SimCityPak - Modding Tool

[potorium 17]

more building instance id;s

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have a feeling that if we export files and make packages its fine as long as no changes are made. just if we alter a file and export it looses its compression. If you then reopen an uncompressed file and export it again there's a high change one or more files in the new package are corrupt.

 

had a package that was messing with density upgrade levels which let the game load fine, reopened the package to check the levels to expect in game and reexported it without any new changes. lost the rollover UI when loading the game back to a city

[Felgard 41]

Today i whanted to check if we realy needed all those extra script files "SimCity-Scripts_###.package" so i emptied out my ecogame folder.

 

this is what happened the game as expected re downloaded all of them except one.

 

guess my surprise when the file it didn't download was the latest version (SimCity-Scripts_266425521.package).

 

so trying to figure out why this was so i remembered that i had copied and prefixed the file to the packages folder.

I deleted it in the packages folder and sure enough the game re downloaded that file to

 

what this means i don't know 

 

i made a new package by exporting the two files with instanceID "0x622b9cd7" 

moved that file to packages and deleted "SimCity-Scripts_266425521.package"

and ran the game.

 

Results: The game did not re download "SimCity-Scripts_266425521.package"

 

so the instance  "0x622b9cd7" contains the file version somewhere

the only difference in that prop i could fine in comparison with erialr scripts was this propertyID "0x0ef6a3bb"

 

also in "0x00b1b104-0x40404000-0x7f74d006" this PropertyID "0x09f7c0da" contains the latest simcity-script_##.packages number  

[potorium 17]

i forgot to click private region. my low density mod was working great, then someone came into region. the click here there is new content when someone joins popped up.

 

reloaded city but reloaded minus the mod. looks like the game reloads vanilla script during play. if its loading that from server then 'script changes are a never going to happen - time to pack up and go home'

[potorium 17]

well if its got 9 or less letters as its hash, we have it! well when its finished a90a, a90b , lw_i

[potorium 17]

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[oppie 487]

Guys,

Besides the path appearance mods I've released over the past few days, I've been looking into UI modifications - I've done a few tests, and there are some really interesting possibilities there. The specific thing I've been attempting is to display certain unit properties on the rollover windows. For example, showing the total workers and available jobs per wealth level - or in theory - every single property that's available on a unit (provided that we can access them.).

My experiments so far have been mainly with the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs property. This property contains a uint that somehow refers to a UI element which contains one or more properties in a certain display mode. I've been experimenting with the casino rollover, on which the green "profit today" text is referenced by a single uint - similarly, the "Hotel guests ($$$): '4/100'" data row is also one single uint - so, the piece of UI code that is referenced determines both the data and the display format of this data. However, so far I haven't been able to locate where these uints are defined or what they refer to. If anyone else has an idea on where to look (or perhaps knows where the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs name was found), I'd be very happy to hear.

[potorium 17]

Guys,

Besides the path appearance mods I've released over the past few days, I've been looking into UI modifications - I've done a few tests, and there are some really interesting possibilities there. The specific thing I've been attempting is to display certain unit properties on the rollover windows. For example, showing the total workers and available jobs per wealth level - or in theory - every single property that's available on a unit (provided that we can access them.).

My experiments so far have been mainly with the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs property. This property contains a uint that somehow refers to a UI element which contains one or more properties in a certain display mode. I've been experimenting with the casino rollover, on which the green "profit today" text is referenced by a single uint - similarly, the "Hotel guests ($$$): '4/100'" data row is also one single uint - so, the piece of UI code that is referenced determines both the data and the display format of this data. However, so far I haven't been able to locate where these uints are defined or what they refer to. If anyone else has an idea on where to look (or perhaps knows where the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs name was found), I'd be very happy to hear.

simcity.cRolloverUI.kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs = 212843971(<-hex is hash) from simcity ui js file 0x67771f5c-0x40464200-0x7ccc548c

 

few rollover ui functions under it.

[Felgard 41]

Guys,

Besides the path appearance mods I've released over the past few days, I've been looking into UI modifications - I've done a few tests, and there are some really interesting possibilities there. The specific thing I've been attempting is to display certain unit properties on the rollover windows. For example, showing the total workers and available jobs per wealth level - or in theory - every single property that's available on a unit (provided that we can access them.).

My experiments so far have been mainly with the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs property. This property contains a uint that somehow refers to a UI element which contains one or more properties in a certain display mode. I've been experimenting with the casino rollover, on which the green "profit today" text is referenced by a single uint - similarly, the "Hotel guests ($$$): '4/100'" data row is also one single uint - so, the piece of UI code that is referenced determines both the data and the display format of this data. However, so far I haven't been able to locate where these uints are defined or what they refer to. If anyone else has an idea on where to look (or perhaps knows where the kPropUnitRolloverExtendedItemIDs name was found), I'd be very happy to hear.

this file might helps somewhat 1_test.zip

this adds a data layer that displays Max LW, MW and HW Tourists to buildings

 

The PropertyID you want to look at is 0x0ebf1df7

 

It's a Uint32 value converting it to hex gives you a Hex PropertyID

 

if you follow it up and check in instance "0x97e741b3" you'll find  the PropertyIds there

 

you can modify them to whatever you want just convert the PropertyID you want to Decimal and use that.

