Generating IBT files.

New Horizon on 27/2/2005 at 02:28

Any chance there is someone, in the know, who would still have access to the utility for creating IBT files?

EndlessDespair on 4/3/2005 at 07:39

I think the blockloads were generated through some peculiar command line switch that was passed to the release exectuable. Sadly I never made the blockfiles myself either so I don't know what the commandline option was, but I think I might know someone who does. I think the names for the blockfiles may be hardcoded into the game, though, don't know how easily that can be changed.

epithumia on 4/3/2005 at 14:54

Quote Posted by David

Yeah, I did and it threw loads of data into the command line, made my PC speaker beep constantly before the command line eventually "stopped responding" :p

In UNIX parlance, it sounds like it's dumping the blockfile to standard output. Try redirecting the output to a file by appending "> crap" and seeing what's in "crap".

Harwin on 4/3/2005 at 19:34

Quote Posted by New Horizon

Any chance there is someone, in the know, who would still have access to the utility for creating IBT files?

I believe that everything you need for creating block files is there. You'll need to touch the .ini settings and run the game appropriately.

I'm pretty sure that I tested this before we released the editor. Not to say that I couldn't have made a mistake somewhere and secretly had a reliance on our internal network (although I tried to avoid this)

OrbWeaver on 5/3/2005 at 11:33

Quote Posted by Harwin

I believe that everything you need for creating block files is there. You'll need to touch the .ini settings and run the game appropriately.

Any chance of a quick rundown on the "right" way to produce them? The threads on this forum look promising, but it would be better to know what the official ISA process was.