FA Engine Patches Repository

This are some binary patches for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance.

To apply the patches you can use the upload action or do it local via the patcher

Change List

Signature patches

• See SigPatches.txt

Technical patches

These don't matter except for other assembly patches

• Adds lua_createtable
  • section/lua_createtable.cpp
• Adds registrators for Sim and UI Lua funcs.
  • hooks/LuaFuncRegs.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

Optimizations

• Optimize VDist3 function
  • hooks/VDist3.cpp
  • section/VDist3.cpp
• Reduce call sim beat of UI
  • hooks/HUIReduceCallSimBeat.cpp
• Zeroing GuardScanRadius if the unit's order is not Patrol/AttackMove. Increases performance.
  • hooks/HGuardFix.cpp
  • section/GuardFix.cpp
• Range ring performance improvement (reducing height cylinders)
  • hooks/HRangeRings2.cpp
  • section/RangeRings2.cpp
• Range ring performance improvement (don't render each ring twice)
  • hooks/RangeRings.cpp
  • section/RangeRings.cpp
• Camera performance improvements
  • hooks/CameraPerf.cpp
• Optimised some AI actions
  • hooks/aiinitattack.cpp

Bugs

• Fix RolloverInfo returning integer economy values.
  • hooks/GetRolloverInfoFix.cpp
• Fix problem described here
  • hooks/weakgcmarkerFix.cpp
• Fix CUIWorldMesh:GetInterpolatedAlignedBox return table to properly store ymax and zMax
  • hooks/FixGetInterpolatedAlignedBox.cpp
• Make TestCommandCaps test commands caps instead of toggle caps
  • hooks/FixTestCommandCaps.cpp
• Reduce terrain collision distance-based offset to 1%;
• Prevent projectile layer changes on terrain collisions;
• Allows multiple collisions to be processed during collision checks.
  • hooks/FixCollisions.cpp
• Fix CMauiControl:SetAlpha: don't change color part and check for 3rd argument as boolean.
  • hooks/SetAlpha.cpp
  • section/SetAlpha.cpp
• Fix UserDecal:SetPosition argument.
  • hooks/DecalSetPositionFix.cpp
• Fix ForkThread function. Allow only lua function to be passed as first argument.
  • hooks/ForkThreadFix.cpp
  • section/ForkThreadFix.cpp
• Fix Unit:SetStat function, crashed before. Now returns true if value must be set.
  • hooks/SetStatFix.cpp
  • section/SetStatFix.cpp
• Upgrade Progress Fix
  • hooks/HUpgradeProgressFix.cpp
  • section/UpgradeProgressFix.cpp
• Prevents the crash with 'None' collisions of air. #3235
  • hooks/AirNoneCollisionFix.cpp
• Prevents commander exploding for no reason. #3406
  • hooks/NegativeIncomeFix.cpp
• Fix replays desyncing when a player leaves the game
  • hooks/DesyncFix.cpp
  • section/gpg_net.cpp
  • section/moho_decode.cpp
  • section/moho_input.cpp
  • section/include/desync_fix_global.h
• Kill exception during map loading
  • hooks/Kill_maploader_except.cpp
• Prevent blueprint editor being used without cheat mode
  • hooks/FixOpenBPEditor.cpp
• Can't become an observer while your human allies are still alive
  • hooks/ObserverFix.cpp
• Fix a crash when units arrive at waypoints
  • hooks/WayPointArrive.cpp

Improvements

• Allows to use 4GB on x64
  • hooks/HFix4GB.cpp
• Make xact3d the error message print once
  • hooks/xact_3dapply.cpp
  • section/xact_3d_fix.cpp
• Improvements to lua messages
  • hooks/LuaMessages.cpp

Gameplay

• Change tick intel update interval from every 30 ticks to every 1 tick
  • hooks/IntelUpdate.cpp
• Removing CTRL formations
  • hooks/HRemovingCTRLFormations.cpp
• Ignore empty reclaim orders
  • hooks/HIgnoreEmptyReclaim.cpp
• Stops reclaim if unit is paused (similar to 'build', 'assist' etc.)
  • hooks/StopReclaimWhenPaused.cpp
  • section/StopReclaimWhenPaused.cpp
  • section/selectionPriority.cpp
• Allows changing army of ACUs
  • hooks/HTransferACUs.cpp
• Allow players to double-click to select Walls
  • hooks/WallSelection.cpp
• Make LOWSELECTPRIO apply to units under construction
  • hooks/selectionPriority.cpp

Lua

• Change SUBCOMMANDER category name to SACU_BEHAVIOR (FAF makes this transparent)
  • hooks/CategoryRenames.cpp
• Stop the engine calling lua every time a plane turns
  • hooks/OnMotionTurnEvent.cpp

