modding tools [ASCII Editor] PlainEditNET

[ebmar 893]

Greetings, fellow Jedi! Hope you all doin' fine.

On my latest attempt, I tried to edit an ASCII to attach MaskHook and GoogleHook with standard Notepad and when I convert the ASCII to Binary, it works. But when I load the Binary with MDLedit an error occurred which leaves the Binary model can't be loaded. So, I surfed the net looking for an answer and then I found this freeware:

• PlainEdit.NET

I'm an amateur with tools and stuffs but as stated in the description;

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It's an editor for text files (ANSI, UTF-8 and Unicode) with syntax highlighting for the most popular web, scripting and programming languages. Extensive conversion functions facilitate the conversion, formatting, encoding and decoding of texts.

In short; when I edit the ASCII with the said tool and then save the changes, convert it again to Binary and load it with MDLedit- it loads, and all changes does loaded to the model!

The MaskHook and GoogleHook does working seamlessly despite the fact some further changes would be necessary for their positioning and orientation.

So I thought I share the news with fellows here whom perhaps having the same problem which I hope it can be helpful.

I know many have known about editing ASCII and stuffs but I'm certain a few haven't known about it.

I hope the information kind of helps; may the Force be with you all!

[DarthParametric 3,785]

Notepad++ is what you want to use, at least on Windows. Then you can use the Aurora MDL language definition and @JCarter426's NSS language definition.

[ebmar 893]

10 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

Notepad++ is what you want to use, at least on Windows. Then you can use the Aurora MDL language definition and JCarter426's NSS language definition.

Thanks for the suggestion, DP! Nice looking stuff there particularly with the Aurora MDL language definition; it looks more compact than I currently use- and with JCarter426's "NSS language definition", I thought it only covers scripting stuffs- but it seems I was wrong. Definitely I'll try to fiddle with them later.

[Thor110 498]

This post reminded me to try and fix what I was going to the other day using Notepad++

I have converted a K1 map to ascii using MDLEdit and a K2 map to ascii using MDLEdit, I have then opened them both and am looking to compare them and thinking about adding the AABB node to K1 maps, or so I thought, but it both K1 and K2 maps reference the aabb node, just in different ways.

It seems in 201tel01 the aabb node is referenced in two places, as it is in the K1 map kor_m38aa, however the initial node in K2 is

Spoiler

node trimesh H1_Beams
the first reference after this is
node aabb Walk1
the second aabb refereence is the same as in K1 a bunch of coordinates and just "aabb" to header them.

where as the initial node in K1 is

Spoiler

node aabb WM38AA04a
the second aabb reference is for a bunch of co-ordinates for the model.

With a little bit more research / tinkering I hope to try and manually add the references to the maps before re-converting them to Binary, that way I should be able to use the .vis files and have everything render correctly. ( even though removing the .vis files seems to be a perfectly viable fix for me, better to be thorough and try to do everything properly )

Thor110

Edited January 2, 2019 by Thor110
Noting K1 & K2 reference the aabb node.

[DeathScepter 46]

Well Would this be useful for Recruitment mod for Kotor 1

[ebmar 893]

On 8/31/2020 at 7:40 AM, DeathScepter said:

Well Would this be useful for Recruitment mod for Kotor 1

This can be useful, but for now and the foreseeable future I'd advise you to go with Notepad++ instead; as quoted from DP in above --

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Notepad++ is what you want to use, at least on Windows. Then you can use the Aurora MDL language definition and JCarter426's NSS language definition.

-- [although I didn't notice the former plug-ins this time around. Dang, that looks handy -- will try one now!]

[Teribol 0]

Hi I'm a newbie, and I just wanted to ask how can I have a modded character with hight attributes, skill, feats, power, level and credits. I only use phone (android) I'm not into modding, I didn't know how, just using game guardian, very basic, can someone tell me where I can find these save files. I'm playing kotor 2. Thanks 

 

 

[Neville 19]

I always used MDLOPS6. It was what SithSpecter told me to use to create an ASCII model for GMax. How do you know where to place hooks in the ASCII model for a commoner head? When I tried, the head was moved off the body.

[ebmar 893]

10 hours ago, Neville said:

How do you know where to place hooks in the ASCII model for a commoner head? When I tried, the head was moved off the body.

Basically you will want to look at the vanilla setup -- that's the best place to learn where to place them. But in short anywhere after/below the declared parent node where it hooked, that as I recall. As well the orientation and position must be spot on. I haven't fiddle with model-related stuff for months so I have forgotten lots of things likely.

Anyway, this will be the last time I reply to the question regarding the hooks as it'll be way off-topics from what this thread was meant to. It's to inform anyone about this useful tool I found and if anything merely any discussion about it. Granted, it leave holes where it could potentially expand further but I wish it didn't have to.

I suggest you to open a new thread -preferably on General Kotor/TSL Modding- about something like placing hooks to custom heads for example. I think that'd be great for you to find the appropriate answer and anyone in need of that specific presumably. Cheers!

On 6/9/2021 at 7:02 AM, Teribol said:

Hi I'm a newbie, and I just wanted to ask how can I have a modded character with hight attributes, skill, feats, power, level and credits... can someone tell me where I can find these save files.

Hi, and welcome! As well for you I suggest to open a new thread in particular for the topic -- something like editing NPC attributes or anything alike. Reason's pretty much the same -- this thread isn't the best place to discuss on that matter. But short answer to your question - you'll want to use KotOR SaveGame Editor or look for any available threads or discussions specific to finding/editing save files.

Best of luck to your attempt! 🍻

[Neville 19]

On 6/8/2021 at 8:02 PM, Teribol said:

Hi I'm a newbie, and I just wanted to ask how can I have a modded character with hight attributes, skill, feats, power, level and credits. I only use phone (android) I'm not into modding, I didn't know how, just using game guardian, very basic, can someone tell me where I can find these save files. I'm playing kotor 2. Thanks 

 

 

I have the PC version. If you can access the game folder (for me, C:\Program Files x86\LucasArts\SWKotOR2), there is a folder named "Saves".