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First attempt at character orientation

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Nick Thomas
2020-06-13 23:10:21 +01:00
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@@ -610,11 +610,6 @@ ignoring it for now.
thingies, and it, padding? Minus a bit? 0x50 is another non-null byte. Then
it's all zeroes until one byte before the first name at 0xee.
It's hard to say where the alignment should be at this point. We need to compare
more characters with each other. Other notes...
Characters are organised into Squads somehow.
Individual cells seem to have a flag to say "We have a character in us", but not
the number for the character themselves, so the coordinates must be in the
per-character records also. There are several candidates for this.
@@ -645,8 +640,10 @@ suggested above:
| 267 | 1 | Unknown |
| 268 | 1 | Health |
| 269 | 495 | ??? |
| 764 | 1(?) | Squad number? |
| 765 | 927 | ??? |
| 764 | 1(?) | Squad number |
| 765 | 895 | ??? |
| 1660 | 1? | Orientation? Could also be `0x680`... |
| 1661 | 31 | ??? |
There's still a lot of bytes to dig through, but this allows me to load the
character names from Chapter01 correctly, with the exception of record 57 which
@@ -654,10 +651,13 @@ just contains `\x02` and is then null-terminated all the way through - but maybe
that's just a data thing.
How about their types? `HasAction.dat` lists numbers for character types, and
those show up immediately before the name. going from the character type to the
animation group is not yet fully deciphered - captains mess up a direct
those show up immediately before the name. Going from the character type to the
animation group is not yet fully deciphered - squad leaders mess up a direct
correlation - but a fixed offset table allows me to draw the characters \o/.
Orientation is not yet deciphered, however.
Putting 8 characters onto a map and orienting them in the compass points, we see
numbers ranging from 0 to 7 at 0x67c and 0x680. Assuming this is the scheme
used, north is value 1, northeast value 2, and northwest value 0.
Given two characters of the same type, just in different locations, differing
values are seen at: