Could anyone use a design analyzer?

[Fyron]

Manually counting component abilities and drawing those with MS paint was a chore, but it turned out so nice.

This is why you use screen captures...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*Nag*

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Manually counting component abilities and drawing those with MS paint was a chore, but it turned out so nice.

This is why you use screen captures...

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He did. However if you'll notice there are several aspects of that image that SE4 just won't do. Hence the editing..

[Suicide Junkie]

You may notice the armor count, the defense bonuses, the regeneration rates, and so on.

[Ed Kolis]

OK, nagging people, I do have a status report:

I've written the code to load up the CompEnhancement.txt. However, it doesn't seem to be working right, as nothing is actually loading. On the plus side, it doesn't actually crash... most likely there's an error in my parsing code and it's thinking it's reached the end of the file like Se4 always does...

Todo list:
-Fix CompEnhancement.txt loader
-Write VehicleSize.txt loader
-Write Components.txt loader
-Write ship design interface
-Write report generator
-Write ship design loader/saver (You don't want to reenter all those enemy designs by hand each time you load your game do you??? )
-Not really needed either, but converting to/from XML would be fun

[Suicide Junkie]

Did you mention what language you are using?

If its any form of BASIC, grab my SE4 functions module:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools

Lots of great stuff there to simplify the reading and editing of the text file lines.

Get/set/add/multiple/exponent the nth value after the ":="
boolean fileExists(filename) too

[Atrocities]

Well you know, we could build a ship library containing every possible combination and do our own testing to see which combination is the best for which size.

Set up the designs, screen cap them, cut and paste along with a description and how they faired.