Craft Name

[hatfarm]

Anyone have any idea where the craft names are in ufo.exe? I'd like to be able to rename them but haven't been able to find them yet. Thanks.

 

-hatfarm

[daishiva]

I believe they are in the respective language file found in the GEODATA directory.

 

Havent directly tried this, but it looks like all the game text is there.

[hatfarm]

Yeah, I found it but when I edited the file it crashed. I did edit it with a text editor so I'll try with my hex editor later. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks.

 

-hatfarm

[NKF]

English.dat and english2.dat is really just a big file filled with strings.

 

Spaces are 0x20 (or 32 in decimal) and the terminator for the string MUST be 0x00 ( 0 in decimal). You have to make sure this convention is met for every string.

 

I tinkered with it last night. Just loaded every individual string into an array. Then, if you look at the files like facil.dat in the savegame directories, the very first byte for each base facility entry points to a string in english.dat. The first byte for the living quarters for example has value of 73. So when I printed out the string stored at index 73 of the array, I got the name of the facility.

 

For fun: You can do silly things like point the name of a facility to a ufopaedia entry if you wanted.

 

I might be +1 or -1 on the index number for the living quarters in this example.

 

- NKF

[hatfarm]

Awesome, that helps a LOT. Thanks much.

 

-hatfarm

[Munkeylord]

use word pad, you'll just have to dig around and find the names though but it should work well...don't delete the squares or it will crash

[Solarius Scorch]

Yes, I use MS Word and it works okay, too.