Birth of the Federation

Do you know if the Edo God / Combat Drone Cloak fixes are still needed with the new patch?

I am not a fan of the Turn and Summary buttons being so close together. I, too, and probably all of us have hit Turn by accident. I wouldn't want a double confirm Turn but it really should be on another part of the screen (at the bottom of that panel perhaps). Another annoyance is the fact the Summ...

I have a new release for you guys. It's mainly useability features. As usual, you can get it from the sourceforge page. Changes: Firstly, the patcher remembers settings like window positioning and the last used trek.exe location. Nice. I've also cleaned up some of the error messages, so they're less...

tlhIngan maH!

Tethys wrote:QD, i love to use the * feature when doing a search

Niice, I didn't know I could use wildcards. Thanks guys.

That's it! I was searching for "diagnostics" *facepalm*

I'm pretty sure I read a post somewhere on the site that mentioned how to replace the map overlays with internal diagnostic info, mostly relating to AI. It would come in very handy for some of the patches I'm working on. I think it was in a post by SCT. I've asked thunderchero recently, but he didn'...

Okay Pal. Now you know about hex editing, and how easy it is to make a mistake. And if you make a mistake, it's very hard to go back and fix it. That's why I created the BoF Patcher . You store the hex code in patch files, and the BoF Patcher program can install or remove the patches by clicking a f...

cleverwise wrote:What changes to the build queue? Scrollbars? :-) Whatever it is it will be cool! Yay!

No, just a longer build queue for higher resolution versions of BotF. As many slots as we can fit on the screen.

Well in the original 800x600 game, there was only space for 12. At higher resolutions, there's no reason the game couldn't be modified to support more save slots. I'm working on the build queue now. Granted, it's kinda complicated and time-consuming researching and writing these patches, but I could...

Basically, it's GUI-limited (i.e. not any limitation in the Save game code). If only they had added a scrollbar to to the list of save files...

At present, mods of this kind are just out of our grasp. I'm sure that won't be the case for too long more.

anjel wrote:for what you´ve written looks from bynars guys

Classic.

There may not be a button for it. Just click on the byte you want to edit, and start typing in the new value (1E). If it asks you to insert or overwrite, choose the overwrite option. You should be able to tell if it's overwriting: if all the bytes to the right of the column shift right, then it's in...

Hi Quaser i only see 1 0a in the b8 coloum but however on the 0018e2co coloum i do see another 0a coloum is that the one with the factories? also the converter is showing that in order to get 30 factories u need to change the code to 1E Is this correct? Yes, that's correct: 0018e2c0 is the number o...

I'm not a fan of these oldish c extern declaration one must include everywhere Well, that's how the BotF developers designed it. We have to do it too if we want easy access their API. That's also why I'm making my API in C -- it directly maps to BotF's internal structures. There's no reason why we ...