CRpSuite : Playing aids and game analysis utils

Easy to do, and might even be useful. Sure, why not!

<Hint, hint.> OK, I got the hint. It's on the todo list.

Hmmm, I thought it already did that. Are you sure you're getting 2 notifications? One thought, have you got "Other Dir" set to the same directory as the autosaves? I'm just wondering if CRpMapStat is loading the .sav twice.

Have you found the context menu? Just right click on the map or background. You probably don't want to worry about SettleLoc. It's only useful if you've created a .crp file with multiple .sav files, and is used to create the start location images for GOTM (see the bottom of <this page>).

 

Specifically, if i have resistors and a new trade deal... it beeps, then comes to the forground with the trade tab blinking. A few seconds later it beeps again and the happiness tab starts blinking. If i switch back to the game immediately after the first notification, it comes to the foreground again as soon as the happiness notification goes into effect... it can be irritating but i am working around it by turning off resistor notifications.

The other dir is set to the C3C\Saves folder.

 

Viewer, you right click anywhere in the window and it opens a box. There you can set options and load the save. Play the viewer and so on. The others probably are the same.

I think stats requires you to build up some special files never tried it.

 

Dianthus:

Just a question about the capabilities and a possible enhancement.

It seems as though MapStat is able to analyze what techs the player has and how many cities. Would the following be possible and reasonable to setup:

If MapStat makes a list of cities, techs & wonders and stores them in a scratch file, then when the next turn starts and the auto-save is read, if any new techs, cities or wonders is now owned by the player a line could be added to a text file saying something like:

1000 BC: Denver acquired - Literature acquired - Colossus acquired (etc)

This could then serve as a rudimentary turn log for XOTM players.

Just a thought.

Also thanks for a great tool. You've saved me countless hours and numerous riots and missed deals thanks to this program.

DenyD

 

It could go further than that.. it could add units you built or lost too
(grab the those from the stats program)

Eg: lost 2 spears, buildt 2 swords

also what buildings was completed in what cities

 

How do I I use this program? All the crpsuite files open up blank.

 

Could you be more specific? Tell me which programs you're using and what you're doing with them, and in what way they're not doing what you expect. What is blank? Maybe post a screenshot?

 

It's possible. That's pretty much what I was intending for the Notes tab. There's a fair amount of work there though, and to be honest I'm unlikely to get around to it.

 

Any of the programs, no game data loads into them and I can't figure out how to load any data into them. I did look through what limited documentation I could find.(like your excel faqs file) It speaks of opening a file but it only looks for a replay file. Not a save file.

Herres a picture of settleloc, but they are all similarly blank.

 

Do you actually have a game going when there is no info? I only use the MapStat module. I open it before even firing up Civ and it IS blank then. After I actually have a game started, MapStat reads the info from the previous turn's autosave...that's where the data loads from as AFAIK.

 

To open a file in SettleLoc just right click and select Open:



CRpSettleLoc doesn't load .sav files though, only .crp files. Some example .crp files can be found on my website. It's very unlikely you will find this application useful unless you're running a competition such as GOTM.

The other applications can open .sav files. CRpMapStat and CRpRings open .sav files, and CRpViewer can open both .crp files and .sav files.

 

I'm trying in vain to create a .crp file.

I've placed a file config.csv in C:\Program\CFC Dianthus\CIVReplay\CRpCreatorExample\Game2
("Program" corresponds to Program Files on my system)

config.csv contains the following:

Original file,gotm_40_ptw_predator.sav
Output file,Game2.crp
PlayerName,CIVVersion,FileName,InGameScore,JasonScore,QSCScore
Megalou,N/A,Alexander980.SAV,3824,-1,-1

I have placed the 2 saves listed above in the Game2 directory.

I have added a file Createcsv.bat in the Game2 directory, that has the following text:
"C:\Program\CFC Dianthus\CIVReplay\CRpCreator.exe" config.csv > results.csv

When I run it, results.csv is created, showing the message
Caught exception <CIV::File::OpenFile : Failed to open file>

I also tried typing "C:\Program\CFC Dianthus\CIVReplay\CRpCreator.exe" config.csv > results.csv at the Command prompt.

As a non-hacker I get the feeling there is something "obvious" I should have done.

 

Are the following files also in the Game2 dir? :
Alexander980.SAV
gotm_40_ptw_predator.sav

 

They are there. The only odd thing that happens up until the failure is when I save config.csv. Excel prompts me about some version or another and then I choose Yes and when I open it again it looks right.

 

I just checked the config.csv in that zip file, and it seems to be tab separated! I just replaced the tabs with commas and got it to work OK.

[Edit] It didn't open properly for me in Excel, so I opened it in Notepad to replace the tabs with commas [/Edit]

 

So the obvious thing I missed is that .csv-files are meant to be excel files that you can create easily if you want to paste from Notepad? Hang on...
Yes! I got some results. Thanks!

 

CSV stands for Comma Separated Values. A comma is used for the column delimiter. If you save a .csv file from Excel that's exactly what you should get. Not sure why it's not working for you. When you do File->Save As in Excel is "CSV (Comma delimited)" the selected type?

 

You've got it. I just copied and pasted your config.csv from your example and thought that the extention would follow. When I choose save as, .txt is suggested. Funny thing is that even if I choose this the extension keeps looking like .csv in the window, so it wasn't easy to spot.

Thanks a lot for the lightning fast help! It all works perfectly now.

 

as I said

So I had already tried that. Problem is, I don't have any replay file.

 

Forget about CRpSettleLoc for the moment. Can you get the other applications to work?