Show posts
The functional part of the program is basically done, what I'm doing now is trying to store all the data(offsets, hex values, strings that are associated with them so you know what you are looking at) required to edit every quest in the game(instead of hard coding data for 1 or 2 to test it). Problem is I need to associate each property with a quest, and some properties (such as units) have sub-properties(jobs, abilities, equipment etc). This is something I would normally do using a database(a text file would be too long and a the search operations would increase run time and the required length of code by too much) for a personal project or web application, but this is supposed to be a standalone editor,. I'm not really willing to type up text files that long and even developing an algorithm too peel the info and sort it into something remotely efficient of lennart's spreadsheets would be a pain. So I can either make a more specialized application that only edits enemy units for each quest and their properties with internal resources or I can make an all around quest editor that can affect all the properties of a quest(law, loot, ap , exp, rank, clan stat requirements etc), but would require the user to download and setup a database on their local system server that the application can reference.(I'm not willing to host an online database since my aws free database usage is nearly maxed out already because of some other stuff I was doing) I'm not sure whether or not the community would be willing to do that so I'm asking here before I make a decision.
Note: the database application would most likely take a similar time frame as the specialized one so that's not really a factor, and either way since these are winform applications developed in visual studio you will need the .net framework to run it, but if you are playing any games on your computer chances are you already installed it, and if not it takes like 5 minutes.
Note: the database application would most likely take a similar time frame as the specialized one so that's not really a factor, and either way since these are winform applications developed in visual studio you will need the .net framework to run it, but if you are playing any games on your computer chances are you already installed it, and if not it takes like 5 minutes.