26-04-2002 09:56									#31
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quote: Originally posted by LouLong Hi Gramphos, since I see you are in the process of making your cute tool multi lingual, I just wanted to let you know I could do the French version if you need one. In that case, just send me the entire text by paragraphs and I will send them back to you in French. Regards, Loulong

E-mail me at gramphos@apolyton.net and I'll send you a full English textfile (including the dialogs)

	26-04-2002 22:25									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos It's to decompressing the SAVs, and is not to run without the correct parameters

Could you provide a little help file such that people like me can decompress their saved game files? I have some good hex editors to look at the file, but I need to decompress it first.

	26-04-2002 22:38									#33
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quote: Originally posted by SpaceGuy Could you provide a little help file such that people like me can decompress their saved game files? I have some good hex editors to look at the file, but I need to decompress it first.

The next version will have a readme for it, and a rewritten one, not to take as many parameters (easier to use, so you'll have to wait 'till then)

	30-04-2002 09:12									#34
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Hi Grampos,
I noticed in 0.92 that the export .BIC does not work/is turned off... I try to save to .BIC and I get a 'Not a CIV3 savefile' error?

BTW... Thanks for all the great work!

	30-04-2002 09:35									#35
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What does the combine maps button do? Does it work?

	30-04-2002 15:34									#36
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quote: Originally posted by exeter0 Hi Grampos, I noticed in 0.92 that the export .BIC does not work/is turned off... I try to save to .BIC and I get a 'Not a CIV3 savefile' error? BTW... Thanks for all the great work!

I've fixed this for the next version, however, this week is Q, and today is Valborg, so it might have to wait until the weekend before I'm ready to give it out.

However is the MAP import and export very improved to include more of the mapdata and to use the default BIC I/O functions. (Earlier were export done by directly creating a BIC from the SAVs mapdata (rereading the save)). Now it's done by reading all mapdata from the save ta the load, and then creating a BIC form that which is output by the default BIC output function, so I won't get the same problem with later patches.

	30-04-2002 15:36									#37
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quote: Originally posted by exeter0 What does the combine maps button do? Does it work?

I think it is working... IIRC I added it to see whatthe AI was doing, but not giving the entire map. I think it combines the map of asll civs and gives all civs it, so it basicly reveals the maps known by any civ.

	30-04-2002 15:48									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos I've fixed this for the next version, however, this week is Q, and today is Valborg, so it might have to wait until the weekend before I'm ready to give it out. However is the MAP import and export very improved to include more of the mapdata and to use the default BIC I/O functions. (Earlier were export done by directly creating a BIC from the SAVs mapdata (rereading the save)). Now it's done by reading all mapdata from the save ta the load, and then creating a BIC form that which is output by the default BIC output function, so I won't get the same problem with later patches.

That's fantastic Gramphos.. I am really looking forward to it when you get the chance to release it.

I remember earlier today (Can;t remember if it was this thread or another one) where someone was asking if you could edit a 1.21F save game file...

Whith your next release of C3MT you would effectively have a solution for this.

You would be able to load a saved game... export as a .BIC, make any rule changes. Then import the (now revised) .BIC file in again.

Is my assessment correct?

	30-04-2002 19:18									#39
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quote: Originally posted by exeter0 That's fantastic Gramphos.. I am really looking forward to it when you get the chance to release it. I remember earlier today (Can;t remember if it was this thread or another one) where someone was asking if you could edit a 1.21F save game file... Whith your next release of C3MT you would effectively have a solution for this. You would be able to load a saved game... export as a .BIC, make any rule changes. Then import the (now revised) .BIC file in again. Is my assessment correct?

If I include the rules, yes, but that would require a little bigger modification, as the rules currently aren't saved back, and I would have som problem with pre 1.21f saves thast not always have rules in them.

A lot of the code were written for 1.07f, so I would have to make major changes in parsts of the code that i wrote a while ago, when this just was supposted to be a small tool, and I didn't bother to write and good comments in my code.

	30-04-2002 19:39									#40
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Now I think of it , it would involve a lot of work to do.

Oh well... be nice though!

	04-05-2002 22:20									#41
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Gramphos,

I used your latest release to copy 16 new advances that are to be unique to each civ. I also created 16 new Wonders that require these civs. At some semmingly random point in the game (NOT when one of the advances is researched or one of the wonders is built) the game crashes and exits. If I remove all new advances and wonders from the bic it works fine. Please help!

-Justin

	05-05-2002 05:18									#42
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Are you using the civilopedia?

	05-05-2002 15:08									#43
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Hi Gramphos your tool rocks! Thanks a lot!

Three things though:

1. If you add a GCON_blablabla then this causes problems in the game. I had to open the civilopedia.txt and add the red line:

#GCON_blablabla
blablabla
^
^This unit...

That is used for the title of the GCON_ when surfing the civilopedia. The other keys (BLDG_ etc.) don't need this, that's maybe why you missed it. Or I missed something

2. It happens quite often, that I've got problems with bold and italic. Sometimes the whole text appears bold even if I just made the title in bold. Don't no what's the reason though. When I go in the civilopedia.txt there appears text as follows:

^{the barb}arians are a bunch of suckers.
^
^}

3. Yesterday it deleted the text I had written for every new unit. Don't know what caused this and it doesn't matter. I just wondered if it would be possible to determine the name of the backupfile, so that I could have 5 backups of the civilopedia if I want, instead of one backup which is overwritten each time I edit something.

