Name Lists?

[Jasper]

Anyone know how to pull the name lists out of Dominions 4?

[Matze]

Are you talking about god titles?
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?showtopic=2610
here is a list of them

[Jasper]

I'm after the lists of random names that each leader picks from when recruited, that vary by nation and so forth.

[jonbrave]

@Jasper Have you tried grepping the files for one of the names, so you can find out where it comes from?

EDIT: OK, I was surprised to discover these names --- and all other strings --- are not actually in external files, they are compiled into the code!

Try dropping your "Dominions4.exe" into say Windows Notepad. I then searched for "Childerik", one of my commander's names. Sure enough you find it, in the middle of hundreds of other names!

You could then scroll to the start of names and just copy from the start of the block to the end. Then a little bit of manipulation on the pasted result will separate out the names onto lines of their own, or whatever. It may not be very elegant, but given they're in the .exe I doubt there will be a tool which extracts them.

[Jasper]

Yeah, it's pretty old school C. I've seen them mined out before so I'm sure someone already did the work; I was hoping they'd be in the Dom4 mod inspector, but alas!

I guess groveling through the files does work though, bleh. Hopefully they're still readily sorted by nation, as that's what I'm after.

[Edit] Nope, they're just all jumbled in, as I'd feared. Dang. So not in the mood to decompile to get at them. :-/

[larzm]

The list of names used is here[drive.google.com]. It is indexed by name type. Each section is started with a nametype value (100-161). The values of the nametypes are defined here[github.com]. I mined these as part of the Dom 4 mod inspector but never had a use for them.

[waTTe]

Thats very strange - who would put such a pure text-thing into the exe and at the same time release a moding-guide???
Shouldnt be much prob though to change this - something to ask for as an update.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by waTTe:

Thats very strange - who would put such a pure text-thing into the exe and at the same time release a moding-guide???

Many (most?) .exe files are this way. After all, .exes are just a compilation of code which executes itself when initiated. ;)

[Jasper]

Originally posted by larzm:

The list of names used is here[drive.google.com]. It is indexed by name type. Each section is started with a nametype value (100-161). The values of the nametypes are defined here[github.com]. I mined these as part of the Dom 4 mod inspector but never had a use for them.

Thanks, this is a huge help!

I knew I'd seen them about somewhere. Feared they'd been lost in the demise of forums past.

[waTTe]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by waTTe:

Thats very strange - who would put such a pure text-thing into the exe and at the same time release a moding-guide???

Many (most?) .exe files are this way. After all, .exes are just a compilation of code which executes itself when initiated. ;)

Read please - I didnt doubt that - I just wondered about this to be the case in a game that claims to be mod-friendly and has indeed lots of support for moders.
Compare this to Darkest Hour were almost everything possible is handled via txt files that can be easily altered.

[Mormacil]

Fundamental difference IIRC Darkest Hour is designed with modding in mind, Dominions 1 wasn't.