OCL_Improved

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Postby Newbie » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:14 am

Great!

By the way, do you by any chance know if the offsets are known for any of the following?

* scanner ranges
* scanner missile defense penalties

* terraforming results ("terraforming climate X yields climate Y")
* restrictions on which climates can be terraformed (toxic, terran, gaia are normally excluded)

* marine, armor generation rates
* marine, armor maximum caps

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Postby Nirran » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:27 pm

No,not to my knowledge

New versions are uploaded

added info to ship section armor section and sheilds section,as well as information Newbie provided(thnx again)

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Postby Deflaktor » Sun May 06, 2012 4:47 pm

Hi,
the money race picks are bugged when OCL_improved was used.
if you start the game with +0,5 BC you actually get +2,5 BC. Likewise if you take +1,0 BC you actually get +4,0 BC and if you get -0,5 BC you get -2,0 BC.
The programm saves the wrong data to the exe file. Instead of reading the bonus/penalty column and saving it, it reads the cost column and saves -4, 5 or 8.

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Postby Nirran » Mon May 07, 2012 4:55 pm

Hi,
the money race picks are bugged when OCL_improved was used.
if you start the game with +0,5 BC you actually get +2,5 BC. Likewise if you take +1,0 BC you actually get +4,0 BC and if you get -0,5 BC you get -2,0 BC.
The programm saves the wrong data to the exe file. Instead of reading the bonus/penalty column and saving it, it reads the cost column and saves -4, 5 or 8.
unable to duplicate that on my system

***uploaded new versions,has a few new offsets added

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Postby Deflaktor » Tue May 08, 2012 3:14 pm

unable to duplicate that on my system
Huh? I had to edit the patched exe with a hex editor to fix the money pick bug. Should i send you my patch text file?
***uploaded new versions,has a few new offsets added
Nice :) do i need to update the gui only, or both?

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Postby Nirran » Tue May 08, 2012 4:31 pm

unable to duplicate that on my system
Huh? I had to edit the patched exe with a hex editor to fix the money pick bug. Should i send you my patch text file?
meaning i selected one of the money race picks then saved and looked the save file,it was as expected,ie i could not duplicate the bug

***uploaded new versions,has a few new offsets added
Nice :) do i need to update the gui only, or both?
always both(should upload them in one zip i guess)

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Postby Deflaktor » Wed May 09, 2012 3:54 pm

ok very strange now it works on my side, too

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Postby Nirran » Wed May 16, 2012 7:57 am

New version uploaded

Added scanner offsets

edit : added editable specials the engine chooses for starbases,uploaded

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Postby Andrei Gijgorev » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:17 pm

Great to see you're still working on this.

While I was deciphering some of the formats of the tables from 001FBD50 (_class_to_num_satellites) to 001FBED2 (_star_class_table), I noticed that OCL_Improved already modified a few of them, so I was wondering whether there's some kind of documentation you could share? I'm especially interested in any offsets that determine star colours as well as planet size or resources in relation to climate or orbit index; I've got the gravity table figured out already.

Any light you could shed on this?

BTW, I think you should add star spacing; it's just one value per galaxy size and it has such a huge impact. Offsets are 001125D0, 00112607, 0011263E, 00112675; with lower values leading to a more randomly scattered galaxy.

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Postby Nirran » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:49 pm

thank you for the offsets

Siron's goodmaps are what inspired me to make that section in OCL_Improved

i looked at what he did and these following threads,i did not add mineral, gravity, climate or planet size because if you make any of the table's 100% any specific value,moo2 will crash(i believe due to homeworld rich/poor heavy/light gravity and aquatic race picks),hope this helps

Orbit vs Satellite Types Table

Star Class vs Number of Satellites table

Planet Mineral Class vs the Star Stellar Class Table

Planet Gravity table

hope all this helps

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Postby Andrei Gijgorev » Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:42 am

Thanks, you're a big help. Seems like it was a mistake not to look on the very last page as well.

So that's four tables down, 16 to go:


_gravity_to_atmosphere (001FBDD7..001FBDF4)

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grav? 0 0 1 10% 0 0 1 10% 0 0 1 10% 0 1 1 10% 0 1 1 10% 0 1 1 10% 1 1 1 10% 1 2 1 10% 1 2 2 10% 2 2 2 10%
Random table probably describing "atmosphere" depending on gravity; I guess this is ignored as I couldn't see any effect in game and I have no idea what "amosphere" would refer to anyway.



