Litcube's Universe

RoverTX · Post by **RoverTX** » Mon, 28. Apr 14, 22:16

Can you explain a little bit more about the bug fixes you talk about.

https://code.google.com/p/litcubesunive ... _Bug_Fixes

I hadn't even heard of some of these and was interested how you went about fixing them.

Litcube · Post by **Litcube** » Tue, 29. Apr 14, 01:47

Brokkoli wrote:Some questions I have not found answered in the wiki:

- What about weapon and ship balance? Has that been touched? I guess so, since it is the first thing I modded when I got the mod urge. I just wanted to ask to make sure.

- Pathfinding: Do NPC ships avoid Xenon/Pirate sectors now? This has always been a major immersion breaker for me that NPC ships fly lemming like into Xenon space to their death. And that they don't flee from hostiles on radar.

First question: There'll be a page coming out on that shortly.

Second question: https://code.google.com/p/litcubesunive ... athfinding

Litcube · Post by **Litcube** » Tue, 29. Apr 14, 05:07

@ Rover: I can't tell you how I fixed them, but if there's something else specific you'd like to know, feel free to ask.

bluenog143 · Post by **bluenog143** » Wed, 30. Apr 14, 04:21

Hey Litcube, I know this question might sound weird, but please bear with me.

The UFO's, did you do anything with/to the UFO's?

I've been obsessed with UFO's lately.

Litcube · Post by **Litcube** » Wed, 30. Apr 14, 04:24

Hah.

A lot of things have changed in the game and the galaxy, but I left those little guys in there in all their 1998 textured glory and pointless self-important mission: Must travel from this place... to this place...

bluenog143 · Post by **bluenog143** » Wed, 30. Apr 14, 05:49

Litcube wrote:Hah.

A lot of things have changed in the game and the galaxy, but I left those little guys in there in all their 1998 textured glory and pointless self-important mission: Must travel from this place... to this place...

My life is officially complete.

But in all seriousness, that answers my question. There's something about those guys and their buzzing saucers that just adds the finishing touch to X.

Litcube · Post by **Litcube** » Wed, 30. Apr 14, 11:00

RoverTX wrote:Can you explain a little bit more about the bug fixes you talk about.

Hold on, Rover! I can explain one of those bugs:

"Mission spawned pirate ships no longer have inactive turrets."

Scenario: If you get a mission, and pirate ships are spawned in the sector you're currently in, the pirate ships will not have turret commands.

Cause: In the script !plugin.gz.missile.def.mk3.xml, there's a check for owership change of the host ship. This happens in the above scenario, so the turret script exits.

Easy fix.

jeroll3d · Post by **jeroll3d** » Wed, 30. Apr 14, 17:26

Litcube

Your mod is to a noob like me?

(just instal or fake patch Cat. Dat. files)

Litcube · Post by **Litcube** » Thu, 1. May 14, 04:13

jeroll3d wrote:Litcube

Your mod is to a noob like me?

(just instal or fake patch Cat. Dat. files)

Should be an installer, thanks to the magic of Createse.

Edit: I spelled his name wrong.

Createse · Post by **Createse** » Thu, 1. May 14, 12:31

jeroll3d wrote:Litcube

Your mod is to a noob like me?

(just instal or fake patch Cat. Dat. files)

Litcube wrote:Should be an installer, thanks to the magic of Createse.

I'll be packaging the release (v1.0) into one big behemoth of an installer for Windows users. There could be up to 2-3 files to download (1 EXE/setup and 1-2 BIN/data files). Thereafter, standalone and sequential patches (1 EXE/setup file) can be used to apply updates and bug fixes. I'll also be looking into Linux installers, post-release unfortunately.

"Disclaimer: Setup (also known as an installer) may be subject to change, over time. Bullwinkle came across a rather hacky, but functional method for packaging these three initial setup files in to one big compressed monster using 7-Zip and some magic dust. The resulting executable would be capable of automatically running the setup [EXE] file once extracted."

Sinnerman49 · Post by **Sinnerman49** » Fri, 2. May 14, 01:30

I've been happily "play-testing" (read: mooching all of Litcubes hard work) for the past few months - I can honestly say it's been the most "complete" X3 experience I've ever had.

The biggest features in my opinion:

Performance (It's EXTREMELY optimized, runs faster than vanilla)
Phanon/OCV threats - finally, a true challenge!
Some of the neat logistics tools Litcube has built into the universe are great, along with a plethora of new hotkeys.

I can't wait till it's released!

akruppa · Post by **akruppa** » Fri, 2. May 14, 14:17

Createse wrote:
jeroll3d wrote:I'll also be looking into Linux installers, post-release unfortunately.
Would it be possible to release a Linux/MacOS zip/7zip/tarball with basic instructions how to install it, so computer literate players at least can give it a try?

jack775544 · Post by **jack775544** » Fri, 2. May 14, 14:48

"Is it compatible with XRM?"
I am sorry had to ask it, no one said it yet.

