Real-Time Game Tweaker

[I like Serena]

Nice surprise, after a week away!

Already downloaded, now installing.

Oh, I have some bad news.

I fixed the issue that in 1.40n the settings were not displayed correctly.
But in the meantime I found that there are 2 other places where I didn't fix it yet...

[FrancoK]

Oh, I have some bad news.

I fixed the issue that in 1.40n the settings were not displayed correctly.
But in the meantime I found that there are 2 other places where I didn't fix it yet...

No problem, I wait...

[I like Serena]

[SIZE="4"]Tweaker version 0.2.5 is out![/SIZE]

Changes:

• Added an LBX editor (click Tools / LBX editor) [Anthony,Aureustgo,FrancoK].
  When you load an LBX file with pictures, those will be shown in the
  top view.
  The bottom view shows the bitmaps (png gif bmp jpg)
  that are in the directory of the tweaker, or one directory lower.
  I have included a couple of images that you can use.
  If you click "Replace" the LBX file is overwritten.
  To see the effect, MoM needs to be restarted (quit & continue).
  
  
  
• Completed the overland map view to show everything it should.
  Clicking on a tile will show what's there.
  It also allows you to change the fields of the tile's contents.
  
  
  
• Adjusted the Catnip mod to display what is changed, which is:
  1. All units get an extra half move.
  2. Heroes get dedicated slots (and a couple of changes).
  3. Magicians, priests, and shamen are renamed and get different abilities.
  TBH, this is not what Catwalk intended, but these are ideas I found
  fun to implement.
  Btw, quitting MoM and continuing discards all changes.
  
  
  
• Added tax unrest table to Game data [Anthony].
  

[Asfex]

Add combat round ds:c51c, the hero stats table for each wizard,except 5. Now its editable for human only.
I will edit.
Les bx,[9232][wizard*4] gives the table,then es:[bx+hero*0c] gives hero stat.
Add checkbox: do not use icons.
Show node's owner,or if it warped.do you know format?

Unit view:graphic id guess- index in combat.unk32 -additional life per figure,unk37(0)-lifesteal damage,unk37(1)-instant damage(like stoning).
Battlefield:1586-flying fortress.

[FrancoK]

[SIZE="4"]Tweaker version 0.2.5 is out![/SIZE]

Changes:

• Added an LBX editor (click Tools / LBX editor) [Anthony,Aureustgo,FrancoK].
  When you load an LBX file with pictures, those will be shown in the
  top view.
  The bottom view shows the bitmaps (png gif bmp jpg)
  that are in the directory of the tweaker, or one directory lower.
  I have included a couple of images that you can use.
  If you click "Replace" the LBX file is overwritten.
  To see the effect, MoM needs to be restarted (quit & continue).
  
  
  
• Completed the overland map view to show everything it should.
  Clicking on a tile will show what's there.
  It also allows you to change the fields of the tile's contents.
  
  
  
• Adjusted the Catnip mod to display what is changed, which is:
  1. All units get an extra half move.
  2. Heroes get dedicated slots (and a couple of changes).
  3. Magicians, priests, and shamen are renamed and get different abilities.
  TBH, this is not what Catwalk intended, but these are ideas I found
  fun to implement.
  Btw, quitting MoM and continuing discards all changes.
  
  
  
• Added tax unrest table to Game data [Anthony].
  

Hi ILS,

first of all thank you for your quick developing of a tool to interact with the graphic part of the game.

I started using it to search where the pictures of the heroes are; since I had no idea I decided to open ALL .lbx

So far, no luck, I've found a lot of interesting pictures, but not the heroes pictures, anyway some file can't be opened and the Tweaker crashes.

I've checked all the files up to "M" and this is the list of the files that can't be opened:

Builddat
Cityname
Desc
Eventmsg
Fonts
Help
Hlpentry
Itemdata
Itempow
Listdat
Message
Music

I'll fill the list by the week end if you like.

Hope this helps.

Some pictures are duplicated (I.E. the moving blue drake is in 2 different files) don't know their use in the game.

A couple of issue:
1. Sometimes the colors are mixed up (no, not the violet used as transparent background), probably the wrong set of colors is chosen.
2. It's it difficult to understand how many pixels a picture is and how many colors put in the image we want to change. Can you add a field with XY#colors in the window?

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In the map, the close button do not close the window neither gives a closer look to the map (zoom in). The only way to close the window is the standard X button.
Some tiles are not recognized (not really important).
The ? button has no help associated (again not so important).

[Anthony]

Hero pictures are stored in portrait.lbx. Unit icons are stored in figures0-9.lbx and figure10-15.lbx.

[I like Serena]

I will edit.

Huh?
Do you mean to say that you will support my efforts to maintain the tweaker?
That would be nice.

Show node's owner,or if it warped.do you know format?

Yes, I know the format.
I'll add your suggestions to the list.
See: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/20/

[I like Serena]

first of all thank you for your quick developing of a tool to interact with the graphic part of the game.

Thanks!

