Incomplete QFG character editor

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Charlemagne · #1 Post by **Charlemagne** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:48 am

Fairly late last year I began working on a QFG saved character editor, suitable for those of you who want to cheat and make a character with maximum stats. (I just felt like trying something new, honest.

) Unfortunately, life interrupted my effots with little annoyances like looking for a new job tending to take precedence.

I was always planning to "open-source" it when it was complete, but since I'm still busy at the moment I decided to release what I already have. The editor's basic framework is complete but I haven't worked out the precise algorithm the games use to encode stats and inventory items (looks like hex values represented by ASCII characters; quite a kludge).

The editor is coded in ANSI C and I've released it under the BSD licence. It should compile on any platform that provides the C standard libraries, though I haven't yet tried with Windows. Do with it as you will, and if anyone has any suggestions about the algorithm, I could probably be persuaded to continue working on it.

Also note that though the code mentions a manual I haven't compiled one yet.

Enjoy!

Incomplete QFG character editor source code
Incomplete QFG character editor source code (ZIP archive)
Incomplete QFG character editor ELF binary (compiled for OpenBSD)

maestro · #2 Post by **maestro** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:00 pm

I am trying to extract the source code, but have been unable to do so. WinZip should work for extracting files from a tar file, shouldn't it? When I try to open the file using WinZip, I get a message "Error reading header after processing 0 entries."

I then downloaded a shareware program from http://www.download.com called Tar 98. The program costs $495, but there is a 5-hour free trial period. I tried to open the file with this program, but it was unable to extract any files.

I would like to contribute to this project. Could you please provide the source code in a format that I can extract with WinZip. Thanks.

Charlemagne · #3 Post by **Charlemagne** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:13 pm

Strange. I've never had a problem extracting a gzipped tarball with WinZip. But then, I haven't tried since the OpenBSD project replaced GNU tar. Maybe WinZip only works with GNU tar files. I'll see if I can re-archive them in .zip format.

EDIT: I've uploaded a .zip file with the source code.

maestro · #4 Post by **maestro** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:58 pm

I was thinking of writing a GUI for it, but then I looked at your source code, and I can see that the code for reading and writing the file hasn't been written yet; the program merely displays a menu. So there would be no point in writing a GUI for it at this time. But if anyone wants to write the code to read and write the file, then I would be willing to write the GUI. I could probably figure out the other part as well, but it would take a lot of time, and I don't have the time right now, but a GUI I could throw together in a few hours.

Charlemagne · #5 Post by **Charlemagne** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:34 am

GUI? Heh, let's not put the cart before the horse.

As I said, I haven't worked out the algorithm or file format for the saved character files so obviously I can't implement the functions to write one.