Quote from: Ty294 on July 14, 2025, 03:24:07 PMSo, this can be done on a map-to-map basis without the need to hack the game EXE, or is this being done to the game EXE? Sorry if I missed something, but I am wondering what file is being hex-edited to get this effect.

Very nice work regardless though!

It requires updating your Battlefront.exe or saving the values in Cheat Engine.

Hello and welcome.

You have to download the Mod Tools either located here or on ModDB (just search up SWBF2 mod tools, or whichever game you're using). You would have to modify the tga texture for the ones you want to replace, and odds are you'll just munge (compile) a brand new side .lvl file or if you do want to use the replacement, then you would have to go into the _BUILD_PC folder and find the appropriate .texture file, which you can then insert using his tool.

Is it simple? Yeah, but does require some legwork to get from start to finish.  Feel free to take a look at some of the other side editing tutorials on the website to get a better feel for it.

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You're not gonna get any performance boost from anything like that.  BF runs on a single thread and you're not gaining any advantages over any other setup.

Probably fine using it, but any oddities you find could probably be mitigated by using a consumer level CPU.  Server CPUs can be fine but are usually tailored towards... server-level jobs.

BAD_AL has a version in his toolkit that is a little bit easier to handle than working with luac -l
https://github.com/BAD-AL/SWBF2_Xbox_mod_effort/releases/tag/0.52

I have one that works for simple lua 4.0 scripts and works well for BF1 on my Github as well that was mentioned early in the thread.

Also, are your vehicles sitting too close to barriers? The AI think if any part of a vehicle exists in a barrier that it's inaccessible.  This is a common problem even in the stock game that isn't well noted.

Yeah I've set it up.  I also have the DB structure in an ER diagram (because you'd need to create the DB yourself).  It's no minor feat to get running but I've done it.

If it's something you really want to do, I can direct you to some documentation but with as small as the community is, I don't recommend it. If this is in reference to the problems with the servers, that's not the MS, that's the BF1 server software.

Our current setup is about as stable as it gets in terms of the master server.  If it's just for experimenting/learning, then have at it.

https://github.com/phantom567459/BF1MemExt/releases/tag/v1.0

Version 1.0
Only supports BF1 SWBFspy version (1.2), which can be obtained here: https://info.swbfgamers.com/
Support for SPTest should not take long to get live, some of the offsets are already there for DLC extension.

Active patches (despite what the GUI may say) are:
Support for 10 units
Changed Addon limit from 50 to (theoretically) 4096.  We'll see about that.

Included detailed readme for how to include in your own mods.  Check out what Giftheck is working on here: https://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?topic=15020.0

There's also a cheat table included for BF1 (Cheat Engine) that has some cool stuff that I add to occasionally.

Let me know if there's any questions or concerns - the Github will be the current location for this.  All credits are included there.

Correct, I made a few updates after I did some more research. 1-20 is the default range of values and ET adds 4 to that value.
https://ibb.co/p2rrpYG

I tried to attach a screenshot showing the difficulties and addresses that they are found at in the SWBFSpy exe.  At the bottom is the ET modifier and the MAX_DIFFICULTY which was capping the enemy and player skill levels. Let me know if you can't see the screenshot.  The address is 006f07cc.

I did not see a limit when I did it.  I think there's a point of diminishing returns obviously but it didn't seem to break.  I think I only set it to 50 at max though. They were rolling through enemies on hard.

EDIT:
So the max constraint is 20 for skill level.  Hard is set to 17 by default for the enemy AI, and 4 for the user AI.
In the SWBFspy exe, at 0x2F07CC (or 6f07cc while running) is a variable that I had misnamed as MIN_DIFFICULTY.  It seems this is actually the MAX_DIFFICULTY.
Pushing this variable up allowed the skill level to exceed 20 when using Elite Training.

6+ years later, I relevantly updated 4 of the bonuses with new information:
Training: Clarified that this does actually work
Reserves: Did the math
Surplus Supplies: Replicated and reliably got to work for a while
Sneak Attack: Did the math

Sounds like a memory issue with the specific hero you're using.

MP has much more stringent limits than SP to better facilitate online play.  It leaves a lot of maps by someone like Sereja without an immediate solution for online play.

You'll have to either swap out or rebuild the hero so that it is compatible.  It looks to me that it is probably a mesh or animation issue because it waits until they spawn into the game to crash.  What exactly that would entail to fix, I'm not sure.  There are minute differences in the BF2 skins that do cause issues in BF1 I believe but in SP the game usually compensates for them.

The PC spawn screen was farmed out to a third-party.  It was coded to be more refined for PC users but in the process they only allocated 5 slots for everything on the screen because they only had 5 units for each team on every map at the time - one of the few situations where modding has been hampered on the PC version.

Hello there!

One of my big projects recently has been to try to document some of the bonuses in BF1 and get a much clearer idea of what they do and possibly patch one of the cut bonuses, Surplus Supplies.
In my research, I was trying to figure out what Elite Training exactly does.  I don't have a complete answer, but I have a much better one than I did before, and can confirm that it does work.  The reason it is disputed is because it is tuned so low that it may seem negligible.  I posted this in the GT server but here is a more permanent and visible home for it.
The chunk of code I identified is this.  I've not ran the function all the way down to the nitty gritty but here's the gist:
                    /* Is Elite Training Selected? */
      if (*(char *)(&mActiveBonus + local_cc) < '\0') {
        ...
        CombatUtil::SetAISkill(4,0);
       ...
      }

If Elite Training was selected, it runs the function CombatUtil::SetAISkill(4,0).  Tracing this function down, it does some calculations which boil down to this:

team1difficulty = currentSkillLevel + 4
team2difficulty = currentSkillLevel + 0


CombatUtil::SetAIAimValues() then runs and detects the difficulty levels (set through global variables) and sets a bunch of variables like weapon spread/yaw/damping, whatever all that means other than "their aiming sucks less if the difficulty is higher".  (You can see this behavior in SPTest AI cam, the AI can be looking at you and then practically shoot sideways on lower difficulties)

This is not the only influence on AI behavior, but as far as Elite Training is concerned, this seems to be the impact, although it's quite possible that I've missed more stuff in the AIUtil/CombatUtil functionality.  The way the game calls bonuses is extremely haphazard lol.

As a requested test, I changed the value at 1841e8 in the SWBFSpy exe (which is currently 6A 04 in hex) and modified the 04 to another value.  In this case, I picked 20 in hex (which is actually 32).  The easiest way to select the bonus is to play Birth of the Rebellion and pick any map.  Your AI should perform much better than previously, and in the couple of battles I tried (on Hard!), they won the battle by themselves and it wasn't really close.

My research is mainly conducted using Ghidra.  Let me know what you think.

I think you're going to have more problems past this using Wine.  I'll see what I can dig up but I don't think that is going to solve all the problems with the setup.