techtree.tec - TalShiar operatives report successful mission

Post by **Flocke** » Fri May 07, 2010 5:49 pm

great SCT, and thanks for saving me

Well, earlier today I tried to force botf in windowed mode again, editing the code.
This is what I got:

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It looks terrifying (not terrific

) and combat crashes cause botf or mpr has some troubles with it, but for some debugging it's ok. Would have tried fixing the techlists now again, but it might still help me next time.

Post by **Tethys** » Fri May 07, 2010 6:14 pm

Interesting, I like how its all lopsided looking LOL!

I suppose you may have missed some code somewhere

Post by **Flocke** » Fri May 07, 2010 6:32 pm

It reminds me on some issues someone mentioned before. Think he posted a screenshot somewhere quite similar to this one:

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When just changing the CreateSurface method call to windowed mode, there would be no border and window would still acquire full screen but just showing botf in the top left corner with the rest being black.

However, it really looks weird and funny, especially the doubled planets rotating in galaxy view.

And of course I have missed code... That's self-evident

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon May 10, 2010 8:34 am

as a quick poin there is no point to hyaving more than 16 (0-15) technologies in each group as the the game only can display 16 on screen. I'm continuing to test...

EDIT: this is sovled -->>

Post by **Tethys** » Mon May 10, 2010 9:01 am

i remember Thunderchero said that you could click the lower most one and hit (insert?) or (page down?) to see *items* below the block point... this had to do with the experiment of turning main structures into buildings, but this was deemed impossible at the time...

TC can you confirm?

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon May 10, 2010 9:30 am

wants to kill timmy and lazarus that how angry i am...

sadly my test have not been to good, while I added techs 11-16 and you could view these in the right order on the science screens the game crashed to desktop when you click a technology over id 77 ie #4D (77 is 7 *11 some sort of check.)

I have reduced my techs to 0-12 each this means you cannot look at the discription of Weapons 12, only,

any thought if there is a check? as there was nothing in the crash log.

Post by **Tethys** » Mon May 10, 2010 9:34 am

I cant check right now, Im at school and they have AFC firewalled (proxy muahahhaa) but the multi installer wont download, always gets stuck around 1.5 mb

Any idea if there is a version on 4shared? Anyone? please? really need it.. thanks

Post by **thunderchero** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:49 am

Tethys wrote:i remember Thunderchero said that you could click the lower most one and hit (insert?) or (page down?) to see *items* below the block point... this had to do with the experiment of turning main structures into buildings, but this was deemed impossible at the time...

TC can you confirm?

don't know if you are talking about this

viewtopic.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=17104#17104

Post by **Tethys** » Mon May 10, 2010 11:53 am

Yes that was it! Thanks!

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon May 10, 2010 1:54 pm

ho humm ho humm... well no idea where the 77 limit is... and with out this sorted out we can only have one more fully funtioning technology level!

Post by **Tethys** » Mon May 10, 2010 2:14 pm

Hmm, Ill have a look when I get home, still at school right now.

Exactly how many EXTRA techs do u have now? 1? 2?

u might want to go back over them, dont forget you need to add sociology as well or you might get adverse effects... Also you cannot do 1 or 5 techs then save and come back, you need to do them all at once for each tech or you will mess the locations up... and i think if you move any of the older techs around as well it will cause problems...

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon May 10, 2010 2:57 pm

I've added 2 to each tech ie

biology:
T11 Metasilicobiology
T12 Neurolitics
Computer:
T11 Bio-neural Circitry
T12 Quasitronics
Construction
T11 Partical Synthesis
T12 Quantum Bonding
Energy
T11 Quantum Fusion
T12 Temporal Determinancy
Propulsion
T11 Subspace Tunneling
T12 Coaxial Induction
Weapons
T11 Aut-Modulation
T12 Micro-Modulation (alway CTD when selected)
Sociology
T11 Socioloigy 11
T12 Socioloigy 12

all other techs remain the same as vanilla for the moment.

when i had 0-16 techs each CTD occured when energy 12 was clicked
when I had 0-15 techs each CTD occured when propultion 3 was clicked

it always crashed on 78th technology discription.

Post by **Tethys** » Mon May 10, 2010 3:15 pm

Ah ok i understand now... well then this is interesting stuff

have you tried looking for 07 in any of the nearby hex codes and changing them to say, 08? or perhaps looking for 4D (77)?

Post by **Peter1981** » Mon May 10, 2010 5:20 pm

thanks it's more like infuriating!

i was wondering about this beeing a limit like in the energy screen project if it is then its gonna be very difficult to address

further extra tecks would exclude the use of sociology science Bugge*!

not had a look for them yet but not sure where to begin as i dont have an deasemble program.

Post by **KrazeeXXL** » Mon May 10, 2010 10:00 pm

Flocke wrote: It looks terrific

never thought of you as an CGA fan. but hey we all got our favs