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About This File
SC4DataNode - A SimCity 4 Exemplary
- is intended as a Gold Standard SC4 Audit Tool
- is NOT an Editing Tool - for this there are Reader, SC4Tool, Lot Editor and a number of others.
The program supports four main Tasks
1. Audit/Review of Loading Sequence, file redundancies and Overrides
2. Dependency verification (as many as possible)
3. Audit/Review of
a. SC4 file integrity (.dat etc) and
b. TGI file content integrity (Exemplars etc) to the Property Level
4. Exploration - a really good informative display of Exemplar Property Values and file contents so that one can learn something of how SC4 works.
Tasks 1 and 3a focus on the physical SC4File View
Tasks 2,3b and 4 mostly on the TGIFile view (SC4 Content)
These tasks can focus on the whole SC4 Environment or incidentally scanned files/folders (or both)
Potential Audiences are:
- The User who wants to make sure that some new plugins aren't broken
- The User who wants to make sure the game loads plugins in the right order
- The Modder who wants to learn what/how things work
- The Modder who publishes work and wants to make sure its correct, and will work correctly with a given environment
- The SysAdmin who wants to make sure their site is only hosting quality products
- Potentially programmers to make use of the functionality (of the SC4DataNode.dll)
How it works:
SC4DataNode loads all of the files that SimCity would load, in the order it would load them when starting a game. It then marks all files that are redundant, checks the contents for accuracy, finds the interdependencies and marks them as found or not and offers a number of views of the resultant data. This can also be carried out for any given set of files.
Use the included installer (program can be installed anywhere) and you're on your way
The program is written in VB.NET v2.0 and should run on any machine that can run the .NET 2.0 Framework or an equivalent.
It also installs one very clear to read Font. Full Documentation is accessible from within the program. (Docs Button)
cheers Ron
May/Jun 2012
What's New 1.36 View Changelog
Released
Latest changes are:
- v1.36 Removes the FilePath Length restriction to allow for paths>260 chars. While the app is now OK, the setting in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\LongFilePathsEnabled should be set to 0x00000001 i.e. ON
By default, this is off under Windows.
If you dont need long paths then it will just work as before.
- v1.35 Updated the constants to the New Properties v3.1
- v1.34 fixed Cohort remapping, and reference tables. For families display (1 of N) in lines using them in dependencies.
Please refer to the accompanying manual (which has been updated) for all details
Many thanks for community feedback
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