C3MT - Civ3MultiTool (Second CFC Thread) 2016-10-05

[Steph]

A few remarks. I've been using the copy tool and rule organizer a lot for my mod, and without it I would have been unable to manage a mod with thousands of units.

I have a few suggestion to make it better:
- When copyng a unit, the air defense is not copied (always 0). I often forget to put it back .
- Sometimes, with many units, when copying a bunch of them (even only 2), I get an error. I now have to copy them one by one.
- It would be great if we could "set a marker". Imagine I have 2000 units.
I want to copy units 1200 to 1210. I need to locate all the entries in the combo, then select it, and copy. The combo is then reseted , and the first entry is selected. It would be better if the entry selected previously was selected again (so I can just reopen the combo and select the next entry).
Same for the rule organizer, a way to "set a tag" with a quicj jump to tag would be marvelous.
- It would also be extra fantastic if we could copy a bunch of units at once, or/and ahve multi selection in the rule organizer.

To explain better the idea, here is how I work on my mod, whose goal is to have only flavour units for every civ.

I have generic units.
Like
Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Bronze spear
Iron Spear
...
When I'll add the Scandinavian civilization, I want to end with

Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Bronze spear
Iron Spear
Sw_Warrior
Sw_Bronze Sword
Sw_Iron Sword
Sw_Medieval Sword
Sw_Bronze spear
Sw_Iron Spear

For the moment, I have to copy one by one each generic unit, then use the rule organizer to move them in the list (it's sorted alphabetically by civ, then line of unit, then chronolical order). It's very time consumming.

Let's ay I've finisht he spear line, and now want to do the sword line.

So I have

Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Bronze spear
Iron Spear
Sw_Bronze spear
Sw_Iron Spear

I would be very happy of I could select the first lines:

Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword

then hit the copy button and get
Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Bronze spear
Iron Spear
Sw_Bronze spear
Sw_Iron Spear
Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword

Then in the organizer select the last
Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword

but the target just after the first Iron spear, hit the move button


Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Bronze spear
Iron Spear
Warrior
Bronze Sword
Iron Sword
Medieval Sword
Sw_Bronze spear
Sw_Iron Spear

and then just rename.

Another useful tool would be a technologoly organizer. Having them alphabetically sorted for instance would be nice. In fact, anyway to help sorting the techs would be nice.

 

[Bjornlo]

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[Gary Childress]

How do I get this tool? The links don't appear to be any good.

 

[Gramphos]

You may download it from Apolyton: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100445

 

[Gramphos]

- When copyng a unit, the air defense is not copied (always 0). I often forget to put it back .

That is a bug. I'll fix it in the next version. (But I don't know when I'll have time to do a release again. (I've not replied yet because I hoped to find some time to resolve some of the minor issues, but haven't))

- Sometimes, with many units, when copying a bunch of them (even only 2), I get an error. I now have to copy them one by one.

Can you be more specific. I might have fixed something like this in my development version, but I'm not entirely sure.

- It would be great if we could "set a marker". Imagine I have 2000 units.
I want to copy units 1200 to 1210. I need to locate all the entries in the combo, then select it, and copy. The combo is then reseted , and the first entry is selected. It would be better if the entry selected previously was selected again (so I can just reopen the combo and select the next entry).
Same for the rule organizer, a way to "set a tag" with a quicj jump to tag would be marvelous.

I'm not sure about tags, but retaining the selection on copy should be easy to implement.

- It would also be extra fantastic if we could copy a bunch of units at once, or/and ahve multi selection in the rule organizer.

I'll see what I can do about this. Maybe not for the next release, but I'll look into improve the accessability.

Another useful tool would be a technologoly organizer. Having them alphabetically sorted for instance would be nice. In fact, anyway to help sorting the techs would be nice.

Adding a technology organizer that works as the other rule organizer is trivial. I'll do that for the next release. I'll see about more advanced features if I find the time.

 

[Steph]

That is a bug. I'll fix it in the next version.

Good to know

Can you be more specific. I might have fixed something like this in my development version, but I'm not entirely sure.

Not easy to be more specific... When I use something else than "1" for the number of copies, and then apply, I can get an error saying something like "bad index", and then it screwed. I need to reload from the backup.
Also, it's not systematic. Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't

I never get this when making 1 copy at a time.

I'm not sure about tags, but retaining the selection on copy should be easy to implement.

I'll see what I can do about this. Maybe not for the next release, but I'll look into improve the accessability.

That would save a lot of time! In my mod, with a few thousands units, it's really boring and time consuming to do by hand.
But your tool at least made it possible. I would have abandonned by mod loonng ago if I hadn't it to help.

Adding a technology organizer that works as the other rule organizer is trivial. I'll do that for the next release. I'll see about more advanced features if I find the time.

Cool.

And check your PM

 

[embryodead]

Gramphos! I'm so happy to see that C3MT development isn't dead yet This tool has been my must-have for a long time. Maybe you could take a look at a bug in my favorite module - Rules Organizer? Gameplay-wise reordering of city improvements isn't that important, but the feature is there already and with huge mods ordering helps a lot.

The problem I'm talking about is that any reordering of buildings causes all of them to receive two settings:
Required Improvement/Wonder: 1st Building on the List
Gain in Every City on the Continent: 1st Building on the List

e.g. normally the 1st Building on the List is "Palace", so if you reorder the buildings, all buildings in the biq will require Palace and will give Palace in all cities etc.

 

[Steph]

It seems Gramphos is not anywhere around anymore...

Does nay one know how to contact him?

I may try to continue improving this tool is Gramphos doesn't want to, but it would be easier with the source code

 

[vmxa]

I think he still is a moderator on Aployton, not sure.

 

[Mirage94]

Can anyone PLEASE tell me if there's a tool that can edit Civ3 ptw or/and conquest's game saves.

Please I really need help.

 

[Takhisis]

I've had to redownload this. All the links for v1.12.1 don't work. I'll have to make do with 1.02 for now.

 

[Takhisis]

Alright, found it at the Apolyton heretics forums:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&referrerid=9561&threadid=100445#downloads

 

[daolin]

Getting an error when trying to run the savegame editor and load a .SAV file and i get unknown file errors and not a civ 3 file, reinstalled both civ and the app

using gold edition and trying to edit a conquests save

 

[maidaniuc]

Does anybody know how to change the resources and terrain on the save game modifier? I am trying to get rid of all volcanoes, there is 6 in my game and i change the number to 0 and then add 6 to mountains, but for some reason the volcanos don't go away.

 

[Boss Tweed]

I hate to bump an old thread, but does anyone have a working version of this tool? The only link to a download that actually works (v. 1.02 on the first page) the tool itself doesn't seem to work. I've tried several other links, such as the one Takhisis posted to apolyton.net, however those seem to be down too.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh damn! It used to be up.

After about half an hour searching I found the version 1.12.5 installer .exe file. Upload is up.

 

[Kames]

Oh damn! It used to be up.

After about half an hour searching I found the version 1.12.5 installer .exe file. Upload is up.

Why can´t I download that? It says that I don´t have permission.

 

[Takhisis]

Link fixed now.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=16630

 

[Kames]

Thanks!!!

 

[Boss Tweed]

yes, thanks a million