mod-helper

This library offers an I/O interface for the EDU descritor file, along with a fully typed UnitDescriptor model. With this you can easily balance your mod by editing all values from feral_export_descr_unit.txt at a brushstroke. So far it works for feral_export_descr_unit.txt but it could be extended to support more files.

Important

If you're on Windows, you might want to update the paths in lib/handy-paths.ts to match the equivalent locations on your file system.

Required

npm

Recommended

Basic working knowledge of javascript.

Usage

This comes with 3 basic scripts:

npm start       # runs the main script, it comes with a few examples (see `scripts/main.ts`)
npm run backup  # backs up the current version (location configurable in `lib/handy-paths.ts`)
npm run reset   # restores a previously backed up version to be the current version.

The scripts/main.ts file by default loads and apply a couple of example patches, which can conveniently be found under scripts/patches. Those can be used for inspiration for whatever you want to do. The model we use for the unit descriptor entries is the UnitDescriptor and can be found under lib/unit-descriptor/model.ts. This file contains the interface describing the model data structure along with a yet incomplete list of possible values for some fields. Noteable edge cases are:

• is_female is a boolean flag, its key never has a value in the raw file
• officer and ethnicity can have multiple entries in the raw file