Khan7
06-25-2002, 07:10
Well, having looked over the Unit info file for the demo.. I can say the following things:
(1) There is a whole lot of CRAP starting out the file. It provides info on the various unit stats, but it's pretty much all out of order.. to use it we'll first have to put it together like a jigsaw puzzle.
I don't know why it is this way.. if it's intentional, or the programmer working on it was just hopped up on something, or maybe very tired. Or maybe they were inspired by the lyrics page printed with with Nirvana albums..
(2) After it says "DATA START" unit data actually starts. It seems that they have combined what would have been many, many files in STW into this one gigantic thing. Each row is info for a given unit, and it drabbles on and on with all of the NEW stuff for MTW, as well as a whole bunch of factional/religious/blahblahblah info, and then near the tail end it has the regular 'ol TroopStats info. The TroopStats info appears to be declared like so: "CHARGE_BONUS(1)".. as a matter of fact many of the things appear to be declared in this way, so one must beg the question whether the order really matters or it's just a matter of declaring a stat and giving a value.
Anyway, I may eventually decifer and organize some of this, if I come up with anything I will post it here, you other guys may want to work on it too (I know Krae is already).
Of course, the BIG question is whether or not the file structure will remain more or less the same or if it will change with the final version. Given past history, and the fact that there are already portions of this file that are no longer used, it seems almost certain they will leave the file structure unchanged, which is good.
Matt
(1) There is a whole lot of CRAP starting out the file. It provides info on the various unit stats, but it's pretty much all out of order.. to use it we'll first have to put it together like a jigsaw puzzle.
I don't know why it is this way.. if it's intentional, or the programmer working on it was just hopped up on something, or maybe very tired. Or maybe they were inspired by the lyrics page printed with with Nirvana albums..
(2) After it says "DATA START" unit data actually starts. It seems that they have combined what would have been many, many files in STW into this one gigantic thing. Each row is info for a given unit, and it drabbles on and on with all of the NEW stuff for MTW, as well as a whole bunch of factional/religious/blahblahblah info, and then near the tail end it has the regular 'ol TroopStats info. The TroopStats info appears to be declared like so: "CHARGE_BONUS(1)".. as a matter of fact many of the things appear to be declared in this way, so one must beg the question whether the order really matters or it's just a matter of declaring a stat and giving a value.
Anyway, I may eventually decifer and organize some of this, if I come up with anything I will post it here, you other guys may want to work on it too (I know Krae is already).
Of course, the BIG question is whether or not the file structure will remain more or less the same or if it will change with the final version. Given past history, and the fact that there are already portions of this file that are no longer used, it seems almost certain they will leave the file structure unchanged, which is good.
Matt