Beasts and Bumpkins Tools [BBTools]

[JonMagon]

I've disassembled BB and created the tools.
Language is C# with MonoGame.

MapViewer
A tool to render the mission/savegame files


SpriteViewer
VIDEO.BOX reader


Download link: https://github.com/JonMagon/BBTools
In BBTools/additions you can find pseudocode of some functions from BEASTS.EXE.
Ambient and Speach are in TODO.

Vielen Dank für Trass3r, der wirklich vieles gemacht hat.

Binaries: https://github.com/JonMagon/BBTools/rel ... naries.zip

My Skype: jonmagon

[JonMagon]

https://github.com/JonMagon/BBTools/wik ... y-analysis
Da gibt's auch eine Anleitung zur Aktivierung des MapEditor (auf Englisch)

[Rheini]

Nicely done!
Much better than my random tiles : https://web.archive.org/web/20121024005 ... om/#node-5

[JonMagon]

Nicely done!
Much better than my random tiles : https://web.archive.org/web/20121024005 ... om/#node-5

Without you, this would have been impossible.

[Rheini]

There are also tools for decoding everything into .png and .wav files:
https://github.com/Trass3r/OpenBB/releases

[finglor]

Hello,

I am interested in modifying the beasts.exe in a hex editor to increase the resolution of the game. I was able to modify it and increase the size by
searching for for 80020000E001 and replace the entire thing with 000500000004 for 1280x1024.

This makes the play area bigger like this picture https://imgur.com/gallery/7pJkok0 I also moved the portrait with these

At offset 29714 replace 1C 02 with 9C 04
At offset 2972D replace 7C 01 with 9C 03.

The only problem I have left are the thought bubble (not critical)
Sprites like houses and monsters sometimes disappear if they are outside the original 640x480 area. I am guessing there is some kind of clipping or frustum culling going on to increase performance.

Since you have disassebled the exe do you have any idea where this might be?

Thanks.

[Deanson]

Hello,

As far as I'm concerned, modifying game files using a hex editor may prove interesting. As regards the disappearance of sprites outside the original area, it's likely that some form of clipping or frustration reduction has been implemented in the game to optimize performance.