Noob question about modding

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So i decided to mod Rebellion beta to satisfy my personal needs, as i am awfully impatient and curious. 

As i have no previous experience with modding Sins, if i exclude that modelling stuff for Babylon 5 mod, i ran into first throwback rigthaway. So i opened the GalaxyScenarioDef file with Win 7 Notepad, ready to rewrite some stuff, i succesfully did that, saved it, tried to ran the game and UH-OH, it wont work anymore  :grin:   Run-time error.  So i take it, messing with these entity files is not just simple thing of changing stuff within Wordpad? Do i need some other app - like something from those Forge Tools -  to open the entities and edit and save them (so they do not break the game)?

After replacing the edited galaxy scenario file with the original one, which i luckily kept as back-up, the game works again just fine, so i take it as confirmation, that it was indeed me messing with the game files causing it.

 

Thanks  

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

First--don't modify the original game files--crate a mod folder to mirror them and make copies there.  Test your work as a mod...not changing the directory for Sins.

Try here for some tips and here for questions too and helpful other thinks.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Oh, splendid. Thank you!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

No problem--good luck...and I hope you are sane a month from now.