Python Performance and Interface Overhaul (PPIO)
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Wow now it opens buildings in second!
Suggestion: Make improvement pages show valid features and terrains for them.
Now sevopedia can be used for example if given buildings obsoletes.
For example there is following chain: Industrial Basket Factory requires medieval Basket Masters Workshop which requires prehistoric Basket Weaver.
These requirements should be changed with replacements.
Suggestion: Make improvement pages show valid features and terrains for them.
Now sevopedia can be used for example if given buildings obsoletes.
For example there is following chain: Industrial Basket Factory requires medieval Basket Masters Workshop which requires prehistoric Basket Weaver.
These requirements should be changed with replacements.
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Can we have option/button to sort buildings/units/techs first by X grid of tech tree and then by Y grid if they are on same column of tech tree?
Also graphical preview for buildings is useless for now - I think like 90% of all buildings doesn't have graphical model.
Also graphical preview for buildings is useless for now - I think like 90% of all buildings doesn't have graphical model.
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Well its even worse: there is less normal buildings with 3d model than buildings, that never obsolete...
I think only buildings from stock game have 3d models.
I guess we would need dedicated artists, who would create 3000 - 4000 3d building models ranging from prehistoric Alpha Male and ending with transcedant Omniverse world wonder....
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Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
We really had to keep the mem size of the mod down. All those graphic models held in memory can really make for more MAF crashes.
v0.2.3
- Added a "sorted by tech tree grid" sub-category to the "technologies" category called chronology. It's the same as "All Eras" sub category, except that the entries are not sorted alphabetically, but by tech three grid position.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
Definitely looking forward to THAT in the core!
Yep.
Wonder if we could remove all 3D building models for RAM savings.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
We've left in what we wanted to leave in so far as I can tell, mostly wonders and obvious cool stuff.
It seems like building preview should be removed - it would look like mod isn't finished 
Unless it would be replaced with 2D pictures of buildings specially for sevopedia.
Also I like how techs do smooth transistion: prehistory->history->cotemporary->future realism->science fiction->fantasy when browsing techs chronologically.
Prehistoric - prehistory
Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Reneissance, Industrial - history
Modern, Information - cotemporary
Nanotech, Transhuman - future realism (hardest science fiction)
Galactic - science fiction
Cosmic, Trascedant - fantasy (softest science fiction)
Can technology window show what improvements they unlock too?
It seems like there is glitch when generating tech window for couple techs
Unless it would be replaced with 2D pictures of buildings specially for sevopedia.
Also I like how techs do smooth transistion: prehistory->history->cotemporary->future realism->science fiction->fantasy when browsing techs chronologically.
Prehistoric - prehistory
Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Reneissance, Industrial - history
Modern, Information - cotemporary
Nanotech, Transhuman - future realism (hardest science fiction)
Galactic - science fiction
Cosmic, Trascedant - fantasy (softest science fiction)
Can technology window show what improvements they unlock too?
It seems like there is glitch when generating tech window for couple techs
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Dancing Hoskuld
Deity
They used to show what processes, buildings, units and improvements they unlock. I think they also showed what went obsolete.
Of course as soon as you start having to get information from other files things will slow down again.
@Thunderbrd:
I need these two functions to be exposed to python so that techs can list buildings in the requirement panel.
I need these two functions to be exposed to python so that techs can list buildings in the requirement panel.
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Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
I'll try to address that soon. If I forget, PM me.
Dancing Hoskuld
Deity
In the tech screen I just used the canResearch function or variant. If the functions for the tech requiring a building or resource are made available then the Tech chooser screen should also be changed to show that information as well. Will need to think of a way of hilighting that these are not techs while placing them in the same area as the "and" techs.
Dancing Hoskuld
Deity
The building requirement for tech is something from RoM/AND days. The resource thing is a mod from elsewhere., I don't think it is used in C2C - I was thinking of the wrong mod ie the one I am working on.
