Author Topic: Serge's Adventures in exe land (List on first post) (Read 17979 times)

Naryar · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2010, 07:06:36 AM »

That would be great !

Madiaba · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2010, 07:48:09 AM »

Quote from: Serge on June 13, 2010, 06:29:19 AM

The current modification is dead simple, it's just replacing four bytes in the exe.

Nice Serge. I've been to this land several times,.. but could never get out without having a butterfly stuck to the bottom of my shoe....and screwing things up.
IOW: I've tweeked the exe at this level in several places that I think would make useful mods, but I never knew if they were actually beneficial because I could never 'Save' the edits without corrupting the exe. What program did you use?

Gazea2 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 13, 2010, 09:14:08 AM »

Hey, Serge. My dad said he'll see what he can do. :)

Serge · « **Reply #23 on:** June 13, 2010, 09:59:42 AM »

Quote from: Madiaba on June 13, 2010, 07:48:09 AM

What program did you use?

IDA Pro to reverse-engineer the exe, a simple hex editor to patch the interesting spots.

Somebody · « **Reply #24 on:** June 13, 2010, 10:17:07 AM »

That was worth at least 3 six-packs.
Good luck with Gazea2's dad and I know Click found a way to make a fourth class for DSL 3.0 (The Superheavyweight class). It would be very beneficial to change the weight classes too :D
Great work Serge :D

JoeBlo · « **Reply #25 on:** June 13, 2010, 10:41:46 AM »

Quote from: Somebody on June 13, 2010, 10:17:07 AM

I know Click found a way to make a fourth class for DSL 3.0 (The Superheavyweight class).

its a UI exploit for AI robots.. Click helped me do it for Backlash too... it requires a small BFE to the robot for the new class and some UI editing to have to game use a SHW icon

in reality all it does if gives robots that SHW icon.. doesnt make a SuperHeavyweight class in the bot lab

still awesome and I thank Click for it

Sage · « **Reply #26 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:25:19 AM »

Quote from: Madiaba on June 13, 2010, 07:48:09 AM

Nice Serge. I've been to this land several times,.. but could never get out without having a butterfly stuck to the bottom of my shoe....and screwing things up.

Nice sound of thunder reference!

Serge, does this mean you found a suitable "hook"? Could you change the attachment limit of 7 to like 10?

Naryar · « **Reply #27 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:27:43 AM »

Yes, i was thinking Ray Bradbury as well.

Serge · « **Reply #28 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:35:17 AM »

Quote from: Sage on June 13, 2010, 11:25:19 AM

Serge, does this mean you found a suitable "hook"? Could you change the attachment limit of 7 to like 10?

This is what I'm currently working on, but it's way harder than increasing the weight limit. I just can't find the piece of code responsible for checking the limit. Here's how most of my work looks like:

As you can see, from here I could easily patch the maxsphere boundary and collision boundary. But meh :P. I'll keep looking for the fabled 7-in-a-row limit.

Naryar · « **Reply #29 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:55:46 AM »

Now that i see that stupid "robots cannot exceed a maximum size", could you remove size limitations as well ?

Serge · « **Reply #30 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:59:39 AM »

Quote from: Naryar on June 13, 2010, 11:55:46 AM

Now that i see that stupid "robots cannot exceed a maximum size", could you remove size limitations as well ?

Yes, I could.

Naryar · « **Reply #31 on:** June 13, 2010, 12:02:59 PM »

Serge · « **Reply #32 on:** June 13, 2010, 12:19:07 PM »

Look at the infobar. Just so we're clear, I didn't change around text in the exe. I called it from an external program I wrote (the one on the right).

Gazea2 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 13, 2010, 12:41:33 PM »

LOL, nice. :)

My dad said that he'll work on it. :)

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 13, 2010, 12:42:21 PM »

You amaze me Serge!

Naryar · « **Reply #35 on:** June 13, 2010, 12:49:22 PM »

~~That's what she said~~ Yeah, it does look like it can lead to awesome results.

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #36 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:21:47 PM »

If you got rid of the max sphere I would love you forever.

cephalopod · « **Reply #37 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:25:26 PM »

Quote from: Scrap Daddy on June 13, 2010, 03:21:47 PM

If you got rid of the max sphere I would love you forever.

QFT.

The max sphere is probably my worst enemy. Apart from stock in general.

Serge · « **Reply #38 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:30:17 PM »

I'll probably release everything I've done so far the 17th... Including that new GMF toolset I've been working on (and the max_sphere bypass, etc).

Madiaba · « **Reply #39 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:33:20 PM »

Much appreciated, Serge.
Can you get on MSN for a minute?