Small question about editing Binary files to text.

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Hey there!

I've been having a blast playing the "Sins of the 13th Tribe mod" developed here. However, when I've attempted to increase the fleet supply and capital ship supply, i've run into trouble with the binary coding. This is what i get.

 BIN
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Is there some sort of way i can convert this file to text to properly edit the capital ship level and fleet supply level to higher amounts?

 

Thank you.

modding
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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Maybe i'm just slow X__X. For some reason it's not working for me.

 

"Convert date not found for the expansion data" type of error.

The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

hmmm....

personally never use it myself, the converter I use has been requested to keep offline so I can't hand it out, try commenting on that line in hopes that harpo99999 is still around

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

By the sounds of it, you need to copy the CovertData out of your install folder (for whatever version you are trying to convert). Paste it into the same Sins Reference folder as the "sinstextbinner" with all the other previous version ConvertData's. Re-name it to ConvertData_OriginalSins1.191 or ConvertData_Entrenchment1.051 or ConvertData_Diplomacy1.011 which ever you are trying to convert. Your OriginalSins folder or Entrenchment or Diplomacy folder should be named OriginalSins 1.191, Entrenchment 1.051 or Diplomacy 1.011 and it should work.

NOTE; that the folder names have a space between the name and the version number. The ConvertData's do not.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

the latest textbin gui will use the sins/entrenchment/diplomacy convertdata's in the sins program folder, and can convert ALL the files in a folder to OR from text without changing the names of files, and also can convert files of particular types only eg entity, mesh,particle and brush. the latest versions are in my modding utilities version 1.191 in the mod updater thread.

harpo