teukros Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 So I installed the MC-40a card and model and so far, so good! (did the Alliance ever use the MC-40, or only the MC-40a?) But the MC-40 card I am using has a very very short Encyclopedia entry with no information on the cost, the starfighter squadrons, the guns, etc. (and no room to enter it all into). I checked out the cardspace updates on The Mask's site and they overwrite all existing cards!!!!! I have already put a lot of work into my cards and would not look forward to the work of backing up the text of every single card and then copying it back again. So I was wondering how to go about editing the textra.dll and encytext.dll files directly. I have a hex editor (and I have resource hacker as well) and I have experience doing similar work with Star Trek: Birth of the Federation. ST:BOTF used hardwired offsets for each entry, so if you made an entry larger than it was "supposed" to be, it would overflow and mung up every entry beneath it. Is Rebellion the same way? What else do I need to know to accomplish this? Thanks! Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Just open them with Resource Hacker. Find the correct entries and be sure to SAVE afterwards As for the length..... Sorry cant answer that. I have only kept the descriptions fairly short before. http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralFishface Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 As long as you work with Resource Hacker, Size Matters Not. No experience with HexEditors, though. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/RiesstiuIV/Krempel/trapaure.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad78 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Ressource hacker is the answer. Cain made most of the GIGANTIC enteries in his TC by using the Ressouce hacker. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Palpycard.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/Mad78/Spamkinguserbarcopy.jpgCLICK HERE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!Click here is you like Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 Good to know. I'll give it a try tonight. Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_La_forge Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Yupp, ResHack is probably the best thing happened to us after Rebed of course You can open almost all dll's with it, and change the content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 sigh No joy, I use ResHack to open up Encytext.dll, I look in the RCData folder... I suspect that the entry for the MC-40a card (which replaced the Bulk Transport card) is in the 56xx-59xx range. The Alliance Fleet Carrier, the Corellian Gunboat, the Corellian Corvette and the Medium Transport all show up fine, the rest of the entries are binary gobbledygook... Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Well this is quite bizarre.... Yesterday I wrote my own Encyclopedia entry for the MC-40a card which I had downloaded from the Cards area. I got the dreaded "string too long: truncated" message a few times, shortened what I had written, and eventually ended up with this: The 120 meter long MC-40a light cruiser was the first converted Mon Calamari pleasure vessel to serve with the Alliance. Though underpowered, these ships by default are often forced to serve as flagships of small fleets. More suited by nature to the roles of starfighter defense and fleet support, these vessels might also be used for reconaissance and strike missions. But tonight, as reported, ResHack was showing most of the 59xx resources as gobbledygook. So, I found the BOTF folder I haven't peeked into since last August and located the HEXEDIT file I used to edit my BOTF game, back then. I used HEXEDIT to check out Encytext.dll and found my encyclopedia entry. But immediately after my entry was the tail end of the text of the card that I had downloaded! Sooo, I went back into Rebedit, put the cursor at the end of my text and held down the space bar for ten or fifteen seconds. Rebedit told me that it had truncated the string. I switched back over to ResHack and resource 5959 had become legible as my encyclopedia text... but all of the other resources that I had reported were still showing up as gobbledygook in ResHack. Edit: I was just back in ResHack and resource 5959 is showing up as gobbledygook again!!! But in RebEdit, everything seems okay... Meesa confused Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_La_forge Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Rebed will cut the lines every time. With Reshack, you'll be able to extend it however.Mask can help you out with replacing ship models... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Nah I replaced the models two days ago, that was the easy part! (Thanks of course to the Mask's excellent Rebellion Model Importer) My problem was this: The ENCYTEXT.DLL file contains the Encyclopedia texts (card titles are in the textra.dll file). There is only one folder, RCData, and all texts are there. Roughly the texts occur in this order (the numbers refer to the resources in the RCData folder): (I'm sure this was all uncovered A Long Time Ago but I haven't seen posts about it) 40xx Mines and Refineries43xx Facilities46xx Planetary Defenses4736 The Death Star Shield 51xx Alliance Troops52xx Imperial Troops54xx Alliance SpecForce Teams55xx Imperial SpecForce Teams (including the Legendary Bounty Hunters!)56xx Alliance Starfighters57xx Imperial Starfighters59xx Alliance Ships60xx Imperial Ships62xx Alliance AND Imperial Major Characters6720-6745 Alliance Minor Characters6784-6811 Imperial Minor Characters7176 An obsolete mission (?!)7184-7297 Mission Types7427 Fleets7680-8089 Systems (by alphebetized (?) Sector - Abrion first, Xappyh last) My problem last night was that when I was using ResHack, all of the starfighter texts and most of the ship card texts were showing up as hexadecimal gobbledygook. Specifically, those resources with a question mark next to them: (note that I had previously replaced the Bulk Transport card with the MC-40a card, but I can't imagine how that could affect the numbering or the card order (fingers crossed)). 