State of Decay 2 Ideal Community Generator

Read this file carefully before trying to use this utility.

1. 6 changes:

Added BATTLE ROYALE MODE: profiles duke it out for dominance!

1. 5 changes:

moved ocrfixes to separate file, I didn't like them cluttering up the config file

exposed HPFilterVal variable for the high pass filter

changed behavior of the mouse a bit, now it will pause if you manually move the mouse away from the reroll button

renamed MouseMoveWait to MouseEventWait

1. 4 changes:

moved ocr fixes to the end of the config file, rather than being hard-coded, so if you notice a mistake appearing on your specific computer, you can add it

added support for 1280x960 resolution, which is 4:3 for those of you who don't get 16:9 options for whatever reason

added option for people who want to search for skills and don't care about the traits involved

1. 3 changes:

some performance improvements

it tries to automatically move the game window to the corner for you and bring it to front of window stack

removed need to surround trait and skill names with quotes in config file

notice: trait and skill names now have to be exact matches, rather than substrings

example: 'lichen' used to work, but now it has to be 'lichenologist'

added a number of configuration options to the config file, including ability to define parameters for custom game window resolutions

First, you may need to install or update Microsoft Visual C runtime.

I provided a recent copy of their redistributable binary in the folder vc_redist.

Second, you may need to install an updated version of Java

https://java.com/en/download/

Third, you need to modify the SoD2_ideal_community.cfg file. Use Notepad or Wordpad, it's just an ascii text file.

Most of the settings should be fairly obvious, but here's the general idea:

The program runs for (RunMins + RunSecs) and tries to build characters for you to start your community.

The MouseEventWait setting is to make sure that the Windows UI registers the mouse event before the next click attempt.

Too small a number here means mouse clicks will be asynchronous to the OCR functions, and the program won't work right.

ScaleFactor is used by the OCR code to upscale images before trying to do text retrieval. At lower resolutions, this can help improve accuracy.

DoSharpen instructs the program to convolve a sharpen mask over the image before text retrieval. At lower resolutions, this can help improve accuracy.

DoOCRCleanup performs a series of corrections to fix common mistakes and mispellings.

HPFilterVal is the minimum rgb value required for a pixel to be considered "not noise".

DoPromptToContinue will prompt you after the program completes if there are still open character slots.