Civ3MultiTool - Now at Civfanatics

[Isak]

Originally posted by Baron Rakkan
Hi

Will there be shortly an update of the MultiTool for PTW or not?
Does anyone has further information?

Thanks!

Gramphos is working on it - according to the parallel thread on Apolyton, he's hoping to release something this weekend, but he's also a very busy boy, so go easy on him

I think he rarely hangs out over here on CFC, unless he's got a release to announce, so if you're in a hurry to get something answered, it's probably a lot better to ask over at... *gulp* ... poly...

[Oh, I gotta go rinse my mouth with soap and hot water now...]

@Sumthinelse, if you find an answer to that question, could you post it here? I hate that PtW saves are compressed - it's impossible to be the Bug Squasher when the big boys go and pull a stunt like that...

 

[sumthinelse]

Originally posted by Isak


Gramphos is working on it - according to the parallel thread on Apolyton, he's hoping to release something this weekend, but he's also a very busy boy, so go easy on him

Wow! Gramphos is unbelievable! If he gets something done by this weekend, I'll be pleasantly surprised, but just hope of getting something so soon is.... I am at a loss for words.

Isak, don't know of any way to un-compress yet...

 

[GIDustin]

In the editor you can turn off compression, and then "Sava As" the bic and it will be saved uncompressed.

Not sure if that helps. . . .

GIDustin

 

[Isak]

Originally posted by GIDustin
In the editor you can turn off compression, and then "Sava As" the bic and it will be saved uncompressed.

Not sure if that helps. . . .

GIDustin

It only works for BIX files, not SAV files I'm afraid

And I've been rummaging through the preferences, the INI file etc. trying to find the equivalent for SAV games, but I have a feeling this was 'turned off' to prevent people from cheating in MP.

It's a drag being the Bug-Squasher without this ability

 

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by sumthinelse
Viktor, if you wanted to try to uncompress a PTW saved game how would you try to do that?

You may try the SAVexpand.exe file included with C3MT. It shall take two parameters IIRC the first tis the compressed file and the second is the file to decompress to.

 

[sumthinelse]

Viktor: Thanx!

Isak: savexpnd "name1.sav" "name2.sav" Note: the "s are necessary!

 

[Isak]

Well, I just keep getting "Input is not in the correct format"

 

[zulu9812]

I have a suggestion for the pedia editor part of the unit creation wizard. Ideally, I should only have to enter a paragraph of plain text and the multi-tool does the formatting for me, e.g. when to start an new line, stuff like PRTO_UNITNAME, the ^^ parts, and so on. And it should also automatically generate text to put in the PRTO_UNITNAME section, based on what resources it requires, what special abilities (e.g. bombard) it has and so on. Dunno how easy that is to implement, but it sure would make my job easier.

 

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Isak
Well, I just keep getting "Input is not in the correct format"

You are using an old version (I don't think it come with more then one version of C3MT before I replaced it) of the savexpnd.exe, which was locked for calls that didn't come from C3MT.

 

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by zulu9812
I have a suggestion for the pedia editor part of the unit creation wizard. Ideally, I should only have to enter a paragraph of plain text and the multi-tool does the formatting for me, e.g. when to start an new line, stuff like PRTO_UNITNAME, the ^^ parts, and so on. And it should also automatically generate text to put in the PRTO_UNITNAME section, based on what resources it requires, what special abilities (e.g. bombard) it has and so on. Dunno how easy that is to implement, but it sure would make my job easier.

How should the auto formatting be? The other stuff do I understand, and it might be in for a later version, but it's nothing that I have time to implement in the version I'm working with now.

 

[Gramphos]

The new version is at Apolyton since yesterday.

Go and get it

 

[sumthinelse]

Originally posted by Isak
Well, I just keep getting "Input is not in the correct format"

That's the error I get when I don't put quotation marks around the file names! You are running this from a command line, right?

When I put quotation marks around the file names it works!

 

[Isak]

DOH! I'm getting to old for Dos, it seems.

Someone bring in the rubber chicken...

Thanks Sumthinelse, and thanks for the new version Gramphos.

 

[sumthinelse]

I guess gramphos could have made it accept file names without quotations marks, but then you would have trouble with the file names with spaces in them, like "Emperor Xerxes of the Persians 3900 BC.sav"

 

[sumthinelse]

Originally posted by Gramphos
The new version is at Apolyton since yesterday.

Go and get it

Note that this new version will not load PTW saved games.

But gramphos is an amazing developer ... let's see what happens next.

 

[Gramphos]

Could anyone provide me with some PTW saves?

 

[CCJ39]

I can send you some saves (ptw 1.04f), but if I want to open a savegame with your new version I get an error

Run-time error '9'
Subscript out of range

 

[Gramphos]

I'm aware of that problem. For me there are no error messages at load of PTW files, but as the dates' format have changed the start and end year values screw every think up.

 

[CCJ39]

OK.
Did you need savegames yet?

 

[Gramphos]

Right now I'm working on improving the save functionallity over all to get rid of the "add many settlersd and use them to create cities cause the save to corrupt bug"