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Afx + RTS Kit

by Isaac Dutton · in RTS Starter Kit · 09/11/2008 (7:37 am) · 6 replies

Now, I could have sworn I read something about this being done in the past, however after doing a few searches I cant find anything.

Has anyone looked into merging the two? Is it a hard merge?

#1
09/11/2008 (7:59 pm)
@Isaac, personally havent done it yet, but with the incredible documentation that AFX provides, plus Jeff always present on the AFX forums to offer help, I dont think it should be too problematic.

Also some comments say its not difficult to make.
#2
09/11/2008 (8:29 pm)
I have done it. Its a relatively painless operation. just follow the merge guide. A good place to look is the old 1.5.2 upgrade kit. that merges the RTS kit to the 1.5.2 code. then add the AFX stuff that you want. It should merge flawlessly, as 99% of the RTS code doesnt conflict the TGE stuff.
#3
09/15/2008 (10:49 am)
I guess I could give it a try, I am very bad at these kinds of things though lol.

@Edward, sense 1.5.2 and RTSkit are already together now should I still look into remerging them, or simply just attempt an AFX + RTSkit merge?

@Novack, yeah I saw that, though the problem is that where as I cam experienced with C# and pretty much all other .net langs, I havent ever learned C++.... so where as I can stumble around in it, I am not very proficient really in it. Thus what could be easy for others could be insanely difficult for me.
#4
09/15/2008 (10:54 am)
Your thinking about it backwards, you thinking about what TGE added to rts, you want to look at the RTS patch itself, and where it went into TGE1.5.2. I merged it manually weeks before the official update come out. But at least those merging items might give you some extra instructions how to merge afx to rts vs tge to rts. just replace the TGE name with AFX. But you have to find where the hooks are and look out for conflicts, which if i remember when i did it months ago, there was very few problems.
#5
09/15/2008 (11:42 am)
Ahh, yeah I see I think!

Well I will give it a try tonight and see what I can do with it. Maybe I will get it working with out any problems but I doubt it.

I will post my progress here and perhaps someone can help me!
#6
12/08/2008 (5:00 am)
Did you manage to get this done Isaac? (Considering buying AFX)