Theater controls

INI reference·Theater controls

Settings read from the active theater's control INI file.

[General]

Global indexes identify theater tile sets used for terrain transitions, roads, cliffs, bridges, tunnels, and related map structures.

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Key	Description	Value	When omitted
BlackTileNo effect	Tile-set number that resolves to a tile index nothing reads.	integer	-1
BlueMoldTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain blue mold ground.	integer	-1
BridgeBottomLeft1	Position within a bridge tile set of the piece that closes a north-south span at its bottom-left end.	integer	-1
BridgeBottomLeft2	Second position accepted as the bottom-left end of a north-south bridge span.	integer	-1
BridgeBottomRight1	Position within a bridge tile set of the piece that closes an east-west span at its bottom-right end.	integer	-1
BridgeBottomRight2	Second position accepted as the bottom-right end of an east-west bridge span.	integer	-1
BridgeMiddle1	Position within a bridge tile set of the first of the five middle pieces of an east-west span.	integer	-1
BridgeMiddle2	Position within a bridge tile set of the first of the five middle pieces of a north-south span.	integer	-1
BridgeSet	The tile set that supplies the sixteen pieces a road bridge is built from.	integer	-1
BridgeTopLeft1	Position within a bridge tile set of the piece that starts an east-west span at its top-left end.	integer	-1
BridgeTopLeft2	Second position accepted as the top-left end of an east-west bridge span.	integer	-1
BridgeTopRight1	Position within a bridge tile set of the piece that starts a north-south span at its top-right end.	integer	-1
BridgeTopRight2	Second position accepted as the top-right end of a north-south bridge span.	integer	-1
ClearTile	Tile set holding a theater's plain clear ground, used as the substitute for a cell that has no tile.	integer	-1
ClearToBlueMoldLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where blue mold meets other terrain.	integer	-1
ClearToCrystalLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where crystal terrain meets other terrain.	integer	-1
ClearToGreenLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where green terrain meets other terrain.	integer	-1
ClearToPaveLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where pavement meets other terrain.	integer	-1
ClearToRoughLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where rough ground meets other terrain.	integer	-1
ClearToSandLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where sand meets other terrain.	integer	-1
CliffRamps	Tile set holding the theater's twenty cliff ramp pieces.	integer	-1
CliffSet	Tile set holding the theater's forty cliff faces.	integer	-1
CrystalCliff	Tile set holding the crystal cliff pieces.	integer	-1
CrystalTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain crystal ground.	integer	-1
DestroyableCliffs	Tile set holding the two cliff faces that weapon fire can bring down.	integer	-2
DirtRoadCurve	The tile set the whole run of 101 flat dirt road pieces is counted from.	integer	-1
DirtRoadJunction	The tile set that supplies the eleven dirt road junctions.	integer	-1
DirtRoadSlopesNo effect	The tile set that supplies the eight pieces carrying a dirt road up a ramp.	integer	-1
DirtRoadStraightNo effect	Parsed tile set of straight dirt road pieces that nothing consults.	integer	-1
DirtTrackTunnels	The tile set that supplies the four dirt railway tunnel mouths, one per facing.	integer	-1
DirtTunnels	The tile set that supplies the four dirt road tunnel mouths, one per facing.	integer	-1
GreenTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain green ground.	integer	-1
HeightBaseNo effect	Tile set number that is resolved and never read.	integer	-1
Ice1Set	First of the three sixty-four-tile ice sets a snow theater provides.	integer	-1
Ice2Set	Second of the three sixty-four-tile ice sets a snow theater provides.	integer	-1
Ice3Set	Third of the three sixty-four-tile ice sets a snow theater provides.	integer	-1
IceShoreSet	Forty-eight-tile set of the land-side pieces laid where ice meets ground.	integer	-1
Medians	Fourteen-tile set of the divider strips laid down the middle lane of a paved road.	integer	-1
MiscPaveTile	Fourteen-tile set of pavement patches and weathering used to dress paved ground.	integer	-1
MMRampBase	Tile set holding the marble madness counterparts of the plain ramps.	integer	-1
MonorailSlopesNo effect	Parsed tile set of monorail ramp pieces that nothing consults.	integer	-1
PavedRoadEnds	The tile set that supplies the four caps that close the end of a paved road.	integer	-1
PavedRoads	The tile set the fifteen tiles counted as paved road are counted from.	integer	-1
PavedRoadSlopesNo effect	Parsed tile set of paved road ramp pieces that nothing consults.	integer	-1
PaveTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain pavement.	integer	-1
RampBase	Tile set holding the twenty plain ramps that carry ground between height levels.	integer	-1
RampSmooth	Tile set holding the twelve pieces that blend a straight ramp into flat ground.	integer	-1
Rocks	Tile set whose first tile is the rock ground the random map generator paints on snow maps.	integer	-1
RoughGround	Ten-tile set of rough ground decorations scattered by the random map generator.	integer	-1
RoughTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain rough ground.	integer	-1
SandTile	Tile set whose first tile is a theater's plain sand ground.	integer	-1
ShorePieces	Forty-two-tile set of the shoreline pieces laid between water and land.	integer	-1
SlopeSetPieces	Tile set holding the ten slope pieces that carry ground between height levels.	integer	-1
SlopeSetPieces2	Tile set holding the marble madness counterparts of the slope pieces.	integer	-1
SwampTile	Nine-tile set of swamp ground, the first tile plain and the rest decorative.	integer	-1
TrackTunnels	The tile set that supplies the four railway tunnel mouths, one per facing.	integer	-1
TrainBridgeSet	The tile set that supplies the sixteen pieces a railway bridge is built from.	integer	-1
Tunnels	The tile set that supplies the four road tunnel mouths, one per facing.	integer	-1
WaterCaves	The tile set that supplies the eight cave mouths cut into a cliff at the water line.	integer	-1
WaterCliffs	Tile set holding the cliff faces that drop straight into water.	integer	-1
WaterfallEast	The tile set that supplies the four pieces of a waterfall running east.	integer	-1
WaterfallNorth	The tile set that supplies the four pieces of a waterfall running north.	integer	-1
WaterfallSouth	The tile set that supplies the four pieces of a waterfall running south.	integer	-1
WaterfallWest	The tile set that supplies the four pieces of a waterfall running west.	integer	-1
WaterSet	Fourteen-tile set of open water.	integer	-1
WaterToSwampLat	Tile set holding the sixteen blend pieces laid where swamp meets other terrain.	integer	-1

