Bulk-Creating an Ids_Name DLL
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Somewhere in the foreseeable future, I will have to create a huge bunch of surnames and familynames for three (maybe) more factions. The only ways I can now think of to achieve this, is by either using FLED-Ids or ResHack. Both methods will be torture
But I assume there must be some easy tools around to just turn an XML-scripted text file into a DLL, much in the same way FLMM does that, but then as a standalone tool.
Any idea anyone?
Thinking of it, I’d prefer a two-way tool, that can also turn an existing ids_name DLL into a text file, so that I can easily bulk-edit the existing names… I’m not happy with how DA set these up: Liberty surnames, Liberty family names, Bretonia surnames, Bretonia family names etc. Better put all surnames after each other, then all family names, in such a way that you could vary (e.g. make a faction with both english and spanish surnames). If I could move whole blocks of names, this would be easily fixed. It won’t be worth the effort doing it name by name.
Thanks for your time!
NB I suppose I could use FLMM to generate such a DLL, but then I would have to make a nameable object (a weapon, or a planet, etc.) for each name entry I want - which will then be a torturous task again…
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have a look at adoxa’s website. he has a solution just like you seek.
btw, most factions use the same names in vanilla. there are just a couple of english names, japanese, german and hispanic. unless you want an entirely new colony like frenchs or russians you could just look into what is offered with nameressources.dll already.
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Gisteron wrote:
have a look at adoxa’s website. he has a solution just like you seek.Cool, thx!!
Gisteron wrote:
btw, most factions use the same names in vanilla. there are just a couple of english names, japanese, german and hispanic. unless you want an entirely new colony like frenchs or russians you could just look into what is offered with nameressources.dll already.
I indeed plan colonies of descendants of Dutch, Scandinavians and Indians (from India, not native Americans
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Try freelancer developer - Friendly fire`s program with changes from cannon and adoxa : http://forge.the-starport.net/projects/fldev/files
