itztacosofficial / anfora

Modloader attempt for the 2007 PC Game Crazy Machines 2

Anfora

ModLoader attempt for the 2007 PC Game Crazy Machines 2

Building

Requirements

• CM2 Reference
• Microsoft Detours
• CMake

JetBrains's CLion is recommended

Preparation

Download the CM2 Reference repository, complete its requirements and the preparation steps.

Add the root of the reference repository to a new system enviroment variable named CM2_ROOT.

Download the Microsoft Detours repository and build the library for 32 bits by following guide in the README.

Copy Microsoft Detours's headers into lib/detours/include and the built library into lib/detours/x86.

Compiling

Build first the loader (anforaloader) target and copy the output anforaloader.lib file into lib/anforaloader/x86 (If you want you can automate the process with a CMake post build custom command).

Then build the launcher (anfora) target.

Building a mod

Building a mod follows the same process as building the modloader.

Refer to the CMake example-mod target and to the source src/example-mod/mod.cpp for API documentation.

Once your mod is built, copy it into the mods folder (gets created after first anfora.exe startup).

Important notes

This modloader is not meant to be stable, it was born as a tool to help reverse engineer the game with a single mod loaded.

There are most likely specific cases left undefined that I am not aware of.

The state of the project might change later on, but as of now I am doing it out of fun without the objective of proper stability.