Hacking/Modding Moo1/Moo2

[cronel]

Ok, I wrote up a little page with what I could find out. It's here.

[Urban Ranger]

Good work.

[wervdon]

Nice writeup. What color depth does MOO1 run in? I can't recall off the top of my head, i'm sure its either 16 bit or palletized though. I'm just thinking its semi-likely that with moo1 at least there is some pallet information in there.

[vmxa1]

Yes that was very well done.

[CharlesBHoff]

I play MOO1 on than old 486 with VGA graphic card.

[cronel]

Im pretty sure it's palettized, 256 colors. The palettes I believe are found in 'font.lbx', look at this:

File: moo/fonts.lbx
  (subfilename) offset offset size  comment
00 -   No File 000003A0 928, 11864 (Fonts Style Data)
01 -   No File 000031F8 12792, 652 (Border Style Data)
02 -  EMPERATO 00003484 13444, 5472 (Main game palete)
03 -    VORTEX 000049E4 18916, 5472 (main vortex screen)
04 -   OPTIONS 00005F44 24388, 5472 (options, load, save)
05 -   NEWGAME 000074A4 29860, 5472 (primary new screen)
06 -    CUSTOM 00008A04 35332, 5472 (custom race selection)
07 -  STARVIEW 00009F64 40804, 5472 (star/planet view)
08 -   LANDING 0000B4C4 46276, 5472 (transport landings)
09 -  DIPLOMAT 0000CA24 51748, 5472
10 -   WINNING 0000DF84 57220, 5472
11 -   COPYPRO 0000F4E4 62692, 5472
12 -   COUNCIL 00010A44 68164, 5472

The main game palette is at 13444 in that file, and all the others to the end of the file also are palettes. These are in DAC RGB format, meaning each color is 3 numbers (RGB), in the range 1-63, which is the format that was (is) used when you set the palette directly through the graphics card ("DAC"). I made a little program to verify, that takes the palette from offset 13444 in that file and shows it, and it's pretty obvious it's the right palette , check it out (in the attachment).

So in my opinion all the graphics are palettized, in MOO1 at least.

[wervdon]

cool, looks like you got it to me.....

[Urban Ranger]

How long did it take you to figure all that out, cronel?

[cronel]

A couple of days.

[Harry Seldon]

Hail to the king!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

So can we mod the race pics etc? If so I would be willing to crank out some new race graphics.

[vmxa1]

That would be cool.

[wervdon]

You probally would be restricted to the same pallet as above......

[Old n Slow]

I checked out some of GhengisFarb's work via his links, etc. -- very fine.

I'm thinking of opening my box of Civ III a year early based upon his stuff.

Now I'll have to scout around for MOO I.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Old n Slow
I checked out some of GhengisFarb's work via his links, etc. -- very fine.

I'm thinking of opening my box of Civ III a year early based upon his stuff.

Now I'll have to scout around for MOO I.

How much dust in on your Civ III box?