FBI editor?

gamer17 · Post by **gamer17** » 16 Apr 2007, 16:06

I want to make a mod that changes the just unit stats.
I know all of this is in the FBI is there a easy mehod of doing this?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 16 Apr 2007, 16:41

Yep, open file in favourite text editor, get busy!

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 16 Apr 2007, 18:54

Didnt TM maek some web-based thingeh for this purpose?

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 16 Apr 2007, 19:39

It is offline, last time I checked.

gamer17 · Post by **gamer17** » 17 Apr 2007, 02:07

KDR_11k wrote:Yep, open file in favourite text editor, get busy!

Why don't you try and not be such a lamer

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 17 Apr 2007, 02:29

Welcome to the land of you-just-shoved-away-modder-help. Have fun.

btw, that's really all there is to it ^_^

Unless you're too ignorant to know that mods are in zip or 7zip archives, in which case 30 seconds on the Spring wiki could have saved you this embarrassment.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 17 Apr 2007, 02:52

gamer17 wrote:
KDR_11k wrote:Yep, open file in favourite text editor, get busy!
Why don't you try and not be such a lamer

Why don't you try what he says before you post

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 17 Apr 2007, 07:46

Try this:
http://fileuniverse.com/?p=show&a=it&id=1680

It lets you edit FBI files in an Excel spreadsheet (assuming you have MS Excel). Unfortunately its a little out of date and doesnt support some of the newer uber explosion effects and stuff, but for basic unit stat editing it should be more than adequate

kuqa · Post by **kuqa** » 17 Apr 2007, 14:37

imagine how the quality of the mods would drastically improve if we got to spring something like the editor in crysis where everything is changeable on the fly in game, lightning direction, unit stats, gravity, _everything_

No compiling, no reloading, just use the editor, press play when you want to playtest the changes and your editor view becomes the ingame view. Also realtime heightmap modifications are possible.

That is how it works when you design the game so that modders will have it easy working with it.

gamer17 · Post by **gamer17** » 17 Apr 2007, 15:36

Maelstrom wrote:Try this:
http://fileuniverse.com/?p=show&a=it&id=1680

It lets you edit FBI files in an Excel spreadsheet (assuming you have MS Excel). Unfortunately its a little out of date and doesnt support some of the newer uber explosion effects and stuff, but for basic unit stat editing it should be more than adequate

Thanks I didn't know about fileuniverse

gamer17 · Post by **gamer17** » 17 Apr 2007, 15:42

imbaczek wrote:
gamer17 wrote:
KDR_11k wrote:Yep, open file in favourite text editor, get busy!
Why don't you try and not be such a lamer
Why don't you try what he says before you post

Get out of my topic you lamers, You both what I meant when I said "Editor".

rcdraco · Post by **rcdraco** » 17 Apr 2007, 18:07

Ok I just need to say this, who do you think you are? And for the record editing FBI files is very easy, editors might even make it slower. Here you go, look on this website, there are 2 sets of FBI variable sets, they helped me make mods, so use them, and don't call people lamers, when you are the one who wanted help in the first place.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 17 Apr 2007, 19:22

gamer17 wrote:Get out of my topic you lamers, You both what I meant when I said "Editor".

Yes, we do, and we both know the answer is notepad.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 17 Apr 2007, 20:17

What the fuck do you expect? FBIs are key-value pairs, in the end even the most elaborate and fancy editor is just a list of tags with a text field you type the desired value into. A decent plaintext editor does that at least as well as whatever you're asking for.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 17 Apr 2007, 20:57

P3374H wrote:Welcome to the land of you-just-shoved-away-modder-help. Have fun.

Haw haw

I use notepad mostly and EditPlus2 when working on multiple files (regex search/replace rocks).

Shadowsage · Post by **Shadowsage** » 18 Apr 2007, 06:05

Peet's right, keep acting like that, and you will be totally shunned in the community.

Not a pleasant experience.

Anyway, they are right. You can use Wordpad, Notepad, etc.

I like Wordpad.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 18 Apr 2007, 07:02

WORDPAD??? That thing is meant for RTF and DOC files, not plain text!

Me, I'm using Context.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 18 Apr 2007, 09:28

vim for life.

gamer17 · Post by **gamer17** » 18 Apr 2007, 13:12

I know I can ues notepad, but asked for an editor.
If their was not one then, dont answer or tell me theirs not, dont hust post the dumb comment that I already know.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 18 Apr 2007, 14:09

Notepad is an editor. What do you want your editor to do?

Spring RTS Engine

FBI editor?

FBI editor?

Oh no you didn't