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hwinkels
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Here's the latest TCG Editor v1.01 for Civ III saved games. Here's a list of the features:
- Change victory conditions
- Change forced retirement date
- Modify treasury gold for all civs in game
- Reveal the entire world map
- Works with versions 1.07f and 1.16f (pre and post-patch)
- Change the Player's Civ
- New in version 1.01:Change the random seed stored in the game
The zip file has 2 files in it, the executable and a help file. The help file is a little thin right now, but it's there for future expansion. There is NO UNDO function, so be sure to save edited files under a new name. I don't recommend editing important SAV files and saving right back over them.
All you have to do is unzip the 2 files into the same directory anywhere you like and create a shortcut to the executable file on your desktop.
The editor is statically linked, making it a little big in size, but with all the different versions of Windows out there now I figured it might be better to avoid any dependencies on installed VC++ runtime DLLs. As a result, it should work on all versions of Windows that Civ3 itself does.
I edited this post to update the ZIP download attachment and for some reason I can't do it. So... LOOK FOR THE ATTACHMENT BELOW IN ANOTHER POST FROM ME
Last edited by hwinkels on 05-02-2002 at 04:49
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hwinkels
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There's a field that holds the Player's civ. I first tried just changing that field in order to switch civs. It didn't work as I expected it to, and the whole game just played itself without me having to make any moves at all! It was very strange to watch. I ended up changing around the steps the program makes to swap the player's civ with another one.
It does seem possible - even easy, maybe - that MP could be enabled with a little tinkering. I'm still experimenting.
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Dr Strangelove
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How do you start the program? I unzipped the file, but when I click on it I get a message stating that there is no assosciated program to open it.
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hwinkels
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The file you need to double-click on is the Civ3SavEdit.exe file. Where did you unzip it to? .EXE files don't have "associated programs" ... they ARE programs! What are you d/c on?
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s3d
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quote:
Originally posted by hwinkels
whole game just played itself without me having to make any moves at all! It was very strange to watch. |
Wow! I want this feature for mod testing! Is it enabled in your editor ?
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Dr Strangelove
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quote:
Originally posted by hwinkels
The file you need to double-click on is the Civ3SavEdit.exe file. Where did you unzip it to? .EXE files don't have "associated programs" ... they ARE programs! What are you d/c on? |
I figured it out. When I download straight off this forum everything gets named "attachment" so I have to rename the files before downloading. I renamed this file "tcgedit" without including the extension ".zip" so my computer didn't know hwo to open the program. Then I tried renaming the file "tcgedit.zip" and then unzipped it into the Civ3 main directory, but the unzipped file still didn't work. Finally I just opened the downloaded renamed file with Winzip classic and clicked on the civ3savedit.exe file and it worked fine.
Has anyone else had this problem? I wonder why I am?
What is "d/c on"?
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hwinkels
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Dr. Strangelove: Glad you got it to work. I've had download problems myself on several sites using IE 5.5. I don't know if it's IE version related or what. Whenever I download from southparkstudios.com I run into similar hassles, but when I download from Apolyton I never seem to have a problem.
Gutz: Yes, d/c is "double-click".
pauli: Please let me know if works for you. You should get the retirement warning 50 yrs. ahead of time. The warning is based on years and not turns, meaning if you set it to something ridiculous like 100 BC (-100), you'll get the warning only a turn or two ahead of the forced retirement date. Anything after 1948 and you'll get the full 50-year/50-turn heads-up warning.
s3d: It's not enabled but I'll play with it a bit this evening and see if I can make it happen at-will. I never thought it might actually be useful that way! Stay tuned.
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hwinkels
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I hear you, Minuteman. Probably by the weekend. I've been trying to add a certain function to it without much luck (the auto-play thing) but I'll put it up there whether or not I can make it work in another couple of days. Thanks for the suggestion!
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pauli
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herndon, va, usa
Jan 2000
time: 00:17
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hwinkels: i don't believe i ever got a retirement warning. however, i got a cultural victory long before 2000 :/ i guess it's not going to bother stopping me. it didn't do anything when my ship launched, either.
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hwinkels
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The only thing you can do civ-wise is change which one you're leading. In other words, you can switch sides. You take over for the AI on one of the other civs and the AI takes over control of the civ you were previously controlling. The viewable map changes, too, depending on what territory the other civ knows about - your old land will go dark if your new civ doesn't have knowlege of it.
Besides that, you can't change their locations or anything.
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hwinkels
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Heh. I added that to version 1.01. With all the problems people seem to have downloading files here, I decided to post it over at Civfanatics. Which is now down
So I'll update the version here in a few minutes
I was unable to update the attachment at the top of the thread, so I'll attach it directly in the next post...
Last edited by hwinkels on 05-02-2002 at 04:50
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Timor
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Hi!
I try to change the player civ and save the file but I received this error message....
 Attachment: error.jpg
This has been downloaded 2026 time(s).
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efejta
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Has there been any progress on this front? I would really like to be able to change civs.
Is there a newer utility that can do this (change the player's civ)?
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exeter0
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Sydney, Australia
Nov 2001
time: 15:17
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Love to have this utility for 1.21F... any plans to update this great utility?
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efejta
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Is anyone posting source code to how they are doing what they are with their utilities?
I understand how hard it is to release your precious work, but if you aren't going to update it, then I don't see any reason not too.
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isak
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Airhose, Denmark
Mar 2002
time: 06:17
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Does anyone know where hwinkels went?
I would really love to have this working with patch 1.21f - not to mention the upcoming patch.
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