Ares Expansion DLL for Yuri's Revenge

[SpeederMO]

Since this is still a project that requires more attention from Yuri's Revenge players a modders, I'm making a new thread for this on this new shiny C&C board in Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge subforum! :D

What is Ares?

"Ares is the next generation of binary-based Command & Conquer modding.

Following the path paved by pd's famous RockPatch, Ares fixes and enhances the Yuri's Revenge game engine in a variety of ways, allowing modders to expand the game with never before seen custom units.

However, unlike RockPatch and other exe patches, Ares does not modify the game's exe. Instead, Ares uses Syringe to inject its code into the game during runtime, leaving the original game unchanged, thus eliminating the need for backup exes or un-patchers."

Official website: http://ares.strategy-x.com/

Ares is an expansion DLL which serves as a base for recent Yuri's Revenge mods. Apart from fixing many bugs from the original game it provides completely new features like new superweapons, new sides+countries etc. You can see some of new features and bugfixes in the video below, which was created with one of the recent Mental Omega APYR (http://mo.cncguild.net/) 3.0 beta versions.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVALt8yZGw
(Note: Some of features shown in the video will be available in Ares 0.2)

Ares 0.2 is in the works, version 0.1 can already be downloaded from the official website in both standalone form and as an extension to Marshall's Launch Base (http://marshall.strategy-x.com/LaunchBase/index.php) mod manager. A complete documentation is included, with a list of all new tags available in Ares and information on how to use them.

Ares staff is currently looking for more members (http://forums.renegadeprojects.com/showthread.php?tid=1779) to help with the project, you can also become a tester of beta versions. You can find more info on their website.

Expect many Ares-based mods in the future, incl. Mental Omega 3.0, Final War and ReWire. You can already download one of them - Red Ares (http://www.moddb.com/mods/red-ares) mod by Allied General.

[EnoPR]

That was fast. I come from PPM and I think that RA2 & YR boards DO get a Maps+ modding section just like RA3.

[Chrisev]

Good job :P

[zoidySVK]

looks cool :)

[SpeederMO]

Taste the rainbow, will ya?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJj5lz0BYk

The video shows some of enhancements to the Prism Forwarding logic.

NOTE: At this moment Prism Forwarding is available in Ares 0.2 testing builds. Video was made for demonstration purposes only and does not show the way this logic is used in upcoming Mental Omega 3.0.

[Elearen]

Wow that was awesome.

And the Tesla coils XD

[SpeederMO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNsK3-Putz0

Second trailer for Ares Expansion DLL! Created using Mental Omega 3.0 beta version.

NOTE: Bounty logic will not be available in Ares v0.2.

[SpeederMO]

Ares Expansion DLL 0.2 has finally been released. Here's what AlexB has to say about the release:


Finally, after many months of waiting, Ares 0.2 has been released. You didn't really expect this, did you? Well, here it is.

Before I restate the obvious I'd like to thank all the people who spent countless hours and contributed to Ares since the last release. Your code, comments, documentation, images, videos and bug hunting helped to improve Ares. I know you needed a really deep breath and some ran out of air early. Thank you for your engagement!

Special thanks to DCoder and Renegade, who worked on this project for so long and introduced me to coding for YR in 2010.

Ares 0.2 is the successor to Ares 0.1p1, which was released in June 2010. It fixes many original game bugs, improves performance and adds several new features for modders - way too many to list them all here. Even way too many to list only some of them.

For 0.2 download and documentation, head to http://ares.strategy-x.com/