5507 Noghri Death Commandoes5508 Legendary Bounty Hunters (!)5696? A-Wing5697? B-Wing5698? X-Wing5699? Y-Wing5760? T.I.E. Fighter5761? T.I.E. Interceptor5762? T.I.E. Bomber5763? T.I.E. Defender5952? Mon Cal Cruiser5953? Bulk Cruiser5954? Assault Frigate5955? Neb-B Frigate5956 Alliance Escort Carrier5957 Corellian Corvette5958 Medium Transport5959 Bulk Transport5960 Corellian Gunship5961? Alliance Dreadnought5962? CC-7700 Frigate5963? Bulwark Battlecruiser5964? Liberator Cruiser5965? CC-9600 Frigate5966? Dauntless Cruiser6016? Strike Cruiser6017 Lancer Frigate6018? Interdictor Cruiser6019? Carrack Light Cruiser6020? Victory Star Destroyer6021 Imperial Star Destroyer6022? Super Star Destroyer6023 Assault Transport6024? Death Star6025 Galleon6026? Victory II Star Destroyer6027 Imperial II Star Destroyer6028? Star Galleon6029 Imperial Escort Carrier6030? Imperial Dreadnought6208 Mon Mothballs This is apparently RebEd's fault. I suspect that when you are editing a card's encyclopedia text, Rebed may insert a space character (hex 20) at the beginning of the resource where ResHack does not expect to find one (or fails to insert one where ResHack expects to find one), and so ResHack throws up its hands and just gives you the raw binary data to look at. There is however a fix. For any Encyclopedia text which is showing up in binary rather than ASCII, do this: 1. Quit ResHack2. Start RebEd3. Load the card in question and bring up the Encyclopedia entryGo to the very end of the Encyclopedia TEXT, so your cursor is e.g. DIRECTLY to the right of the final period.4. Hold down the space bar for long enough to enter one to three lines of nothing but spaces.5. Hit the OK button and confirm that RebEd complains with the "String Too Long: Truncated" error message. You WANT to see this error message. If you don't, reload the Encyclopedia text and this time, enter more spaces. Hope this helps some people out! Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas_Fett Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 There's another fix to this. Having experienced the 'binary crap' in many of my own loads, the way I fixed it was as follows:1. go to an entry that is uncorrupted.2. save/export it3. load the uncorrupted text entry into the slot of the entry you wish to replace. (refer to Mask's tutorial for the syntax)4. highlight the text, and replace it with your own.5. compile and save. The error, as near as I could tell, stemmed from changing an entry within RebEd. ResHack just doesn't like it. This method allows for rectified entries, but there may be another snafu that I have to test on my new desktop. For whatever reason, I could get my encyc entries to appear correctly in ResHack and RebEd, but they wouldn't display at all in-game; it would revert to the default encyc entry. Five of the Greatest Lines in the Star Wars Trilogy -"As you wish..."-"He's no good to me dead..."-"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me."-"Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold"-"AaaaaAAaaaaaa!!" Fett's VetteThe Lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Hi Texas Fett, glad to see you around - it's been a while! How's military life treating you? You had your encyclopedia entries reverting to default in game?!? That's - odd. It must have somehow been using a backed up encytext.dll file. Because if you use a hex editor (I use HEXEDIT, it's a pain in the ass but it's free and it gets the job done) you can read the encyclopedia texts one after the other. * * * I can't believe I waited this long to replace the Imperial Dreadnought with the Golan Arms DP III. I'm loving the Golan III in orbit around Coruscant that the Empire started the game with. Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Yep gotta love those Golan III's. Especially if you give them a decent fighter capacity too. Makes for a 'kick-arse' defensive station to go around your important planets. teukros are you using the battlestations hack as well. Makes it more realistic as the platform then cant move. http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas_Fett Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Hi Texas Fett, glad to see you around - it's been a while! How's military life treating you? You had your encyclopedia entries reverting to default in game?!? That's - odd. It must have somehow been using a backed up encytext.dll file. Because if you use a hex editor (I use HEXEDIT, it's a pain in the ass but it's free and it gets the job done) you can read the encyclopedia texts one after the other.Yeah, you're tellin' me! I have no freakin' idea how or why it's happening. I can't believe I waited this long to replace the Imperial Dreadnought with the Golan Arms DP III. I'm loving the Golan III in orbit around Coruscant that the Empire started the game with. Golans rock! Unless you're the Rebels and you run into one guarding what you thought was a relatively undefended system. I've started using Mask's XQ2 Platform as well, giving that to the Empire from the start and giving both sides access to the Golan at a later date. But I agree with DG...use of the Battlestations hack is a must. Nothing more disconcerting than seeing a Golan headed at you through hyperspace. Five of the Greatest Lines in the Star Wars Trilogy -"As you wish..."