doubleshadow's X3 Editor (0.15 - patch 2.0 compatible)

LiveAus · Post by **LiveAus** » Sat, 31. Mar 07, 13:26

Any idea on how to easily extract form cat files and create ships in XSP format to install in X Ship Manager?

doubleshadow · Post by **doubleshadow** » Mon, 2. Apr 07, 08:24

LiveAus wrote:Any idea on how to easily extract form cat files and create ships in XSP format to install in X Ship Manager?

Yeah - use X3 ModManager.

If you have questions about X Ship Installer and the XSP packages, you should ask the author - Cycrow. Or Tensin - he's a real pro when it comes to ships in XSP

Flybye · Post by **Flybye** » Mon, 2. Apr 07, 09:49

LiveAus, the Ship Creator has a nice little wizard which fully extracts all data from a specific ship and allows you to save it as an .xsp file which you can then import back in using the Ship Installer.

LiveAus · Post by **LiveAus** » Wed, 4. Apr 07, 11:13

Thanks guys!
Now I can extract the ships I want from the Mega Ship Mod (that has 106 new ships).
This game just got even better!

Laureati · Post by **Laureati** » Wed, 25. Apr 07, 07:26

Great tool doubleshadow. Been working on my own mod and it's been really easy to use. I'd like to make a request though. Would you add support on it for the Sounds.pck file?

Took me awhile to figure out but finally managed to unpack that file with the x2tool.exe file. Would be great if I could access it using your editor instead.

Cheers,
keep up the good work.

doubleshadow · Post by **doubleshadow** » Wed, 25. Apr 07, 10:12

Laureati wrote:Great tool doubleshadow. Been working on my own mod and it's been really easy to use. I'd like to make a request though. Would you add support on it for the Sounds.pck file?

Took me awhile to figure out but finally managed to unpack that file with the x2tool.exe file. Would be great if I could access it using your editor instead.

Cheers,
keep up the good work.

You may as well use X3MM to extract the file. There's not way to add propper support for such files (sounds, ware lists, videos) in X3E. Without the comments, you would be totally lost

And I think that such files are better to edit in text editor anyway (of course not in Notepad...).

NeonSamurai · Post by **NeonSamurai** » Sat, 21. Jul 07, 22:05

Edited: Nevermind i see the missle file layout changed since i was last modding.

But i did find a problem with editing Tshields. For shield efficiency it wont let me put a decimal value (0.00) and insists on whole numbers only. Not a big deal though as i can just edit that by hand easily enough.

Wesley Franken · Post by **Wesley Franken** » Tue, 24. Jul 07, 20:50

He,

I have a question, why is it not possible to change Tships files and all the other T-files in the XTM 0.7.2?? with the XTM 0.7 it was possible.

Greetings,
Wes

Algoran · Post by **Algoran** » Sat, 28. Jul 07, 08:10

Hi, I dont know much about modding and things, but what im trying to do is fix the khaak ship models (the nose triangle disappearing when viewed up close) and i read somewhere else (http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... iangle+fix) that it just requires one number in one of the model files in the cat03 file to be changed.

I understand doubleshadow's program is the thing to do this with? But when I go to the text editor and open the file mentioned there, it says something like 'cannot open, invalid T file'

Be very grateful for any help.. what might the problem be? Is this even how to fix the ship models?

doubleshadow · Post by **doubleshadow** » Mon, 30. Jul 07, 13:40

Algoran wrote:Hi, I dont know much about modding and things, but what im trying to do is fix the khaak ship models (the nose triangle disappearing when viewed up close) and i read somewhere else (http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... iangle+fix) that it just requires one number in one of the model files in the cat03 file to be changed.
...

In short (you can find/ask the details): you need X3 ModManager to extract the body file. Then change the file as explained in the thread. Next you must put it back into catalog. The easy and dangerous way is to overwrite the original file. Better would be to make your own mod - instead of TShips, put inside the modified objects\v\00771.bod and activate the mod. That's all.

