A possible mod option for mods that do not change gameplay

[george moromisato]

Your (George's) utility apps are notorious for not having much in the way of documentation. That's not really a gripe, just a statement of "that's the way it is". I do like a challenge.

I can't argue with that! Worse, unfortunately, is that my utility apps are not very robust--they handle the cases that I'm interested in, but not very many others

In this case, the TransCompiler is not looking in the extensions directory, but in the current directory. Your best bet is to copy TransCompiler.exe to E:\Trans108l\Extensions\newIocrym and run it from there.

[Cygnus.X1]

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error : Unable to read entities file 'Transcendence.tdb'

argh So I copied the whole Transcendence.tdb file into the subdirectory, and TADA!!!

I now have a shiny new newIocrym.tbd

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E:\Trans108l\Extensions\newIocrym>TransCompiler /input:newIocrym.xml /output:newIocrym.tbd
TransCompiler v1.02
Copyright (c) 2003-2012 by Kronosaur Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Parsing newIocrym.xml...done.
newIocrym.xml
   IocrymOutpost.jpg
   IocrymOutpostMask.bmp
   IocrymCommandship.jpg
   IocrymCommandshipMask.bmp
   IocrymSentinel.jpg
   IocrymSentinelMask.bmp
   IocrymManipulator.jpg
   IocrymManipulatorMask.bmp

newIocrym.tbd - 0 errors

Ok! So, there are plenty of freebe MD5 checkers out there, I'm going to play around a bit and see what I can come up with, now that I think I know what I'm doing. Thanks much for the rapid responses, George.

[Edit] A promise is a promise
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... nscompiler [/]

[Cygnus.X1]

Come to find out, the shield health isn't stored there... so I deleted one of the ICS's weapons instead, then compiled again.

Please bear in mind that actual files names have no bearing on the results of an MD5 hash.

Using a free MD5 checking utility, I got the following results:

newIocrym_clean.tbd
MD5: 527424C306DD7211E0BB9A7DD8776E6A

newIocrym_hacked.tbd
MD5: 35F85945D117C1F3A550AEDB5ADB95CC

I deleted a single line of code from the XML and got wildly different resulting hashes. The same would happen if you altered even a single pixel in one of the graphics files in this test case.

We can have registered player-made mods without fear of local alterations.

[george moromisato]

We can have registered player-made mods without fear of local alterations.

Cool! Thanks for doing the experiment.

[RPC]

Cygnus: Thanks for updating the wiki
Also, nice to do the experiment, this sounds great
EDIT* moved the page to the XML namespace of the wiki (I didn't know George didn't like namespaces, but I've got to keep consistency >.< )
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... nscompiler
EDIT2* added to tutorials page on wiki:
http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... /tutorials

[george moromisato]

EDIT* moved the page to the XML namespace of the wiki (I didn't know George didn't like namespaces, but I've got to keep consistency >.< )

I'm happy for the public wiki to keep namespaces for consistency.

[Cygnus.X1]

Consistency? Sorry, TWiki does look a bit free-for all in places, which I expected, it being community based. I don't really care as long as it works, right? Honestly I haven't looked for a style guide, I'll get to that

What's a namespace? I'm good with just about any markup language, but I don't have a lot of experience with wiki-styled. Bit too formal fer me. I'll finger it out.

And yer both most certainly welcome Glad to help, albeit impulsively.

[RPC]

Style Page: http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... style_page
Also, sorry for hijacking thread >.<

[shanejfilomena]

I am really liking this experiment.