chesstech Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I downloaded all the kotor & kotor2 tools and understand a little about the Main KOTOR tool. What I want to do is take the mods i've downloaded and combined them into 1 big mod by adding lines or whatever to make incompatable mods or that use similar properties(spells,appearances,templates, etc.....) work without crashing or chosing which ones to use.( i.e. Floating Lightsabers or Force Choke Anyone) I know that i an not the first to try to disect a mod to understand how it is consructed, but the tutorials that are listed are limited in detailed explainations of what files they access. This is the easiest way for me to learn how to do something. Here are the ones I can open and the tool that i use: 2DA = Kotor tool DLG = Kotor TSl Dialogue Editor Gimp Image = Gimp 2.0 Bink video = Rad video tools I mainly use the Save Game Editor to max out my inventory, powers, skills,attributes and experiance. Also, I use it to add to my inventory items that normally can't get during the natural couse of the game.(Heart of the Force sabers, corruption robe, etc...) These are the ones I need help opening: UTC NCS NSS MDL MDX TXI UTI UTP UTD ERF RIM BIF ASI FLT M3D TLK UTW JRL file CONF file BFD ARE PM PL FRM FRX VBP VBW Hard Disk Camera Movie Executable Jar Yahoo! JMusic Juke Box Note that I scanned through all the mod files and the main game files to come up with this list, some maybe tool files but I'm not for sure. I have about 40 downloaded files and about 10 of them are tools. My latest downloads are the "Droid planet, HK factory,Corasant temple". If anyone can help or warn me about any problems that I will come across, will be appreciated. Thank you for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 but the tutorials that are listed are limited in detailed explainations of what files they access. That's because you're working backwards. We don't have a reverse engineering tutorial. This is the easiest way for me to learn how to do something. Okay if you say so. Many of the various game files are GFF formatted and can be opened with a GFF editor like K-GFF. All the file type that start with UT_ are template files for example. stoffe posted a list of file types/descriptions used Jade Empire in this thread which are also true in KotOR. The PL, PM, FRM, FRX, VBP, VBW files are source code files for my tools. Pay them no attention. If anyone can help or warn me about any problems that I will come across, will be appreciated. You'll need to work through some of the tutorials to get an idea how mod conflicts can occur so that you can learn how to resolve them. Typically these involve 2DA conflicts which are relatively easy to fix, but other conflicts such as those involving dialog or scripting may require some creativity in resolving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesstech Posted August 29, 2007 Author Share Posted August 29, 2007 Thanks for your advice. I am new and don't want to screw up the game or the mods. This why i was asking if there was a way of studing how the files are comstructed before i go doing something i don't undestand. But i guess the only way is to try and hope for the best. Tanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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