Adding A Cameo

Adding a New Cameo to RA2 (By Kane 148)

Tools Needed: XCC Mixer, XCC Mix Editor, Red Alert 2, Art.ini

This tutorial will show you how to take an new cameo that is in PCX format and add it to Red Alert 2.

Step One:

Open XCC Mixer and go to the directory that the cameo is in. Make sure that it is in the correct pallette, and is named correctly. For more info on this, read the cameo making tutorial.

Step Two:

Select the cameo you want to add, and right click on it and select "Copy as SHP (TS)". The SHP file will be placed in your XCC folder. You can now close XCC Mixer.

Step Three:

Open XCC Mix Editor. Now click "New", and save it in your RA2 directory as "ecacheXX.mix" (XX= a number between 1-99). Now click "Insert", and select the cameo SHP and click "Open". Now click "Save", "Compact", and "Close", in that order. You can now exit XCC Mix Editor.

Step Four:

Now open Art.ini in Wordpad and go to your unit's code. Now add these lines to it (or modify the existing lines):

Cameo=XXXX 
AltCameo=XXXX 
(XXXX= the cameo SHPs' filename) 

Step Five:

Save Art.ini, and place it in your RA2 directory if it’s not already there.

That’s it, you have added the cameo. You can add more cameos by following these steps, except instead of making a new MIX file for each cameo, open the existing ecacheXX.mix and add the new cameos to it.