I've done this before....

[+Zeke+]

Hi, I need help. I had this game years ago and lost it. Bought the White Label brand replacement for the trio of first games that brought it up to Vista level. I have actually got it running on Win7 64 bit and went through the entire Tactics campaign with basically no issues.


Now I want to tweak it a bit using the editor that came with the patch.

I used 7zip to unzip the entities, but I get "permission denied" when I try to unzip the tiles and mis-main. Worse when I try to edit the recruits it only gives me character numbers, instead of the recruit names. I distinctly remember from when I had it before that the actual names were used. I'm thinking the folders unpacked differently now or I'm doing it wrong. The numbers don't help much determining which character is which so I can change them.

 

[TwoEyedYum]

I distinctly remember from when I had it before that the actual names were used

Sorry, but you remember it wrong. Editor works with names like (located in "tables" folder):

CORE_prefab4
CORE_prefab5
CORE_rec_hf01
CORE_rec_hf02
CORE_rec_hf03
...
CORE_rec_tr02
CORE_rec_tr04
Rayne
Selena
Alice
Jill

Last 4 Ids were added by mod, author was too lazy to write is as ID, not as name. Maybe you seen same results from using some mod. Usually you NEVER get those "real names" like Jax and Stitch in Editor!

And further these IDs being converted in file characters.txt (locale/game)

name_CORE_rec_hm01 = {Robin}
desc_CORE_rec_hm01= {some-text-here}

name_CORE_rec_hm05 = {Jax}
desc_CORE_rec_hm05= {some-text-here}

So, if you looking for Jax, you search entity with ID="CORE_rec_hm05"

I used 7zip to unzip the entities, but I get "permission denied" when I try to unzip the tiles and mis-main.

Did all others archives unzipped OK? Do you have administator rights on your machine?

 

[+Zeke+]

I do have admin rights on my machine.

Ok, so for now let's just say I'll not get to see the recruit names, just their numbers. Maybe I had a list to refer to once.

So is there a cross reference list that I can use to find out the names that go to each entity number?

I have yet to find any such listing in any of the FAQ's.

 

[TwoEyedYum]

I do have admin rights on my machine.

And did you tried famous FT Booster.exe?
You can dl it at "Files" section here, at forum.
If you still expirience problems with unpacking some of archives, try to dl them (well, a whole FT disk image) from internet.

I have yet to find any such listing in any of the FAQ's.

Ok, i'll tel step-by-step (as if my previous post wasn't informative enough ):

1) Open core/locale/game - characters.txt
2) Search through it to find recruit you want to change. His name must be in format (Core_rec_XXXX). Rememer this XXXX. By the way, you can also edit name and description to w.e. you want.
3) Search for core/entities/recruits folder. File "XXXX.ent" is what you look for.

 

[+Zeke+]

Edit: It was this reference that I needed that wasn't in your prior post: 1) Open core/locale/game - characters.txt