Warhammer 40k Dawn Of War: Dark Crusade Iso Serial Key Generator
Brooke Fuerst
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War delivers a level of visual detail never before seen in an RTS. Hundreds of units clash on the battlefields of the dark future, unleashing massive destruction through a stunning battery of long-range weaponry before closing in for the finish. Incredible kill animations bring science fiction combat to life like never before, and the gritty future-gothic Warhammer 40,000 setting provides a striking tableau for the chaos and carnage of this grim, dark future, where there is only war!
This application is to be used alongside Dawn of War Soulstorm with the Ultimate Apocalypse mod.
It allows you to very quickly randomize and create your very own campaign of skirmishes to play
alone or with friends. You can input some parameters for your personal campaign and then the rest
is all generated for you!
Theme: The theme option affects what kind of enemies will be a focus for your campaign. For example "The Tyranid Menace" theme will make tyranids a much more frequent opponent that you will be dealing with. You are not limited to these preset themes however and can create your own be selecting the "CUSTOM THEME" option. This will bring up several cells each labelled by the DoW races. Due to space constraints some are acronyms. I am sure you can figure out what they stand for but juuuusttt incase:
These cells will by default be filled with the number '100' as they are distributed evenly. You can modify the values in each of these to essentially ADD weight to that race. So say you make Space Marines have a value of 1100 and leave everything else the same. This will make it so that Space Marines now have a 50% chance of being chosen as an enemy for every battle generated. This is because 1100 weight is Space Marines, and the sum of each of the other races weights is 1100. Other races with this distribution would now individually have a
How many players?: With this option you can increase the number of players participating with you up to 4 in total. This option will make it so that the battles generated will add more CPUs to match your players (Note: CPUs will be added by chance anyway but this ensures that the minimum increases)
Once you've set up your campaign it will display to you a pretty simple interface. You have 3 battles that you can choose to play next. Each battle you choose will take you down a different branch and their options and state are saved. When you lose a game you will be sent back to the previous branch. So say your options are (a,b,c) and you choose 'b' and win. Now your options down the 'b' branch are (ba,bb,bc) and you choose 'ba' and lose. Well now you are sent back to the options (a,b,c) except 'b' will generate into something else because you ended the original threat.
To choose a battle you simply click on the portrait. Note the difficulty at the top, the CPU enemies you will face in the middle, and the map to be chosen at the bottom. These are the parameters you will choose for your skirmish in-game.
When you win the game you will be presented with a "About this campaign" text field where you can write about the campaign you just won. This is an opportunity to write some lore about how you "stopped the ork onslaught" and what not. This, along with your win/lose ratio will be saved in the DoWCG\DoWCGSaveGames folder titled as (savename)Legacy.txt. Your original save file will be deleted as you have completed your mission.
- Always make sure DoWCG folder and all files contained are in same directory as DoWCG.exe
- Do not delete or move any of the files in the folder DoWCG
- If files are changed or lost re-download.
1) First, you will want to use the MapFinder.exe program that is located in the DoWCG folder. There is a README located in this directory that explains how you can use it but the summary is that it allows you to find all the maps in your Soulstorm directory quickly and then choose which ones you want in the rotation for the main app. This is how you can *import* other mods maps.
2) Second, you will need to decide what factions you want. In the DoWCG folder there is a textfile called Factions.txt and a bunch of image files labeled r0.jpg, r1.jpg ... r11.jpg. These images are used for each faction listed in Factions.txt. In Factions.txt each race is listed with the name of these image files placed below. You can remove any race you like but make sure to also remove the image file they are associated with. If you wish to add a race, in a new line write the name of the race and then below the name of the image file to use. This image file must be in the DoWCG directory. If you do not have an image file you can simply write "null" and it will use temp.jpg.
It is a program that can be used to search your Soulstorm directory and returns all map file names found. It touches them up a bit but it is pretty guaranteed that there will be some that you will need to format manually. This program makes it easy for you to do it however.
