Announcing catgod, a pretender file viewer

[Gandalf Parker]

Was that old dom2 code for dumpgod.c useful in the beginning?

You should rename it. Not everyone knows that "cat" is the linux command for dumping text output to the screen. Maybe printgod.

Now if you could get catgod to kick out the points left over. Then we can do nation-bidding games based on creation points. Does anyone have a table for point costs?

[thejeff]

Yeah, I keep seeing this thread and thinking "Bast?"

And I'm a linux geek so I know where the name comes from...

[Evil Dave]

General reply to all comments:

If you tried to download catgod and couldn't get thru (bad links, etc), please give it another try. A storm that came thru here Monday morning not only knocked out power to my servers, but also messed up the 'net but good. Even when the power came back, access beyond my ISP was in yo-yo mode.

If somebody can think of a better name for catgod, I'm all ears. I'll take "printgod" if I have to, but I'd like something more clever. And I was thinking of just calling it Bast, in the long tradition of obscure Unix command names.

Catgod can read password-protected pretenders. You'd need to have access to the file to read it, tho. If this is a problem for MP, the host machine should change the file protections on uploaded pretenders so that only the game server and each pretender's player can read the files.

Oh, I didn't know there was a dumpgod. Programming catgod took only 10-11 hours, about half of which was figuring out the file format.

[Gandalf Parker]

How about GodDump
GodGuts? CatScan? Atheism?
Or how about something befitting "seeing the gods"
Babel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel

[ajr]

Gandalf Parker said:
Does anyone have a table for point costs?

I don't have a table, but with the work done by Evil Dave and Edi, this is easy to code up;
http://rupes.dyndns.org/~ajr/dom3/godpoints
took me maybe 45 minutes. It takes catgod's output on stdin, and requires pretenders.csv in the same directory (which has some requirements as to field names and lines, but using the Pretenders pane of Edi's spreadsheet will work), and outputs the points spent. I haven't tested it extensively, but it seems to work on a few random pretenders I threw at it.

[Gandalf Parker]

I dont think there is a "where" on the formats. But I know of 3 people now that have worked it out on their own.