3rd party Apps wishlist - Page 2

Gandalf Parker · #11 February 25th, 2004, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Torvak:
Just finished the next Version and sent it to Arryn. It now has god saving (and loading of course). Saves up to 5 gods per nation together with a text file for description.

Excellent. We are cutting right thru the list. I may have to dream up some new entries for the 3rd party App Wishlist

Arryn · #12 February 25th, 2004, 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by Torvak:
Just finished the next Version and sent it to Arryn. It now has god saving (and loading of course). Saves up to 5 gods per nation together with a text file for description.

Thanks, Ralph! The file is now up on my site for y'all to download.

I'm quite impressed with the amount of traffic my little site's getting. Over 70 unique visitors (not pageloads, I get far more pageloads) on day 1 and another 50+ so far today ...

[ February 25, 2004, 20:36: Message edited by: Arryn ]

Torvak · #13 February 25th, 2004, 10:48 PM

I admit it's a little bit dirty. Already found out why it wasn't terminating the JVM properly. Tomorrow i think i'll add some nifty "nagot gick fel" windows for file not founds and whatever.

And i'm still waiting for someone to test it on linux

Arryn · #14 February 26th, 2004, 12:35 AM

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Originally posted by Arryn:
Thanks, Ralph! The file is now up on my site for y'all to download.

I just noticed that I'd forgotten to change a tiny bit of HTML code on my files page so that the 0.4 Version would be linked.

My apologies to anyone who tried to d/l domsaver0.4.jar from my site in the past 2 hours and was unable to. It should work correctly now.

Gandalf Parker · #15 February 27th, 2004, 09:45 PM

Just remembered another 3rd party App NAME GENERATORS
OK not a biggy. There are alot already available. I messed with writing a few variations and ended up with two that were simple enough to be a routine to add to a program instead of a standalone program.

For commander names I would create long strings of names attached together. Conan Kull Aragorn Xena would become conankullaragornxena. (much longer strings though) The routine grabbed 3,4,or 5 letter Groups out of it and pasted them together. It solved alotof the problems with unpronouncable names. If I dig up my old C64 routine I will covert it. It used an array which made use of the most commonly used letters and letter combination in the english language.

For place names I built arrays of descriptive words and terrain names, then randomly assigned pairs. Such as ....
"Forest", "Woods", "Copse", "Grove", "Woodlands", "Timber", "Timberland", "Woodlot", "Wildwood", "Thicket", "Growth"
"Trees", "Canopy", "Maze", "Woodland", "Wood", "Forestry", "Wilderness", "Willows", "Oaks", "Saplings", "Orchard"

attached after something from a list such as...
"Dark", "Greening", "Darkening", "Forbidden", "Gracious", "Elven", "Elder", "Mythical", "Growth", "Feeding", "Blue"
"Carpenters", "Neutral", "Deep", "Nesting", "Golden", "Pixie", "Ogre", "Land of", "Nether", "Dull", "Wide"
"Twisted", "Wild", "Dreaming", "Lost", "Dew", "Redding"

It allowed for alot of names from fairly short lists. Hmmm maybe this should have gone on the RanGame project for commander/place names to randomized .map files

[ February 27, 2004, 19:48: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Saber Cherry · #16 February 27th, 2004, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
For place names I built arrays of descriptive words and terrain names, then randomly assigned pairs. Such as ....
"Forest", "Woods", "Copse", "Grove", "Woodlands", "Timber", "Timberland", "Woodlot", "Wildwood", "Thicket", "Growth"
"Trees", "Canopy", "Maze", "Woodland", "Wood", "Forestry", "Wilderness", "Willows", "Oaks", "Saplings", "Orchard"

attached after something from a list such as...
"Dark", "Greening", "Darkening", "Forbidden", "Gracious", "Elven", "Elder", "Mythical", "Growth", "Feeding", "Blue"
"Carpenters", "Neutral", "Deep", "Nesting", "Golden", "Pixie", "Ogre", "Land of", "Nether", "Dull", "Wide"
"Twisted", "Wild", "Dreaming", "Lost", "Dew", "Redding"

Like the Forbidden Thicket of Twisted Pixie Dew? Between that and the Feeding Nesting Nether-Ogre Wilderness, I might never leave my home province!

Gandalf Parker · #17 February 27th, 2004, 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Like the Forbidden Thicket of Twisted Pixie Dew? Between that and the Feeding Nesting Nether-Ogre Wilderness, I might never leave my home province!

Heehee. No I just did one from each list like Dark Forest or Greening Woods. But after seeing those I might re-think that.

[ February 27, 2004, 21:22: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Gandalf Parker · #18 March 2nd, 2004, 10:24 PM

New addition: I didnt think of it because its definetly in an area of programming I do badly at. A 3rd party program which can plot the fastest course from xxx to yyy. Read in the .map file and array the neighbor commands. Work out the shortest route. An addition would be to add terrain and have it avoid either land or water. Or even figure in terrain factors such as flyers and forest-moving units

Davidious · #19 March 2nd, 2004, 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I wish for a 3rd-party app that would rip the stats of all units to .dm format. That would make my life 100x easier.

Secondly, ripping the unit icons to .tga format.

It would take either a hacker (doing things that are technically illegal, though I doubt IW would mind) or a dev to accomplish these.

-Cherry

this would be awesome! hope someone is up to it

Gandalf Parker · #20 March 2nd, 2004, 11:20 PM

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Secondly, ripping the unit icons to .tga format.

this would be awesome! hope someone is up to it

I keep waiting for someone to just make some unit sheets. Anyone can do that with screen capture and a paint program (and more patience than I have). Even if they did them one group at a time it would help.