things the hard way only to have to redo all work as soon as a patch is released and/or the new tools become available doesn't feel very inspiring.
  • Real life, full time work, etc.
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  • 3 weeks later...

I think I have a half-decent work-in-progress version that's got the basic functionality covered for Enemy Within (patch 1).

 

What's included:

  • support for up to twelve unit boxes in squad selection screen
  • animated scrolling of squad list using side buttons
  • unit boxes being filled in the correct order

What's missing:

  • soldier pawn cycling
  • hiding unusable unit boxes
  • preventing out-of-range scrolling
  • properly re-positioned OTS naggers
  • audio feedback for side buttons

Hex changes go into XComStrategyGame.upk for UnrealScript modifications and UICollection_Strategy_SF.upk for Flash-based UI modifications, details in the following:

 

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Enjoy! :)

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@Xmark: i dont know how or where to apply this. please could someone help me?
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  On 1/6/2014 at 1:55 PM, AlyAly said:

@Xmark: i dont know how or where to apply this. please could someone help me?

Get a decent hex editor like HxD, open the listed files (i.e. XComStrategyGame.upk and UICollection_Strategy_SF.upk), find the sections marked as before and replace the listed number of bytes with the sections labeled after. For more in-depth explanation I suggest you have a read through this wiki article :)

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Thanks. but I cannot find the Hex values in UICollection_Strategy_SF.upk. And the postion 0x7E826C doesn't exists.
I have only this one:
5F 5F 50 61 63 6B 61 67 65 73 2E 49 44 69 73 70 6F 73 61 62 6C 65 00 FF 0E 44 48 1B 01 1F 00 88 16 5C 6C 05 5F 67 6C 6F 62 61 6C 00 2A 80 00 6A 5B 00 1C 76 00 01... at 00007100

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  On 1/6/2014 at 5:38 PM, AlyAly said:

Thanks. but I cannot find the Hex values in UICollection_Strategy_SF.upk. And the postion 0x7E826C doesn't exists.

I have only this one:

5F 5F 50 61 63 6B 61 67 65 73 2E 49 44 69 73 70 6F 73 61 62 6C 65 00 FF 0E 44 48 1B 01 1F 00 88 16 5C 6C 05 5F 67 6C 6F 62 61 6C 00 2A 80 00 6A 5B 00 1C 76 00 01... at 00007100

Make sure to use decompressed UPK files, you can use Gildor's UPK Decompressor for that purpose.

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