Additions

These new features have been added in a backwards compatibile manner

• Adds GetHighlightCommand() - return table of command or nil to UI (section/GetHighlightCommand.cpp)

• Adds new methods to the the Projectile class (section/ProjectileNewMethods.cpp):

  • Projectile:SetNewTargetGroundXYZ(x, y, z)
  • x, y, z = Projectile:GetCurrentTargetPositionXYZ()
  • frequency = Projectile:GetZigZagFrequency()
  • maxzigzag = Projectile:GetMaxZigZag()

• Adds Custom World Rendering (hooks: HDraw.cpp, GetFPS.cpp; section: DrawFunc.cpp, DrawCircleSetColor.cpp,WorldView.cpp)

  • UI_DrawRect(pos:vector, size:float, color:string, thickness?=0.15:float)
  • UI_DrawCircle(pos:vector, radius:float, color:string, thickness?=0.15:float)

  Both functions must be called within WorldView:OnRenderWorld(delta_time). To enable CWR call WorldView:SetCustomRender(true) of WorldView you want to draw in. To disable call WorldView:SetCustomRender(false) respectively.

• Adds Strategic icon scale support:

  • hooks/IconScale.cpp
  • section/IconScale.cpp

• Adds new method to WorldView (section/WorldView.cpp):

  • ProjectMultiple projects multiple vectors at once

• Adds new methods for UserUnit (section/UserUnit.cpp):

  • GetInterpolatedPosition returns position of a unit interpolated by current frame
  • GetFractionComplete returns float from 0 to 1

• Adds method MauiBitmap (section/MauiBitmap.cpp):

  • SetColorMask- sets color mask for bitmap

• Adds 5th argument for IssueMobileBuild as flag whether to pick all units for build order

  • hooks/IssueMobileBuild.cpp
  • section/IssueMobileBuild.cpp

• Adds GetProcessAffinityMask, SetProcessAffinityMask, SetProcessPriority to "init.lua"

  • hooks/OnCreateInitLuaState.cpp
  • section/OnCreateInitLuaState.cpp

• Adds the commandType, position, targetId and blueprintId to sim unit:GetCommandQueue

  • hooks/SimGetCommandQueue.cpp
  • section/SimGetCommandQueue.cpp

• Adds new category 'CANLANDONWATER' for air units to be able to land on water

  • hooks/CanLandOnWater.cpp
  • section/Categories.cpp

• Adds new category 'OBSTRUCTSBUILDING' for props to block buildings from being build on top of those

  • hooks/Reclaimable.cpp
  • section/Categories.cpp

• Allows customize colors for team color mode

  • hooks/TeamColorMode.cpp
  • section/TeamColorMode.cpp

• Adds the order ID to the UserUnit:GetCommandQueue output

  • hooks/HOrderIDOutput.cpp
  • section/OrderIDOutput.cpp

• GetSessionClients also output maximum sim speed(maxSP)

  • hooks/HOutputMaxSP.cpp
  • section/OutputMaxSP.cpp

• Console command: "cam_DefaultMiniLOD 0" now disable mesh renderer for minimap

  • hooks/MinimapMesh.cpp
  • section/MinimapMesh.cpp

• Adds GetTimeForProfile to Sim and UI. Allows to deal with the loss of accuracy

  • section/GetTimeForProfile.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Adds optimized table.getsize2(~25 times faster) and table.empty2 Adds getn2 as alias getn. Entry point to math functions queue

  • hooks/GetTableSize.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Maximum sim rate up to 50

  • hooks/DelClampMaxSimRate.cpp

• Adds an amphibious mode toggle to the Salem

  • hooks/luaSimGetStat.cpp
  • section/luaSimGetStat.cpp

• Adds GetDepositsAroundPoint to Sim and UI

  • section/SimGetDepositsAroundPoint.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Adds SetInvertMidMouseButton to UI

  • section/InvertMidMouseButton.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Unlock an "Ultra" graphics preset

  • hooks/UnlockUltraPreset.cpp

• Adds SetCommandSource to Sim. Allow armies to be shared by multiple players

  • section/SimSetCommandSource.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Adds GetMouseWorldPos to Sim

  • section/SimGetMouseWorldPos.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Adds SessionIsReplay to Sim

  • section/SimIsReplay.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Adds SetFocusArmy to Sim. Sets focus without restrictions

  • section/SimSetFocusArmy.cpp
  • section/LuaFuncRegs.cpp

• Allow upgrades to be queued on units under construction

  • hooks/BuildUnit.cpp
  • section/BuildUnit.cpp
  • section/SelectUnit.cpp
  • section/SimArmyCreate.cpp