how do i get HOF/A Better AI to work in tandem

[PaintItBlue]

I am Wanting to get the HOF mod and A Better AI running together, not for submission purposes but for overall better SP.



1. With the ABAI.dll in my ...mydocs/mygames/warlords/customassests, no HOF mod running>>>ABAI loads ok and shows with alt + mouse over score.
2. With the ABAI A.dll in my ...mydocs/mygames/warlordscustom assests folder of ../mygames/warlords, and HOF MOD running (thru auto load editting .ini or loaded in game) the ABAI does not show on a alt + mouse over score
3. Also is there a way to tell if the companion ABAI handicaps.txt is getting loaded into the game, i NEVER see it with alt + mouse over on scores

Right now i managed to get it playing with Version 2.0 of Ruff's Cobbled SG Mod extracted staright to ....docs/warlords and loading ABAI as a mod. Does this give the same experience as ABAI and hof mod running together

 

[ori]

The problem with the HOF-Mod on BetterAI is that both come with their own civ4gamecore.dll and you would have to manually fuse both using the source code and recompiling a fused .dll to have them work properly.
Now the source for BetterAI is freely available, while the HOF-Mod team does not publish their source (that would render all their save game encription useless). So Ruff's Modpack is probably the way to go. It does not include all the features of the HOF-Mod though...

 

[PaintItBlue]

What are the features that Ruff's is missing compared to HOF mod. I can do without save/reload monitoring and i won;t be needing to do any save game edditing/hacking.

Also is there a way to verify that the ABAI companion handicaps are being loaded into the game?

 

[ori]

What are the features that Ruff's is missing compared to HOF mod. I can do without save/reload monitoring and i won;t be needing to do any save game edditing/hacking.

Also is there a way to verify that the ABAI companion handicaps are being loaded into the game?

The HOF-Mod includes the MapFinder utility and a couple of bug fixes that are not included in Ruff's Mod AFAIK - Also the options screen easier to navigate... If you put the handicaps in the correct place (e.g. mods\BetterAI\assets\xml\gameinfo\CIV4HandicapInfo.xml ) it should load alright

 

[Gyathaar]

The HOF mod DLL contains the following things:
- savegame protection code (and improved savegame compression),
- a number of fixes to known bugs (BetterAI contains most of these too I believe)
- a few extra functions to support special functionality in the HOF.. like the mapfinder, save on exit and so on

So using Ruff's mod plus BetterAI would give you most of the functionality you want.