_class_to_group (001FBDF5..001FBE12)

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? ? ? ? ? 0 0 0 0 1 b? 0 0 1 2 3 w? 0 1 2 2 3 y? 1 2 2 2 3 o? 1 2 3 3 3 r? 0 0 1 2 3 br?
Probably something with star colours. Couldn't see any effects in-game; no idea what a "group" is supposed to be.



_climate_roll_table (001FBE13..001FBE3A)
_normal_gal_climate_roll_table (001FBE3B..001FBE62)
_old_gal_climate_roll_table (001FBE63..001FBE8A)

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0F 0F 0A 14 37 32 0F 00 19 19 0A 46 05 0A 0A 00 00 05 0A 08 00 00 0A 02 00 00 0B 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 02 00 0F 0F 0A 14 37 32 0F 00 19 19 0A 46 05 0A 0A 00 00 05 0A 08 00 00 0A 02 00 00 0B 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 02 00 0F 05 05 14 28 1E 08 00 14 14 08 32 19 19 0D 00 00 14 0D 1E 00 00 0D 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 04 00
Judging by the names, these should determine the climates for the different galaxy ages. Can't figure out how, though. Mineral rich and average are identical?



_planet_size_table (001FBE8B..001FBE8F)

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t s m l h 1 3 7 9 10 10%
Percentage times 10 for the planet sizes. This works as follows:
1. 10% are tiny.
2. 30% of the rest are small (=27%)
3. 70% of the rest are medium (=44.1%)
... and so on. One value should always be 10; if a value before the last is 10 then no larger planets will spawn. Orion, starting planets and some gaia specials aren't affected by this formula.



_planet_max_farms (001FBE90..001FBE94)

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2 4 5 7 10
Probably obsolete version of _food_per_farmer_table, but depending on size?



_planet_max_mines (001FBE95..001FBE99)

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2 4 6 9 12
As above, probably obsolete version of _minerals_extracted_table.



_planet_max_population (001FBE9A..001FBE9E)

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t s m l h 5 10 15 20 25 max pop
Base maximum planet population depending on planet size. This is further modified by climate.



_spectral_class_table (001FBE9F..001FBEA5)

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10 20 30 45 92 96 100
Probably obsolete; seems to have no effect and I can't even get the game to crash. I guess this was supposed to determine the probability of star colours including black holes.



_minerals_extracted_table (001FBEA6..001FBEAA)

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1 2 3 4 5
Not sure what this is... It's not the production per worker. Obsolete?



_climate_modifier_table (001FBEAB..001FBEAF)

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0 0 0 246 236
?



_food_per_farmer_table (001FBEB0..001FBEB9)

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t r b d t o s a t g 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 food
Base food per farmer, depending on planet climate.



_planet_special (001FBEBA..001FBEC5)

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64 69 71 72 75 77 87 90 93 97 101 101
Probably just a conversion of references to indices.



_planet_special_weighted_chance (001FBEC6..001FBED1)

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64 5 3 2 3 2 9 4 3 0 5 0
Since these add up to 100, they should correspond to the relative frequency of the specials in the table above.



_star_class_table (001FBED2..00IFBEE6)

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20 10 05 25 15 05 10 16 30 10 16 21 32 37 40 01 02 03 02 04 06
I have no idea, but the 1..6 at the bottom might serve a special role or not be part of the table at all.




I'm still not seeing anything where I could change the distribution of star classes/colours, or minerals depending on climate. That isn't completely random, is it? At least that brown stars and black holes are uncommon must be specified somewhere. Any ideas where to look?

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Postby Deflaktor » Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:59 am

this tool is just awesome. just wanted to say that.

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Postby Overlord2 » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:24 am

I'm still not seeing anything where I could change the distribution of star classes/colours, or minerals depending on climate. That isn't completely random, is it? At least that brown stars and black holes are uncommon must be specified somewhere. Any ideas where to look?
We are also interested in changing the built-in map generator, so we'll start looking into it shortly.

