Removing names from cities

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Removing names from cities

Postby whelan » Sun Feb 17, 2002 8:59 pm

This is sort of a stange question but does anyone know how to remove the names fron cities on the map. I just don't find them visually pleasing and things look cluttered when you pack a bunch of cities together. I tried to change their names to something less noticeable but then you have to change all the .DAT file stuff so resource and production data is properly identified by the game.

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Re: Removing names from cities

Postby Deathifier » Wed Feb 20, 2002 12:06 am

The only thing I can think of aside from renaming them is to find the code that displays them and skip over it.

The hard part is finding the specific area of code for it :(

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Re: Removing names from cities

Postby whelan » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:15 am

Thanks for the reply. Do you know how to access the code?

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Re: Removing names from cities

Postby Deathifier » Wed Feb 20, 2002 3:20 pm

One way is to have the source code but we won't be getting that anytime soon.

Other way is to disassemble the EXE and trace its execution, find the part that displays stuff then try to pick out (trial and error mostly) the part that draws names. Re-assemble the EXE and prey nothing else broke :)

The second method is very time consuming and requires someone highly fluent in assembly, which I'm not.

Short answer is its probably faster to write a program to change building names and everything associated with them then it is to stop the game displaying them.

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Re: Removing names from cities

Postby whelan » Thu Feb 21, 2002 7:40 pm

I guess if it still really bugs me I'll just rename the cities to something less obtrusive.
Thanks for your help.

Devlin :)


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