About .ale editing

Minerobba

This has been bothering me for a long time. Although I can open ale file by hexeditor, I can’t see where is the CRC code. SWAT once said I need to change these code into new ones if I have changed some FX name.
Someone in TLR managed to open ale file in a quite proper order(just like .c file or something else), and CRC code are all visible. But it seems that download server of TLR has crashed. So I can’t get any useful tools from there in order to find it out by myself.
If anyone know how do edit it, or have a tool which can make it quite simple to edit it. Please give me a hand. I will be very grateful. Sorry about my poor English.

adoxa

There’s the Freelancer XML Project, which converts all the UTF files (including ALE) to XML, and back again. Librelancer has an editor. There’s also a yet-to-be-released Ale Effect Editor.

Minerobba

Thaaaaannnnkksss!! I will try that.:-D

Treewyrm

Here’s ale-xml documentation to help you.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FaX3QcZyJlygshJTTa3uXluHzkO0-ZK2oOADYr2sdvk/edit?usp=sharing

Minerobba

OK I will try that. Thanks a lot!

Minerobba

adoxa wrote:
There’s the Freelancer XML Project, which converts all the UTF files (including ALE) to XML, and back again. Librelancer has an editor. There’s also a yet-to-be-released Ale Effect Editor.

Well, I tried to edit one of the .ale files in XML. I changed all FX names and some CRC codes inside(however I couldn’t find where some of them came from). Then in weapon_ale.ini I added new code for that FX. But it still didn’t work. Did I miss something?
By the way, is there any code for .emt?

.Nx

Consider having CRC calculator, it should be somewhere in downloads here. CRCs are an encoded nicknames of stuff so they should match new names if you’ve changed any.