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Buildengaems

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New C# dwarf fortress mod wip - need help getting started
« on: October 06, 2010, 09:56:10 am »
Can someone point me in the right direction?  I want to create a mod that tracks different stats of the dwarfs, like how many spaces they travel between tasks, what those tasks are...the end result being a report that can let you know where to improve efficiency.   Does anyone know of an open-source C# project I can look at that reads dwarf fortress details, or documentation that could point me in the right dir?

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Deon

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Re: New C# dwarf fortress mod wip - need help getting started
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2010, 11:22:14 am »
The main memory-reading library right now is DFHack. And there're various tools based on dfhack.dll which show dwarven stats, attributes and other parameters.

Read the Community Mods and Utilities list.
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Re: New C# dwarf fortress mod wip - need help getting started
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2010, 02:51:31 pm »
Luckily, DFHack has nice C exports so you can easily P/Invoke most functions directly from the DLL. I think the C exports do not contain all the functionality the C++ code has, but it should be enough in most cases and you don't need to recompile any code. I can really recommend using DFHack for .NET projects.
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