Modding Tools--Component Creator

[Gimboid]

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Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:
This looks like a damn good and useful tool. Just some questions: If I edit organic armor or cryst. armor, I see a

Value1 = Amount of minerals generated

Instead of something like Amount of damage repaired. I guess this is just a cosmetic problem ?

And if I edit a component, you always add the change to the end of the list as far as I have seen for now, so I have to edit/add something and afterwards delete the old comp., I guess this is a kind of insurance.

Thanx a lot, guys.

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That Value 1 = thing u mentioned was a display bug and has todo with the index of the descriptions array lining up with the actual ability currently selected. It is now fixed, as were a number of other slight bugs that were known of

[EDIT] Hmmm, i just checked out crystal and organic armor and u are right, not all the value 1 descriptions are correct for it. Strange, the components i tested it on (such as engines which has 3 abilities, and SY which has 4) show it correctly... I will look into this, thanks for spotting it.[/EDIT]

Also, as i added in the Last message i didnt get around to changing how it added to the end of the list yesterday. As it was i posted that Version at midnight Last night... so i ran out of time yesterday.

The latest Version fixes that as well, edited data fields are saved with the actual component that was selected for editing. Only new components are added to the end of the list


Gimboid

[ 10 March 2002: Message edited by: Gimboid ]

[PsychoTechFreak]

Great , I am impressed. If you plan to create such tools for the AI txt files... research ... design_creation...

I guess these could be some Goodies for the SEIV Platinum Version.

[Urendi Maleldil]

If you could make it so a person could copy and paste whole entries between different instances of the Component Creator program that would greatly speed up mod compiling.

Say person A does the first 1/2 of components.txt
and person B does the second, I could just open up two instances of Component Creator and copy and paste entries into one of those or even a third instance from the component list. Tadaa, super fast compilation.

Also the ability to move components up and down would be helpful.

P.S. the component list automatically scrolls back up to the top again after the edit component details window is closed. This could be a pain for modders who have to continually open and close windows.

[ 10 March 2002: Message edited by: Urendi Maleldil ]

[Gimboid]

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Originally posted by Urendi Maleldil:
If you could make it so a person could copy and paste whole entries between different instances of the Component Creator program that would greatly speed up mod compiling.

Say person A does the first 1/2 of components.txt
and person B does the second, I could just open up two instances of Component Creator and copy and paste entries into one of those or even a third instance from the component list. Tadaa, super fast compilation.

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Alas no, this is not a feature the program would be able to support without doing a massive overhaul and changing the design process to make use of threads for data transference. I will probably not be doing anything like this to the program

But, there is a way todo exactly what you want it to do. If person A and B have completed their designing for their respective halves of the components.txt file (what they have done would be saved to the COMP.txt files they both would have created upon using the program), then a simple copy+paste job in notepad would suffice provided it kept a one line gap between the first component in the 2nd list, and the Last component from the first (this is the same gap that all components must have in the components.txt file).

Once pasted into the components.txt file, reloading the component modder would display all the entries present.

quote:

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Originally posted by Urendi Maleldil:
Also the ability to move components up and down would be helpful.

P.S. the component list automatically scrolls back up to the top again after the edit component details window is closed. This could be a pain for modders who have to continually open and close windows.

[ 10 March 2002: Message edited by: Urendi Maleldil ]

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Its not a hassle to set the current selection back to the one that you just finished editing. This will be included in the next revision for sure

As for moving entries up and down, this would be useful as well, thats definately going on the todo list

[Daynarr]

Nice work Gimboid.
I am one of those guys that could use good editing tools for data files, so I greatly appreciate your efforts.

As for improvements, the only two things that come to mind right now is that there could be:
a) Preview picture of component
b) Play sound option for components

[Gimboid]

Newest program revision for my component modding program.

Fixes

- Updating selection from component list, so that after editing a component that component is still the component selected from the component list.

- Component self destruct device was not being read in correctly due to truncation of read in data. No longer a problem.

New features

- Ability to change the order of components in the list by moving components up or down by 1 or 10 places.

Program Version 0.65
Filesize: Zipped - 30 Kb, Unzipped - 92 Kb
Component Modder Version 0.65

Gimboid

[Gimboid]

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Originally posted by Daynarr:

As for improvements, the only two things that come to mind right now is that there could be:
a) Preview picture of component
b) Play sound option for components

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Picture preview was already on my list of things todo, and sound, thats a good one to have as well.

I will probably change it so that u select the file from a standard windows popup (like the open file screen u get when u load a file for Word, etc) and have it update the edit box to display the filename u selected. And then have it playable by pressing a button

Does anyone know where the standard icon that they have on play sound buttons (the speaker pic) can be found???