Ship help

Bandit LOAF

Bandit LOAF

Long Live the Confederation!
Howdy gents,
Looking for some help here -- as y'all already know, I'm redoing the ships database... so what I'm looking for is people with experience extracting the in-game stats (ships, guns, missiles) -- particularly from Wing Commander 3, Wing Commander 4, Wing Commander Prophecy and Privateer 2. Any help in this area would be much appreciated... (I also need some weapons stats from the earlier games).
 
Although I am probably as much use as a Centurian mudpig racing against a Cheetah when it comes to such techy things, I'd have to ask what sort of stats from the earlier games are you looking for.

The people want specifics!!! :)
 
WC3, 4, and P2? Those might be tough... then again, Thomas had some sort of editor for WC4. WCP, of course, will be dead easy to do with WCPEdit.
 
Mein Gott! LOAF needs help?!? I'd think you'd know those by heart.. :D No offence, Bandit... ^_^;;;

Eh, I'll see what I can do for you...
 
Don't be silly. LOAF is human just like all of us (I would hope so, anyway), and doesn't necessarily have the time nor patience to do/find/explain everything we ask of him.

That being said, how's the Prophecy script doing? :)
 
LOAF is human? Wow...who'da thunk it? :)

Seriously, what do you need, Bandit? I mea, I've got the time (as indicated by my "WC Ship Names List"...) and I can probably get the resources, too. As soon as someone tells me exactly what to do, I'll do it. :)
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Centaurian, not Centurian :)
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Sorry, my mistake...

But seriously, what SORT of help is required. What can your minions do for YOU (that we wouldn't do for KV, TC or Death because we don't love them like we love you!)

Ok maybe not love. Perhaps exhalt! Maybe make up some dictatorial sounding title for yourself LOAF. Generalissimo perhaps?
 
I'm no good at extracting stuff yet... (I learned to do 3D stuff remarkably quickly, though:)) -- so I definately need some help... a tutorial in extracting stuff from the various games would in itself be a big help.

Basically, the new ships database will have all the sets of specs -- the manual ones, the ones seen in cut scenes, the in-game ones and so forth... with original design documents and by playing the games, I can get most of the in-game stuff -- but it'd be really great if somebody knows how to extract the stats from the games themselves... like how many units of armor each ship has, and what it's Y/P/R is and so forth... I'm *especially* interested in getting the stats for the 'ace' fighters in WC3 -- the Kilrathi fighters with different guns and artwork and such.
 
You learned how to hack bits of Priv 2 surprisingly quickly too. :)
But you should ask Chris where he got his stats from since he did the vast majority of the original /ships stats.
 
LOAF, maybe you should post a copy of this in the editing forum too... someone there might be able to explain how to effectively extract the stats.

TC
 
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