Utility: God Editor v102

[MaxWilson]

Unfortunately I haven't been able to make this work on my system. It complains about a missing or incorrectly registered tabctl.ocx. I'm not sure what's going on--I'm running Vista. Was this written on XP?

-Max

[Ballbarian]

MaxWilson,
The program was initially compiled on an XP machine. I currently use Vista and it works fine. What I suspect is that Vista comes with an incomplete set of controls which I circumvented on my system when I installed VB6.0

I have attached tabctl.ocx to this post. If you are using the 32-bit version of Vista (as opposed to 64-bit) you can place the ocx in your windows\system32 directory and register it with the command:

Regsvr32 tabctl.ocx

You can also try just dropping the ocx file in the same directory as GodEdit.exe without registering it and it might work.

Hope this helps!

[MaxWilson]

Regsvr32 worked for me, thanks.

Two questions so far:

1.) There are a lot of options for setting up the home province. I just want to design a pretender/scales for an AI nation. If I skip the rest (e.g. the home site designation), will the enemy end up with no sites? I.e. how much is mandatory?

2.) The nations from the latest patch are missing. Obviously I could do another nation and then edit the generated map file to apply to the nation I intend, but is there a data file or something that I can edit to add Ashdod/Hinnom/Gath to the program? Or is it built into the source?

Thanks for the help. The tool looks interesting but I'm still getting a feel for how to use it.

-Max

[Ballbarian]

1.) There are a lot of options for setting up the home province. I just want to design a pretender/scales for an AI nation. If I skip the rest (e.g. the home site designation), will the enemy end up with no sites? I.e. how much is mandatory?

You can just set the items that you want to set and skip the rest. As long as you leave the field labeled "Method" set to "Add" then the nation will get all of it's usual starting troops and sites. Anything else that you set is in addition to that and you should have no problems unless you set up additional sites that exceed the 4 sites per province limit.

2.) The nations from the latest patch are missing. Obviously I could do another nation and then edit the generated map file to apply to the nation I intend, but is there a data file or something that I can edit to add Ashdod/Hinnom/Gath to the program? Or is it built into the source?

There are many external data files that you can edit with any text editor. I will attach an updated NationData.txt file to the next post. Simply unzip and replace the old NationData.txt file in your dominions3\D3GEv102\GEdata directory.

[Ballbarian]

Attached to this post is a new NationData.txt file which adds the dom3 v317 nations. This updates nation names, id numbers and eras only, not the unit lists.

NationData.zip

To apply:
Unzip and replace the old NationData.txt file in your dominions3\D3GEv102\GEdata directory with the new one.

[Ballbarian]

Since the dom3minions server is deceased, the semirandom email address is no longer working. If you wish to submit semirandom files, for now just use:

[MaxWilson]

Okay, I'll check it out today or tomorrow.

-Max