How much interest in a program to modify CIV4TechInfos.xml automatically?

[Darva]

I'm working on one right now, mostly for personal entertainment. It's not gotten very far (i've only put in about 3 hours, started yesterday.) So far all it does is read in all of the XML in CIV4TechInfos.xml, and display some of it in an editable form.

Main data


Ai Data

 

[woodelf]

I think that looks awesome. Of course there are tons of other fields to manipulate when making a Mod, but this is a nice looking tool.

Any chance of creating something that when you enter in some fields it completely generates the entire code for that tech from start to finish? Most of the fields would have to have dummy/default data, but even that may be able to be included in a program.

 

[Darva]

That's part of the idea. Right now i'm just tinkering with getting the loading working properly, and everything displaying nicely. Eventually i want to have the ability to add a new tech with a click of a button, edit its values, hit save, open civ, and see it there. Though i doubt i'll go as far as to edit the other files neccessary to make it -pretty- in game, from the tut's i've read, those look either trivial, or too based on personal pref to do automatically.

 

[woodelf]

I'm thinking off the top of my head about some of the important entries:

iHealth
iHappiness
Grid coordinates
Flavors

Most of the others are very tech specific and can be done manually so long as they at least get filled in and set to boolean 0.

 

[wotan321]

This is a great app, keep working on it. It will be very useful.

 

[Rabbit, White]

I wholeheartedly support this app! It looks great so far and it will be a great asset to all the mod makers out there.

 

[Darva]

Does anyone know where there's a list of all the flavors a technology can have? At a casual glance through the techinfo.xml it looked at first like there were only 4, but when i wrote it in this fashion my xml parser choked rather hard.

 

[woodelf]

Does anyone know where there's a list of all the flavors a technology can have? At a casual glance through the techinfo.xml it looked at first like there were only 4, but when i wrote it in this fashion my xml parser choked rather hard.

Growth
Science
Culture
Religion
Production
Military
Gold

I think that's it.