Cheats?

[Kida1011]

Well as I said earlier, I have Civ 3 Complete, so I am guessing the editor does not work with this?

 

[Beamup]

No. There is currently no editor that works with C3C Mac.

 

[AlanH]

Well as I said earlier, I have Civ 3 Complete, so I am guessing the editor does not work with this?

Yes, we saw that, unfortunately you didn't say that you *don't* have the original version. Apologies, I assumed you must have both since you continued to ask about the editor after we said it needed the old version.

 

[Kida1011]

Ah ok, well sorry for the confusion. Any chance an editor for C3C will be made?

 

[AlanH]

I suspect it will depend on voluntary contributions ... but stranger things have happened.

 

[ainwood]

Can you import scenarios into Mac C3C? The BIQ format is well-documented. An editor shouldn't be too much work.

 

[ac196nataku]

God I would pay 10-15$$ just for the C3C editor for mac. It's driving me nuts depending on people here to do little things for me that I knew how to do in Vanilla.

 

[Brad Oliver]

Can you import scenarios into Mac C3C? The BIQ format is well-documented. An editor shouldn't be too much work.

Not too much work, eh? It took me nearly 3 months of straight work to do the last editor for the Mac, and that was *with* the PC source code. You'll spend forever and a day just drawing the Mac dialog boxes and hooking them up to the code. it's true the BIQ format isn't a huge secret, but don't underestimate the work it takes to do the UI (which is the mistake I made).

 

[Blue Monkey]

Not too much work, eh? It took me nearly 3 months of straight work to do the last editor for the Mac, and that was *with* the PC source code. You'll spend forever and a day just drawing the Mac dialog boxes and hooking them up to the code. it's true the BIQ format isn't a huge secret, but don't underestimate the work it takes to do the UI (which is the mistake I made).

Just as a point of information, from a technical point of view (ignoring copyright ownership, etc.) could some of the UI elements be reused/edited so a programmer wouldn't have to start entirely from scratch?

 

[AlanH]

Technically, yes. That would reduce the effort required to build the dialogs, but there's a heck of a lot of code goes behind each dialog panel to link the controls back to the data structures in the BIC.

But you can't ignore the copyright issues. They exist, and people get sued for ignoring them.

 

[ainwood]

Not too much work, eh? It took me nearly 3 months of straight work to do the last editor for the Mac, and that was *with* the PC source code. You'll spend forever and a day just drawing the Mac dialog boxes and hooking them up to the code. it's true the BIQ format isn't a huge secret, but don't underestimate the work it takes to do the UI (which is the mistake I made).

Yes - fair call - there are 100's of controls - and I guess they have to be hooked-up with code to both set the state (read the loaded scenario) and write the state (save the changes).

Still - with the BIQ format documented, it might be a good open-source project for the community here.