jpinard Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Right now it's mostly gobbly gook in NOtepad and Ultraedit. I read Rod-Data's tutorial on editing this file but he failed to mention what program one must use to edit it, and if any kind of file conversation must take place. Thanks for the help! Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
silan72 Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 MVP Compression Utility 2005 in download tool and editor section Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted July 24, 2005 Author Share Posted July 24, 2005 But how do I get it from the .big into the .txt format? Just change the file extensions? <--- that seems too easy :shrug: Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silan72 Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Get biggui from download section. Open datafile.big with it and scroll to datafile.txt and hit export. Put into data directory. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 I'm looking through utilities and am not finding "biggui". Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 OK, found it from another site. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitoon Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 You can extract the stock datafile.txt out of the datafile.big using a number of different methods; gfxpak, bigGUI, EAGraph...then you need to uncompress it, the MVP 2005 compression utility is best. You can then edit it, using wordpad, or TextPad...Notepad has a bit of a hard time handling it because it's fairly large. Then you must recompress it (MVP 2005 comp utility again). You don't need to repack it into the datafile.big, just put it in the /data folder (NOT /data/datafile) and the game will recognize it. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 Super, thanks a ton Spitoon. Editing this file is a lot more complicated than I'd thought. But at least I can go in and cmpaore differing edits with Ultraedit now. THanks! Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitoon Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 It can be a bit overwhelming...just poke through and you'll see that there are really only a few sections that pertain to actual game play...the majority of it refers to animation details and is something that really doesn't need to be messed with... I'm not sure what Ultraedit does but it sound like it's similar to CompareIt?? Opening two different .txt files and comparing them on the same screen, highlighting the differences?? Have fun ;) Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 Yep, they're made by the same company I believe :) Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/13356-how-do-i-edit-the-datafilebig-file/#findComment-161731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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