How to disable factions?

[Incia]

I would firstly only want to concentrate on Allied, so is there any fast and easy way to disable Soviet and Empire from the Skirmish menu, so they are not pickable?

[R3ven]

Well, you can just pick Allies and leave it on them. You can't have less than three factions(hardcoded) if you do, there will be a black spot that crashes the game when you select it.

[Incia]

Oh... well that kind of... sucks...

Will suck when playing online for sure, as this mini-mod is supposed to only be played with one faction. Guess will just have to tell everyone to force-choose allied each game.

(Or Soviet, I just changed the modded faction into soviet)

[Bibber]

Well, you can just pick Allies and leave it on them. You can't have less than three factions(hardcoded) if you do, there will be a black spot that crashes the game when you select it.

Totally wrong. Best example is my Granatball Reploded mod. :P


To disable a faction you need to create a global stream (Data\AdditionalMaps\MapMetaData_*.xml) and use the following code:

    <PlayerTemplate
        id="Japan"
        Type="NULL"
        DisplayNameToken="GUI:RandomSide">
        <PreferredColor R="255" G="255" B="255"/>
        <PreferredCampaignRadarColor R="255" G="255" B="255"/>
    </PlayerTemplate>
    
    <PlayerTemplate
        id="Soviet"
        Type="NULL"
        DisplayNameToken="GUI:RandomSide">
        <PreferredColor R="255" G="255" B="255"/>
        <PreferredCampaignRadarColor R="255" G="255" B="255"/>
    </PlayerTemplate>

Please remember that when you do modding on factions it could be that you need to delete your skirmish.ini before starting the game.

[R3ven]

Never played Granatball, so that goes to say something. Anyways, nice tidbit of information there. :0

[Incia]

Is that script for a custom map?

As I can only disable a faction in a specific map I make?

Would I need to re-mod all the original skirmish maps?

[Bibber]

There isn't any script. Oo And it's not map specific. The code piece just disables the factions from the menu.

[Lauren]

Naming it mapmetadata_* is just some kind of a hack as it circumvents an oversight by EA.