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    You traveled to... Indochina and China? Like, be able to see them or you were traveling to fog/blackness where China should be?
    I travelled over the blackness where they should be. The text boxes that appear when you're over various regions appear in these areas so I knew whether I was over China, Indochina, or the South China Sea.

    Unfortunately I have not been able to see these regions despite editing several files in the main.pack. The only one I haven't edited is the land.rigid_mesh as I don't have the tools to edit it.
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    How to split a region in TWS2
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    OMG I have been waiting for this day since I got ETW !!!

    the map will be finally moddable !!!

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Great work you should get this stickied or something.
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    He should be made an artificier if he pulls that one.
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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Hey taw, I just want to say...you're great.
    Oh and I also want to give you some rep.

    My friends is going to ask (or has asked) you a favor and I hope you can help us...
    Anyway, great modding!


    EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering...
    How did you manage to mod the .esf files?
    I mean, I asked some smart computer frends of mine on a forum, and they didn't have any clue how to open it in readable/modable language...

    So, how did one new TWC guy with less than 200 post and way to less rep than he deserves open a .esf file in matter of days while great modders like Darth Vader couldn't open it in months?
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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by ♔hammeredalways♔ View Post
    there is one file in the original main pack that is not editable that effects agents

    agent_spawning_to_policies

    I have been through what Okmin has done and created a new pack file in isolation and would suggest that teh random CTD's are when the agent tries to spawn, perhaps there is something in that table that allows this

    I can ask TAW if he can add that table and we can perhaps then see
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=395666
    Help please? (+rep for your work, BTW)
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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Hey,

    I'm on holidays right now, so don't expect any updates right now ;-)
    Still Internet-addicted of course, so I'll reply to questions quite promptly.

    agent_spawning_to_policies is an empty (only 5 bytes header) so it is almost certainly not it.
    It looks like part of unfinished religious tolerance/persecution policies system.
    CTDs are caused by something else.

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by MatrixStorm View Post
    EDIT: Actually, I'm wondering...
    How did you manage to mod the .esf files?
    I mean, I asked some smart computer frends of mine on a forum, and they didn't have any clue how to open it in readable/modable language...

    So, how did one new TWC guy with less than 200 post and way to less rep than he deserves open a .esf file in matter of days while great modders like Darth Vader couldn't open it in months?
    Because I'm old and I remember how it was done in glorious days of DOS and hex editors. ;-)

    And I'm sure Darth makes way better mods than I ever could, I only haxored a few formats open.
    To be honest I still consider this my best TW modding achievement.

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by taw View Post
    Hey,

    I'm on holidays right now, so don't expect any updates right now ;-)
    Still Internet-addicted of course, so I'll reply to questions quite promptly.

    agent_spawning_to_policies is an empty (only 5 bytes header) so it is almost certainly not it.
    It looks like part of unfinished religious tolerance/persecution policies system.
    CTDs are caused by something else.
    Thanks. Back to square one...
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    So... when is this going to be release?

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by Fortes View Post
    So... when is this going to be release?
    Tonight hopefully. Or else this weekend as it's more or less guaranteed free.

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    That are great news, thanks and keep on the great work

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    Quote Originally Posted by taw View Post
    Tonight hopefully. Or else this weekend as it's more or less guaranteed free.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortes View Post
    That are great news, thanks and keep on the great work
    Looking forward to this Would +rep you in advance, but it says "Spread the rep"
    BTW, what are the file sizes like?
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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    The actual converter will certainly be below 500kb when compressed i think.

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by Okmin View Post
    Looking forward to this Would +rep you in advance, but it says "Spread the rep"
    BTW, what are the file sizes like?
    XMLs are still massive, so converter splits them into multiple small parts.
    Like out of startpos.esf, you get one XML per faction, one per region, a bunch for CAI garbage etc.,
    so you'll never have problems editing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taw View Post
    XMLs are still massive, so converter splits them into multiple small parts.
    Like out of startpos.esf, you get one XML per faction, one per region, a bunch for CAI garbage etc.,
    so you'll never have problems editing.
    That's a really good idea actually... Big changes kept freezing the esf editor for me
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    so this means that now this game can really be called "empire", allowing us to play in all continents without the default silly fow and full scale world-map new regions..? o.o
    Common sense removed due being Disruptive.

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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    esf2xml works on Windows with both CRuby and JRuby.
    It's pretty basic version, without fancy stuff I promised,
    but it should be of some use already.

    xml2esf doesn't just yet, for two different reasons.
    The rewrite I was hoping to avoid seems unavoidable.
    Actually it would work with CRuby/Windows if you went through the pain
    of installing libxml-ruby gem, but it sounds like way too much effort.
    CRuby on Windows is essentially unmaintained to be honest,
    it's JRuby or huge pile of fail.

    When I have a few hours of free time, I'll try to figure out
    how to get either CRuby/Windows or JRuby version of xml2esf running.
    Once that works, I'll port all the fancy stuff to this version.

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    Thanks!

    Any tutorials on how to use it?
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    Default Re: Coming soon - Perfect ESF<->XML converter and revolution in ESF modding

    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    Thanks!

    Any tutorials on how to use it?
    Right now, start command line, enter correct directory,
    then type jruby esf2xml <regions.esf >regions.xml

    Better interface will come later.

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