Recent content by Fatbag

We just got the character visible yesterday. It simply required figuring out how to specify the outfit, gender, and skin color in LoadAvatarByID. We also got chat bubbles working. You can download the packets here: http://niotso.org/files/loadavatarbyid_guy.dat...

I went ahead and uploaded the contents of the Marimba CDs: Official Marimba Guide to Castanet and Official Marimba Guide to Bongo. They're 16-bit executables, so they won't run on 64-bit Windows, but they will probably run on Wine on 64-bit Linux. (I haven't tested it yet.)

Hey Cytlan, I share your opinion that I'm not that comfortable or efficient using Edith's box-and-arrow layout, and I'd prefer using a text disassembler like we get with Edith's "File -> Export all behaviors" functionality. However, the main problem with Edith's text disassembly is that the...

The updater uses the Marimba Castanet protocol. Our server just says "Yep, you are running the latest version" unconditionally (regardless of which version of TSO you have and whether all your files are corrupt) so that the client proceeds to the game. From the server, we literally just send 11...

You haven't been using the "sim_speed 25" cheat for Pre-Alpha NoNetwork mode, have you? :p http://forum.afr0games.com/index.php?threads/pre-alpha-hype-thread.246/page-2 In Pre-Alpha, the sim_speed cheat defaults at 21. In Pre-Alpha -NoNetwork mode, before running the sim_speed cheat, I verified...

I don't feel like typing up a long post, so, here are our notes: prealpha -> naitrial Member functions: cTSOSimulator::cTSOSimulator: TSOSimulatorClientD_base+0x1cce5 -> TSOSimulatorClientD_base+0x6c9a4 cTSOSimulator::SetSpeed: TSOSimulatorClientD_base+0x1d722 ->...

Okay, it turns out that the lot terrain type is specified in the "String ID" field (as we're currently calling it on the wiki) in cTSONetMessageStandard. Here is a screenshot: The terrain types are:0: base 1: grass 2: sand 3: rock 4: snow 5: water 0 and 5 should not appear in normal lots...

Earlier, I had placed a breakpoint at the top of the "cTSOMapViewRegulator::HandleApprovedTopicUpdate, City_ReservedLotInfo" function (TSOServiceClientD_base+0x200c2). This function was interesting because it showed that the message ID has to be 0xA97360C5, and some unknown field has to be...

If you do a ctrl+F for the constant 0x696D1189 in TSODataServiceClientD.dll, you can see that it's used as arg2 for a lot of function calls where arg1 is always set to the string ID of a field of type UInt32 defined in TSOData_datadefinition.dat. In fact, if you do a ctrl+F for the string ID of...

I resumed working on TSO-SE protocol research again about a month ago. Since December 2014, the most important problem we were facing was determining the DataServiceWrapperPDU response format; and just now we have solved it. Note that this post is longer than usual, so if you just want to see...

But again, just tell me if I'm wrong about anything. :P

I was referring to placing (old or new) objects down on a new "tile" (or a new surface object). Of course, you pick an object up just by clicking on it. To know what the user is clicking on, of course you just refer to the screen z-buffer to see what object is nearest to the camera at that point.

At first I thought you meant that when you move the Hand Tool over a tile on the ground, if a surface object exists on that tile, then the game will shift the sprite of the object you're placing away from your true mouse coordinates up onto the surface. If the user is moving an object from one...

Hey Rhys, great work! If you wrote documentation on the translation between mouse coordinates and world coordinates, I would read it, so I could appreciate what was done in order to get this to work. > All heights now have assigned heights, including the only-used-like-once height "low-table"...

For the record I just checked tuning.dat, and, although it provides prices for expanding your lot to a bigger size and for the (weekly? monthly?) tax, it doesn't provide purchase prices. Here is a plain-text dump of tuning.dat that you can read: http://niotso.org/files/tuning.txt