kingdoms .sd files

[alreadyded]

I added 29 factions total to my mod, but I can not find a working .sd to text converter so I can not add new faction symbols for the addition factions. Can someone point out a way to convert the .sd to txt files (alpaca's does not work). Or can someone copy and paste the code from the strategy.sd and shared.sd files from the different kingdoms campaigns?

[valvegas1]

I think that there is a plugin for notepad++ you can download to allow you to open those files

[Emperor of Hell]

You are talking anout PCP right? Because I also edited those things and IIRC TATW has already converted versions, or I just edited the .sd with notepad

[alreadyded]

You are talking anout PCP right? Because I also edited those things and IIRC TATW has already converted versions, or I just edited the .sd with notepad

Yes, but I need the code from a kingdoms campaign .sd file in order to add in more symbols than the TATW .sd files allow.

[valvegas1]

attached are my shared.sd and strategy.sd in XML format which can be opened in notepad or notepad++, i recommend notepad++ for the color format....they are from KGCM Mod and have most all the kingdoms factions (all european factions, two americas factions)....i hope this helps.....

[alreadyded]

attached are my shared.sd and strategy.sd in XML format which can be opened in notepad or notepad++, i recommend notepad++ for the color format....they are from KGCM Mod and have most all the kingdoms factions (all european factions, two americas factions)....i hope this helps.....

That is exactly what I need, THANKS!


Yes, this is so I can add even more new and working faction buttons to the interface.


@ Tellos, I can only get alpaca's to convert .txt to .sd, which the game does automatically. I tried using Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7. None worked. I also read it can kinda mess up the txt file, but I don't know.

[Emperor of Hell]

Yes, but I need the code from a kingdoms campaign .sd file in order to add in more symbols than the TATW .sd files allow.

I'm afraid I don't see the problem , what code do you need ?

[irishron]

Are you talking about the ones in data\ui\southern_european\interface folder?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Out of interest, since I've been cobbling together an SD tool which does proper input validation: why is it that “alpaca's does not work” ?

I'm aware of a couple of bugs in alpaca's tool, notably that it doesn't work for TGA files which do not have a multiple of 8 pixels (1) or ones which do not use the 32bit uncompressed ARGB format (2).

(1): It calculates the length of the alpha mask bits as being (TGA width × TGA height) ÷ 8, rounded down (integer division). For example, if you feed it a TGA file which is 510 × 510 it will not write out the last 4 alpha mask bits. (510×510÷8 = 32512,5; rounded down it becomes 32512.)
(2): It assumes that each pixel consists of 4 bytes which isn't true for 16bit TGA files nor for 32bit ARGB TGA files using run length encoding (RLE).

[irishron]

It's an .xml file.

I got it to work with Python 2.5.4 many moons ago on vanilla. The .tga files it/they reference are in the ui\southern_european\interface folder or better be.