[solved] Loading bar.

[JossuaDC]

Can the names of data files be displayed in the Loading Screen without .dat behind them?
We can create some sort of loading bar by naming data files '|' (||, |||, etc.) using this method.

~JDC.

[TheNave]

hey! that was NTSD II's Idea^^ lol
no rly, we though about that, too, but still I don't think that's possible

[RenanDez]

The best would be to display only the name of dat.
(without the way and .dat)

[Boop]

Duh, some mod did this ages ago, without any hex editing >.< " . Just remove the .dat from the files, and change data.txt to not include .dat either.

e.g :

data\davis << (see no .dat).

PS: to the idiot who will say " i think it won't work" , you will get warned .-

[TheNave]

"I think know it won't work"
:P just tested it, if you delte the .dat from a file and the data.txt, the exe will crash when trying to load that file

@EDIT:
well, then they did something else except that

[Boop]

Haha, I was wrong. What they did was call the data files

1%.dat 2%.dat and so on :p.

Well it should be doable. Just search the loading text for the . and replace it with 0(hex, not asci). 0 is used as a string terminator so it should work.

I'll whip up the code if I don't find something better to do within 5 minutes.

Edit: Bah, you can't directly edit the string, because it uses that string to load the file :(. Means you have to copy the string :p. To much effort, someone else do it.

Update:
Alright, I did it. It edits the string, calls the "show loading text" thingy, then modifies the string back. Not the best solution, but it works :D.

ASM-Code: .data loadingText db "Silva Rules!!",0 Load dd 00424436h Load_c dd 00401290h   dotLoc dd ? .code     Loading proc ;LOCAL string:Str   PUSH 3Ch ; Y cord PUSH 260h ; X cord pushad mov edx, dword ptr ss:[ESP+3Ch] mov eax,0 looop: cmp byte ptr ds:[edx+eax],2eh je rawr cmp byte ptr ds:[edx+eax],0 je rawrz inc eax jmp looop rawr: mov byte ptr ds:[edx+eax],0 rawrz: lea ebx, dword ptr ds:[edx+eax] mov dotLoc,ebx popad CMP EDX,2 MOV DWORD PTR DS:[4511BCh],EDX JGE a   MOV EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+1Ch] ;original text add edx,5 ; skip data\ ;LEA EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[loadingText] MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[455608h] PUSH 0FF6464h ; text color PUSH 00601B0Dh ;background color PUSH EDX PUSH EAX JMP return   a: ADD EDX,-5 CMP EDX,2 JA b   MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+1Ch] ;original text add ecx,5 ; skip data\ ;LEA ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[loadingText] MOV EDX,DWORD PTR DS:[455608h] PUSH 0FFFFFFh ;text color PUSH 00601B0Dh ; background color PUSH ECX PUSH EDX JMP return   b: MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+1Ch] ;original text add eax,5 ; skip data\ ;LEA EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[loadingText] MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[455608h] PUSH 0FFB4B4h ;text color PUSH 00601B0Dh ;background color PUSH EAX PUSH ECX   return: CALL [Load_c] push eax mov eax, dword ptr ds:[dotLoc] mov byte ptr ds:[eax],2eh pop eax JMP Load   Loading endp

It also skips the first 5 characters (normally it is data\), if you want it to skip more, or to show the "data\" part you'll have to remove the "add R,5" stuff.

[TheNave]

o.O thanks alot silva! works perfect now!

[Madara Uchiha]

It does work, I did this like 4 days ago. Sadly if you don't have 100% data files, it can be bit weird, cause it doesn't seem like it's going up by percent.

[RenanDez]

Easy to make and work perfect Silva...
but for skip more folder is the same process?

make you dll?