Sarcasm aside, this is looking amazing, I pity you for undertaking the nightmare that is obj file editing, can't wait to play it when it comes out.
Personally I am finding all of the small changes are going to be a bigger than the larger ones (OMG proper pathfinding).

Createse · Post by **Createse** » Fri, 2. May 14, 16:12

akruppa wrote:Would it be possible to release a Linux/MacOS zip/7zip/tarball with basic instructions how to install it, so computer literate players at least can give it a try?

ZIP files will be provided [as-is] for those unable or unwilling to use the installers; for whatever reasons. Basic instructions will most likely be provided but computer literate users might also be expected to know what they're doing. Manual installation probably won't be that dissimilar to the other total conversion/overhaul modifications out there, or X3 modifications in general.

akruppa · Post by **akruppa** » Fri, 2. May 14, 17:12

That works for me. Thanks a lot!

I'm fairly new to X3 but already growing bored with it, even though it seemed like the perfect match for the kinda game I like. Much of its complexity is superficial, not least thanks to the awkward user interface - I don't think there's any key combination left I don't have hot-keyed by now. The economic model is very simplistic, the enemies are easy and dumb, and almost all built-in scripts are buggy or lacking is some way or another. Now that X: Refund is out, that's written off as an alternative, too.

Reading the changes list for LU made me nod my head on pretty much every point, thinking "yeah, that's what they should have done." I'm really looking forward to it, it might be the game I was hoping for in the first place.

Trooper1994 · Post by **Trooper1994** » Fri, 2. May 14, 20:02

Akruppa I once played X3TC for years without modding it. Because back then I had no internet.

Now my X3Ap is so heavly modified at this point that it has 15,000 jobs alone at start up on a new game.

sorry for de-railing the topic Litcube.

So I have a simple question have ships been modified on their combat stats like their number guns, shield stats, laser energy etc.?

I'm so used to how XRM (I know curse words and hisses all around) paces combat with the amped up everything that i'm worried the combat will be boring.

Joubarbe · Post by **Joubarbe** » Fri, 2. May 14, 21:18

Litcube wrote:@ Rover: I can't tell you how I fixed them, but if there's something else specific you'd like to know, feel free to ask.

There's something obscure on these forums ; some have access to the code (or they've achieved to hack it), others don't...

Injustice ! Revolution ! Xenons are right after all !

Hope I won't get banned for apology of Xenons in a public place.

bluenog143 · Post by **bluenog143** » Fri, 2. May 14, 21:53

Joubarbe wrote:There's something obscure on these forums ; some have access to the code (or they've achieved to hack it), others don't...

That's because EGOSOFT is stubborn and basically says "If you can hack it we'll let you mod it, be don't expect us to help you with it."

Jack08 · Post by **Jack08** » Fri, 2. May 14, 23:58

@Rover, Joubarbe, bluenog143

Code: Select all

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; === ForumPost =======================
; function  FP.PostMessage(arg1);
;
FP.PostMessage:
                enter    1, 3
                if SP[0]=0 then jump L00012C5B
                push     SP[0] ; arg1
                get_strg SP[0] 
                if SP[0]=0 then jump L00012C5B
L00012B1B:      
                push 0
                callasm printf
                popx 2
L00012C5B:      
                push 0
                ret
   
; begin main entry
                get_strg   S0001D467
                call86     FP.PostMessage
                pop    
                get_strg   S0001D473
                call86     FP.PostMessage
                pop    
                get_strg   S0001D40B
                call86     FP.PostMessage
                pop       
                
L00012C60:      
                get_strg   S0001D473
                push       0
                callasm    printf
                popx       1
                jump       L00012C60
                ret
;CRASH: Infinite loop detected
;CRASH: Stack overflow

S0001D40B:  .ascii    "you have your answer - PAIN AND SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF THE EVIL ASM GOD"   
S0001D473:  .ascii    "this post together, then "
S0001D41C:  .ascii    "@Joubarbe, @bluenog143"
S0001D467:  .ascii    "If you can piece"
S0001D3E7:  .ascii    "The answer is 42."

/me wonders if someone is going to bitch at me for having out of order memory indexes
Huh... did you know /me works on these forums?... grrrrr i mean /me ... BAH... The / m e command from IRC

bluenog143 · Post by **bluenog143** » Sat, 3. May 14, 01:57

Hmm, well let's see if I can put this together before having an aneurysm!

"@Joubarbe, @bluenog143; If you can piece this post together, then you have your answer - PAIN AND SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF THE EVIL ASM GOD."

I remember back in the "Possible Litcube's Universe Release" thread you had mentioned you helped Litcube hack into the hardcoded aspects of X3. So from what I gather, you had to dig into the game's fundamentals with assembly language, right?

I'm definitely looking forward to the hardcoded performance optimizations in X3LU, because with the OCV and Phanon Corp at the same time, I can imagine that vanilla X3 would be rather slow in sector.

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