Animation Lockout

[William Keenan]

The animation lockout and other anti-animation features included in the ToT patch for us designers do not get saved with the saved game.

Does anyone have a work around?

[William Keenan]

I figured it out. Here is how to hex edit the SAV file:

Terrain Animation lockout byte: 0x3D523[*] 00 for no lockout[*] 80 for lock out

Unit Animation lockout byte: 0x3D524[*] 00 for no lockout[*] 01 for lock out

SPR file override byte: 0x3D524[*] 00 for no override[*] 02 for override

Both Unit Animation lockout and SPR file override byte: 0x3D524[*] 03 for both lock outs[*] 00 for no lockouts

[Miner]

So does this mean that if you start a scenario (all animation locked out) and then save it (as a normal save game) and then resume playing later, all the animations come back????

Or do you mean just a save game from a non-scenario start?

[William Keenan]

The animation lockout works normally if you [*] Start a new game[*] Toggle the animation lockouts (cheat menu)[*] Save the game as a scenario[*] Begin a new game from the scenario[*] Save the new game

Any other route leads to a save game with animations that return every time you load the game.

I have posted this info for people who do not have the luxury of starting their scenario design over from scratch, especially people using the CivConverter.

[Dracon]

thank god!!!!!!

[Dracon]

umm.. I don't understand this hex editing. Could you explain a little more? I download HexEdit, and I don't know what to do

[William Keenan]

Humm ... I'm not to good at explaining things, research is my bag. I seem to recall that Gothmog had a good explaination of Hex editing on his [/b]site[/b].