Would a batt/bot program be helpful?

Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:35 pm by Overkill

I've just completed a very simple program designed to create a script that adds shield batteries and nanobots to ai loadouts. It looks up the ship specifications and gives each bot's ship enough batteries for a 60% shield recharge and enough bots for a 60% hull recharge, but it checks to make sure it doesn't go over the battery or bot limit for that ship. It occured to me that the program could be expanded and useful to other modders, but I was wondering if anyone would use such a program. Does anyone think it would be useful?

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Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:08 pm by Argh

Yes, that'd be helpful. Especially if it was written with VB and you made the sourcecode available so that we could rewrite it to do other find-and-replace operations based on doing some arithematic...

Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:09 am by Black Eagle

Hi!

Such a program would be really great!!! I always hated to add all the entries and had to do this several times, as I changed the amount of bats and bots several times. So this tool would be a great help and would be useful to many modders.

Go on with this great work and thanks!

Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:01 pm by Overkill

Cool - well, Argh, I'm actually doing it for now in C++ using the Win32 API. The reason is that I can use Dev-C++, which is not only free, but I can freely distribute any software I create in it without worrying about licensing problems. I have visual studio.net, however I got it from college and it's on an acedemic license - no distribution. If you know of a free version of vb (even if it's dorky), I've got no problems converting - I'm quite familiar with it. I'll try to separate out the C++ code so it will be readable and changeable even if you don't know how to use the API (though it really makes you look like a stud if you can tell the ladies, "Hey, I can use the Win32 API). School just started back up, but I think I can still find time to do it. As I'm thinking about it, maybe a more general script-generating program would be nice - I often write up mini programs for that kind of thing, but I could start branstorming something more useful.

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Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:16 pm by versoth

maybe you could try a script checker?

Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:07 pm by Overkill

What do you mean?

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Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:18 pm by Overkill

OK - here's a trial run at the program. You can download the FLAI editor here. Comments or questions are welcome.

EDIT: The .zip file from the previous link did not work. If you've already downloaded the .zip file, you should retry it.

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Edited by - Overkill on 9/1/2005 1:55:15 PM

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