delMar
Rear Admiral
Hi,
as recently mentioned in another thread, I'm currently taking a deeper look at the WC1 data files.
I want to use this thread to post some information which was not available in such a cohesive way before.
First things first:
Kudos go to HCl and ZOmegaZ for digging deep into the data files and providing their findings to the community. Without your efforts, I would not even have been able to start.
For a start, I'm posting some debug output which lists the contents of the campaign files of wc1, sm1 and sm2.
They were taken from the PC Gamer Kilrathi Saga Cover Disk Version which is available for download in the CIC's file section. Unfortunately, the gog version comes with compressed data-files which I have not yet been able to uncompress (also, it seems it will not be necessary as long as uncompressed files are available).
The files consist of three blocks, whereas the content of the first block is not yet known.
If someone wants to dig in and find out, I'd be more than glad to incorporate your findings into my code.
For a guideline on the layout of the camp.00x files, checkout camp_format.txt by ZOmegaZ in one of the other threads.
Maybe there's some information which is worth adding to the WCPedia (victory points, persons in the bar, ...).
The next post will be about the briefings files, which contain a little bit more interesting information, like cutscenes etc.
Feedback's very welcome
Martin
as recently mentioned in another thread, I'm currently taking a deeper look at the WC1 data files.
I want to use this thread to post some information which was not available in such a cohesive way before.
First things first:
Kudos go to HCl and ZOmegaZ for digging deep into the data files and providing their findings to the community. Without your efforts, I would not even have been able to start.
For a start, I'm posting some debug output which lists the contents of the campaign files of wc1, sm1 and sm2.
They were taken from the PC Gamer Kilrathi Saga Cover Disk Version which is available for download in the CIC's file section. Unfortunately, the gog version comes with compressed data-files which I have not yet been able to uncompress (also, it seems it will not be necessary as long as uncompressed files are available).
The files consist of three blocks, whereas the content of the first block is not yet known.
If someone wants to dig in and find out, I'd be more than glad to incorporate your findings into my code.
For a guideline on the layout of the camp.00x files, checkout camp_format.txt by ZOmegaZ in one of the other threads.
Maybe there's some information which is worth adding to the WCPedia (victory points, persons in the bar, ...).
The next post will be about the briefings files, which contain a little bit more interesting information, like cutscenes etc.
Feedback's very welcome
Martin