Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

I use the SE4Modder by DavidG for all my modding needs nowadays. You can use it to mod anything, with a GUI, as well as numerous other small but handy features. The only thing is that you have to edit everything manually, but I like the control http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

I use both DavidG's modder and Wordpad (better Find and Replace function than Notepad).

Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

I like the find/replace function in EditPlus because it allows regular expressions, including newline characters (which a lot of other advanced tech editors deny the existence of). Makes modding much faster once you get the hang of them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

How do you generate a components.txt file from a spreadsheet? Do you use Mail Merge? I never could figure that function out.

Any tutorials out there?

Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

No idea. I would probably export it as a CSV file and write a c++ program or a python script to do it.

Re: Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?
 

Considering that someone used Microsoft Excel to make pacman...