Modders - Need a Data Format Checker?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I use the SE4Modder by DavidG for all my modding needs nowadays. You can use it to mod anything, with a GUI, as well as numerous other small but handy features. The only thing is that you have to edit everything manually, but I like the control

[Urendi Maleldil]

I use both DavidG's modder and Wordpad (better Find and Replace function than Notepad).

[Fyron]

I like the find/replace function in EditPlus because it allows regular expressions, including newline characters (which a lot of other advanced tech editors deny the existence of). Makes modding much faster once you get the hang of them.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Imperator Fyron said:
The B5 Mod has a 9.5 MB, 270976 line components file. Although, it was generated by a spreadsheet, not by hand.

How do you generate a components.txt file from a spreadsheet? Do you use Mail Merge? I never could figure that function out.

Any tutorials out there?

[Fyron]

No idea. I would probably export it as a CSV file and write a c++ program or a python script to do it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Considering that someone used Microsoft Excel to make pacman...