The Incredibly Basic AO Skill Emulator v2 with Source

[Darkbane]

I have a rip made with AOIA+ 1.1.6.1, so i'll see about getting the site up and a copy of that available at the weekend, just need to find some not too obnoxious free web space...

Some progress made on ripping the database myself, but work still to do (it doesn't write a db file yet and is painfully slow), I'll hopefully have some time at that too this weekend.

[Legendfluf]

Legendfluff, do you happen to have a rip of the database that's pre-reck that you could link to please?

Yes! Sorry, been busy lately.

Here's the database I currently use for my version of AOSkillsv4
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9wb77y92bdjfag3

[nanoforcer]

Nice, tyvm, that will work until Dark fixes things on his end

[nanoforcer]

Oh, is there any mirror for AOSkillsv4? the main site(Darkbane) seems to be down atm and i'de like to use that version

[Legendfluf]

Oh, is there any mirror for AOSkillsv4? the main site(Darkbane) seems to be down atm and i'de like to use that version

http://www.mediafire.com/download/a8mlk5c8u5j3nm4

iirc June 4th 2015 build. Which is also the most recent one I use.

[nanoforcer]

Thanks, again

[nanoforcer]

By the way, Darkbane, the gui looks quite horrible in windows 10 if you use scaling, everything is crammed together.
I can provide a screenshot later if you want.
Using a 4k screen with 200% scaling, is this something you could take a look at while fiddling with the new version? Thanks!

[Darkbane]

I have uploaded a new version here.

This inclues a copy of AOIA+ 1.6.1.1 (for db ripping and character dumping) and a copy of aoitems.db from the current game version to save time getting up and running.

Any issues, please post them here. And nanoforcer, a screenshot would be helpful as I don't have a 4K screen

[Legendfluf]

Any issues, please post them here.

Improvements:
1. Org Benefits finally doesn't appear behind the main window and can be used without having to minimize the main window.
2. No longer get yelled at for having buffs to add when starting up.

Problems:
1. Apotheosis is in Alien Perks instead of Research, taking up 10 ai perks when ticked.
https://i.imgur.com/Qkwjmx0.png
2. This has been around a while but I don't know if it's fixable. When you load a character and change implant QLs, lock them back and check the "Check Reqs?", it autos them to the best the character can actually equip and not keep them at their QLs. Happens a lot when twinking a character in it and having to keep remembering their previous QLs to fix.
https://i.imgur.com/lBNcuD1.png
https://i.imgur.com/JwoXbSC.png
https://i.imgur.com/PSnvc5r.png
3. The NS buff duplicator is back, among other multi-prof buffs.
https://i.imgur.com/dyKnHMR.png

[nanoforcer]

Thanks Dark, about the issue you see on the screenshot https://postimg.org/image/9xq0gw82p/ i think you can re-create yourself by adjusting the scaling in windows ( i'm using windows 10)
Another example, for good measure https://postimg.org/image/xadfsaqlz/

[Darkbane]

Thanks for the reports, I'll get Apotheosis sorted first, as that should be simple enough, then look at the other issues.

[Darkbane]

Ok, try this version on for size please.

Apotheosis should now be in the right place, and see if the scaling works better for you nanoforcer.

I'll need to think about the interplay of the "check reqs" and the locks etc. - but guess that locked items shouldn't get changed, will see about that for the next version.

As to the NS buff issue, do you have a way to replicate that?

[nanoforcer]

Slighty better in the "other stats" page, but the rest is still pretty unreadable i'm afraid.
A possible fix would perhaps to let the user decide what font and size to use?

https://postimg.org/image/bezaivdwh/

[Legendfluf]

I'll need to think about the interplay of the "check reqs" and the locks etc. - but guess that locked items shouldn't get changed, will see about that for the next version.

As to the NS buff issue, do you have a way to replicate that?

1. Open AOSkills
2. Go to Buffs -> "Manage Buffs"
3. In the drop down go to Bureaucrat and click "Add Buff" after highlighting Neuronal Stimulator and Pistol Mastery
4. In the drop down again, go to Meta-physicist and click "Add Buff" after highlighting Neuronal Stimulator and Pistol Mastery
5. You will see it shows them both stacking in Intel/Psy and Pistol.

[nanoforcer]

There is aslo a problem if you use 8 researchlines, save that as a xml file and try to load it, as long as there are 7 research lines it will load ok if if you use 8 it will spit a message at you saiyng that "there was a problem loading file"

It's easy to recreate, just open the program, set leve l220 and ai 30 and tag 7 och the 8 research lines, save.
Load that file and add a last research line so that there are 8 in total, save that and try to load it.

Boom. (I assume you hardcoded it to load 7 research lines from the xml and when it finds 8 (since you added apo) it goes bananas)

[Darkbane]

More problems caused by Apotheosis... damn you perk!

Ok, added further scaling, my test look promising, but I can't match your rez or scaling factor.
Added a check for existing buffs when adding a new buff which should prevent adding shared buffs multiple times.
And increased to research temp array from 70 slots to 80 slots to accomodate the extra research line.

All that can be found here.

Let me know how it goes

I'll have a look at the implant issue next unless anything major crops up in this build.

[nanoforcer]

Well it might be better i guess, biggest issue is that the values get cut off, as an example here i can't really see what the value of "pistol" is. (it's over 1400-ish in reality)
http://imgur.com/K6OJS2a

So it's mainly in that part of the program where the text and numbers look all fat and don't fit.

[Avari]

Using this program for the first time and finding it quite nice.

I'm sitting at work atm though and trying to figure out how I get an updated item database to work with. The readme file talks about AOIA+, but will it create an item db for me without installing and loading AO also? Problem is I can't install AO at work.

Any pointers?

[Legendfluf]

I have uploaded a new version here.
This inclues a copy of AOIA+ 1.6.1.1 (for db ripping and character dumping) and a copy of aoitems.db from the current game version to save time getting up and running.

I'm sitting at work atm though and trying to figure out how I get an updated item database to work with. The readme file talks about AOIA+, but will it create an item db for me without installing and loading AO also? Problem is I can't install AO at work.

Read the thread a bit to find out there's a DB file in a previous download that's up-to-date lol.

[Avari]

Read the thread a bit to find out there's a DB file in a previous download that's up-to-date lol.

I did read the past couple of pages actually. As you'll notice there are several download sources given in various posts of this thread. I chose the latest one that is supposed to include Apotheosis fixes.

It's the source from this post:

Ok, added further scaling, my test look promising, but I can't match your rez or scaling factor.
Added a check for existing buffs when adding a new buff which should prevent adding shared buffs multiple times.
And increased to research temp array from 70 slots to 80 slots to accomodate the extra research line.

All that can be found here.

When I tried to configure equipment using this version there were several items missing, however. As an example there were mostly basic belts and no AI/Xan Belts.

The source you quoted above also does not have an updated item database. Example: There are only 3-4 belts you can choose in the equipment configuration.