As always, test your edits frequently in-game for easier troubleshooting. Tougher to figure out where you went wrong when sorting through large numbers of data changes.
This always (in whatever case there are changes: proof reading, coding, defining a process, etc..). The more untested changes, the longer the debug.
Anyway maybe it is just me but i feel really lost when i open fpools txt in excel/open office. Too many columns and rows.
I think 13.1 inches (it is a laptop that i use for win XP games), a pleasure with CC, less a pleasure with excel/open office. I normally just read the excel file and modify the data files with the text editor.
So may i assume than no one developed other ways to modify the text files? If yes, i may consider a project to do a command line modification tool, very slowly.
PS: with certain text editors, like notepad2-mod, one learns a lot due to the modifications needed. For example "alt+shift" for column or rectangular editing.
tl;dr: apart from the workbook, there are newer tools to quickly edit the data files for the classic CC5 in the "the longest day" release?
Hi everyone! I am new on this forum while i know already this site a bit.
I searched tools for editing the classic CC5 in "the longest days" and i found in the download section the "workbook". With google i also searched this forum and i read a lot of fire against the new developers (threads from 2009/10 if i remember correctly) that changed the data files from a proprietary format to text files.
Well maybe i'm naive but i prefer text files way more, if they are documented properly it is easier for many to build tools (for example an excel file) to edit the values.
Anyway, my point is that while i like a lot the classic CC5 in the remake, i cannot really use the workbook due to my small screen. So i use th workbook only as documentation and then i make my changes through vim or notepad2-mod , for little changes i a bit of time is needed due to not so easy identification of proper columns in the big text files.
But since those are text files, i was wondering if someone, in the meanwhile, create an editing tools different from the excel workbook. Maybe through command line, if not GUI.
Therefore my question is: apart from the workbook, there are newer tools to quickly edit the data files for the classic CC5 in the "the longest day" release?
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