Migration to dll spawner+ares+phobos

[Belonit]

At the moment it is still a draft

Major changes

• CnCNet Spawner has been completely rewritten in C++. Fixes many minor bugs, but requires testing to make sure new ones haven't been created.
  Credits: @Belonit

• CnCNet Client upgrade to .NET7 framework. This is a major update behind the scenes. Credits: @Rans4ckeR for core implementation; @devo1929, @Metadorius (Kerbiter), @Rampastring, @SadPencil and @Starkku for implementation support

  • The client is no longer compatible with older operating systems like Windows XP. You must be on Windows 7 SP1 or later.
  • Сlient itself support *nix systems (macOS, GNU/Linux) natively (not the game, only the client).

• Ares v3.0p1 & Phobos v0.3.0.1 have been added bringing a huge amount of features, bugs fixes for desyncs and other minor issues. It also brings many UI/UX improvements, like showing what's being produced for observers, power/drain on buildings (Ares), extended tooltips with time, power (and description optionally) that can be drawn not only on the sidebar, harvester counter, power surplus indicator, next idle harvester hotkey, selection priority filtering (Phobos) and much more.

Other Features:

• Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge campaign support - Credits: @Belonit, @Starkku
• Fixed many issues related to having multiple observers - Credits: @Belonit
• Singleplayer saves now working. For technical reasons, saves created by this game version are not compatible with the vanilla game - Credits: @Belonit
• Enhanced player status indicators in game lobbies - Credits: @Metadorius (Kerbiter)
• CnCNet Client localization support added - Credits: @Metadorius (Kerbiter), @SadPencil
• Fixed an issue in RA2 mode that prevented AI players from building base defensive structures - Credits: @Belonit
• Fixed an issue in RA2 mode that caused the some animations not to show - Credits: @Belonit
• Also many other minor fixes not included in this list

Special thanks:

@Sneer-ra2 for help with Ranked Match Client support

End-User Requirements

Windows requirements:
* The .NET 7.0 Desktop Runtime for your specific platform.

The XNA build additionally requires:

• Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 Refresh.

Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.x additionally require:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable 64-bit and 32-bit. On 64-bit systems you must install both packages.

Windows 7 SP1 additionally requires:

• KB3063858 64-bit / 32-bit.

For native client on *nix systems (macOS, GNU/Linux) required:
* NET 7.0 Desktop Runtime and XSEL, Find them in your system's package manager.
* You will also need WINE to run the game.

For Campaign support requires next file in you game folder:

maps01.mix   ; For RA2 Allied campaign
maps02.mix   ; For RA2 Soviet campaign
mapsmd03.mix ; For Yuri's Revenge campaigns

movies01.mix ; For movies RA2 Allied campaign
movies02.mix ; For movies RA2 Soviet campaign
movmd03.mix  ; For movies Yuri's Revenge campaigns

For some Russian translations of the game require:

• In game font has been updated, there may be problems with some pirated Russian translations. If you see incorrect letters instead of Cyrillic text, add this file to your game folder to fix it. This is a corrected translation from Fargus, if you need other versions of the translation - let me know

NOTE \ TODO:

• Update the Phobos to 0.4 or 0.3.1
• Release yrpp-spawner
• The mission is failed if the hero enters the vehicle (#349)
• Yuri Prime and Elite Psi-Corp in RA2 mode can control 10 instead of 1 (#296)
• Some animations are missing in RA2 mode (#299)
• Big Problem with Psy-Sensor in RA2 mode (#300)
• Peculiarity with repairing the BlackHawk Transport in RA2 mode (#301)
• Alting behaviour in beta is incorrect (#311)
• Killed aircraft spawn surviving pilots (#313)
• RA2 Mode | Ore Purifier cash bonus on low power (#315)
• Killed helicopters spawn surviving pilots (#334)

[Metadorius]

What is this for?

[Belonit]

https://github.com/CnCNet/yrpp-spawner/blob/40497cdd22d27fff38b902322f23cb52e4bdf209/src/Spawner/Ra2Mode.cpp#L117

This is a way to force the spawner to switch mode to RA2 when the game is loaded. At the moment, the client does not have a mechanism for processing saves from different game modes.
I could calculate this ID dynamically, on the spawner side, however Phobos (before version 0.3.0.2) has a bug due to which it also adds its id to the mod id instead of the engine id.

[Metadorius]

I see, so that's a temporary workaround.