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Topic Subject: The Horse Hex-Edit Project

Trisolo
Clubman
(id: scenario_t_c)

posted 10-13-05 07:43 AM ET (US)

AoE Horse:

4606009D00FE13E6170A009601FFFFFFFF0014000000A040008FC2F53E8
FC2F53E0000003F9B00FFFF0500200001FFFF01FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
003F0000003F020101000000000000204103000200010000803F009E9A0
100EE5D0200000000000000000000008FC2F53E8FC2F53E0000003FFFFF
0000000000FFFF0000000000FFFF0000000000009700FFFF0200486F727
365009D00000000409501FFFF0000000000FFFF000000000000FFFF0000
A0400000803FFFFFFFFF00FFFFFFFF01010001000000000600FFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000A04100002041000000000000000000000000
00000000000095019601FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000FFFF000000000
00000000000803FFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000960100000000000000000000803FFFFF00000000FFFF00000000FFF
F000000000000FFFF000000

RoR Horse:

4606009D00FE13E617090096018C01FFFF0014000000A040008FC2F53E8
FC2F53E0000003F9B0071010500200001FFFF01FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000
003F0000003F020101000000000000204103000200010000803F009E9A0
100EE5D0200000000000000000000008FC2F53E8FC2F53E0000003FFFFF
0000000000FFFF0000000000FFFF0000000000009700FFFF0200486F727
365009D0000000040950192010000000000FFFF000000000000FFFF0000
A0400000803FFFFFFFFF00FFFFFFFF01010001000000000600FFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000A04100002041000000000000000000000000
00000000000095019601FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000FFFF000000000
00000000000803FFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000960100000000000000000000803FFFFF00000000FFFF00000000FFF
F000000000000FFFF000000

486F727365 is the string "Horse".

If you want to make the horse's moving graphic appear again in ROR, change 9201 to FFFF.
Change the 01 to 00 if you want the horse to appear on unit list.
To make the horse become an artifact, change 0A00 or 0900 to 0100. Then every time it get killed, it will still on the map with 1 hp left and do a short-distance "teleport". Yet, the horse won't move AT ALL if you do this.

[This message has been edited by scenario_t_c (edited 10-13-2005 @ 07:44 AM).]

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PhatFish
Mr. Beta

posted 10-13-05 09:55 AM ET (US) 1 / 10

How exactly do I implement the codes? In a blank.scn file?

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Trisolo
Clubman
(id: scenario_t_c)

posted 10-13-05 10:36 AM ET (US) 2 / 10

Quote:

How to edit the dat file:

1) Download digit's decompressor here - http://www.digitization.org/download/zlibnoh.rar

2) Create a new directory and unrar the files to it.
3) Copy the "empires2_x1.dat" file from your data directory to the directory you've just created.
4) Click start and 'run'.
5) Type this into the message box when you want to uncompress:

" \uncompr.exe" empires2_x1.dat empires2_x1.hex
(The quotation signs (") must be typed, or it won't work!)

6) Now open the .hex file with a hex editor of any choice and do your edits. Hex workshop is a nice choice.
7) To compress, type this into the 'run' box:

" \compr.exe" empires2_x1.hex empires2_x1.dat

8) Copy the new dat file to your aok directory.

Just change the name "empires2_x1" into "empires"

[This message has been edited by scenario_t_c (edited 10-13-2005 @ 10:37 AM).]

oliver
Clubman

posted 10-13-05 03:26 PM ET (US) 3 / 10

Ha, those are my words!

(thus explaining the quote) I wish I had AoE, but sadly - I don't...

Anyway, I'm Oliver, a forumer from AoK heaven. I was inspired by s_t_c to start hex modifying data files, and up to this date I believe it's only I, s_t_c and SW:GB heaven's Mandalorian who knows how to modify the graphics of AoK (although s_t_c and Mand knows a lot more than I do about these things ). Of course we (at least I ) want to change this, and I have written a guide called 'Beginner's guide to changing units graphics'. It should be avaible at tsuniversity.com soon. I'm focusing on AoK, but you AoE:ers might find it useful, too.

Keep up the good work s_t_c! Btw are there any major differences between the empires.dat and the empires2_x1.dat file?

Mero
Clubman

posted 10-13-05 06:40 PM ET (US) 4 / 10

Huh? Tsunami Studios has a website?

A good bunch from AoKH is coming here because of Hex Editing.

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Richard Ames
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posted 10-14-05 00:33 AM ET (US) 5 / 10

It's good to have some people from AoK drop by. Tsunami Studios is famous for their website - it has 'Spotlight' articles on designers that everyone should have a read of, and it is a source of articles for all games, but especially AoK, where they are like the unofficial article source.

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Trisolo
Clubman
(id: scenario_t_c)

posted 10-14-05 12:09 PM ET (US) 6 / 10

Data in Empires.dat is much shorter than that in Empires2(_x1).dat. However, that just gives me some advantages when analyzing....

babjkorea
Clubman

posted 09-30-09 01:28 PM ET (US) 7 / 10

http://www.digitization.org/download/zlibnoh.rar<~~ this link didn't work, anybody give me one link else ? thanks !

PhatFish
Mr. Beta

posted 09-30-09 04:25 PM ET (US) 8 / 10

http://www.phatfish.nl/zlibnoh.rar

I should warn you if you're new to this, hex-editing can be quite difficult, depending on what you want to do

MrCheeze
Clubman

posted 10-07-09 04:23 PM ET (US) 9 / 10

This thread is out of date, just download the Enhanced Editor.

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(Not even sure what he was saying there)

PhatFish
Mr. Beta

posted 10-08-09 10:25 AM ET (US) 10 / 10

My guess is he knows about AoEd/RoRd and the Enhanced/Composite editors, but wanted the compressor/decompressor instead.

I've uploaded DiGiT's compressor/decompressor (zlibnoh) to the Granary in case more people want to use it for enhancing their scenario's.

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