Birth of the Federation

Another minor update to the Resolution Patch:

Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/botfrespatch/files/

This fixes the formulas for patching the galaxy grid multiplier constants, which fixes a bug where the small galaxies might not show up at all.

For reference, here's the formula: The reason for subtracting 1 when computing sector size (after dividing) is that there is a one pixel boundary between each sector, used for showing ship range. We also subtract 1 from wdf_w and wdf_h because the ship range border will be drawn on all edges of the map too.

Maybe it's easier to follow if you reverse calculations.
If the size of a sector (grid multiplier) is S, then the area in the WDF must be at least: So you need one pixel for range border at the top of the map, plus one extra pixel at the bottom of each sector. Same going across.

I'll be posting all the info on the various patches used here into the "Solutions and Recoding" section once we successfully complete the 1024x768 Project.

looks good on all screens/sizes, great job

thunderchero

Which wdf is the Fed main screen? the filenames dont make it obvious. (I saw galmap for f, but not h)
--nevermind

A list of what each file is could be helpful (I was looking at f* thinking, "were the hell are the fed files" before realising that h was used, h for humans.)

all of them are needed to be extracted to a folder to run res patch.

thunderchero

On my PC the Wdfeditor doesn`t work it -.- that is my real Problem! The Prgramm doesn`t open Wdf Files

Your prgramm tell me:

This application has requested the runetime to terminate it in an unusualy way.

Pleas help me.

All Wdf Data in the same folder how can i find the Wdfedite.exe.

do you have all the tga's in same place as wdf files?

as for finding wdfedit.exe sort by date or type.

thunderchero

Thanks for your great help^^. Now my wdfeditor are function. And i have modfied the wdf for 99/999 controling star info edded^^

I know there aren't many threads older than this I could have dug up

My botf runs fine with WIndows 7 and Win98 compatibility mode.
After I patched it with this tool, I get the well known error message that trek.exe has stopped working.

This is what I did
- unpack the stbof.res into an empty folder using WinRar
- use this tool, patching the trek.exe and the unpacked files
- re-add the files into the stbof.res, replacing the old files

Is there a chance of a general Win7 incompatibility? Or any other hints how I could get in running? Maybe I did something wrong?

And if I may leave a suggestion
The introducing post with the download links could use a little more information on how to use the tool.
If I hadn't read through the whole thread, I probably would have never found out where to find the wdf files you all talked about. For somebody like me who didn't follow the development or hasn't any knowledge of the technical details of this game, it was kind of frustrating not finding those files in the game installation folder.
You can't just implement a little "How-to" window into the tool without telling noobs like me where to find the wdf files

Hi Froz3nT1ger,

This tool is not that easy to use, Other than editing all the wdf files and trek.exe you must edit hundreds of tga files.

You will find some precompiled installers here for most versions.

GUI improvements section

but I will note this project has been known to have some problems with some video driver. (random crashes)

good luck

thunderchero

Ah, apologies. This thread really chronicles the development of the project.

The actual completed 1024x768 versions of the game are in the GUI improvements section of Downloads area of this site. You'll find installers a lot of popular mods in 1024 there (vanilla, BoP, UDM).

The installers contain the patches and new artwork. They require that the relevant mods be installed first though.

hi, my winlose is 800x600 instead of 1366x768

but wdf looks fine - yet here is the result

Benman2785 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:18 am hi, my winlose is 800x600 instead of 1366x768

but wdf looks fine - yet here is the result

the images are in the alt.res and need to be resized.
use UE to extract images
resize or replace all of them
then use UE to add them back in alt.res

thank you so much

btw these are all edited in all in one installer

i am still using the old 1.0.2 german english Multi-Installer - as the galaxy looks more nice with it

yet i will try the AiO 2.0.0 and compare the alt.res from 1366x768 with my version