Well apart of that it's a great program! Helps even to look up something in the civilopedia when modding, without having civ3 started.

	05-05-2002 15:10									#44
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There is a Titlefield in the top over the descriptionfield which should be used with game concepts. Did you enter anything in there?

	05-05-2002 15:14									#45
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2. I'm not sure either. I thing that bod and itallic should work, I've had some problems with the links, but it should have been sorted out. Might have something to do with thet the RTF-box has the first and last character bold. (the boldtype are not saved somewhere but in the rtf-box's text, and I've never had any problems with the backconverting of it. Links are saved separately in the memory). (I don't like the RTF-box, but it's the easiest way to do formatted text with VB.)

	05-05-2002 19:50									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos Are you using the civilopedia?

Nope. I didn't make any changes to civilopedia, but I never use it either...

	06-05-2002 15:25									#47
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Did it crash at the science advisor?

	06-05-2002 21:30									#48
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Nope. It actually crashes during the Comps turn. If you want to take a look at it, it is the Overhaul v1.01 that I have posted elsewhere here.

-Justin

	06-05-2002 22:02									#49
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oops, this one I had missed
yeah of course now it works

maybe the second problem has something to do with this title I did not add. Maybe it caused problems when I made something bold, without having a title because it searched for the beginning of the entry. Or something like that.

Well I'm really sorry for my misunderstanding ("oh these users" ).

	08-05-2002 06:23									#50
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I also discovered a new/wierd glitch last night

I used the copy tool to create new resources and added the graphics.

One of the graphics (lumber) I made a Strategic Resource and a prerequisite for an improvement (Silo - aka Granary). It took quite a while in the game before I had access to lumber. Once I did, I could build the Silo as expected. But when I opened up the City View of the city that just built the Silo, the game crashed. I tried to move on in the game and noticed that I could look in the City View just fine until I built the Silo (Which is just a Granary renamed). I figured I could live without the City View, so I kept playing. Once I went to war and took over an enemy city, however, the game crashed - since it opens up the city view when you take it over.

I removed Lumber as a prerequisite from Silo and it now works perfectly fine - I can even trade it and the Icon shows up in the trade manager.

Just thought I would let you know....

Have you found anything wrong in OH101?

-Justin

	08-05-2002 11:29									#51
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Strange the thing with the CityView, None have figured out how to add buildings to it yet, but you might be close (As it crashes the game probably is looking for missing graphics)

You use 1.21f, right?

	08-05-2002 20:09									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos You use 1.21f, right?

Yep!

	09-05-2002 17:01									#53
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World maps that come with Civ3 suck. They contain nearly no rivers and Europe is very inaccurate. Baltic sea is too big (no Finland and Sweden) and Britain is west from Spain (in standard size world map). Also mediterranean sea is odd. The only nearly accurate places are North America and Australia. (There are also some other oddities, like Greenland being really green!) Someone whoever did those maps which ship with Civ3 must have slept all the Geographic lessons!

So I recommend you and everyone else to try and download Marla Singer's World Map.bic at http://www.civ3.com .

	09-05-2002 20:43									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos Strange the thing with the CityView, None have figured out how to add buildings to it yet, but you might be close (As it crashes the game probably is looking for missing graphics)

Gramphos, how about this one? I haven't tried it out yet.

pesoloco Add to City View


Or were you talking about the other city screen?

	10-05-2002 01:51									#55
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Version 0.92.5 is ready. Check it out.

You can export maps again.

	10-05-2002 02:04									#56
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Okay, I did a Firaxis. the zip grabbed an incorrect c3mt.txt file.

If you've downloaded anmd don't want to download again, open your c3mt.txt and add the line

code:
@LANGUAGE English

code:
@C3MT
@VERSION 1

	10-05-2002 02:44									#57
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Note, thast if you want to save about 20k hd space it is safe to delete c3mt.ge.txt and c3mt.pl.txt, if you only plan to use the English version.

In that case you'll need v0.92.5001 (a minor bug with just one language file fixed)

	10-05-2002 05:06									#58
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Thanks for your great work, Gramphos.

But one little Problem.
If I load a save game in your editor get I an error: Invalid Input.
I use patch 1.21f and v0.92.5001 on WinXP.
What's wrong?

	10-05-2002 10:17									#59
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quote: Originally posted by Gramphos Strange the thing with the CityView, None have figured out how to add buildings to it yet, but you might be close (As it crashes the game probably is looking for missing graphics) You use 1.21f, right?

My new version only has new resources, not new buildings, and it STILL crashes at city view.

And by City View, I mean the view where you can assign workers and build qeue...

	10-05-2002 11:34									#60
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quote: Originally posted by Nevs23 Thanks for your great work, Gramphos. But one little Problem. If I load a save game in your editor get I an error: Invalid Input. I use patch 1.21f and v0.92.5001 on WinXP. What's wrong?

That error has something to do with the call of SAVExpnd.exe (It generates the error.), I'll ceck on it.

I maybe forgot to replace he one in my package folder with the new one :doh: I'll check on this now.