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Not working with River mod #11

Open Julien-Leos opened 1 month ago

Julien-Leos commented 1 month ago

Hi there,

Sorry if it's not the right place for this kind of topic, I didn't find the Discussion panel.

First, I want to say I LOVE your tool, it's amazing!

I would love to play with the River slot mod but unfortunately, the seed your tool provides is not the same as the one generated in game when the river mod is activated.

I asked the River mod developer and he told me it was an expected behaviour. However, that maybe it was possible to alter your tool in order to include his mod into your seed viewer.

I'm a developer and I would love to take a look, however, I would also like to have your guidance and or advice for such a task. At first glance, would it be simple or very difficult?

Thank you in advance :D

pan324 commented 1 month ago

Certain asset files are already parsed and hardcoded into the tool here (and files with seeds as well).

  1. maptemplatestocsv.py reads that huge assets.xml file to create the templates.csv file, which I think is still correct even with this mod.
  2. maptocsv.py reads individual a7tinfo files to save the overall world layouts in the templates folder, which I believe are unchanged from this mod. Corners maps still have islands in the corners, and so on, right?
  3. islandtocsv.py reads a7minfo files, and the mod injects XML to replace parts of it: https://github.com/Taludas/RiverSlots/blob/main/%5BShared%5D%20Riverslots%20OW%20(Taludas)/data/config/export/main/asset/assets.xml I think writing a parser for this would be overkill but rather just doing the replacements by hand. I'm not totally sure what the GUIDs all mean because the finder hasn't stored them at all which makes it rather hard to connect the dots. I think for the most part it might just be a matter of changing the diff in the large, medium, small files: https://github.com/pan324/anno1800_seedfinder/blob/main/islands/large.csv (The raw version is not used by the finder directly).

I can't access my anno files right now (not sure if I have those dumped anywhere even), but there's a mapping here: https://0k0a.blogspot.com/2023/01/Anno-1800-Remove-river-at-RandomIsland.html

So 140371 is moderate_m_01 which has an id of 3 in the original game files, which is a bitmask of Starter (1) and Normal (2): https://github.com/pan324/anno1800_seedfinder/blob/main/islands/medium.csv But the mod sets it the IslandType to Normal only, which means that the csv for the finder here must have its id changed from 3 to 2. Do that for all islands and you might be mostly done. Just remember to delete everything in the seeds directory first because those are cached from the previous settings and not updated when you change the underlying data. Actually going through billions of seeds does take a few minutes.