[Idea] .Dat file Database

[Overlord1191]

We really need to put together some sort of database of all the .dat files!

Format like:
1) Filename
2) who made it
3) what is, what it does, what it needs

I'm in a mess right now because I've got so many mods (YAY!) that I can't figure out what came with the original game and what's new (UGH!) and I'm trying to remember what's what.

maybe this would be perfect for the Locomotion Wiki. I'm willing to do a part in this but I'm not going to do it all myself (because I don't know what everything is). This would be great though, and in the future it would keep us from using the same names and overwriting each other's files.

For example I've created ROCK3.dat (my mars terrain) LSBROW2.dat (the mars terrain cliffs) and I'm working on some new townname containers and possible some new landscape graphics.

[Daan Timmer]

[WIP}users.tt-forums.net/purno


and so far its only for TTD but I can speak with purno to add a lomo section

as I said, still a WIP (work in progress) everything works, but the menu has to be changed It first were all pictures, and I am changing them to CSS... altho I couldend finish it, tahts why it looks ugly now

[Stylpe]

Sort by date.
All original files will be dated the same day you installed Loco, the rest will be mods dated when you extracted them.

[Olli]

Im working on a database of the original .dat files, at first just a list what dat file is what kind of object.
Its an excel table with small images and some/all variables.
If someone can create an exe that creates such a table automatically i would like that.

[Mek]

Im working on a database of the original .dat files, at first just a list what dat file is what kind of object.
Its an excel table with small images and some/all variables.
If someone can create an exe that creates such a table automatically i would like that.

i have an exe that (among other things) creates an xml file with for each file the class it is, and which other files it uses... (see attachment)

btw, owen, why are xml files not allowed as attachment?

[Overlord1191]

btw, owen, why are xml files not allowed as attachment?

Here, here! I was wondering that myself.

[Overlord1191]

[WIP}users.tt-forums.net/purno


and so far its only for TTD but I can speak with purno to add a lomo section

as I said, still a WIP (work in progress) everything works, but the menu has to be changed It first were all pictures, and I am changing them to CSS... altho I couldend finish it, tahts why it looks ugly now

Sorry DaaNje but it's completely non functional right now. Whatever we start using is going to need user end functionality. Basically a front end where everyone can submit new info.

[orudge]

Here, here! I was wondering that myself.

They were never needed until now. I'll add it as an allowed extension.