Data Format

[Maltrease]

Hi Gandalf,

Good to hear from you again. I was the one that created the macro to capture the sprites.

I've preordered the game, once I receive It can create the sprites again (assuming my old method still works).

On the other hand it seems silly to have to go to these lengths to extract the images when the orginals are available somewhere. I mean if we are going to make them anyway... why make it hard?

If somone can provide me the data in a XML format I can create the unit viewer. I know absolutely nothing about digging around in an executable file. Ideally someone would write something that can take the exe and automatically build the XML. My application would read this XML externally. Then when an update occurs the XML is re-exported and my app simply links to the updated version. This way updates are easy.

I imagine a lot of other people could do all sorts of great things with the XML.

I can wait until after the game is released to release the viewer (assuming its done before then) if anyone is concerned about spoiling something...