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Old June 23rd, 2002, 03:19 PM
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Default Re: Component modding tool. Get it here.

I am giddy. I am positivly estatic! This is so exactly what I had pictured in my mind for an editor, I can't believe it.

I LOVE the ability to look at the giant components bitmap and slecet which one I want right from there. I have been asking for a program that would let me do that for as long as I have been doing mods. SWEET! I can't wait till you add this ability for facilities.

I love the ability to create an entirely new mod on the fly and have it copy all the exsisting data files over. Very nice.

A couple of points.

The program is just a litte too eager to rewrite the files in the stock data folder. Yes it backs them up, but it would be very easy to fumble finger and restart the program a couple of times and now your stock data files are toast. I would encourage you to "idiot proof" this a bit, and instead of opening into the sotck files, have it open into a vannila mod of some kind that is a copy of the stock files. I would also have it not rewrite the stock data files until after prompting you three times and backing up the file twice.

For that matter, it would be fairly easy it appears to screw up a mod by closing the program and reopening it if it rewrites the .bak file every time the program starts. Does it rewrite an exsisting .bak file?

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