trait file...

**Bravedude** · 04-28-2008, 01:44

after expirimenting for a whole day, i can not find out how to tweak it without getting a CTD. even the smallest change (example: law 3 to law 4) causes the problem. can someone give me a guide on how to mod the trait file?

**Korlon** · 04-28-2008, 02:13

Try not using notepad. There appears to be something wrong with using notepad when modding. I think textpad or something else would work.

**bovi** · 04-28-2008, 08:19

Textpad is not free, so you may want to get Notepad++ instead.

**Bravedude** · 04-29-2008, 06:34

Originally Posted by bovi

Textpad is not free, so you may want to get Notepad++ instead.

Where/how do I get Notepad++?

**bovi** · 04-29-2008, 07:53

Google. One would think people were used to searching out stuff on the net by now.

**Bravedude** · 04-29-2008, 22:10

Originally Posted by bovi

Google. One would think people were used to searching out stuff on the net by now.

I just thought you could have saved me the time by giving a direct link to the website to download it.

**Foot** · 04-29-2008, 22:28

The time it takes to reply on a forum is shorter than you changing the website to google.com and typing in notepad++? How slow is your internet connection?

Foot

**beatoangelico** · 04-29-2008, 22:51

Notepad++ rocks

**Tellos Athenaios** · 04-30-2008, 01:13

Sigh.

Here we go again:

Notepad is being smart by remembering the last econding you used to save a file with; instead of the encoding the file usese itself. That's all cool and stuff; but when you edit the traits code you must make sure that you do *not* save in Unicode formats. For some reason the game doesn't like Unicode encoded traits files; however the other option in Notepad (ANSI) works just fine.

Still, a more advanced text editor wouldn't be such a bad idea either.

**Bravedude** · 05-01-2008, 07:39

Originally Posted by Foot

The time it takes to reply on a forum is shorter than you changing the website to google.com and typing in notepad++? How slow is your internet connection?

Foot

My time on the computer has been sporadic since the introduction of studying for school final's and GTA IV on the XBox 360 into my free time. I haven't even broken an hour's worth of EB 1.1 time this whole week. Anyway, thank you for the help Foot, I decided to try out WordPad first before I downloaded notepad++ and that seems to be working fine.