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OK I maybe should have followed my own advice and used the "search" link under the "New Topic" button before hitting New-Topic but I dont thin there is a thread already where this fits.
Anyway the DomMap project is going well. There is a working Version of the random map generator for Dom2 both for Linux and for Windows.
[insert URL here later]
The BLUR project for improving the DomMap generated maps might not be a problem depending on how some tests of upgrading the DomMap goes.
The GIMP script project for generating maps progressing but not as quickly as DomMap
The game-save app. has been worked on by various people. We have a batchfile/icon Version, a java Version, and a VB Version? Am I right? All for Windows but then the Linux people havent voiced a need.[need URL]
There is a desire for a god-save app
There is an app to make hosting PBEM games in windows easier[need URL]
There was talk of some work on a front-end app to set/save game settings then call dominions to create a game avoiding the long walk thru the menu to create a game when you always choose the same opponents and settings.
There is a working copy of a web-site front-end supporting tcpip games
there is desire for a CGI allowing the uploading of a 2h file which would facilitate making a web front-end for PBEM games
There is a the basic to EXE desires for some of the random game generators such as I do with Poke_in_the_Eye. I have not found a good (free) compiler for my code though some
There is a big desire for an app that can do half a DomMap job, read in a TGA that was manually created and write the #neighbor and #terrain guesses to a .map file.
There is also a desire for a an app that can read god files and print out the variables. Maybe even allow editing them.
there is a desire to ceate a sheet of sprite images from the game
There is a desire to read out the scoreboard information to a text file
there is a desire to read out the provinces owned-by to a file
Did I miss anything?
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February 25th, 2004, 12:47 AM
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Re: 3rd party Apps wishlist
Targa's Save God Utility is at Illwinter: http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/savegods.zip
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February 25th, 2004, 12:49 AM
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The game-save app. has been worked on by various people. We have a batchfile/icon Version, a java Version, and a VB Version? Am I right? All for Windows but then the Linux people havent voiced a need.[need URL]
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The java app that Torvak's done is posted on my site, available for immediate d/l. It's a .jar file, not an .exe, so it should run under linux, right?
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February 25th, 2004, 12:53 AM
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It's handy, but its DOS/Windows only. Though modifying it into a linux shell script should be trivial ... 
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I have started a personal project with php to make the hosting with my friends easier (uploading 2h, auto-hosting, emailing trn).Maybe when i've got it finished i would extend it to general purpose, like Space Empires IV PBW (creation and administration of games by Users).
I hope to have enough free time to do it 
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I wish for a 3rd-party app that would rip the stats of all units to .dm format. That would make my life 100x easier.
Secondly, ripping the unit icons to .tga format.
It would take either a hacker (doing things that are technically illegal, though I doubt IW would mind) or a dev to accomplish these.
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Originally posted by UNIVAC:
I have started a personal project with php to make the hosting with my friends easier (uploading 2h, auto-hosting, emailing trn).Maybe when i've got it finished i would extend it to general purpose, like Space Empires IV PBW (creation and administration of games by Users).
I hope to have enough free time to do it
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This is something Id love to see. Actually I looked into it abit but the upload apps were too involved. All I wanted was to make a page of 17 links and clicking Man-upload would upload C:\publi~1\dominions2\GameName\man.2h and clicking Man-download would ftp down the man.trn
If you click the "search" thing in the upper right of the forum and look for "server" in the subject you will find alot of material on this project
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February 25th, 2004, 08:41 AM
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Re: 3rd party Apps wishlist
Why not ask the folks from Stars! Autohost if it would be possible to tweak their perl scripts to work with DOM2 ?
For all of you who don't know Stars! and it's Autohost:
Stars! is a turn-based strategy SF game (spreadsheet in space) which is feature very much the same structures as DOM (map/turn/orders - files, Client/Server mode of the app for multiplayer games). Some did a webbased autohost years ago, which features a rather nice frontend now.
Check it out here .
[ February 25, 2004, 06:44: Message edited by: Arralen ]
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Originally posted by Arryn:
quote: Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
The game-save app. has been worked on by various people. We have a batchfile/icon Version, a java Version, and a VB Version? Am I right? All for Windows but then the Linux people havent voiced a need.[need URL]
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The java app that Torvak's done is posted on my site, available for immediate d/l. It's a .jar file, not an .exe, so it should run under linux, right? It should. Actually i would be glad if someone running linux could test it.
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February 25th, 2004, 04:19 PM
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Just finished the next Version and sent it to Arryn. It now has god saving (and loading of course). Saves up to 5 gods per nation together with a text file for description.
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