UTILITY: Civ3MultiTool - A thread for the Program ;)

[Gramphos]

This really starts to get interesting. The SaveGames seem to support 32 civs in a game.

I'll soon know enough about them to rewrite my SAV-load function. Somethings are still needed, but I'm close to be able to add/remove units.

[Dreifels]

got a crash, able to reproduce (I saved the game just in that turn), 16 factions, huge map, at around 1250 AC (Win95)

CIVILIZATION3 verursachte einen Fehler durch eine ungültige Seite
in Modul CIVILIZATION3.EXE bei 016f:0051ec9e.
Register:
EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=0051ec9e EFLGS=00010212
EBX=000000da SS=0177 ESP=00aafca8 EBP=ffffffff
ECX=00000006 DS=0177 ESI=03d65400 FS=34e7
EDX=00000000 ES=0177 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes bei CS:EIP:
8b 17 6a 01 8b cf ff 52 54 8b c7 5f 5e 5d c2 08
Stapelwerte:
00000000 03d65400 000000d4 0044b64a 005d065c ffffffff ffffffff 03d65400 ffffffff 00000000 000000da 0000000a 0000000a ffffffff 000f4246 000000d4

[Dreifels]

Originally posted by Grim Leaper
Is it just the normal vb runtime file? I also tride looking for service pack for 5.0, but to no avail. Microsodt only have sp's for vb6.

the vbrun versions I found in internet:
vb3run.exe
vb4run.exe
msvbvm50.exe
vbrun60.exe (1031 kb)
Vbrun600.exe (2101 kb)

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dreifels
got a crash, able to reproduce (I saved the game just in that turn), 16 factions, huge map, at around 1250 AC (Win95)

As you posted this in this thread I think that you have edit the rules of the game. Am I right?
In that case did you add a civ and entered the foreign advisor, or did you do something else?

[Gramphos]

v0.71

The savegame read and write routines has been reworked to work better and with later savegames as well.

edited out after 66 downloads

[Grim Leaper]

the vbrun versions I found in internet:
vb3run.exe
vb4run.exe
msvbvm50.exe
vbrun60.exe (1031 kb)
Vbrun600.exe (2101 kb)

Cheers, but i've got it working now. Gramphos posted a couple of links to the updated files i needed.

Still haven't had a full-on delve into your program, but it looks very useful, from what i've seen already. good work.

[TechWins]

Gramphos, I have just now downloaded your latest version and for reason it is not working for me. I may be doing something wrong, though, I don't know. I unzipped the file and placed it in the directory of /Civivilization3/. When I try to run the program I get an error of -- Component.'COMDLG32.OCX' not currently registered: file is missing or invalid --. Most likely I am doing something incorrect and it is not your program. Regardless of where the problem is coming from could you help me? Thanks.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by TechWins
Gramphos, I have just now downloaded your latest version and for reason it is not working for me. I may be doing something wrong, though, I don't know. I unzipped the file and placed it in the directory of /Civivilization3/. When I try to run the program I get an error of -- Component.'COMDLG32.OCX' not currently registered: file is missing or invalid --. Most likely I am doing something incorrect and it is not your program. Regardless of where the problem is coming from could you help me? Thanks.

It is a missing runtime file (that is used by the savegame editor and the loading screen)

Extract the two files from this cab and right click on the inf and select install (I can't include the file with the tool as it would take extra space for all that already have it)

http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb5/COMCTL32.CAB

[Dreifels]

I add 1 unit and 1 palace for the germans to test how it works.
made no changes at the rules so far I remember

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dreifels
I add 1 unit and 1 palace for the germans to test how it works.
made no changes at the rules so far I remember

Now I'm really confused . My tool don't allow add of stuff in savegames, and AFAIK improvements can't be civ-specific.

[Gramphos]

As people have hard to find the SaveGame editor I attach this screen.

(The image is cropped in width (in the middle))

[Dreifels]

Originally posted by Gramphos

Now I'm really confused . My tool don't allow add of stuff in savegames, and AFAIK improvements can't be civ-specific.

If you're confuse, we are already two ;-)
As I can NOT open sav files with your tool, but bic files only!!!!!
And there I clicked "palace", with the result, that inthe game that I started after with that bic I had 2* a palace in buldings selection, one * the normal with icon, the other without icon and the 2nd was also shown as possible to build for the main city which had already a palace.

[Dreifels]

Originally posted by Gramphos
As people have hard to find the SaveGame editor I attach this screen.

(The image is cropped in width (in the middle))

Upps, now you're making me confuse again!
You say "SaveGame editor" but show a picture of Civ3CopyTool

If I extract the zip of the C3CT, I get an exe "Civ3CopyTool.exe" tho that I refer above.
If I extract the civ3-sge-v1-01.zip, I get a file "Save Game Editor.exe" and this windows doesn't accept as executable windows file but shows it as dos file and I can't run it.

And your C3CT doesn't show the pullodwn left above and no units selections having races names behind.

What is now what????
If both files work together, how they have to call?? Maybe I'm stupid and didn't understand how tu use right.

Seems you have an other versionthan I have. Here both are separate programs, inyour screenshot above both features are integreted together.
But where to download it? -
ok, found it (you should name your different versions as such)

BUT now I get a runtime error

Civ3ResCopy

! Runtimeerror "7":
not enough memory




althought I've 128 *free* (256 total)

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dreifels
If you're confuse, we are already two ;-)
As I can NOT open sav files with your tool, but bic files only!!!!!
And there I clicked "palace", with the result, that inthe game that I started after with that bic I had 2* a palace in buldings selection, one * the normal with icon, the other without icon and the 2nd was also shown as possible to build for the main city which had already a palace.

Downloade the latest version (0.71) of the CopyTool. It copies the icon for buildings as well. You must have a version before 0.65.

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Dreifels
Upps, now you're making me confuse again!
You say "SaveGame editor" but show a picture of Civ3CopyTool

It is MY SaveGame Editor. I stared to work on decodeing SaveGames a while ago, and I didn't want to stop because of another SaveGameEditor got ready before mine. The reason why it is in the CopyTool is that it must read the rulefiles to be able to know all unitnames and other rules and I already had those functions in C3CT.

If I extract the zip of the C3CT, I get an exe "Civ3CopyTool.exe" tho that I refer above.
If I extract the civ3-sge-v1-01.zip, I get a file "Save Game Editor.exe" and this windows doesn't accept as executable windows file but shows it as dos file and I can't run it.

And your C3CT doesn't show the pullodwn left above and no units selections having races names behind.

To me it sounds as you are using another then the latest version of C3CT. Right Click on the EXE and select Properties and check the fileversion (Should be 0.71.something).

What is now what????
If both files work together, how they have to call?? Maybe I'm stupid and didn't understand how tu use right.

Currently they don't work together. Jimmies file is a separate tool. Anyway I plan to allow other tools to start from the menus in the C3CT in later versions, but as long as I don't make DLLs they can't communicate. So they would go us unintegrated tools.

Seems you have an other versionthan I have. Here both are separate programs, inyour screenshot above both features are integreted together.
But where to download it? -
ok, found it (you should name your different versions as such)

BUT now I get a runtime error

Civ3ResCopy

! Runtimeerror "7":
not enough memory




althought I've 128 *free* (256 total)

Ah, you found it. (to lazy to remove everything about it). Try to reboot the computer. I have only 128 MB total, and the tool runs smooth.