Birth of the Federation

Now, when I click one of the text boxes (green? yellow? sorry i get those 2 mixed up quite frequently) I get no information, and the program seemingly freezes up. Is there something I did wrong or something that was not loaded right? My apologies if I am overlooking something. You're right. I just ...

The first three bytes in the font entry are indeed the font color, but not RGB or BGR, for some reason the order is RBG instead. The last unknown value is a boolean switch. When set to 1 botf uses the color information found here, otherwise it will use the default color instead. Thanks for the info...

Awesome. Let me know if you have any trouble with it. It's really just a test program, and I can't guarantee it's bug-free. I might add a GUI to it if I have time, to make it more user-friendly.

That's strange, the machine I used to compile it was running 64-bit Windows 7. And it runs on my 32-bit Linux box using Wine. Does it give any error messages? Again to reiterate, it's not a GUI program, just a command-line app. You can either run it from a command prompt, or by dragging a WDF file o...

It's finally here. This was part of a larger prototype system that I wrote on Linux, so it took a while to separate the code from that system, clean it up, get it working on Windows, etc. I had added some nice features like direct reading from STBOF.RES, but I couldn't get it working on Windows prop...

That's great! I actually have a wdftool written and working... on Linux. I've had a little trouble compiling on Windows. The tool should make it much easier to figure out all the unknowns. I'll try get it fixed up and uploaded today.

Sorry for the delay gentlemen, I was away for a few days. To answer your questions, the tool is written in C++ using SDL for graphics/input. Also it's a command line tool with minimal interface. It's just a prototype, so it does not read from stbof.res: you need to extract the WDF and needed TGAs in...

An interesting assessment of the wdf files. Is there any way you would be willing to provide a working in game wdf file that may be used as a comparison for certain mods/projects? If so I would be very much interested in what you have to say, I can say the same for my colleagues among the forums he...

thunderchero: It seems you been working on this a lot longer that I have. I've really just started this from the point of view of recreating BOTF. I think you're right though; since the typeId's and instanceId's for each widget/object are hardcoded into trek.exe, while you can add new widgets, they ...

Hey guys, I'm new here (so sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, and if it was posted before, I couldn't find it). Anyways I've been recoding my own version of BOTF from scratch, and I've largely deciphered the WDF format for the User Interface. This is targeted for people with coding / hex ed...