The 1024x768 Project

[thunderchero]

Ok I tested removing the movie.wdf from stbf.res, the trek.exe went nonresponcive, So I guess it looks for file but does not use it lol

as for *_load.tga I think it is also set by trek.exe since it only flashes right after the race avi. I found at 0043D6F9 (I am sure you found this already) but not found size to edit

also when you have some time I thought it would be nice to have a list of locations/descriptions that get edited in the trek.exe for the 1024x768 project in Solutions; Bug fixes and recoding of game section?

thunderchero

[thunderchero]

Hi,

I started an expanded version of 1024 vanilla and ran into a problem in redeploy screen. It will only display 3 per row I would like it to display 5 per row, so more could be displayed. I have found at 0x1807d4 is for the size of tga used and at 0x180714 is for the bracket around image when you hoover over image. But have no idea how to increase how many per row.



thanks for any help

thunderchero

[Tethys]

Looking gooood

[QuasarDonkey]

Yeah, that's looking great. I quickly found the locations for the number of ships per row in the deployment screen. I'll put it into the patch in a future release. Here are the two ASM locations that need to be patched:

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4FEA9F    03 00 00 00
4FEABD    03 00 00 00

Change the 3's to 5's and it will work for you (3 is the number per row).


P.S. Here's how I found it: using IDA, I searched for "shpdpy.wdf". That lead me to the UI_Armament_* subroutines. Then I looked at all cross-references to the Widget_SetPosition subroutine since we're interested in widget positions. I examined the 6 calls to Widget_SetPosition from UI_Armament. I noticed one call which was preceded by those number 3's. I changed them 5's using OllyDebug, and voila.

[thunderchero]

thanks QD,

I think I change both of those just never at same time lol It worked perfect even on saved game.



thunderchero

[Tethys]

That 9 ship fleet is looking a little empty, I see room for 6 more ships at least

^ that was a joke btw but hey feel free

[Flocke]

That 9 ship fleet is looking a little empty, I see room for 6 more ships at least

^ that was a joke btw but hey feel free

Thought the same.
Looks really great!

[Tethys]

Great minds think alike, so much room

[thunderchero]

That 9 ship fleet is looking a little empty, I see room for 6 more ships at least

^ that was a joke btw but hey feel free

16 more if you reduce size of box and move experiance bar closer.



If you are going to dream dream big lol

thunderchero

[Peter1981]

@TC -- you've posted these kinda photoshops before --- remember how long the energy screen project took lol --- but let us keep inspiring the search to turn botf into the game it should have been

@QD great work finding the row display limit number -- (nice explanation of the how as well)

[Tethys]

Ah hell TC I took your pic and added 2 more ships for a total of 28 just for kicks and giggles...

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Also, if we can do away with some of that useless bottom gui....

[anjel]

yep, all above images looks really exciting, and it was nice to know how qd fouind out the solution for this situation, though i don´t fully understand it, lol. But i hope someday i can.
Btw, these great project it´s going to be showed on the november newsletter, paraphrasing some QD words as how it´s going to be like the software.

[thunderchero]

Well I have a new request I tried to find it but all I got was a lot of crashes lol,

this one it would be nice to increase from 6 to 9 maybe 10 depending on space. the *bshpinf.wdf is the wdf used.



thanks in advance

thunderchero

[Tethys]

Wow, combat looks great in 768

For those who may have missed it, the above comment is a rhyme

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

this one it would be nice to increase from 6 to 9 maybe 10 depending on space. the *bshpinf.wdf is the wdf used.

Try this:

if more ships than
004AABB5 sub esi, 6
then -> sub_5445B0 edx0_show_scrollbar
and
004AAD13 mov ebx, 6
-> sub_544780 show_max_items_ebx

sub_4AA430 shipInfoListSize
004AA441 add edi, 30h // 48 = 8 * 6 items
004AA474 mov edx, 6

sub_4AA350 shipInfoItem
004AA366 lea eax, [ebp+6]
004AA371 lea ebp, [edx-6]
004AA382 cmp ebx, 6
004AA38B mov eax, 6

-> +8* new objects each ?
004AB03C mov eax, 38h
004AB0BB add esi, 30h
004AB1F9 add esi, 30h

004AB377 mov ebx, 6

004AA4BC mov eax, 30h +8* new objects
004AA4E7 mov ebx, 6
004AA552 cmp esi, 6
004AA570 cmp esi, 6


@ QD - Thank god he hasn't noticed yet all the other stuff to adjust (like the F1 task forces column), so I strongly recommend either not logging in anymore or buying shotguns...