KW and Steam Thread - One Vision mod for Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

So, does anyone know how to mod the Steam version of KW? I would love to give this mod a try... but I mean, with the lack of any usable folders...

I tried the mod launcher on the steam version of my brother and it did seem to work.
I guess you can't find the "Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath" in "My Documents"? If it doesn't exist, try to create this one (with the exact same spelling, unless you don't have the english version). And in this Kane's Wrath folder you drag and drop the "Mods" folder.
When everything is set up, try to run the mod launcher again and try to start it. Please make a reply in case it did work, so I can write it into the "how to run this mod" textfile.

So, I have this file path "C:\Users\[My name here]\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Mods" with the one vision folder in there. No luck, however.

Edit: I am using win 7

Edited by: GoldenArbiter

You did try to launch it with the modlauncher, right? Have you also tried the shortcut way described in the textfile?

If this fails too, you can launch the mod in a different way, but it's not as convenient. First, got to your Kane's Wrath main folder and right click "CNC3EP1_english_1.2.SkuDef".
Then you select "open with" and choose Editor.

Now, you add the following line on top of that
add-config C:\Users\*\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Mods\One Vision\One Vision_0.7.skudef

The * needs to be your user name.

Before you change the file, try to name the folder "Command and Conquer 3 Kanes Wrath". It's the same without the apostrophe.Some people seem to have different folder names for reasons only EA knows (ok, they probably don't know that either).

K, I opened the skudef file with notepad (not sure if that's what you meant, and this is what it said before I added anything:

Someone wrote: // WrathEdadd-search-path C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Maps\add-search-path C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\WrathEd\Mod Launcher\Kane's Wrath\Mod\add-config C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Mods\One Vision\One Vision_0.7.skudef// Original// WrathEdadd-search-path C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Maps\add-search-path C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\WrathEd\Mod Launcher\Kane's Wrath\Mod\add-config C:\Users\William Arseneau\Documents\Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath\Mods\One Vision\One Vision_0.7.skudef// Originalset-exe RetailExe\1.2\cnc3ep1.datadd-config Lang-english\1.2\config.txtadd-config EnglishAudio\1.2\config.txtadd-config Core\1.2\config.txtadd-config Meta\1.2\config.txtadd-config RetailExe\1.2\config.txtadd-config Movies\1.0\config.txtadd-search-path big:

So from what I understand, it is already creating a file path, but not reading it?
I launched the game once I added the line to the top, but there was no difference from the vanilla game, and the modded one. Unless you haven't added any special markings to the main menu?

The best way would be to find out what folder your game looks for. To do so, open Regedit.exe and go to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ELECTRONIC ARTS/Command and Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath

There you look for the entry in the line "UserDataLeafName".
Note: if you don't see an Electronic Arts folder, you need to select Wow6432Node in the software folder.

Leafname:
It's a large amount of Binary that spells out "Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath"
It also looks like there's an added space at the end though....

After adding a space to the folder name, and re launching, still no difference.

Sorry for the delay. I talked to the creator of the mod launcher and he made a new version:
Bibber.eu

It should work for steam and you can directly browse to your correct folder where you need to place the "mods" folder.

Oh shit, that's cool.

Unfortunately I'm on cellular data and can't download it until the weekend, but thanks for the effort.

No problem. Please let me know if it works.

I think it worked, but what can I do to test it to be positive?

Er, actually, just looked throug and saw renamed factions. I'm going to assume that means it worked. Thanks for the help, man.

Code wise the mod consist of two parts. One that has all strings (like renamed factions) and one that has all the content.

Did you hear the new main theme when you started the game? Just start a game and you should see noticeable differences when playing the game ^^.Just play Steel Talons, Marked of Kane or Reaper-17, they got all different buildable starting units. That's the fastest way to make really sure.

It worked. Kinda disappointed it doesn't flow 100% with the world war module, seeing as how that's all I play KW for, but it's still fun regardless.