Stable EFS Editor

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Stable EFS Editor

Postby Garison » Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:58 am

I have obtained a copy of the EFS Editor and the EFS unit Editor designed by Mitchell Baldwin Maciej Swierzewski and Matt Caspermeyer. I e-mailed them and Maciej kindly sent me a copy! it seems much better and stable then the beta editor. If you want a copy e-mail me at Enx_@hotmail.com.
i have not used it very long, so i am unsure of what all it can do. I think its main purpose is allow easier viewing and editing of the data files

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Postby Garison » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:56 pm

Matt also e-mailed me a copy!

It never ceases to amaze me that some of the modders and developers of EFS are still kicking around, let alone reply to an e-mail within 24hours!

very appreciated.

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Postby Eightball Maniac » Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:17 pm

I'm intrigued, so count me in. Just sent you an email.

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Postby Verse » Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:51 pm

I would like one too.

Email: kazmofox@gmail.com

thanks.

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Postby Garison » Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:52 pm

i am having trouble sending to gmail accounts, do you have an alternative e-mail?

i had the same problem with Eightball,

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Postby Makinus2 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:41 pm

Could you send it to me also? stevaoaccadrolli@hotmail.com

Thanks

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Postby Sukayo » Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:36 pm

if posssible, then please for me too a copy ... http://www.kborek.cz/official/contact.html

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Postby Garison » Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:13 pm

Hey guys, i have sent our the editor to everyone in this thread. If i missed you please contact me at my e-mail (enx_@hotmail.com). Keep in mind i have trouble sending to G-mail (the size i assume) and get a return to sender. also, there are 2 editors a unit editor and a data file editor. If you missed the unit editor it is only 500kb and i will send it. I was only sending the 5.3meg editor at first, but thought i would throw the "lesser" (i assume) editor in aswell.

I would love to here any thoughts on the 2 editors, i have not played much withthem and could use some insight on what they can accomplish.

any response would be great ! thanks.

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Postby mosinski » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:54 pm

Thank you for sending it to me.

SETUP Issue
Needed to find a WINGZ.DLL to get it to work(I'm on a Windows 7 32 machine).

TESTING Issues
So far I've tried to add another planet and one jump pt. They get saved in the database but I can't get the map to identify/see them when I generate the galaxy.gal file and dat files. Not sure what I'm doing wrong yet.


I have generated a test galaxy.gal and associated files it seem to miss 3 files. I just copied in from a saved copy of the originals.

RELICS.DAT
TRAITS.DAT
UNITRULZ.DAT

I tried loading a galaxy by using a galaxy.gal file but I kept pulling a file error.


I can certainly load and look at files but the ability to modify an existing galaxy in a strategic manner with the tools provided seem to be beyond my meager mentality at this point.

Debating trying an actual Win95 machine vs Windows 7 and see if the WINGZ.DLL issue has an impact.

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Postby Garison » Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:43 pm

Wings is a file needed for the holistic (?) editor.... i will reference the orginal editors mapedit.txt file.

_____________________________________________________________
Requirements:
-------------

Assuming that you are already running Emperor of the Fading Suns, you
should only need ONE thing -- And that's WING from Microsoft. Using
your favorite web browser, you can download WING from the following
location:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WING10.EXE

Follow the installation procedures from Microsoft and then you can run
the map editor.

This has only been tested on Windows '95. I don't even know if WING
works under Windows NT, so NT users, please be careful.
____________________________________________________________

I assume that the new editor must use this file to process some EFS files.

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Postby DwellerofVault13 » Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:30 am

Garison,

I am fairly new to the site, but a long time observer. I just picked up a new copy of EFS and I would like to see if I could get a copy of the editor as well. I would have written you sooner, but I have been overseas for over a year. I sent you an e-mail via hotmail using my hotmail account. Thanks again.

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Postby Luxor » Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:18 pm

DwellerofVault13 wrote:Garison,

I am fairly new to the site, but a long time observer. I just picked up a new copy of EFS and I would like to see if I could get a copy of the editor as well. I would have written you sooner, but I have been overseas for over a year. I sent you an e-mail via hotmail using my hotmail account. Thanks again.

If you need a copy, I have. Just send an email to luxor70@yahoo.com


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