Wesley Franken wrote:He,

I have a question, why is it not possible to change Tships files and all the other T-files in the XTM 0.7.2?? with the XTM 0.7 it was possible.

I have no idea

I'm lazy to download ~350MB just to get the TShips. Can you send it to me? Or ask the XTM crew to send me the file. Are you using the latest X3E version?

Wesley Franken · Post by **Wesley Franken** » Mon, 30. Jul 07, 15:12

I have no idea Smile I'm lazy to download ~350MB just to get the TShips. Can you send it to me? Or ask the XTM crew to send me the file. Are you using the latest X3E version?

Yes, I'm using the latest X3 Editor version (the 0.0.15 or something), and I can ask the XTM team to send you the T-ships file and where should I send it to??

P.S.

You can change the T-files but it rejects to work in the game, its like you never changed it at all??

(just to be clear

)

Wesley Franken · Post by **Wesley Franken** » Mon, 30. Jul 07, 15:17

I have the T-ships file ready, I can send it to you as soon as I know where to.

doubleshadow · Post by **doubleshadow** » Tue, 31. Jul 07, 09:28

Wesley Franken wrote:You can change the T-files but it rejects to work in the game, its like you never changed it at all??

(just to be clear )

I never played XTM or DDRS or XFP. I never played any mod at all - beside my own.

Wesley Franken · Post by **Wesley Franken** » Tue, 31. Jul 07, 15:45

I have E-mailed the T-ships file.

I never played XTM or DDRS or XFP. I never played any mod at all - beside my own.

You should try it, I think the XTM 0.7.2 mod is a !ReAl! improvement for X3.

Greetings,
Wes

doubleshadow · Post by **doubleshadow** » Wed, 1. Aug 07, 08:48

@Wesley Franken - It looks like we have some misunderstanding. I thought that you are unable to open the TShips when you wrote "unable to change". However I'm able to open/save the file without problems. So what exactly is your problem? When you make a change, it is not visible in the game? If so, I doubt this is error in X3E. Maybe you are changing wrong mod? (it's not that I'm underestimating you...

)

Wesley Franken · Post by **Wesley Franken** » Wed, 1. Aug 07, 13:35

(it's not that I'm underestimating you... Wink )

Haha

Realy, I already did try every types map with the T-ships file and others in it, but it doesn't infect the game, I changed everything, I tried to make a sector killing missile with the hornet but it still lacks power.

Pogi · Post by **Pogi** » Thu, 27. Sep 07, 03:42

I get this pop-up when trying to use the .txt editor...Can't open wrong version (47) or something like that..I have Devil installed and using .15..Any ideas?..Trying to edit the TMissles..everything else seems to work fine.

Thanks

Jakesnake5 · Post by **Jakesnake5** » Thu, 27. Sep 07, 13:47

TMissile version 47 is from BEFORE X3 2.0. 2.0 changed the number of offsets each entry has, and was unreadable by the current version of the Editor back then.

With a 2.0 compatible version of the Editor, it cannot READ the pre-2.0 X3 TMissiles file, as it has an extra offset per entry, and is not usable in 2.0 at all.

Try opening the TMissiles file in the 08 cat/dat, that's 2.0.

Pogi · Post by **Pogi** » Thu, 27. Sep 07, 14:15

@Jakesnake5..Right on the money..Thanks for your help

Soul3dge · Post by **Soul3dge** » Wed, 14. Nov 07, 03:47

I was having the same problem as Wesley, apparently altering the tships.pck but it having no effect in game.
After a lot of rooting around i discovered that Vista doesn't like programs that write information into certain folders (Program Files, Windows etc) and so it decides to create a copy of whatever your changing and stick it in to a virtual store. It tricks the app into thinking all is well but, of course, X3 reads from the correct folder while the editor is changing the dummy. I suppose its not really a problem with the editor more an issue with Vista.

I understand that if you have the editor set as 'run as admin' then it should alter the correct files but i didn't have much luck and had to disable UAC to allow it to work correctly.

Anyway just a heads up as more of us change over to microsofts latest offering its bound to catch a few people out.