Cheat Menu can be used with your own made map missions.

There are plenty of user made missions for CTA and I understand that Cheat Menu is welcomed addition to these. Before we get started I would like to remind that this is a manual process and we will have to edit every single map mission by using something like Notepad++ or Notepad2 (normal Notepad also works).

Please understand that you will need to have Cheat Menu mod downloaded and enabled, thus this is a required dependency.

Here is process of adding Cheat Menu resources to a mission:
- locate your map directory and look for ".mi" file
- add required lines at the bottom of ".mi" file

Locating map directory:
- if you made map with mission you most likely know where to find it, however normally all your single player maps would reside in "/resource/map/single" directory where you can see your custom named map as directory, let's name it "example". So your custom map will have directory path: "/resource/map/single/example" Inside of it there are bunch of files, but you are only interested in files that end with ".mi" or "mission" extension. There should be one. In normal single player campain these are always "0.mi", so easy to locate. Your custom map with mission will most likely have custom name, as with our example map it will be "example.mi"
- thus, location for our example mission will be "/resource/map/single/example/example.mi"

Adding Cheat Menu resource line:
- Now that you have located your ".mi" extension file you are ready to edit it. Open the file with your favorite text editor (Notepad++, Notepad2, or venerable Notepad). Scroll down to last line in file. It should end with "}".
- Here is simplified example of "example.mi" file:
- We want to edit it so it now looks like this, by adding few more lines before last "}":
- By adding line (include "/map/cheat-menu/start-cheating.mi") you enable Cheat Menu for your map. Save your changes and open your mission in game to see your new menu.
- By adding line with "set-player", you force default player to use specific number. In example above we force Cheat Menu to use player 1, if your custom map requires any other player than default zero.
- By adding line with "set-enemy-player", you specify player number that should be used when creating enemy spawn waves using Cheat Menu. Campaign maps already have it set at number 1.

Player Number:
- "set-player" line is optional
- "set-enemy-player" is not optional if you plan on making your map fully compatible with Cheat Menu, it only affects spawned enemies via mod
- player number can be specified between zero and including 16 (examples would be 0, 3, 6, 10 and 16)
- player number is supplied for compatibility reasons to allow Cheat Menu use map specific player configuration