Civilization III BIX/BIQ file format

[Gramphos]

Try to add an extra space at the end, or put the filenames in quotes (").

(This utility was never intended for release, so its all other than userfriendly)

[Gary Thomas]

Thanks - adding quotes around the file names worked fine.

Cheers

[Dianthus]

Thanks for the update Gramphos. I've got a couple of changes to do with the new traits in C3C.

In the BLDG section there are two new bits used in the "other characteristics (binary)" field. Can I also suggest changing some of the existing bit descriptions to match the trait names? I.e. : (changes in bold)

			  00000000
coastal installation      .......1
[b]militaristic[/b]              ......1.
wonder                    .....1..
small wonder              ....1...
continental mood effects  ...1....
[b]scientific[/b]                ..1.....
[b]commercial[/b]                .1......
[b]expansionist[/b]              1.......

[b]religious[/b]                 .......1
[b]industrious[/b]               ......1.
[b]aggricultural             .....1..[/b]
[b]sea faring                ....1...[/b]

In the RACE section there are also some new bits used in the "bonuses (binary)" field : (changes in bold)

               00000000
militaristic   .......1
commercial     ......1.
expansionist   .....1..
scientific     ....1...
religious      ...1....
industrious    ..1.....
[b]aggricultural  .1......[/b]
[b]sea faring     1.......[/b]

[Gramphos]

Are the agricultural and sea faring of the RACE section in
byte 2?

[Dianthus]

No, they're in the first byte, I just had a bit of a copy/paste problem . I've just editted it to correct it.

[Gramphos]

I just noticed that the fileindicator for C3C sometimes is BIQ and sometimes BIX, it might change by version 12.07, or it may be related to something else.

[DrAlimentado]

great stuff gramphos

the changes from bix to biq are a much bigger leap than from bic to bix, I'm so so happy someone else figures this stuff out!

On the file indicator I had only seen it using BIX headers, if it does sometimes use BIQ instead that is of interest... hmm, I will so some testing on this myself


btw - does anyone else really wish that the new terrain types had been appended to the exisitng list and the terrain data left in the same place... writing code that can deal with c3c and ptw terrain concurrently is giving me a headache right now :|

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by DrAlimentado
btw - does anyone else really wish that the new terrain types had been appended to the exisitng list and the terrain data left in the same place... writing code that can deal with c3c and ptw terrain concurrently is giving me a headache right now :|

Partly C3MT has taken so long to get save comapbiity. And still it is far fromwarking as I want it.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by DrAlimentado
On the file indicator I had only seen it using BIX headers, if it does sometimes use BIQ instead that is of interest... hmm, I will so some testing on this myself

It might be since C3C version 1.12 the BIQ indicator is used, but it may also be stryctly on save-embedded BIQs (where I first located it and added support for it in C3MT, and since than I've not cared about which one it it, it saves the file with the same as it was loaded and everyone is happy ).

[Gramphos]

See this hacked C3C editor found at CFC http://forums.civfanatics.com/showth...75#post1524775

It has teleports and charm. Now that might be what some of those '???' are for. Anyone have time to investigate?

This is your chance to get into the credits

[Gramphos]

I cut out a pice of my updated BIQ format as long as I've got on the ??? flags. will update the first posts later.

    4   long		require support

    4   long		use exact cost (If 7 cost=# shields otherwise cost=shields/rows)

    4   long		telepad range

    4   long		???

    4   long		number of legal unit telepads

    For each legal unit telepads   

      4 long		legal unit telepad (PRTO ref)	

    4   long		enslave results (PRTO ref)	

    4   long		???

    4   long		number of stealth targets



    For each stealth target   

      4 long		stealth target (PRTO ref)

    4   long		???

    4   long		number of legal BLDG telepads

    For each legal BLDG telepads   

      4 long		legal BLDG telepad (BLDG ref)	

    1   byte		create craters

    4   float		worker strength

[Gramphos]

Anyone have checkedif there are any new values for file in the tiles with PTW/C3C?

[Oddible]

[GIDustin]

Ihave a question about this. I am making a program to automatically make a web-based teaser page for any mod, and have found this VERY useful, but on thing gets to me.

In the BLDGs section, the "naval defense bonus". This is the tag used for the coastal fortress, and is set to "50" for the coastal fortress, but where in the editor can you change this? Is this a hard-coded thing?

- GIDustin

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by GIDustin
In the BLDGs section, the "naval defense bonus". This is the tag used for the coastal fortress, and is set to "50" for the coastal fortress, but where in the editor can you change this? Is this a hard-coded thing?

- GIDustin

Naval defence bonus is an obstless value, kind of leftover from Civ2. (It is if you attack with a ship, which you can't) I think the value was editable only in the first version of the editor. At least this is how I've understood this.