-"He's no good to me dead..."-"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me."-"Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold"-"AaaaaAAaaaaaa!!" Fett's VetteThe Lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Mr Fett sir, would you have the card to go with the XQ2 platform? The model is ace but i cant find a card to go with it Email > webmaster@diplomats-empire.com http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas_Fett Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Actually, I think I do, but it's on my laptop at home. I'll check this evening and hopefully get it to you tomorrow. And Teukros: Military life most definitely agrees with me...but I'm stressing of late. Still, working so close to the new F-22's is a trip! Five of the Greatest Lines in the Star Wars Trilogy -"As you wish..."-"He's no good to me dead..."-"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me."-"Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold"-"AaaaaAAaaaaaa!!" Fett's VetteThe Lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Actually, I think I do, but it's on my laptop at home. I'll check this evening and hopefully get it to you tomorrow. Many thanks Look forward to receiving it. http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 (edited) working so close to the new F-22's is a trip! Ooooh <--- Green with envy DG: I am using the Battlestations patch, its pretty cool. My DP III has the six squadron capacity that it came with, I think I left the Turbolasers and Ion Cannons at 200 and 160 per facing, respectively... but I bumped the Laser Cannon up a bit. Just a tad. To 600 per facing. I also increased Weapons Recharge from 40 to 60... mumble damned Y-Wings mumble mumble mumble Edited March 1, 2005 by teukros Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 I would go and have a look at mine but if i click on it in RebEd then i have to go and launch the Battlestaions hack again. Rebed resets the speed to one each time But i believe i have my laser cannons set to 400 (ish) Would love to see the look on the rebel admirals face when they jump into coruscant space and come face to face with my Golan 3 defence platform http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 I wonder how long it would take the DP to cross the Galaxy with a hyperdrive rating of 1? That'd be just my luck to do that the next time I'm playing the Alliance... I'll look up one day and see a fleet of seven Golan III's heading toward me... Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas_Fett Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 I wonder how long it would take the DP to cross the Galaxy with a hyperdrive rating of 1? That'd be just my luck to do that the next time I'm playing the Alliance... I'll look up one day and see a fleet of seven Golan III's heading toward me... Been there...done that. Not pretty. Five of the Greatest Lines in the Star Wars Trilogy -"As you wish..."-"He's no good to me dead..."-"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me."-"Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold"-"AaaaaAAaaaaaa!!" Fett's VetteThe Lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Griffin Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 As long as you use the Battlestations hack you will be ok. The hack sets the speed of the Golan 3 to 0. Just dont click on the postion you gave it in Rebed as the program resets it to 1 again. http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2350/darth1b3bu.jpgVisit the forums > The Galactic Core Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsylver Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Now I hate to sound like a newbie but, can't you just edit the encyclopedia using notepad or wordpad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teukros Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 Yes but if you are only using RebEd, your new entry can be no longer than whatever it is replacing. So if for example you have some 150 word long description of Wedge Antilles, most of it will get truncated. For example, my Wedge Antilles entry reads as follows: Wedge Antilles Wedge Antilles is a veteran of the attack that destroyed the first Death Star. Gifted and resourceful, he organized and led the celebrated Rogue Squadron, an elite X-Wing starfighter squadron whose pilots are also SpecForce agents who are as dependable on the ground as they are in the cockpit - regardless of the mission. And that is pretty close to the limit. Another word or two and the last line might look like in the cockpit - regardless of the mis or even like ground as they are in the cockpit - r This was before I discovered a tool called Resource Hacker which lets you do pretty much anything you want. Put an overpowered Solar Ionization Reactor in between two cheap-ass engines and a couple of laser cannon, put a chair with a rudimentary flight control and targeting computer on top, and surround the (unpressurized!) pilot with enough armor plate so he doesn't fry in a tenth of a second... riiiiiiiiight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsylver Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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