In C2C the resource requirement is handled by the building needing the resource being required for the tech. The function is not exposed to python but when it is the TechChooser screen should also be updated to use it.
In C2C the resource requirement is handled by the building needing the resource being required for the tech. The function is not exposed to python but when it is the TechChooser screen should also be updated to use it.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
So I get what you need but I don't know how to do it. This data storage mechanism is very unusual for core civ IV programming. The PrereqBuildingClass& portion of this is usually int or bool and as it stands as a struct form, I have no idea what the correct syntax would be to report it to python, or even if it CAN be. This is why it was not exposed previously. @AIAndy might be able to give me enough guidance on that to be able to set it up correctly for you but there are currently no examples of this being done, so I'm swimming into waters where I'm not even sure it's really even water I'm swimming in, to try this. Unwise. My apologies.
If I did get it exposed to python, I believe you'd find it a little difficult to work with too as no examples exist of receiving and using this data storage type in python either. You'd probably need the functions above those too:
int CvTechInfo::getNumPrereqBuildingClasses() const
Then you'd setup a loop that calls to getNumPrereqBuildingClasses and then use the index derived from that loop to insert into the parameter for getPrereqBuildingClass to get the buildingclass index stored there in that slot.
This is not an array. It is a struct derived vector, and I don't know anyone has yet worked with such a tag on the python side. The first issue is cracking the code on how to report it to python at all. The second is then figuring out how to work with such a structure in python. None of this has ever been done.
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Ah, Then I'll need new functions made that returns either the CvBuildingClassInfo, or the index that is unique to the building class and connected to its xml entry order.
It should be possible to have a function that looks at a tech and tells what building classes are listed in it as a requirement.
It should be possible to have a function that looks at a tech and tells what building classes are listed in it as a requirement.
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Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
This is a very hard data storage mechanism to explain. I'd have no idea how to draw info from it in python as it's unique even in c++ coding. I'll have to think out a way to store this information in a manner you can utilize it. The previous commented out tags were removed from use entirely to be replaced by this MUCH more efficient storage system but it is not friendly to python methods, as you are observing.
Generally speaking, the syntax to find the BuildingClass Index if you were calling it in C++ would be:
To call for the iNumBuildingNeeded would probably be something like:
(BuildingClassTypes)GC.getTechInfo(eTech).getBuildingClassTypes(iI).iNumBuildingNeeded;
This example is NOT drawn from code but off the top of my head so it's not good for actual reference... just an example of how it works. It goes about things very differently than standard CivIV coding usually does. How I'm going to get you a way to call for it... I might be able to easily make a boolean that asks isPrereqBuildingClass(eBuildingClassIndex) and you can loop through building class indexes looking to find those that register as included buildingclasses. From that, you can identify the building classes to present to the pedia. This sort of boolean would be easy to report to python and should be workable for you but you'll have to invent the code as there probably aren't many examples.
Generally speaking, the syntax to find the BuildingClass Index if you were calling it in C++ would be:
Code:
for (iI=0; iI < GC.getTechInfo(eTech).getNumPrereqBuildingClasses(); iI++)
{
BuildingClassTypes eBuildingClass = (BuildingClassTypes)GC.getTechInfo(eTech).getBuildingClassTypes(iI).BuildingClassType;
//you'd obviously want to use it now that you've obtained it...
}(BuildingClassTypes)GC.getTechInfo(eTech).getBuildingClassTypes(iI).iNumBuildingNeeded;
This example is NOT drawn from code but off the top of my head so it's not good for actual reference... just an example of how it works. It goes about things very differently than standard CivIV coding usually does. How I'm going to get you a way to call for it... I might be able to easily make a boolean that asks isPrereqBuildingClass(eBuildingClassIndex) and you can loop through building class indexes looking to find those that register as included buildingclasses. From that, you can identify the building classes to present to the pedia. This sort of boolean would be easy to report to python and should be workable for you but you'll have to invent the code as there probably aren't many examples.
