Does anyone have the object graphics already extracted in PNG or GIF or do I need to do the work by myself?

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Well, I went ahead and did all the hard work by myself (<- its a link!). Enjoy the objects table, it is more complete than RttR's current support.

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nice work, thanks for your online table :)

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>> My Youtube Channel <<

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really nice work merri!

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I figured out the format of savegame world maps (WORLD900.DAT), but I'm too tired to do any programming. But I'll tell you how it works.

Code:

• 11 27 = identifier


• FF FF FF FF = -1 = file uses short block header = each block is separated only by bytes to read


• 00 00 00 00 = always null


• 00 01 = 256 = width


• 00 01 = 256 = height


• 38 62 00 00 = 25144 = bytes to read = block is compressed if this is not width * height

The compression starts by telling a byte value that is used for data repetition information. I think it can be any byte value.

• 34 = data repetition marker

Then the data follows.

• 34 FF 0A = repeat value 10 (0x0A) for a total of 255 (0xFF) times

Any other bytes are just uncompressed data that you can use as it is.

If 34 is actual data, you'll see it appear as 34 01 34.


If anyone notices anything that might be wrong here or missing, let me know. I haven't written the file reader yet so this is all based on what I've just read off the file itself.

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My map loader now supports loading savegame maps :) I guess I should now output a dump of a savegame file and then see what the map contains... it might and probably tells more about the map file format.

There is one unique map by Blue Byte I haven't seen anyone else to extract from the game. It is in the demo version of Veni Vidi Vici and involves a Viking opponent using a Harbor.


Edit!
Just noticed that RttR style of detecting 7+ players is not possible with savegame maps. It seems like 0x80 is reserved some other use than is regularly seen with map files. Looks like there'll be a lot of new stuff to discover.

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Hacker's guide to WORLD800.DAT

Pretty images! Make your life easy in figuring out the original savegame files!

DEMO V0.16


DEMO V1.02


DEMO V1.51 "Cold Times"



(images now @ imageshack)

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We see only the hotlink images, Merri ;)

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That's odd, as I've added this site to non-hotlink domains... oh but I might've forgotten to add siedler25.org, are you visiting from there?

Edit!
Nope, no problem, atleast from https. Both siedler25.org and rttr.info should work just fine.

Code:

But replaced with images hosted on ImageShack.

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I am on http://siedler15.ra-doersch.de ^^

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interesting pics but I don'T know what they are telling :D

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Zitat von Spike:

i dont understand it too ^^

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Zitat von jh:

How many domains this site has? :D

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http://siedler15.ra-doersch.de/
http://siedler25.ra-doersch.de/
http://siedler25.org/
http://siedler25.de/
http://rttr.info/

These are all I know :p

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