[Discussion] Rebirth Tools

[Ketraar]

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MFG

Ketraar

[wiwip]

I love you

[Vim Razz]

This is awesome. ty!

[ybeline]

Hello,

EGOSOFT has made the X Rebirth Mission Director Guide available to the public in PDF format.

Thank you very much for releasing this guide.
It will most surely help: reverse engineering was actually beginning to show its limits, for me at least

Regards,

ybeline

[jojorne]

any official info on how to make my script available in-game like how to create the "content.xml" and where to place it?

[Deleted User]

amazing!

[UniTrader]

any official info on how to make my script available in-game like how to create the "content.xml" and where to place it?

read the other Stickies, especially Observes Guide it may be not official, but everything necesary is covered there

[Fumblesneeze]

I haven't seen this one posted anywhere, so here goes:

To get rid of the diff-patch errors in the log for md files, apparently all you need to do is lowercase the first letter.

For example if you patch NPC_Engineer.xml, naming your diff file nPC_Engineer.xml will fix those. I guess the patch engine doesn't care for lower and uppercases.

Credit goes to Kharane for finding this. Let me know if anything doesn't work when doing this, I only briefly tested it.

[docwho83]

Ok in the Mission guide it talks about using Visual web developer. Since it can be set to help by displaying all available tags and attributes.

Has anyone figure out a way to do the same with notepad++ or do I need to pull a copy of vwd?

[IRaven]

Ok in the Mission guide it talks about using Visual web developer. Since it can be set to help by displaying all available tags and attributes.

Has anyone figure out a way to do the same with notepad++ or do I need to pull a copy of vwd?

I am using Visual Web Developer Express 2010 for this.
Its free and working as one would expect.
(You will just have to register after a 30 days test period and get it for free then.)

[I am still using notepad++ for editing my files. Visual WD is just for looking up a command]

[UniTrader]

i am using Notepad++ and xmlcopyedit (notepad++ seems to have autocompletion support based on xsds, but i didnt get it to work, in xmlcopyedit it works from the beginning)

[YorrickVander]

I haven't seen this one posted anywhere, so here goes:

To get rid of the diff-patch errors in the log for md files, apparently all you need to do is lowercase the first letter.

For example if you patch NPC_Engineer.xml, naming your diff file nPC_Engineer.xml will fix those. I guess the patch engine doesn't care for lower and uppercases.

Credit goes to Kharane for finding this. Let me know if anything doesn't work when doing this, I only briefly tested it.

This doesn't work for me :

[=ERROR=] LookupKeyName::LookupName(): The key name "add" is not recognized in lookup 'ScriptXML'. Originated from: "extensions\CopilotConvo\md\nPC_Itemtrader.xml.(pck|xml)"

But it occurs to me, the error might be (sort of) necessary - we place both patch files and new scripts to be used in /extensions but the errors are only thrown when loading or starting new game and not on client start. I assume then the engine rejects the patch files at this point as opposed to treating them as new/total replacements for the packed versions. I might be totally wrong of course

[Maclarium]

Support for Steam Workshop integration: We will soon start releasing a number of tools on Steam to help modders work on X Rebirth.

Great !! But can you tell us what kind of tool will it be ? And soon how ?

[Ketraar]

Now fast enough? *points to sticky*

MFG

Ketraar

[RedEclipse]

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MFG

Ketraar

Ah ok, "soon" is today, great
And I would like big coca, french fries and nuggets please

I'm thinking of a tool to write MD but I think that's too much work for me (because, really... XML is tedious !) :/

I wonder if devs are using xml or have a tool to write MD... (that's the "big coca" )