The Heroes Round Table

Eh, it'd have to be an exceptional game to nullify transferring to a new universe for me. I rather enjoy the Enroth / Axeoth story and world(s), which is nonexistent in the new universe. Once the story finally started getting good in Heroes Chronicles and H4 (I haven't played the Might and Magic gam...

The world matters to me. Of course, you still need a playable game with good / fun mechanics. I guess I'm just greedy.

I agree with Ashan being a problem, at least for those of us who like games with a reasonably well written story. I purchase games in a series to follow the story from one game to the next. Knowing that H6 and H7 (as well as H5 but I already bought it during a GoG sale) don't continue the story from...

Update: I got to the point where I can pull out the name and description of a campaign and all it's maps, and add them to the viewing panel similar to the actual editor. Screen caps below: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff47/iLiVeInAbOx05/map_generator_demo0.png http://i242.photobucket.com/album...

Thanks Baronus, I'll try to take a look today when I get home.

I guess that would be an easier place to start

Could you provide me with the instructions to extract one picture def? I've got a couple versions of ResEdit and Mh4096.

Thanks. I'll try to take a look later. I'll probably start out using a hex editor, rather than Resedit / Mh4 since I won't be using those if I do start trying to write a program to modify / allow users to replace pictures or whatever else is feasible.

Yes, but which file actually contains these pictures? I'm still new to the modding stuff so I need to know where to look

I've used several of the hidden objects in my campaign

I definitely want to include the hidden objects that make sense in the random generation.

Which file in particular are you talking about?

Just an update on reading the files: I should have realized it after reading Baronus's next to last post, but it appears that most, if not all, of the readable characters are preceded by a number indicating the amount of characters to follow. For example, if the name of the map was "New Beginni...

I didn't have as much time this weekend as I would have liked, but I did get a little bit done. I got to the point where I can parse a .h4c file into the campaign header and each map, un gzip each map, re gzip each map, and then package them all back together into a new .h4c file. The new file worke...

Just typed out a small update on my phone, but it disappeared when I hit submit.. I'll rewrite it when I get back from lunch.

Definitely interested in The Witcher games. I've got 1 and 2, but haven't played them yet (got stuck on HOMM4 and haven't made it to the next games on my list yet ;)) I also noticed there were some Witcher books at Half priced books, so I'll have to look into where they fit into the lore so I can re...

Hi MeCho, you have to submit your map to maps@celetialheavens.com. See the FAQ thread Here, and that should answer any further questions.

Here's a preview of what I have for the properties tab: http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff47/iLiVeInAbOx05/map_generator_properties.png And here's a very preliminary preview of what I have for the draw tab (will likely look very different once I come back to it): http://i242.photobucket.com/album...

This is what I have so far as a description of the GUI. I've updated the OP with this information as well. Comments, suggestions, and / or feedback welcome. Tabs for the GUI: Properties, Draw, Scripts, AI (maybe, or just under properties) Properties tab: - Size of map. Should be able to change at an...

Just needed to edit my original post

I've updated the original post to reflect my intent, and will update it with info that I feel should be included there.

Currently I'm finishing up with splitting a .h4c file into the file header and each map in the file. I'm at the point where I can get the starting index of each map in the .h4c file, so now I just need to work on what I'm going to do with each of them. Need to ungzip them and then store them in memo...

Unfortunately I don't know how they build / package their stuff

Did a little work on my delimiters file and made an interface for reading the file and others of the same format.