[<TileSet ID>]

Each TileSet section defines its file stem, tile range, placement flags, and theater transitions.

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Key	Description	Value	When omitted
AllowBurrowing	Ground that a subterranean unit may dive into or surface through.	boolean	yes
AllowTiberium	Lets Tiberium take root on the tiles of a theater tile set.	boolean	no
AllowToPlaceNo effect	Parsed tile-set flag that the engine never uses.	boolean	yes
FileName	Stem of the artwork file names a tile set loads its tiles from.	string	TILE
LastTilesInSet	Number of tiles the set held when the maps in circulation were numbered, so that older tile indices can be shifted into line.	integer	-1
MarbleMadnessNo effect	Parsed tile-set number that the engine resolves and never reads.	integer	65535
Morphable	Ground that the terrain-reshaping tools are allowed to move, and that will take a smudge.	boolean	no
NonMarbleMadness	Tile-set number whose only live consequence is whether the alternate artwork extension is tried when a tile file is missing.	integer	65535
RequiredForRMG	Tile set whose artwork is kept in memory on a generated map even while no cell uses it.	boolean	no
SetName	Section heading a tile set's per-tile animations are read from, and the stem of the name each of its tiles carries.	string	No Name
ShadowCaster	Tile set whose tiles darken the cells below them with a cliff shadow.	boolean	no
ShadowTiles	Second condition a shadow-casting tile set must satisfy before any of its tiles is marked as a caster.	integer	0
TilesInSet	Count of tiles a tile set contributes to the theater, and the marker that ends the theater read.	integer	-1
ToSnowTheaterNo effect	Parsed tile-set number that the engine stores and never reads.	integer	-1
ToTemperateTheaterNo effect	Parsed tile-set number that the engine stores and never reads.	integer	-1

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