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WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 1:47:58 PM

RyanCrierie

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Threw this together in like 10 minutes, to help me with extracting the stock game scenarios.

Unzip this to your \SCEN folder and run it from there

You should see this:

Version 1.0

Version 1.1

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 3:41:45 PM

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Okay, it's dumb question time...
How do you reload a file you have modified? I am at my wit's end trying to get WitpLoadAE to work in a command box. I keep defaulting back to the root directory.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 5:46:02 PM

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install witploadae into your scenario directory...

open the command prompt and direct it to your scen directory

type - witploadae /e /s### - to dump scenario ### to csv files....which will end up in your scen directory

type - witploadae /s### - to load csv files into dat files used by game.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 6:15:10 PM

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ORIGINAL: treespider

install witploadae into your scenario directory...

open the command prompt and direct it to your scen directory

type - witploadae /e /s### - to dump scenario ### to csv files....which will end up in your scen directory

type - witploadae /s### - to load csv files into dat files used by game.

or witploadae /? for help

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 6:25:18 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

quote:

ORIGINAL: treespider

install witploadae into your scenario directory...

open the command prompt and direct it to your scen directory

type - witploadae /e /s### - to dump scenario ### to csv files....which will end up in your scen directory

type - witploadae /s### - to load csv files into dat files used by game.

or witploadae /? for help

How about the map (pwhex stuff) Don?

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 7:04:38 PM

Don Bowen

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How about the map (pwhex stuff) Don?

To the best of my knowledge no editor for map files has been released.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 5/3/2010 7:09:35 PM

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Thanks.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/11/2015 3:45:43 PM

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Where can I find this program? I have looked around and can not seem to find the download.

Thanks,

Dale

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/11/2015 4:09:12 PM

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first post where it says attachment(1) under the piccys, downloads ok for me......

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/11/2015 6:07:38 PM

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I proposed making maps from the pwhexe.dat file to reveal what is in every hex.
A map artist who makes art for all mods as well as stock has been able to write
a program to generate board game style maps in this way. It is in early stages
of development, but might well be able to serve as an aide to editing. Advise
if you want me to ask if he would release it?

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How about the map (pwhex stuff) Don?

To the best of my knowledge no editor for map files has been released.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/12/2015 12:52:47 AM

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first post where it says attachment(1) under the piccys, downloads ok for me......

Ah, thanks, missed that link.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/15/2015 1:50:51 AM

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Deleted....I am not a smart man............

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/17/2015 8:28:09 PM

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Just wanted to say I got to play with this on the weekend and sweet baby J***s!!!! What a fantastic tool. Someone somewhere else (specific eh?) mentioned WinMerge as a free spreadsheet comparing tool as well and my life has changed.....

Thanks to Ryan for creating such an amazing tool for us less(much) technically inclined people.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/18/2015 9:35:04 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

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How about the map (pwhex stuff) Don?

To the best of my knowledge no editor for map files has been released.

Is this still around?? (though I think it had some issues...)

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Editor for pwhexe.dat files (AE map data files)
Version 0.5 (Beta)

By Dave Bradley

The Pwhexe.dat_editor program is a freeware utility for use with Matrix Games' War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition. War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition is the property of Matrix Games. The author is not affiliated with Matrix Games in any way.

The Pwhexe.dat_editor is completely free and you are free to use this utility in any way you wish except that I ask that if you redistribute it you do so only with the complete installation package, containing all of the readme and license documentation. No warranty, express or implied, is provided with the software. Your use of it is entirely at your own risk. The editor was created using AutoIt, a freeware script editor for Windows. More information concerning AutoIt may be found at:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The work to produce the editor was cooperative effort and I must acknowledge the great contribution of Dani Mendoza. He has been invaluable in helping with the overal design and in de-bugging but most especially in working out the pwhexe.dat file format, without which no editor could have been produced.

Dave Bradley
12/15/10

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/18/2015 5:23:39 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Reg

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ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

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How about the map (pwhex stuff) Don?

To the best of my knowledge no editor for map files has been released.

Is this still around?? (though I think it had some issues...)
I used it a little bit, not extensively at all. I don't recall hearing about any issues with it. As far as the map graphics files go, I think people just use whatever graphics editor they find suitable. Never edited one of those myself.

quote:

Editor for pwhexe.dat files (AE map data files)
Version 0.5 (Beta)

By Dave Bradley

The Pwhexe.dat_editor program is a freeware utility for use with Matrix Games' War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition. War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition is the property of Matrix Games. The author is not affiliated with Matrix Games in any way.

The Pwhexe.dat_editor is completely free and you are free to use this utility in any way you wish except that I ask that if you redistribute it you do so only with the complete installation package, containing all of the readme and license documentation. No warranty, express or implied, is provided with the software. Your use of it is entirely at your own risk. The editor was created using AutoIt, a freeware script editor for Windows. More information concerning AutoIt may be found at:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The work to produce the editor was cooperative effort and I must acknowledge the great contribution of Dani Mendoza. He has been invaluable in helping with the overal design and in de-bugging but most especially in working out the pwhexe.dat file format, without which no editor could have been produced.

Dave Bradley
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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/19/2015 11:59:43 PM

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Okay, the export worked fine but now I cant get it to load the data back in.

I am using the command line of witploadae /s199 for example. I get a message that says:

Loading scenario #199
WITPDEV199.csv: No such file or directory

But I am looking in the folder and I can see the file in SCEN folder.

What am I doing wrong?

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/20/2015 1:09:47 AM

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cdnice,
Here are the notes I have from several years ago, I don't remember who originally posted it.

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To Use witploadAE

Open a DOS prompt by: clicking 'start', then run. On the 'run' prompt, I type cmd then click ok.

At the dos prompt, I type: CD C:\Games\WITP AE\SCEN (that's where I have it saved on my computer.)
C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition DBBB\SCEN

Now, I type: WITPLOADAE.exe /e /s198 (Long ago, I opened Scenario 1 in the editor and saved it as scenario 198.)

That gives me CSV files that I can open in Excel and modify to my hearts extent.

To import, I go back to the DOS prompt and type: WITPLOADAE.exe /i /s198

this produces files that are saved in a different location and need to be copied back to the SCEN folder.
My location is C:\Matrix Games\War in the pacific admiral's edition\scen
I go there, highlight all the files, right click and choose copy, then go to my SCEN folder above and paste.

That's about all the help I can give. the spaces above are important, and it's case sensitive, I think

Remember that at the command prompt it needs to say C:\Matrix Games\War in the pacific admiral's edition\scen then cut and past WITPLOADAE.exe /i /s199 and hit enter.
Hope this helps

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 8/20/2015 1:27:53 AM

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Thank you, I will give that a go.

Here is what I got:

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 9/1/2015 7:14:25 PM

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Bump....any ideas anyone?

I am going to do a clean install if I can't get it working. No harm done as I was not in the middle of any games.

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 9/2/2015 9:20:55 AM

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Your picture above doesn't show what folder your .csv files are in. Could you show the path to your dumped .csv files please.

I can only reproduce your error when I move the .csv files out of the scen folder.

(When I put hem in the correct location I then get a permission denied error but that is a totally different issue associated with file permissions under Win8)

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RE: WITPLOAD AE Batch File Assistant - 9/2/2015 5:04:49 PM

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Thanks for the reply.

I will look when I get home and hopefully reply tonight. I believe they are there, I did not move them. Do they dump to a different folder? (Can't look atm, at work.)

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