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[Buggi 684]

Fire marshal dispatch? Where'd you find that one?? I'd love to make him go out more often. Same with the detective van.

[potorium 17]

Fire marshal dispatch? Where'd you find that one?? I'd love to make him go out more often. Same with the detective van.

most likely from simcityui js file

[potorium 17]

moved to below

[potorium 17]

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[potorium 17]

regions uniform naming for finding in drop down easily

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[potorium 17]

some zoned building template ids

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[potorium 17]

mostly true fnv but a few not, fillerprops might be more the base for rci / decorations such as sheds etc or the junk between lots when space to cramped. not sure yet

 

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[potorium 17]

Fire marshal dispatch? Where'd you find that one?? I'd love to make him go out more often. Same with the detective van.

if you compile from source there's about 2-3k more id's than the binary dl, or if want to keep groups etc then dl the source code and just keyword scan the instanceregistary and import the csv it makes. latest patch is near all true fnv or just more user friendly readable instance names

[trgs 27]

Did some research yesterday together with potorium to try and figure out the structure behind all these files..

Besides that I want to get rid of the XML's completely and move over to SQL(Lite), because of the high amounts of data that have to be stored. XML is already a bottleneck with just 20k entries, while in the end we will have ~100k+ entries. This would take ~5-10 seconds to load the application with XML.

 

We found out that what we currently call the GroupId is not what it seems to be..

This is what I came up with for the new database design:

Current GroupId = <GroupId[2]>,<FileId[2]>,<InstanceType[4]>
 
Table: InstanceTypes
id <int> # last 4 bytes of current GroupId
name <varchar(128)> # no FNV validation point
comment <varchar(256)>
 
Table: Groups
id <int> #  Currently known as first 2 bytes of GroupId
name <varchar(128)> # no FNV validation point
comment <varchar(256)>
 
Table: Instances
id <int> # FNV valid name hash
type <int> # last 4 bytes of current GroupId
name <varchar(128)> # FNV validated by id
comment <varchar(256)>

And the backend view for all files (will become a tree view instead of a list):

 (DLC_AMUSEMENT_PARK[0x52])
    |
    |--(PROP[0x00b1b104])
    |    |
    |    |--(Plop_T_AmusementThrill_Base_01[0xc5a11916])
    |    |    |
    |    |    |--(Parent Menu[0x0db9fc63]) = Attractions[0x0653c631]
    |    |    |
    |    |    `--(Menu Item Order[0x0dc1e3e0])[0] = 100
    |    |
    |    |
    |    |
    |    `--(T_AmusementThrill_Base_01_a[0x7bef70d0])
    |    |    |
    |    |    |--(LOD1[0x00f9efbb]) = T_AmusementThrill_Base_01[0x025d3b3c]
...................

Reviews are more then welcome!

Hoping to start with implementing this somewhere this weekend..

[potorium 17]

new ids

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[Buggi 684]

So you've started thinking the DBPF's as databases? Or have you always?

 

Did I have something to do with that or have you been grinding on it awhile?

[potorium 17]

Buggi, i forget if it was you asking about skill level stuff for nuclear?

 

but whoever it was the skill token prop ids are 

 

0x0c450089 kPropSkillConsumer_SkillThresholdE2

0x0c45008a kPropSkillConsumer_SkillThresholdE3

 all propsto change are probably in group 0x40e0c000, its should be easy to find the files to change,

just need to confirm its a nuclear  power toy or module which are all easy to id with latest xml and template ids from above post of mine if you add the templatetoy, templatetoybase, and templatetoymodule ,. and/or confirm its the nuc plant / upgrade/modules probably easiest by maintenance cost or build cost property values

 

guessing the threashold needs to be maintained or a countdown is triggered which has its data in a resource bundle prop (at least looks like it). so if changing the threshold in the prop fails, could try playing with the figures in the timer/countdown prop  0x00b1b104-0x40e0c700-0x567d2ba9

 

ii might work as changing the residential growth threshold seems ok, i just cant touch any capacity prop

[Buggi 684]

It wasn't nuclear that I was having issue with, it was the loss of tech level at the electronics modules. Once they lose their level they never gain it back. It seems they are disconnected from the knowledge network that fills that particular bucket.

 

However I found a sort of work-around. Using Procs BOC mod you can place modules over the top of roads, this effectively refills their tech level each day keeping them at peak production.

 

I have a Computer manu outside the city making 19,200 crates a day.

 

Is it possible to tweak the amount of pollution these modules create. I first had the computer plant (with 10 modules) inside the city. The pollution cloud this created was... incredible...@.@

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[Buggi 684]

You must have a super detailed set of XML's by now, care to share?