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Originally Posted by BigDuke66
Oh OK that makes sense.
Of course the work load seems massive but if some volunteers would wright the stuff down and formate it too, the official team just has to copy & paste it into the OOB(or is the encyclopedia an extra file?).
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The unit and formation descriptions are kept in
\Game Data\Text folder under the WinSPWW2 install folder. The default location would be
C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\The Camo Workshop\WinSPWW2\Game Data\Text. They are simple text files, US ASCII character set only like everything in the game.
The file naming format for units is
etXXXYYY.txt, where
XXX is the country code and
YYY is the unit number, both with leading zeros. For formations it is
ftXXXZZZ.txt, where
ZZZ is the formation number. You can view and modify the files with any text editor. Make backups first as always, although mistakes like 8-bit characters in the description texts do not seem to be very harmful, only the descriptions themselves will get mangled. (Perhaps I should try some Unicode there and see what happens
).
The maximum line length for formations is different from units, since the formation descriptions are displayed full screen. In fact I haven't checked it, yet, but it's much more than the 53 characters limit for unit descriptions.