Talk:GEOSCAPE.EXE

I just remembered something: Some bitmaps are stored in the executable. I think one such bitmap belongs to the Geoscape side bar. If the offsets for this can be located in the executable, you should be able to sign it off as an irrelevant section if you're hunting for particular variables in the executable.

But that's the hard part. Where do you look? And what image width are we looking at?

I once tried creating a program that took in an offset number, a line width number and how many bytes you want displayed from then on as the parameters. It would then open up one of the executables and draw the bytes on the screen as a bitmap of sorts. Kind of never got off the ground - I got distracted and now a year has passed and all my programming knowledge has gone into a vegetative state. I wonder if a program like this would be useful in locating tables or images in the file?

- NKF

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The Geoscape side bar? Isn't that in GEOBORD.SCR?

Regardless, something to mask out known offsets in the file would certainly come in handy.

- Bomb Bloke 22:41, 21 October 2006 (PDT)

Offsets

This page is going to get rather long if we explain in detail all of the offsets here. I don't know if we should merge the Alien stats to the Alien Stats page or make a new page for it?

Also technically the Weapon stats are stored in Tactical so probably should be put on that page.

I've found some other offsets and if I keep digging I'm sure I'll find more. See my talk page for a mock-up of what I'm thinking for the format. Pi Masta 15:21, 12 March 2007 (PDT)

Well, in terms of length, it is (or is going to be) much like other game files: lots and lots of offsets, and their descriptions. It's not a page a casual player is going to reference.--Ethereal Cereal 15:56, 12 March 2007 (PDT)