You can use getScriptData() and setScriptData() to do what you are describing, in Python. No need to delve into the DLL. You combine your data into a string, and use these functions to save/retrieve the string from a CyGame, CyPlayer, CyCity, CyUnit, or CyPlot instance.
You could add a new variable inside the DLL, make get and set functions to expose it to python and then add it to the savegame code.
Or you could use the vanilla function, which does precisely what I had written as requirements for such a variable. I wasn't aware of this variable, but it is clearly intended to be used for what you need.
The problem is that it's just one variable, but there are tools to convert strings to arrays and back. Say you want to work with
PHP:
self.iSeason = 0
self.sSeason = 0
self.iSeasonRatio = 2
Obviously you want all, but I won't want to write that much
You can then write code like this:
PHP:
def save(self):
array = [ self.iSeason, self.sSeason, self.iSeasonRatio ]
save_str = "|"
save_str.join( array )
gc.getGame().setScriptData( save_str )
def load(self):
array = gc.getGame().getScriptData().split[ "|" )
self.iSeason = array[0]
self.sSeason= array[1]
self.iSeasonRatio = array[2]
The saved string will then be "0|0|2". It should work as long as you make sure the variables are in the same order. You might have to work a bit with it and look up the functions refer to here, like split and join for python strings, but it should be technically possible without messing with C++ and compilers.
Just a disclaimer: I haven't actually done anything like this in python. Usually when I have this problem, it's always in perl scripts. This means I haven't tested what I just wrote. However it should work as I have tested the approach in perl and it's pretty much a standard in all programming languages.
in my Game of Throne FFH2 modmod v2.00
for first one,can't open 2kgame's SDK download page
Since you work on a modded DLL, in this case FFH2, you need the source code for that one, not 2kgame's SDK. Besides it's actually included in the game install, at least in my DVD version. It's in a folder called CvGameCoreDLL next to the exe file. Alternatively it should be available
here since
@Leoreth uploaded it. We should all thank him for his work in preserving the needed files
Having said that, setting up the compiler today sadly requires a guide since you need MSVC from 2003. I wrote one such guide
here, though it assumes you work on Medieval Conquest, in which case I have already set up the project file and makefile, which means it skips that part. It does however link to all the compiler files you need.
