Project Revive

[TheLieka]

There is ONE thing that I haven't been able to access with any available tools, and it annoys the piss out of me.

PLAYER CORPSE DATA

If anyone were to figure out this riddle, I would gladly build a goat-shrine in your honor.

Dax

[AndMetal]

Originally Posted by TheLieka

PLAYER CORPSE DATA

If anyone were to figure out this riddle, I would gladly build a goat-shrine in your honor.

I'm always up for a challenge

I know it's 228 bytes long. Unfortunately, that's about all I know There's nothing in the common source files about it.

[sesmar]

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but this might point you in the right direction.

struct DBPlayerCorpse_Struct {
	int32	crc;
	bool	locked;
	int32	itemcount;
	int32	exp;
	float	size;
	int8	level;
	int8	race;
	int8	gender;
	int8	class_;
	int8	deity;
	int8	texture;
	int8	helmtexture;
	int32	copper;
	int32	silver;
	int32	gold;
	int32	plat;
	Color_Struct item_tint[9];
	int8 haircolor;
	int8 beardcolor;
	int8 eyecolor1;
	int8 eyecolor2;
	int8 hairstyle;
	int8 face;
	int8 beard;
	ServerLootItem_Struct	items[0];
};

I found that in zonedump.h of the zone project.

You can also find things like:
ZoneDatabase::UpdatePlayerCorpse and
ZoneDatabase::CreatePlayerCorpse
in PlayerCorpse.cpp in the zone project.

[AndMetal]

Originally Posted by sesmar

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but this might point you in the right direction.

...

I found that in zonedump.h of the zone project.

You can also find things like:
ZoneDatabase::UpdatePlayerCorpse and
ZoneDatabase::CreatePlayerCorpse
in PlayerCorpse.cpp in the zone project.

That looks right, based on the info I was getting from a corpse I left. Good find I had a feeling it might have been in the zone or world source.

Originally Posted by Kayot

I just had the editor dump the profile into an array ^-^, it takes a bit more ram but makes adding edits a joke.

I agree, using an array to mess with the blob is definitely the better way to go, especially if you want to make multiple edits without a bunch of queries. However, copying the entire profile blob into a variable, then using substring manipulation (strrep and similar I think?), can reduce the amount of RAM used due to different data types (there was a post about this referring to the spells_us.txt file & parsing it into an array, not sure where it's at, though). But on the same token, a 20k block of data, even separated into an array, shouldn't take up a gross amount of RAM.

[Kayot]

The reason I dumped it into a byte array rather than a string was, I could always assemble integers and strings from bytes, but doing the opposite would take a whole lot more coding.

My problem was the alt adv skills. The numbers don't really correlate with anything and are done in a add it as it goes. For instance:

It you boosted strength first then Intel, it would add strength then Intel. If you added Intel then strength, it would add Intel and then strength. For some reason this made reading the date hard and editing it impossible as it wouldn't take the new settings. Not sure why not, thats why you can't edit Alt Adv yet. I'll figure it out.

P.S. Seems I have the flu, just wonderful. I reach my days off then I'm sick. I'm re dosing right now, hence the 2:40am post time T-T2son

P.S.2 The post concerning the spells_us.txt was mine. Thats how this program loads spell information.

[AndMetal]

Originally Posted by Kayot

My problem was the alt adv skills. The numbers don't really correlate with anything and are done in a add it as it goes. For instance:

It you boosted strength first then Intel, it would add strength then Intel. If you added Intel then strength, it would add Intel and then strength. For some reason this made reading the date hard and editing it impossible as it wouldn't take the new settings. Not sure why not, thats why you can't edit Alt Adv yet. I'll figure it out.

That one kinda threw me off as well. Reading wasn't too bad:

profile.php (from my PHP-based editor, using a few custom functions):

   91 // AA_Array[240]
   92 	for ($x = 0; $x <= 239; $x++) {
   93 		$aa = asc2uint(substr($profileResult,$x*8+428,4));
   94 		$value = asc2uint(substr($profileResult,$x*8+432,4));
   95 		if ($aa != 0) {
   96 			$Profile["aa_array"][($aa-($value-1))] = $value;
   97 		};
   98 		unset($aa);
   99 		unset($value);
  100 	};
  101 	unset($aa);
  102 	unset($value);

So, then you can pull the info by $Profile[aa_array][aa_id] => points.

For writing, it would probably be better to make an array like this:

$AA_Array => Array
	(
		[position_num] => Array
			(
				[aa_id] => #
				[aa_points] => #
			)
	)

So, then you would have all 240 positions to work with, and then you can put it all back in at once. It might also help to put the position_num into the read array, so that way you can refer back, but still be able to locate the AAs easily by a query to the altadv_vars table:

aa.php:

SELECT skill_id, name, cost, max_level, spellid, (classes + berserker) AS classes FROM altadv_vars WHERE type='' AND classes & '' ORDER BY skill_id

Anyways, just some thoughts

[Kayot]

Sorry, took me a while to respond. I had the Flu with Complications.

I'll look into adding Alt Adv into the character editor. Also, the release is in my sig. So much for a pretty web site.

^-^ And then there was Nu. And Nu said, "The cake is a lie." And so it became.