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[modding][tool]Lookup and Compare technologies

Posted on Saturday, April 4, 2015

Hi Guys,

in the course of trying to create a custom faction (as a major mod, not with the faction generator), I've found myself looking up and comparing technologies quite a bit. Lazy fellow that I am, I wrote myself a little tool to do this with. Friendly fellow that I am, I'm quite willing to share, just in case someone else finds a use for it:

Code: php
  1. function Get-Technology
  2. {
  3. <#
  4. .SYNOPSIS
  5. Fetches Technologies from all Technology Definition files.
  7. .DESCRIPTION
  8. Fetches Technologies from all Technology Definition files.
  10. .PARAMETER GenericName
  11. The generic name of the technology to find.
  13. .PARAMETER GamePath
  14. The path where the game-xml lies in (not the gameroot, but rather "[Gameroot]/data/Game").
  15. To set a default path, set it in the global $DefaultGamePath variable.
  17. .PARAMETER Property
  18. A specific property to withdraw. Use dots to indicate sub-items.
  20. Example: Stats.Value
  22. .EXAMPLE
  23. PS C:\> Get-Technology "ShieldOptimization2" -Property "Stats.Value"
  25. Retrieves the ShieldOptimization2 Technology from all files, specifically noting the Stats/Value property.
  26. #>
  27. [CmdletBinding()]
  28. Param (
  29. [Parameter(Mandatory = $true, Position = 0)]
  30. [string]
  31. $GenericName,
  33. [string]
  34. $GamePath = $DefaultGamePath,
  36. [string]
  37. $Property
  38. )
  40. $files = Get-ChildItem -Filter "*TechDefs.xml" -Path $GamePath
  41. $Results = @()
  42. $PropertySplit = @()
  43. $Property.Split(".") | ForEach-Object { $PropertySplit += $_ }
  44. $TagName = "" + ($PropertySplit | Select-Object -Last 1)
  46. foreach ($file in $files)
  47. {
  48. [xml]$xml = Get-Content $file
  49. $entry = $xml.Techlist.Tech | Where-Object { $_.GenericName -eq $GenericName }
  50. $value = $entry
  51. $PropertySplit | ForEach-Object { $value = $value.$_ }
  53. $count = 0
  54. $foundEntry = $false
  55. $foundValue = $false
  56. $LineEntry = 0
  57. $LineValue = 0
  59. Get-Content $file | ForEach-Object {
  60. if (!$foundValue)
  61. {
  62. $count++
  63. if ($_ -like "*<GenericName>$GenericName</GenericName>*") { $foundEntry = $true; $LineEntry = $count - 2 }
  64. if (($_ -like "*<$TagName>*") -and ($foundEntry) -and ($LineValue -eq 0)) { $foundValue = $true; $LineValue = $count }
  65. }
  66. }
  67. $Props = @{
  68. Entry = $Entry
  69. Value = $value
  70. LineEntry = $LineEntry
  71. LineValue = $LineValue
  72. File = $file
  73. }
  74. $Results += New-Object PSObject -Property $props
  75. }
  77. $global:ResultCache = $Results
  78. return $Results
  79. }
  80. $global:DefaultGamePath = "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\data\Game"

Powershell Skills recommended for use (Not to worry, it can't break a thing - doesn't write information anywhere)

Cheers,
Bosparan

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