Bertilsson Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Is there any tool existing which makes modifying DefaultGameCore.ini a less boring task? While some modders like Yzaxtol can probably update the entire thing using nothing but notepad in less than 30 seconds, it is more like a 30 minutes process for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnylump Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Tried Resource Hacker? http://xcom.nexusmods.com/mods/55/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertilsson Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 (edited) Yes, but I haven't found any text-editing features beyond notepad in there... Let's say that I want to modify iEnvironmentDamage for all plasma weapons. Manually looking for relevant lines and side-scrolling in a text-editor is very teadious to say the very least. Weapons=(iType=eItem_PlasmaLightRifle,ABILITIES[0]=eAbility_ShotStandard,ABILITIES[1]=eAbility_NONE,ABILITIES[2]=eAbility_NONE,ABILITIES[3]=eAbility_Overwatch,ABILITIES[4]=eAbility_NONE,ABILITIES[5]=eAbility_NONE,Properties[0]=eWP_Rifle,Properties[1]=eWP_None,Properties[2]=eWP_None,Properties[3]=eWP_None,Properties[4]=eWP_None,Properties[5]=eWP_None,iDamage=5,iEnvironmentDamage=125,iRange=27,iReactionRange=-1,iReactionAngle=200,iRadius=0,iCritical=10,iOffenseBonus=10,iSuppression=0,iSize=eItemSize_Large,iHPBonus=0,iWillBonus=0) Edited June 16, 2013 by Bertilsson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnylump Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Ah, I see. Fraid that's what I do. (But then again, I find ini edits a relaxing break relative to hex edits :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertilsson Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 Ok thank you.I'll do some googling and if I can't find any tool to make it less "relaxing" I will probably make my own... It is probably an excellent oportunity to figure out how regexp works :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertilsson Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 As it turns out Notepad++ can make it simple enough.1. Right-click on the file-tab --> Clone to other view.2. View --> Synchronize Vertical Scrolling.3. Double-click on words of interest and select Style token. After doing that it is very easy to overview and modify any part of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokauk Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Have a look for XCOM Meddler, it might be the sort of thing you're after :smile: http://static.strategyinformer.com/r/screenshots/29945196.jpg Regular Expressions can be very useful, so I'm sure you'll have a use for what you learn along the way if you do develop a DGI.ini web-tool :smile: If you do decide to go that route, this page is a nice tool for testing regex :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertilsson Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Thank you!I think XCOM Meddler was very much what I was hoping for... And then some! :)But geting my hands on it seems a bit difficult... This file has currently been set to hidden by the author of the file. You cannot look at this file page or download any files relating to this file until the author makes the file visible to the public again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokauk Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Try here :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertilsson Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 I don't think it could be made any simpler or more intuitive than that. Thank you very much! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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