REQUEST: Design File Change Details

[tortugapower]

Hi Fredrik,

I've seen a snapshot of the upcoming ship -> nation design file change. I understand the motivation, although this will break mods.

Can you please provide a template with what line corresponds to what trait? That way we can mimic your serializer for creating/reading/modding designs.

Referring to this:

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ShipDesign0
Blackwater
0
DD
1
0
500
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
28
28
5610
1
3
0
...

Thank you,
Tortuga

[catdriver]

Seconded.

It's impressive how much this game does with simple text files, and I very much appreciate how readable and intuitive they are.

[WilliamMiller]

We are looking at ways to adjust things to make mods and saving/loading individual ships easier to handle for the game. Will post update as soon as we settle upon a course of action, thanks!

[Tarhunnas]

I can do adescription of the file format, I am just a little busy now, so it might take a little time.

Could you describe your use case? Perhaps there are easier ways to solve your rquest?

[tortugapower]

We are looking at ways to adjust things to make mods and saving/loading individual ships easier to handle for the game. Will post update as soon as we settle upon a course of action, thanks!

Thanks, William!

I can do adescription of the file format, I am just a little busy now, so it might take a little time.

Could you describe your use case? Perhaps there are easier ways to solve your rquest?

Hi Tarhunnas,
Use case is probably the obvious: I want to read in the ship design information. For that, I need to know what a line with just "1" corresponds to: is that Range or Freeboard or InclinedBelt or...?

Previously, this was explicit:

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Range=1
Freeboard=0
InclinedBelt=0

So a dictionary-style file parser worked. I guess now we'll have to unfortunately use a line-based parser, which will break any time the serialization process changes.

That means I'll need a mapping of file_line_num to trait. If you can provide that, that'd be great.

Best,
Tortuga

[Tarhunnas]

Sorry it took some time to do this. The new file format is actually very similar to the old, but with some changes. I enclose a file description that is based on one of the old style files. Hope this explains it. Please ask if something is unclear.

[tortugapower]

Sorry it took some time to do this. The new file format is actually very similar to the old, but with some changes. I enclose a file description that is based on one of the old style files. Hope this explains it. Please ask if something is unclear.

Thanks for taking the time.

Best,
Tortuga