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such that on one continent all the hexes visible on the current window would be maximally loaded with objects eg. basic land, forest, mountain, road and a city. What exactly do you mean by this? Do you need a .gal with the minimal playable parameters, as well as some testing planets? I can do one u...

Super interested in this, though I cannot help. If you'd like to drive interest you should try posting it on the Reddit.com 4x, or strategygaming subbreddits. I'm very sure that there will be people interested. There may even be those that can assist you if you need it. Doesn't seem like this forum...

Hi, well I thought i'd take a little break from coding during the summer and it turned out to be six months off :(. I guess I was somewhat burned out due to working intensively on the project during the first six months. Thanks Shadow for the voteup and sorry everyone I didn't respond earlier. Getti...

I am curious how things are going? Thanks for the interest. Things are slowing down a bit since the program is getting quite large - 58 classes, 12907 lines of code (minus white space, maybe really about half that) - and my coding doesn't meet the highest standards of software engineering. Also a l...

Hi, (and thanks Sukayo for keeping the forum up!) events conspired to delay my posting of a new version of Phoenix but now I managed. Among other things I had a sort of a writers block for a few weeks and couldn't produce any code. The newest version is Phoenix5.zip, the link to the directory is in ...

Hi, this question is rather technical but you never know ... so I'm trying to implement units and basic movement. To do that one thing necessary is a path finding algorithm. Now ordinarily you would use eg. Dijkstras algorithm to find a shortest path between two points but that doesn't work when you...

I'm not 100% sure but I think it is one these fixed features which cannot be changed. I sure wish it could be changed, I mean suddenly jumping to other planets is ridiculous.

Had to start it with the batch file, still. Could be just me, though. Double-clicking the .jar in windows 7 does nothing, so I just made a batch file since that's easier than starting through command line? It also starts if I remove @ECHO OFF from the batch file, I just put that in out of habit. (F...

Awesome! Had to make a little batch file to get it to start (@ECHO OFF java -jar Phoenix.jar 1 GALAXY.GAL) Roads and river tiles don't connect properly, and it renders the very edgemost tiles as purple, but it works! :D Good to have independent verification that it works. :) Guess I left too much d...

Hi, I managed to produce a bit of running code, nothing much just a planet window and space window where you can select planets and browse planet maps. If you would like to take a look it is here (hope it works): edit: new link is in the first post Contents of README.TXT: "Phoenix.jar intended ...

Aw hell yes. I can help with this! They're just plain graphics files without a header. You can open them with the AXE 3 Hex Editor (it's my editor of choice when working on EOFS .bin files), which lets you go over to the Graphical View mode. Once there you can choose how many Bytes you want to show...

Hi, I managed to partially decipher the hexbuffer array in TEFSCPlanet.h, enough so that I think I am now able to reproduce planet maps. I am now trying to figure out the format of the following bin files: border.bin cargo.bin couple.bin efsbut1.bin - efsbut16.bin explore.bin fire.bin fist.bin glimm...

EFS editor sources are available here:

http://hyperion.twarriors.com/efseditor.html

Nova graphics hacking is here:

http://website.lineone.net/~rwein/nova/hackgraph.htm

Hi everyone I am interested in trying to make an exe replacement using java. Exe replacement meaning i would try to recreate efs.exe functionality using existing datafiles, minus the bugs, plus some modern wargame features. To make things happen I would need to know the format of the datafiles. So f...