OT: Hacking Silly Civvy Mappy Sizes

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 July 8th, 2006, 02:40 AM

Oh, right. Info. For MGE, just take your favorite base-sixteen editor, find the first 10 27 and replace it with 00 80. For ToT, it's the second 10 27. For those confused, programs tend to have base-sixteen numbers flipped around.

That's 1CDAF, 1CAFF and 16D58, with the latest patches.

Don't forget to make backups.

Cipher7071 · #2 July 10th, 2006, 11:52 AM

Sorry narf, couldn't help this (I teach computers and math)....

For memory reasons the numbers for most such things are usually 2 to some power minus 1, because zero is always counted. For instance, the RGB colors each go from 0 up to 255 (2 to the 8th power minus 1). So, the number you refer to in your original post is indeed 32767: 2 to the 15th power minus 1.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 July 10th, 2006, 05:34 PM

Not nessasarily. See, if the 'zero' slot is filled with data, then the number of slots that can be filled with data is indeed 32,768.

So there.

Cipher7071 · #4 July 11th, 2006, 02:08 PM

Right. I guess we're talking about the same thing after all.