Operation Firestorm Beta 02 - Easy Install (ENG) file

This is the same version of OFS as the other files, for people having trouble with activation of the mod.

This download includes Main Files and English Language Files and is activated by default. Widescreen UI is enabled by default. (you can easily switch to 4:3 if you want). There is no further activation required!
Put all the files in your game folder and start Generals.exe with your desired resolution/parameters.

THIS INSTALLATION OVERWRITES SOME OF YOUR ZH FILES! BACK UP YOUR FOLDER BEFORE INSTALLING!

INSTALLATION:

1) Requirements
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WARNING: THIS INSTALLATION REPLACES SOME OF YOUR FILES! BACKUP YOUR GAME FOLDER OR ELSE YOU NEED TO REINSTALL ZH IF YOU

WANT TO UNINSTALL THIS MOD.

IMPORTANT: This is a full release, no previous version of OFS should be installed.
This install should overwrite all files from the previous release, but just to be safe, make sure all OFS files from Beta01

are removed before installing Beta02.

Requirements:
A clean C&C Generals Zero Hour installation Patched to 1.4
What does clean mean? - No other mods. To be sure your ZH folder folder
should not have an "Art" subfolder and in "Data" there should be no "INI" folder.
And no file with the ending ".big" that does not belong to default C&C:Generals ZH may be there.

If you want to keep your Zero Hour folder clean, you can make a copy and install the mod
there. You can have multiple ZH's with different mods, I do this with all mods.

2) Add the mod files
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Add all files from the archive into your Zero Hour folder (default or copied one).
It should look like this:

../Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour/!OFS_INI.big
../Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour/!OFS_ART.big
(and all other bigs)

It's the correct folder when default .bigs and generals.exe are there.

3) Setup the UI files
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16:9 widescreen UI is enabled by default.

To enable 4:3 UI:
-) Remove the !OFS_WindowWide.big file
-) Rename !OFS_Window43.big.OFF to !OFS_Window43.big

4) Setup the language files
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English language is enabled by default.

To enable German language, remove the !OFS_English.big and add !OFS_German.big to the game folder.

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NOTE: For other language versions see the Extra section at the bottom of this file.
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5) Optional: Install the Map-Pack
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Extract the content of the MapPack archive into your "...\Documents\Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour Data\Maps"

folder.

6) Optional: HD Controlbar mod
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We recommend that you install the HD Controlbar mod from here (http://www.gentool.net/download/controlbar/) to get the

default icons and UI textures to match with the higher res Icons in OFS.

7) Activate OFS
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No activation required in this version

8) Run OFS
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Run 1 of the START bats. They will start in 1280x1024 or 1920x1080 resolution. If you have another resolution copy one of

the bats and edit it.
Change the -xres and -yres arguments to your resolution, you can also add
-win (starts the game windowed)
-quickstart
-noshellmap

You can also just create a shortcut to generals.exe and put the commandline arguments there and set up the correct

resolution in Options.ini in your Zero Hour Data folder.

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EXTRA: Setting up a different language (ONLY DO THIS IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ENGLISH OR GERMAN VERSION OF THE GAME)

If you have a different language version of the game than English or German (which means you will get "MISSING:xxx" texts

ingame and won't hear any new unit voices) but still want to have English (or German) texts/speech, then you'll have to

manually edit the .big files:

Get FinalBIG (or some other .big editor), extract the files from !OFS_English.big (or German) to a temporary folder and

rename all 'English' (or German' folders to your language version.
You then need to pack the files back into a new .big file and put it in your game folder.
You might need to adjust the Activate/Deactive .bat files to use the correct filenames.