OEdit Tutorial won't work, any tips on OEit?

[hitting_help?]

Hey.

I downloaded the tutorial on OEdit, but I couldn't open that file type. Is there any way maybe someone could explain OEdit... and preferrably without telling me to transfor some file to a .o file, when the file that I'm supposed to transform doesn't exist. (I say this cuz I was reading someone saying the tutorial told them to transform a certain file, but I looked for that file and it was nowhere to be found.

Any OEdit help?

Thanx.

[kgbaseball]

I always had problems opening .o files because I would extract the .ord and .orl from EAGE which wouldn't work to make a valid .o file. If you're having the same problem, export the .ord and .orl from biggui.

[hitting_help?]

Not the same problem. There's no file .ord in existence. I can't transfer a file that doesn't exist.

[kgbaseball]

There has to be an .ord file in each cyberface for it to work. We'll figure this out; tell me the process you go through until you get stuck.

[Thome25]

Not the same problem. There's no file .ord in existence. I can't transfer a file that doesn't exist.

There is an .ord in existence, it's called mstadium.ord and mstadium.orl inside each stadium big file.

[kgbaseball]

So wait, is this a stadium question or cyberface question? Don't I feel stupid if it's a stadium question...I don't know jack about stadium modding. :lol:

[The Big O]

Here's what you do:

You will need three programs off this site: gfxpak.exe, ord2o.exe and o2ord.exe. PM me if you want me to send them to you.

Then copy the .big file that you are trying to extract the .ord and orl files from and copy it into a folder. Put the gfxpak.exe in that same folder. Next right click in the folder and choose New -> Text document. Open up the created text file and type the following:

gfxpak -u name.big (with name being the name of the big file you want to unpack, ex. orioday.big)

ord2o mstadium.ord mstadium.orl mstadium.o

ord2o removable.ord removable.orl removable.o

ord2o alphablend.ord alphablend.orl alphablend.o

ord2o net.ord net.orl net.o

ord2o mshadow.ord mshadow.orl mshadow.o

ord2o mfield0.ord mfield0.orl mfield0.o

ord2o mfield1.ord mfield1.orl mfield1.o

ord2o mfield2.ord mfield2.orl mfield2.o

ord2o colouradd.ord colouradd.orl colouradd.o

ord2o crowd.ord crowd.orl crowd.o

ord2o jumbo.ord jumbo.orl crowd.o

Then save this as unpack.bat. You have now created a batch file to unpack the stadium files and create all the .o files that you need to modify for a stadium. Double click the .bat file and you will unpack all the files into that folder.

Now you can double click the .o files and use Pirate's tutorial from there. When you are ready to repack go ahead and create another text document with the following:

o2ord mstadium.o mstadium.ord mstadium.orl

o2ord mfield0.o mfield0.ord mfield0.orl

o2ord mfield0.o mfield1.ord mfield1.orl

o2ord mfield0.o mfield2.ord mfield2.orl

o2ord net.o net.ord net.orl

o2ord alphablend.o alphablend.ord alphablend.orl

o2ord colouradd.o colouradd.ord colouradd.orl

o2ord jumbo.o jumbo.ord jumbo.orl

o2ord removable.o removable.ord removable.orl

o2ord crowd.o crowd.ord crowd.orl

gfxpak -p name.big crowd.ord

gfxpak -p name.big crowd.orl

gfxpak -p name.big alphablend.ord

gfxpak -p name.big alphablend.orl

gfxpak -p name.big mstadium.ord

gfxpak -p name.big mstadium.orl

gfxpak -p name.big cram32.fsh

gfxpak -p name.big field0.fsh

gfxpak -p name.big field1.fsh

gfxpak -p name.big field2.fsh

gfxpak -p name.big crowd0.fsh

gfxpak -p name.big net.ord

gfxpak -p name.big net.orl

gfxpak -p name.big mfield0.ord

gfxpak -p name.big mfield0.orl

gfxpak -p name.big mfield1.ord

gfxpak -p name.big mfield1.orl

gfxpak -p name.big mfield2.ord

gfxpak -p name.big mfield2.orl

gfxpak -p name.big jumbo.ord

gfxpak -p name.big jumbo.orl

gfxpak -p name.big wall.dat

gfxpak -p name.big colouradd.ord

gfxpak -p name.big colouradd.orl

gfxpak -p name.big removable.ord

gfxpak -p name.big removable.orl

gfxpak -p name.big ganim.csv

gfxpak -p name.big tanim.csv

gfxpak -p name.big flags.csv

gfxpak -p name.big sky0.fsh

Again you have now created a batch file to repack just about everything you'd want to edit. Save this file as repack.bat. Run the repack.bat then just copy the .big file to the data/stadium folder in your MVP directory and you should be all set. You can reuse these batch files over and over again just using a find and replace to edit the stadium name. They save a lot of time and hassle. Hope this helps!

[hitting_help?]

Thanx for that BigO.

That's why I couldn't get to the file cuz I haven't known how to get inside .big files.

Thanx everybody for your help. Let me see what I can do with it.

[hitting_help?]

Another question... what exactly can and can't you do with OEdit? I mean, when I read stuff about it I see changing ads in stadiums and whatnot, but can you actually change the shape of the stadium? Are there vertices for the walls too and stuff?