Vanilla WareIDs list?

[Whuppee]

(Given my current difficulties with X3MM...)


I'm looking for a listing of Vanilla WareIDs (SS_WARE_...). I'm assuming they're stored in the TWares file.

I would dearly love someone to link me to such a list, or post / mail me a textdump of said file.

Or.. tell me how to get at those IDs from ingame. If it's possible.

I believe that I've tried every remotely reasonable looking function within the script editor. Including one, I believe, that was titled something like 'get ware ID'. Getting the main type, sub type.. 3 other functions I don't remember..

Using the 'Triplex Scanner' ware as an example.. best I could get were outputs such that it was a main type of 16, subtype of 0 (I may have that backwards). Classed as an Unknown Object. And several outputs along the lines of ??ReadText9-487-9-423?.

For a comparison, I swapped out that ware for a custom ware (that works ingame, displays correctly, has the text files loaded, etc)..

Same output.

[eladan]

I'm looking for a listing of Vanilla WareIDs (SS_WARE_...). I'm assuming they're stored in the TWares file.

I would dearly love someone to link me to such a list, or post / mail me a textdump of said file.

Or.. tell me how to get at those IDs from ingame. If it's possible.

The SS_WARE codes may correspond to certain main and subtypes, I'm not sure - haven't investigated it. If not, then there's no way that I know of in-game.

You don't have to use the mod manager to look at the cat/dats, though it is the easiest way. You could use x2tool to extract the files from the dat (and to unpack TWares.pck to a readable form.) If you've got the latest plugin manager, x2tool is bundled with it, otherwise you need to download the x2 modding kit.

[Whuppee]

Awesome, thanks.

[Moonraven]

The "SS_WARE"-Codes are only unique identifiers within the TFiles. You can use your own codes, without problems.

If you want a list of available main-/subtypes (used in the script editor), just use this small script:

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0001   $maxMain = 20
0002   $mtc = 0
0003   while $mtc < $maxMain 
0004     $maxSub = get number of subtypes of maintype $mtc
0005     $stc = 0
0006     while $stc < $maxSub
0007        $ware = get ware from maintype $mtc subtype $stc
0008        write to logfile 99 append=[TRUE] printf: "Maintype %s Subtype %s = %s", $mtc, $stc, $ware, null, null
0009        inc($stc)
0010    end
0011    inc($mtc)
0012  end           
0013  return null

This code writes all wares with the main and subtype to a logfile in your x3 folder (log0099.txt or something like this).

[moggy2]

http://www.xai-corp.net/en/node/602

The SS_... constants are indeed the maintypes for those types of wares. SS_MISSILES are the missile wares, SS_TECH is the tech wares, etc.

[Cycrow]

althou theres no way to get the actual SS_WARE name from within a script.

scripts use thier position in the Tfiles as the id. IE, the subtype will match where it is in the file and has no concept of the actual name

[Whuppee]

Well, I had some luck with x2tool.. only to discover that having the wareIDs actually didn't solve the problem I thought it would

Might be able to use the main/sub types for that...


Thank you all for the responses.

@ Moonraven:

That'll be helpful. Didn't know I could do that.

@ moggy2:

Guess it's about time I started reading around sites like yours a bit more

@ Cycrow:

Thanks for the confirmation.