Utility Dom3Bak | Turn Autobackup UPDATED

das123 · #1 July 19th, 2008, 01:48 AM

I Hijacked this post to place the source files for Dom3Bak if anyone would prefer to have the original Python code.

Please feel free to tweak it etc.

Updated 1 August 2008. Source code for version 0.90

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My script doesn't allow you save manually if that is what you mean. If the script is running the backup process is completely automatic. As you play each turn it saves the start of each turns information. So you can wind back to any turn in the game - but only to the start of the turn.

For example, if you start a turn and then spend a lot of time scripting your troops etc. All that will be lost if you use the backup to start the turn again. Anyhow, I'll keep on mucking around with it and get it a bit cleaner.

llamabeast · #2 July 19th, 2008, 11:14 AM

In case you didn't know, you can find what turn the game's on by running "dom3 --verify GameName" and then looking at the ftherlnd.chk file which gets created in the game's folder.

Gandalf Parker · #3 July 19th, 2008, 12:43 PM

There is a desktop shortcut for windows that does it manually if you wanted manually.
http://www.dom3minions.com/utilities.htm

das123 · #4 July 19th, 2008, 04:50 PM

Thanks Llamabeast

I had been looking at the files with a hex editor and noticed that the 13th and 14th byte pair also represent the turn but it was a pain trying to use it. Eventually I found the --verify line and have currently broken my version in my attempt to read the .chk version. Ahh, the joys of a new language when you have no idea what you're doing.

I was going to look at it again today to try and see where it is failing.

das123 · #5 July 19th, 2008, 08:34 PM

I've attached two sets of files. In my original post is an installer which intalls the script along with the required Python modules. This is the easiest way to install the backup. The hardest part of this method is navigating to C:\Program Files\dominions3\Dom3Bak and then double clicking Dom3Bak.exe.

In my second post are the source files. They consist of the Python script, a config file, and a read me file.

It works for me but I'm making no promises. Please let me know how you go with it and if anyone makes any changes or has suggestions, please share them.

das123 · #6 August 1st, 2008, 05:48 AM

MAJOR UPDATE!!!

I've updated the attachments and description in the first post to the latest version (version 0.90). This is very easy to install and to use (see the screen shot). It is a vast, vast improvement on the last version so please replace if you downloaded the last one.

Please give me feedback so I can improve future versions.

Hope you like it.