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TinFoilTopHat

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Modding question
« on: December 27, 2013, 09:52:00 pm »
I've been messing around with the various XMLs, but how would you go about editing the non-safari documents, (CPCs, CMVs, etc etc.) because those just appear as weird characters when I open 'em with an XML editor.

Thank you in advance.
« Last Edit: December 27, 2013, 10:25:23 pm by TinFoilTopHat »
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SlatersQuest

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Re: Modding question
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2013, 12:03:07 am »
There generally are instructions in how to edit the associated files available as comments in the C++ source code. What files specifically are you trying to mod?
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Re: Modding question
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2014, 11:16:52 am »
Nothing in particular, just wanted to see what there was to mod.
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tyrannus007

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Re: Modding question
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2014, 01:34:11 pm »
You need to download the source. Then you can edit them using Notepad or Notepad++.
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Re: Modding question
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2014, 11:00:36 pm »
CPC and CMVs are, as far as I can tell, a unique binary format created by Toady. I'm unaware of anything that can open them other than LCS itself, but I haven't asked him about them either, so there might be more to the story than I know. There are a couple files on SVN in which I wrote up a brief documentation from my efforts to reverse engineer the format.
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