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Re: h files merger? possible issues? Mon, 14 February 2011 02:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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m.a@stars wrote

Stars.exe will always be harder to decompile/analize. Size matters! Sherlock

Yes, it does, but I beleive merger value would be much higher for non-cheaters in team games than the risk of easier decompiling (especially there is pretty easy way to get algorithm anyway, since it's already published).

XyliGUN wrote

2. Designs - the most tricky part.
Until design ids in the source and target h files are different the task is pretty simple, we just need to have a copy of all designs in the target file.
Once both h files have a different design with the same design id - merger have to select one of them:

m.a@stars wrote

Do you mean that Stars! assigns different IDs for each race that meets the same design belonging to the same race? Shocked

Oh, no. I mean that "until source and target h files have different set of designs" - it's easy - we just a need to have a full set of designs in the resulted h file.
But source and target h files could contain different designs with the same id if this design owner has changed it after it was met\acanned by first player and before it was met\scanned by the second.



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