Set Yellow Star (Sol)

[Tethys]

This is probably a dumb question, but I am trying to change, or better yet add, a star type replacement in sub 4B2C80

I've been puttering around in sub 4B2C80 Major_Placement trying to figure out how to switch the yellow star (06) on Sol to planetary nebula (0D) on Omarion (Cardassia). I was able to get as far as changing the animation and tooltip text on Sol, but I cannot for the life of me locate Federation (01) so I am thinking it may be the EBX and/or EDX register? Any help would be great, I searched far and wide these forums for hours..

Edit: You reference something of particular interest in this topic that I will now investigate: viewtopic.php?f=125&t=3896&p=54376&hili ... nfo#p54376

Edit 2: I was unsuccessful at changing the pointers

SCT has some helpful labels in the idb, however they are not perfect.

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AUTO:004B2E71 BB 06 00 00 00                                  mov     ebx, 6          ; set yellow star ani
AUTO:004B2E76 C6 44 02 31 06                                  mov     [byte ptr edx+eax+31h], 6 ; set yellow tooltip

I have looked all over this subroutine for clues as to where the yellowObj is being placed to no avail. I have a hunch its something to do with EDX and EBX registers, but I have only encountered crashes trying to relocate the star name to Cardassia.

Changing 06 to 0D (new stellar) works fine, no issues there. But we can't have a planetary nebula in Sol, that's not proper...

Edit 3: According to TC the relevant locations are 4B2E60 and 4B2E90: 66 A1 62 23 5B 00 and 66 8B 15 62 23 5B 00
The 62 being the offset of the controlling race contained within RToSInfo. Cardassian = 60, Federation = 62, Ferengi = 64, Klingon = 66, and Romulan = 68

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

Thunderchero knows his stuff.

5B235E is starting position of the loaded RToSInfo (dynamic data with fixed position).

5B2362 is a direct index pointer to the second star ID (default race ID 01 federation).

Since the RToSInfo is a list of two byte star IDs you can adjust the loaded index by +/- 2 per index position.

[Tethys]

It would be helpful if there was a complete breakdown of RToSInfo... or did I miss it ?

At least now I can try to play around with this and see if I can apply it to both systems. I appreciate all the help you guys

[thunderchero]

It would be helpful if there was a complete breakdown of RToSInfo... or did I miss it ?

it is in the saved game info Flocke created.

http://flocke.bplaced.net/botfwiki/inde ... le-Listing

[Tethys]

With alot of help from TC, it is now possible to set star type for each race using relocation table space. Ever since the introduction of the Dominion as a playable race, it's bothered be that Omarion was never a nebula. Now, it can be!

Hat's off to TC for all his help on this one.

[Tethys]

So this does not work for minor races, even though RtoSInfo contains 35x 2 byte entries (opened in HxD, size 46h); using 6A (assumed 1st minor) causes a crash on galaxy generation. Furthermore the offset 5B2362 RToSInfo_read_SOL_plus4 contains 35x + 13x 2 byte entry spaces. So there is plenty of space, for the data, but it does not seem to be present during galaxy generation for minor races possibly ?