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Need help with binary

By Ryu-no-o on February 23, 2010 7:08:04 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

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I would like to know where the damage dealt by fighters is located in the binary files and how to tell how much that damage is. An operational BIN to TXT program would also be helpful.

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February 24, 2010 9:40:50 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

The Vasari also have 1 extra command point...

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February 24, 2010 9:43:49 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I fixed the normal fighters by copying the appropriate file from my volumetric explosions mod into the DS mod.

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February 24, 2010 9:47:08 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

yeah the Vasari SC files are from Entrenchment, they haven't been fixed for Vanillia yet (we are barely keeping up with Entrenchment and Diplomacy) so it maybe a while before Vanillia gets fixed, glad you got it working

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February 24, 2010 9:54:19 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

The Elite files still need to be fixed most likely, and the extra command point is a lot harder to fix than the fighter files, though I may be able to copy the files from one of the other races command point file sets... I could try that with the fighters too... Hm...

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February 24, 2010 9:59:52 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I hopefully just fixed the attack value on the Elite fighter.

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February 24, 2010 10:00:19 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Now to find the command point counts...

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February 24, 2010 10:03:14 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Ok, there is a reason the Vanilla version of Distant Stars has not been updated. There are know bugs. You find even more bugs once you convert to TXT.

Entrechment came out and we moved on. This mod is still in beta stage btw.


If you want a bug free version wait till after we release 1.0 for Entrechment and Diplomacy. Till then your gonna find a whooooollllleeee lot of bugs.

 

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February 24, 2010 10:06:23 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Looks like I'll need to change all of the counts on all the research files... Now to locate the starting count...

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February 24, 2010 10:08:27 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Quoting -Ue_Carbon,
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Ok, there is a reason the Vanilla version of Distant Stars has not been updated. There are know bugs. You find even more bugs once you convert to TXT.

Entrechment came out and we moved on. This mod is still in beta stage btw.




If you want a bug free version wait till after we release 1.0 for Entrechment and Diplomacy. Till then your gonna find a whooooollllleeee lot of bugs.

 

 

Which is why I like to be able to fix them myself. I've done that with all the other mods I've used, but they were all in TXT.

I will get the expansions as soon as possible though.

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February 24, 2010 10:20:36 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Do you have any clue as to where the initial command point values can be found and where in said file they are located?

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February 24, 2010 10:26:44 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

towards the bottom

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February 24, 2010 10:34:49 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

But in which file do I find them? I think it's the player files, but I don't want to change those without being sure...

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February 24, 2010 11:49:47 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

are you talking about command points for fleet or for strike craft?

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February 25, 2010 6:58:17 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

For the Fleet. Vasari's are 1 point higher than the other races.

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February 25, 2010 9:13:26 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

those are found in the RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXSHIPSLOT..... files

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February 25, 2010 7:02:39 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

What about the initial counts?

And if I use Notepad++, what language, if any, would I use to read the binary files?

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February 25, 2010 7:56:39 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

My little copy and paste of the values caused a mini-dump...

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February 25, 2010 10:41:07 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Can you give me a step-by-step-by-step directions for everything I might have the slightest chance of having to do to get the CovertData to work?

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February 25, 2010 11:34:32 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I use mostly GUI converts that others have written so I'm not sure on how to use the actual convertData file that comes with the game

try harassing harpo with his (the one I use is no longer supported and I was asked not to spread it around)

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February 26, 2010 4:44:31 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hm... Ok.

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February 26, 2010 5:10:07 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Sticking the ConvertData in all the files didn't work... I wonder if converting my entire C drive would accomplish anything...

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February 26, 2010 5:22:05 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

BEFORE YOU DO THAT! I made a (hopefully) understandable explanation of how to use convertdata.exe manually, in THIS: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376497 forum. Ask if you have any questions, I use it a lot, because I'm lame.

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February 26, 2010 5:48:21 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

DOS commands work. I'm happy now. Or at least until I have to convert all the files...

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February 26, 2010 5:49:06 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

You have any shortcuts for batch conversions?

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February 26, 2010 3:39:58 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

ryo-no-o download my refrence files. in the folders you will find a BAT file with a name similar to convertoriginal.bat.

copy the bat to the same folder name in the mod. copy in the relevent convertdata from your sins game folder.

open a dos box in the folder

run bat wait a long wile while the bat converts each file individually. the batches were crafted for the folder contents. if you want to convert an entire mod's complete  folder structure then the latest release of my modding utilities should be able to do it just extract all the files from the rar.

harpo

 

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