Birth of the Federation

This topis is about input for the: - concise/understandable phrasing of the new, fixed, optional and confusing vanilla descriptions in edifbnft.bst - best/easiest patch setup for new/fixed building bonus types (multi base patch + extra options) 1.) Last provided edifbnft.bst improves vanilla descrip...

thunderchero wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:13 amJ-shipedit only reads first 125 lines of database.txt all other line are ignored.

That's a pity. I suppose this limitation is not easy to change? I'll have a look into the code using IDA-pro. Your download link is broken:

thunderchero wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:24 pmdifficulty

the database is a tab seperated CSV file that doesn't require any coding skills. And the .sst files should be editable with UE. Therefore it should not be a problem to adapt the tool for any ship list. It's just about the B-Mod database for J-ShipEdit. Shiplist, shiptech and other needed res files ...

Good news, I finished my new bonus types project. :cool: There was just a simple error in my code, negative esp pointers was not the issue :!: Even when not used, the values still look very much like unrest bonus. There is no question the default values where meant to be related to the negative extr...

I see, so other players, editing unrelated settings in any mod using this patch, don't get confusing UE warnings?

Flocke is correct. Joker struggled with asm code for ship IDs and left the mod unfinished with the extra note for random events in the install popup. To complete the mod you need the re-add the missing monsters (using monster shipstats from the previous bmod version?) and fix trek.exe ship codes. BU...

see whether colonies might rebel. I analysed all three code locations of rebellions and patched them often (e.g. to separate the main case from random events). One of my new output types (+X virtual pop for ground defense -> garrisons) decreases chance of rebellions as side effect. :wink: I check a...

a project that was split years back and now they try to merge it again. Given the huge development gap, that idea soon was dropped and now it is worked on in parallel to fulfill urgent customer needs... :lol: Yeah, I know that kind of stuff. A few years back I had a glance at the software the germa...

Best look at latest version in improve_shipgfx_export branch. I thought it automatically displays the newest code you are working on if I start from the main page: https://gitlab.com/stbotf/ultimate-editor So how do I know whether the latest version is a dev or branch? And thanks for the other hint...

Hi Flocke, I have a hard time understanding UE edifice.bst code: https://gitlab.com/stbotf/ultimate-editor/-/blob/7c1a64561e73d42e514056dba80e27f47a411662/source/ue/edit/res/stbof/bst/Edifice.java But I love the gitlab 'Blame' button. I blamed the rain on you and got one hour sunshine, enough for a ...

Great, but I think you work way too hard. Be aware this will disable the UE warning messages, but can in fact worsen UE usability: UE now might display wrong/unused code and allow editing disabled special ship code/IDs and/or show 'minor ships patch' installed if Hero Ship patch enforces the other v...

during re-cloak (...) disabling weapons would be a good trade-away, while not being too OP (but who knows). order -> Cloak 0056A2B5 call tcinfo_ship_plus_1B4_ship_48order 0056A2BA or byte ptr [eax+58h], 10h ; lock weapons 0056A2BE mov eax, edx 0056A2C0 call ship_add_328h_monster_2D0h_10h_hull 0056A...

could hero marker be added to ship stats? maybe under special ship check box? Problem is the average Joe user might be overwhelmed by special settings for countless special patch features he don't knows or even cares about? And since ID table has to be edited manually in that patch anyway, hex-edit...

a better patch would be to restore code location so the patches become independent. Was intended, but I tried to avoid additional calculations and redundant extra file loading (important for the countless iterating AI part of the patch). Since this part is player UI only code it wouldn't matter, co...

I expect so, but here is patch created of current changes "buildable minor ships (major code modification)" In this case we need to replace this part of "buildable minor ships (major code modification)": AUTO:004F3DD7 mov bx, [ecx+4] AUTO:004F3DDB xor eax, eax AUTO:004F3DDD mov ...