Hi JCL and co,

It would be really nice if entity.string1 and entity.string2 could be changed realtime. I am making a realtime map editor and it would be nice to save 2 actions/strings; 1 for in the editor itself (also for the entity action when opening a saved map in the editor) and 1 for the game (script). But the manual points out the it is read-only.



Is it possible to bypass the read-only thingy?

Thanks in advance.

You can use a entity skill as a string too

Forget the read only stuff...
Nothing in memory is really read-only (just when the process constantly writes to the address which is not the case here).
So you either just call str_cpy and if it fails you can use VirtualProtect to change the page protections because it might be protected (ReadOnly).

if you need to store data on creating a wmb, I use it in MapBuilder, just save the info in the editor into a skill over 20 (the 1st 20 skills are saved into wmb), then get the string when you write the 2 strings into the new wmb. check my source, it is easy (I use it for storing decal shadow file name needed for free/extra license users).

Thanks for all the quick responses;

, true but that would be sacrificing 1 one of the 20 skills the user otherwise can use for e.g. stats like hit points to save in a .wmb map file.

, oh nice, ty for the tip.


, with source you mean your Map Builder source? I try to download it but both the mirrors don't work. But why actually not directly save the string into entity.string?

Of course, all of this is going to break the second the strings are used internally. Or hashed and that hash is used internally.

Has none of you guys mothers told you that you don't just walk into your neighbours house and take their bread? You keep your grabby fingers off of memory that isn't yours.

Neighbour's house was left empty and is slowly falling apart. So it is the perfect playground.

Rumour has it there is a ghost still living there, not being able to find a final resting place. Also, don't eat moldy bread found in your neighbours rotten house. Chances are that the stuff growing on it is not in fact penicillin.

I see two separate questions/ things in this thread/ OP. The first thing is to be able to modify string1/2, but as stated by others you can just create a string and save it in one of the 100 skills.
The second thing is that you want to attach 2 actions to your entities because of editor/ ingame differences. Alternatively, I think it would be a better way to save additional data in a *.txt file from which you then load map editor related actions for each entity if necessary (and suppress the execution of the actual entity action).