Space Empires V Editor 1.2 Released

[Phoenix-D]

What Elsemeravin means, I think, is that the tech tree takes up a small section of the screen.

Speaking of the tech tree, when I try to load my mod it says "Can't find Min Parent Level! in an error box. Everything seems to work fine, except the tech-tree function doesn't work.

Probably because I have some rather twisted logic involved, including OR functions and nested IFs..

[Devnullicus]

Phoenix-D said:
What Elsemeravin means, I think, is that the tech tree takes up a small section of the screen.

It takes up the entire tab... I would make the individual controls resizeable so you could widen that section of the screen, but I haven't figured out how to do that - everything I've tried has failed.

Speaking of the tech tree, when I try to load my mod it says "Can't find Min Parent Level! in an error box. Everything seems to work fine, except the tech-tree function doesn't work.

Probably because I have some rather twisted logic involved, including OR functions and nested IFs..

Yeah, that probably is exactly what's going on. I really wish Aaron had used XML - this whole process would have been 100x easier. Anyway, yes, the tech tree relies on the requirements formulas for tech dependencies being in the form

Code:

---

Get_Empire_Tech_Level("foo") >= N

---

It will compensate for extra whitespace, different character cases, or just a > symbol, etc, but anything more complicated than that and it gets confused when determining tech dependencies for the tree. Otherwise I'd have to parse ANY formula and that's a bigger job than I wanted to tackle for a simple editor.

[Phoenix-D]

Yeah, I figured that. It actually isn't a problem- I can cut the arcane stuff down for the editor, then do a search and replace later.

Because I really doubt you'd want to code a way to parse..
(edited out the Requirements of Doom now that Devnull's seen them. )

..that. Its messy as hell.

Anyway, if you can't get it to re-size, a pop-up window, like you do with the various tools now, might work well..

[Devnullicus]

You're right - I don't want to parse that for the tech tree The formula parser should actually handle it just fine, but the tech tree needs a pretty clear dependency graph to work.