Animal Population Changer - Revived

A GUI tool to modify attributes of animals across all reserves in theHunter: Call of the Wild (COTW)

Release builds are available here on GitHub and on NexusMods: https://www.nexusmods.com/thehuntercallofthewild/mods/440

Features

The following mods are possible with this tool:

1. Make an animal a Great One.
2. Make an animal a Diamond.
3. Make an animal have a rare fur.
4. Make a female animal a male.
5. Make a male a female.

Modded population files can be found in a mods folder in the same directory you are running the tool.

Limitations:

• This tool was tested on Windows 11 with the game installed via Steam. It is smart enough to also look where Epic Games saves its files too. If your game files are saved somewhere else besides where Steam or Epic saves them, use the Configure Game Path button.
• The species that use the newer TruRACS trophy system may not become a diamond. This is an area where I am still doing research to figure out how exactly to manipulate.
• If you use the executables (EXE) files, your system may complain there is a virus. This is not true, but the pyinstaller package that builds the executable is often used by hackers, and so it is being flagged. To avoid this, simply install the tool from the wheel file or build it from source.

How To Build

NOTE: This code was built and tested with Python 3.12.8.

Setup virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can run the packages directly by using:

python -m apcgui

You can install a developer version by using:

pip install .

If you want to build from a wheel:

pip install -U build
python -m build
pip install dist/apc-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

If you want to build directly from GitHub:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/RyMaxim/apc.git#egg=apc

If you want to build an executable (for Windows):

pip install -U pyinstaller
pyinstaller --noconsole --add-data "apc/config;config" --add-data "apc/locale;locale" --add-data "apcgui/locale;locale" apcgui.py
./dist/apcgui/apcgui.exe

Updating Translation Data

I am not fluent in multiple languages and have outsourced the translation work to the robots. The translation framework is handled with Babel and the actual translation text is generated with Google Translate using deep-translator.

To update the translation data:

pip install -r requirements.txt -r translate_requirements.txt
.scripts\update.bat
.scripts\compile.bat

Credits

This project would not exist without several generous developers that chose to open-source their tools and mods:

• cpypasta: Developer of the original Animal Population Changer that this is forked from
• kk49: This project relies heavily on the wonderful DECA to extract and modify game files
• xpltive/0xsthsth1337: Cracked the fur type algorithm, shared their code, and assisted greatly with understanding fur seed generation