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Postby Nirran » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:07 pm

I'm still not seeing anything where I could change the distribution of star classes/colours, or minerals depending on climate. That isn't completely random, is it? At least that brown stars and black holes are uncommon must be specified somewhere. Any ideas where to look?
TBH I am not the one that researched the offsets,most of them come from tf8 and Andrey Tyukov,without the contributions they made(through Overlord2,passed on to me) most of the offsets in this program would not exist,sorry i coulnt be more help

edit : new version uploaded,added A.I. ship design and a couple offsets from Overlord2,moved hardshields to shields section,added a command line switch to turn the debug file off and on to the gui(finnaly)

edit : added evolutionary mutation bonus offsets,uploaded

edit : cybernetic repair added in racepick section and some jammer tech updates(some of the offsets were only cosmetic i.e. ship design screen),uploaded

edit : some new offsets added,changed the section selection page,uploaded

edit : new release,defensive antaran ships added,some of the antaran attack variables are now editible,antaran starfortress weapons are now editible,uploaded

edit : added avenger weapons/specials etc offsets,uploaded

edit : more offsets added to antaran fleet rates,uploaded

edit : added new offsets/sections,fleshed Antaran Build Rates section,bumped versions to .50,uploaded

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Postby randomzach » Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:25 pm

Been investigating Andrei's question by trial and error.
_class_to_group (001FBDF5..001FBE12)

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Probably something with star colours. Couldn't see any effects in-game; no idea what a "group" is supposed to be.
Group is used to determine planet climate. Your assumption that the rows are star color is correct. I believe that the columns are planet orbit. This process takes place before home systems, orion, and monster systems are assigned and modified, so those systems may override what is set here.

_climate_roll_table (001FBE13..001FBE3A)
_normal_gal_climate_roll_table (001FBE3B..001FBE62)
_old_gal_climate_roll_table (001FBE63..001FBE8A)

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Judging by the names, these should determine the climates for the different galaxy ages. Can't figure out how, though. Mineral rich and average are identical?
You had the dimensions of these tables incorrect. They're actually suppose to be 4 columns (group number from the previous table) by 10 rows (each type of planet climate).

It appears the '_climate_roll_table' table is just completely ignored. Organic Rich uses the _old_gal_climate_roll_table while Average and Mineral Rich use _normal_gal_climate_roll_table. The reason these last two don't generate identical galaxies is that group depends on spectral class, and spectral class depends on galaxy age (as i'll get to).

Home worlds will get changed to terran/aquatic, obviously.

Orion, and some stars with monsters, will override these results and can either upgrade or downgrade planets in their systems.

This is what i believe the code looks something like:

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char galaxy_age; // this is either 0,1, or 2 for mineral rich,average, and organic rich respectively struct planet p; //set to the current planet struct star s; //set to the current star char* climate_table = game_type == 2 ? _climate_roll_table : normal_gal_climate_roll_table; char group = _class_to_group[s.spectral_class*5+p.orbit_number]; short total = 0; for(int i = 0;i<10;i++) short += climate_table[i*4+group]; short rand = rand(total); short sum = climate_table[group]; p.climate_type = 0; while(sum < rand) { p.climate_type++; sum += climate_table[p.climate_type*4+group]; }
_star_class_table (001FBED2..00IFBEE6)

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I have no idea, but the 1..6 at the bottom might serve a special role or not be part of the table at all.
This table is what you need to change the generation of different colors of stars/black hole. The column is the galaxy age . The row is the spectral_class, 0-6. The value at each set of coordinates represents the weighting.

There appears to be some sort of routine running after this that changes some stars to spectral class 4 (red). Stars that get changed to red always seem to be within 6 parsecs of a home star, so i believe this may be the game trying to ensure that every race has nearby star that can be colonized.

The game does not seem to like blue stars as home stars either. For example, if you set the first byte in this table to 0xFF, the 7th byte to 0x01, the 4th, 10th, 13th, 16th, and 19th bytes to 0x00, and finally start a new mineral rich game, then the home stars should all be yellow, with the rest being blue. If you then set the 7th byte to 0x00, restart the game, and start another game as mineral rich, it should hang infinitely on the 'Placing Home Worlds' step.

Here's a short bit of code to describe what, as far as i can tell, the game is doing:

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char galaxy_age; // this is either 0,1, or 2 for mineral rich,average, and organic rich respectively struct star s; // set to the current star short total = 0; for(int i=0;i<7;i++) total += _star_class_table[i*3+galaxy_age]; short rand = rand(total); short sum = _star_class_table[galaxy_age]; s.spectral_class = 0; while(sum < rand) { s.spectral_class++; sum += _star_class_table[s.spectral_class*3+galaxy_age]; }
The code for both these may actually be using char instead of short. Also not sure if they're signed or unsigned. I don't really feel like testing since there is still plenty of granularity keeping the sum of each column under 128.


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