So far, no luck, I've found a lot of interesting pictures, but not the heroes pictures, anyway some file can't be opened and the Tweaker crashes.

I have to admit I hacked in the LBX editor rather quickly and didn't make it as robust as I usually try to do.
I'll fix that.
Anyway, it will work on any LBX file containing pictures, but not all of them do of course.

I've checked all the files up to "M" and this is the list of the files that can't be opened:

Implode created an LBXextract utility that extract alls pictures and sound from all LBX files.
That way, you can inspect and reuse all of them.
You can download his tool here:
http://www.roughseas.ca/momime/downloads.html

Here's the index I compiled:

Code:

ARMY     Dialogs for army overview and hero overview
BACK     Main dialogs for wizard mirror, city screen, and some others. Includes race figures.
BOOK     Animation for spell book
BOOK/SCROLL End-of-turn, end-of-combat, event scrolls
CITY     Icons for use in the city screens
CMB      Icons/terrain squares for use in combat
CMBTWALL Wall icons in combat
COMBAT   Terrain squares for use in combat
COMPIX   Combat dialogs and applicable spell icons
CONQUEST Banish wizard
DIPLO    Main dialog for diplomacy including wizard pictures
EVENTS   Event icons
FIGURES  Figures for units in combat
FONTS    
HALOFAM  Dialog for hall of fame, including wizard and race icons
HELP     Help dialogs and texts
HIRE     Dialog for hiring
INTRO    Videos for intro, win, and loose
ITEM     Dialogs for items, including item icons and artifact property icons
LOAD     Main dialog for loading/saving/settings
MAGIC    Main dialog for magic, including wizard icons and diplomacy icons
MAIN     Main screen and buttons
MAPBACK  Background icons for the map
MONSTER  Big pictures of summoned monsters
MUSIC    
NEW      Dialogs for the setup of a new game, including some sounds
PORTRAIT Hero icons
RELOAD   Dialog various plus lair pictures, including city overview, map overview, enemy city dialog, historian, astrologer
RESOURCE Various resources, including big pictures of each spel color
SPECFX   Animations of spells and large pictures of overland spells
SPECIAL  Dialog for magic book plus effect icons for the unit view dialog
SPELL    Dialogs for spells and spell effects, including animations of spell effects and banishments
TERRAIN  Terrain squares for the overland map
UNIT     Unit icons for the overland map
UNITVIEW Dialog for unit view, including unit property icons, unit overview in combat, and presumably the dialog for changing city production
VORTEX   Animation for end-of-game
WIZ      Wizard pictures for various dialogs, including some banishment animations

A couple of issue:

I've added them to the list:
https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/21/
https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/22/

Hero pictures are stored in portrait.lbx. Unit icons are stored in figures0-9.lbx and figure10-15.lbx.

Actually, the unit icons are in UNIT1 and UNIT2.
The figures that make up the units in combat are in the FIGURE* files.
The wizards are duplicated lots of times in various *WIZ* files.

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1. Sometimes the colors are mixed up (no, not the violet used as transparent background), probably the wrong set of colors is chosen.

Almost all pictures use the standard palette that is loaded from FONTS.LBX.
However, there are a couple of special picture sequences that use a special palette.
As yet I haven't tried to figure out how to get them right.

Btw, there are six special colors.

• magenta: defined to identify the transparent color.
  
• lightgreen: defined to identify the shadow color.
  
• 4 darkgreen colors: they identify the banner of the wizard
  

[I like Serena]

[SIZE="4"]Tweaker version 0.2.6 is out![/SIZE]

Changes:

• Fixed the failure to connect in Windows 7 that apparently
  afflicted some people.
  All accessible memory is searched now (with a new algorithm).
  
  
  
• Added a battlefield map (click Map and select Battle).
  This completes the maps, since the overland map was already in [Ayu].
  Ticket: http://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/12/
  Note that usually either the overland map or the battle map
  will be corrupted depending on whether battle is in progress or not.
  
  
  
• Added an experimental External AI dialog (click Tools, click External AI).
  You can set a hook in the code for use in battle.
  A hook will make the game stop each time an AI unit is on move.
  Then you can change its tactic manually and release the hook.
  
  
  
• Revised the address calculator to display more information.
  
  
  
• Added city name of fortress at the bottom of the wizard's data [FrancoK].
  Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/19/
  
  
  
• Combat round added [Asfex].
  Hero stats of all wizards added.
  Node attributes added to the tree model and also in the overland map.
  I do not know yet how it shows that it is warped though.
  Added check box "Use icons".
  Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/20/
  
  
  
• Fixed the 1.40m+ settings [FrancoK].
  There is one catch: if you load a save file, the tweaker does not know
  the version of MoM, so it cannot show the 1.40m+ version of the fields.
  Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/18/
  
  
  
• Fixed LBX editor bugs [FrancoK].
  I've also added a "Save pics" button.
  Note that some LBX files contain both pictures and non-pictures.
  The non-pictures are shown as empty pictures now.
  Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/21/
  
  
  
• Removed close button from map dialog and closed ticket [FrancoK].
  Ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/momrtgt/tickets/22/