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Just a quick comment: Unfortunately no :/ For the most part, the EXE works as follows in several places: if campNr == 0 then use "module.000" else if campNr == 1 then use "module.001" else if campNr == 2 then use "module.002" else undefined (probably crash) Which is a bit of a let down, it...

Interesting results from these tests! A couple notes / suggestions: - Could you restore the original EXE (from GOG) and use the DLLs from the latest update (http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/dwrap_1.0.1_test15.zip)? The original ones most likely didn't have the graph log enabled, so they...

Hey, I remember this thread, I had the (mistaken) impression that you managed to get it to work. Just to cover all the bases: are you using the DLLs posted in the more recent update at the CIC (zip here, from CIC update https://www.wcnews.com/news/2013/12/06)? Also, is the error you're getting...

Definitely! I can imagine the WC Workshop handling localization issues and generate WC1/2 assets for one specific language at a time. I like it :) Hehe i really tend to overcommit don't I :P I'm really passionate about all things WC, so i tend to explore lots of venues simultaneously, in some...

Awesome, great work delMar! :) Sorry for not commenting before, i'm suddenly in crunch mode at the day job. End of year deadlines... Just a few comments, from various posts: It should be possible, yes, but it will require different approaches depending on whether we decide to focus on hacking...

Great work! :) And thanks for posting about your work here, it makes it easier for non-Russian speakers such as myself to follow your work.

Great, glad to know that helped :) Thanks for the feedback, it's good to know how the patch is handling in Win8. I'm only able to test it in XP and Win7 right now, so that's definitely useful information. The joystick issue is new though, i don't think i ever came across that. I'll keep this...

The work so far only involved changing resource files, no EXE hacking as of yet. Still, getting SO2 to support the full 62-angled ships will require EXE hacking, but i'll try to keep it to a minimum where possible (probably mostly bug-fixes and changing things that are hardcoded to be...

By default, the patch puts those black bars in there to keep the 4:3 aspect ratio of the original game. Currently it's not possible to disable it, but next version will support toggling that on / off (soon)

I finally managed to do some more work on the WCA Dralthi. Basically, I managed to implement the stats and do the necessary tweaks to account for the "higher-resolution" mode being used (which, as a side effect, ends up making the ship look larger than it should). Reducing the bitmap size...

Ok here's a new version of the patch, with a couple MIDI-related tweaks. It's now possible to override the default MIDI device and choose a specific device, using darkfix_setup.exe (there's also some display-related options there, but ignore them for now, they are disabled). Should be...

Hey very cool! :) I like the approach you took, building the editor as a web app. I've been musing about converting my WC2 ship importer scripts into a web app as well (a combination of both HTML5 and Javascript), that might prove interesting. I'll look around again later and see if I can pick...

Ah yes, a very good point! Last time i looked into this I somehow managed to miss this nugget of information. From the Coolsoft web site: So, for greater flexibility, we'll want to override Privateer 2's default MIDI device and have a way to force one MIDI device in particular. No problem, I...

Actually, that may be at least part of the problem. My experience with CoolSoft VirtualMIDI Synth and Privateer 2 has been a bit hit-and-miss, particularly in Windows 7 (curiously P2 seems to work fine with it in XP). As far as I can tell, Privateer 2 tends to open and close the midi mapper...

Decay: Great, thanks for the feedback! I'm glad to know the new version is working properly and solved the problems you were having. Regarding the Secret Ops problems: is the Win95 compatibility enabled on the Secret Ops EXE?

Try setting the first two lines in DARK.FIX as: C:. C:. (change to reflect the drive letter you have the game installed on, notice the dot) This should fix the issue of the game not starting, or starting and crashing with a windows error after the video sequence. The game has a bug that...

Ok here are a few more nuggets: Out-system nav points were only introduced in wc2, so this is only valid for wc2 (and so1/so2) Yeah that part is not very clear... Basically, i got the impression that when you have the following: Nav 1 - 0x01 .wave2 - 0x00 .wave3 - 0x00 ... the game...

Hey, thanks for posting my old WC1 editor :D In between a hard-drive crash and a collection of CDs I lost last time I moved, i thought this was lost. For context: back then, given where I lived, it wasn't that easy for me to get access to more advanced programming tools. I got my hands on Turbo...

Working late tonight, but here are a few quick notes while i'm on my break: From memory: - Value 0x01 means that the nav point is active. Meaning, you go to the nav map and it's visible there, and once you get in range the ships within the nav point are activated. You can think of this as the...

Ok no news on the commands yet... but, as i was looking at the text files, it hit me that the camp unknowns might correspond to the background planets and stellar objects found in the several systems, i'm guessing 4 per system (or rather, 4 per series, although each series tends to occur in a...