xml files not being utilized?

[Iamme]

I'm a little confused right now. My modified xmls are being noticed by the game (box comes up to reinit when they're modified) but none of them seem to be having an affect, campaign or skirmish. Is this happening to anybody else?

 

PS: Has anybody found commands recognized by the console?

[DragonShadow]

I haven't gotten any xml changes to take effect yet (what happened to easy moddability?), and I tried about 30 basic commands in the console and none worked...

[Mistrider]

I got all my changes to work. it appears you may have to start a new game to have the changes you have made since a particular save work(ie. no changing ship stats halfway through the campaign)

[Iamme]

I got all my changes to work. it appears you may have to start a new game to have the changes you have made since a particular save work(ie. no changing ship stats halfway through the campaign)

New campaigns don't work either

[PipfunatUT]

i think you might still be trying to change the demo's XML...  make sure it is deleted...  i cant find an XML editor for the full game thou

 

 

I'm prob wrong though because i know  next to little about modding..

[DragonShadow]

Nope. I deleted every demo-related file except my modded ones to use as a reference for changing the full-version ones. The modified files are extracted right out of the full version's config file, edited, and then tossed in the data folder. They just don't do anything...

[PipfunatUT]

this is just tossing shit in the air, but maybe you have to make entirely new "map"  folder and then go to that...  maybe there is a fail safe so  xml's don't affect the main game.  I don't know, i don't really care right now I'm kinda drunk and just waiting for some coed hoe to get over... but until this peace bro

[Iamme]

Something I just remembered: Modifying factions.xml worked for upping the unit caps, but still nothing actually custom  :-\

[Quickshot14_pff]

Heya all,

 

I wanted to share my theroy and why some xml files seem to be changed properly and some arn't. Now i cant exactly test this (don't have the full game yet, grrrrrr come on money) but when i was poking around the demo xml files a while back i noticed an xml file that seemed to tell the eaw to look for certian xml files. ie weather to look in megs only or the path then the meg file. The reason I mention this file is because i noticed it said or had a comment that not needed for demo since not all meg content is present or something to that effect. I'm entirely parphrasing from what i rember i'll look into the demo meg files again and see if i can find it again and let you all know.

 

In the mean time take a look and see if you can find one, sooner or latter one of us should come up with something, i'll check more on it again and report back.

[MajorPayne]

Strange. I enahanced the rebel side quite alot for the campaign and the game still loaded and worked with the new changes I put it (the level with Han and chewie have to navigate around the city is a pain to complete otherwise).

[akulapanam]

You have to restart the game inbetween , but thus far I have

Added new ships

Added new hardpoints to ships

Changed ship stats

Added New companies

Add a New Conquest

Modified Planets

 

All by extracting and changing the .XML files.

[kingdark]

i am having the same problem, i just want to increase the space battles to hold 50pop per battle in the rebel/imperial campagin, but to no effect,

do you need to cut the config file somewher? NONE of my changes work, and yes, i pacthed up completely and trie to start a new campagin.

ps, i just changed it in factions the max space battle do you need to change it somewhere else too? to have effect in the main campaign?

[MajorPayne]

Akula. I did a test concerning changes as I'm playing and it works fine as long as you don't mess up anything (which crashes the game). The game responds with a warning when you demimise it after making any changes whether you want to reload the files, so you should be fine.

[akulapanam]

Don't forget that their is also a patch.meg file that you should look at as well.

[DragonShadow]

You have to restart the game inbetween , but thus far I have

Added new ships

Added new hardpoints to ships

Changed ship stats

Added New companies

Add a New Conquest

Modified Planets

 

All by extracting and changing the .XML files.

 

Where did you put those files? And did you change the names or leave them as DATA%XML%whatever?

[Pegmaker]

I put the confg.meg file in my editor program then took out the xml sections with copy and paste and just saved them as new xml files. then put them in my xml folder which as to be made, so it looks like.

 

C:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Data\XML