Start by selecting "Find Maps!". It will prompt you to copy and paste the path to your Soulstorm directory. It will check your input and make sure that your path is valid before scanning any files. To be clear, this is the path that ends with the folder "Dawn of War Soulstorm" (steam) or "Dawn of War - Soulstorm".
After putting in the directory name it will return a list of all the file names it found in a text field. Go through this text field and format any names that are incorrect and to your liking. Sometimes map files don't have the player size attached to them and so you will need to add these. The format you want is: "#p name_of_map". So number of players (and make sure you leave a 'p' at the end) and then a space and the map name.
Any files that the computer can't figure out after your formatting will be placed in a text file called "UnknownMaps.txt". You can look in at these later and then add them into their correct map files.
ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE THE MAP COUNT AT THE TOP OF THE FILE IF ADDING MAPS MANUALLY. I suggest using a text editor like Notepad++ because it will show you the number of lines in the file so you don't have to count. Also the end-lines don't register in normal notepad so the list of maps will look hella confusing.
In case it wasn't clear, the number at the top of each maps file indicates how many maps are in the file. If you forget how many maps you added to the file but you know there are 50 lines in the file. Well, in the first line we know thats the map count. So there are 49 maps in the file. Update the map count this way. Don't worry about any of this stuff if you don't plan on adding maps manually.
Could it be adapted/work just for SS or other multiple-faction mods? There are many other factions if combined which are not necessary in UA by default and I think this procedure works independently of the particular attributes and winconditions.
The optimal solution for me could be some code to detect which factions are present independently of the mod which combines them. They should include themselves some tags to help the arrangements -probably based in the allies matrix of the Tabletop game-, or being covered in the code all possible factions.
Nonetheless the images are linked to the factions and this is coded in the exe and thus, it's difficult expanding it to cover any addition. I would recommend as a suggestion to include a generic image as default for other factions.This way other factions could be added without errors (I guess) until you modify your code to link the proper images if available. Not elegant but functional.
Another suggestion is that the choices for your enemies could be conditioned not only for the weights and the preferences between factions to ally but also to your own faction choice because afaik you can be choosing whatever and if you want to have something thematic instead of a mere match-up generator this could be relevant.
So to sum up, I'd like to see a suggested ally(ies) for >1 players and possibly condition the chosen enemies to the faction of your choice (which is the element around the campaign is based); even you would have the possibility to switch in case you have allies and want to play another army.
Number of players is just to indicate if you are playing with friends and I may or may not implement the ally generation simply because time vs reward on this one. But I get bored so dont count it out yet :). I never really specified the rules but how you play each game is totally up to you. I actually kind of intended for games to be played FFA when there is multiple opponents. Unless the opponents are both of the same team (lorewise). So like if the battle says 2 tyranids, imperial guard, and space marines, I would assume the tyranids would be on a team and space marines/imperial guard would also be on a team. However its up to you how you want to set teams as its specific to the kind of campaign your trying to build. As for condition the battles according to your faction, I am not totally sure if its necessary. The weights for custom themes actually provide a lot of specification on the type of games generated and I feel like factoring in what faction you chose would only just add more weight to certain enemies. Something you could just specify in the custom theme. I could make it so you can edit your theme during the campaign however.
In case of thematic settings if you add more factions the weights I guess there are 100 by default so I don't know if there are the same as the rest but for the relevant ones which should have more. In case of customized theme the weights for new additions or different factions in case you replace them cannot be edited.
New races should be editable. Make your you update the number at the top of the Factions.txt file with the new count when you change the list. Same as you would for maps. The number tells the computer how many factions to expect.
Map restriction is already in. Do you mean to be able to restrict it mid-game like the themes? I can definitely work that in :). The map finder does nothing to your files it just reads their names don't worry. It does try to format the names that it prints for you a little bit in order to save you time. Also, an unfortunate problem with the map finder right now is that the base game maps for Dawn of War are not included in save files and are actually internal. So the map-finder won't pick them up. Its not a big deal for Ultimate Apocalypse users because pretty much all the original maps have "Apocalysed" versions which do get picked up. But its something I should mention.
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