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Re: Fixing Stars!

Sat, 21 December 2019 14:17

ricks03

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The only thing that's a factor is whether a block is completely mapped.

I have tools up on TotalHost that will let you view (and change) the output of a block. The API from Raptor has the block information that has been mapped so far (sort of).

So you can make a single change, submit a tun, and look at the output of a .x file. From there it's (painfully) possible to map blocks. It's made harder by the intense compression of stars. Even things like text use a clever algorithm to try to save space. Some blocks have two formats (long and short) depending on what data is stored within them. Often pieces of a byte are more than one tidbit of information, so you have to break it out in binary.

So it's "easy" to read and change values in a .x file to what you want, once they're mapped. Sky's the limit if the block is mapped.

[Updated on: Sat, 21 December 2019 14:47]

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		Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Sun, 24 November 2019 02:21
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Sun, 24 November 2019 23:50
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 27 November 2019 00:23
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: Ron on Thu, 28 November 2019 17:21
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: mrvan on Sun, 15 December 2019 19:00
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Sun, 15 December 2019 19:48
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: m.a@stars on Wed, 18 December 2019 20:15
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 18 December 2019 20:34
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: m.a@stars on Thu, 19 December 2019 18:51
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Thu, 19 December 2019 22:53
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: m.a@stars on Fri, 20 December 2019 19:37
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Sat, 21 December 2019 02:46
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: mrvan on Sat, 21 December 2019 06:05
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Sat, 21 December 2019 14:17
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Mon, 23 December 2019 23:36
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 22 April 2020 02:42
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Thu, 23 April 2020 18:51
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 29 April 2020 02:59
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		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 23:33
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		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 11 November 2020 13:06
		Re: Fixing Stars! By: ricks03 on Wed, 18 November 2020 23:53

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