Editing reflexives in extracted meta data file.....
Editing reflexives in extracted meta data file.....
Can someone who knows their stuff about reflexives please hit me up on AIM, I've got a few questions but I'm not gonna talk about my new mod here until it's done. My screenname is swese44. Thanks a lot.
reflexsives are peices of hex data in the map file that point to a location in the same chunk of data in the map file. if u were to say the map file was made of people, u included, and u were to point to your foot, your hand would be a reflexsive, pretty lame analogy but its all i could think of, one of the reasons they are important in modding is that when meta is injected into a map, the offsets in the injected data are all changed, but the reflexsives are not, they still point to to the old offsets where the file would be if it were in its original place in the original map. but its not, and those reflexives are still pointing there so its a prob;em, u have to go through and find them to change them so that they point to their new location. fortunately hht does this for you when u inject meta. well, hope this helps, good luck modding
Good anologay actually, thanks a lot. My problem is I'm trying to add dependencies to a piece of meta. I (non-recursively) extracted the meta, and can see in the meta.data file Reflexives, Dependencies, then more Reflexives. I was hoping to manually add them but I didn't know what to do with the reflexives.
Maybe I'm going about this all wrong, but is there any way to add more depencies to something than there is already given? I'm assuming yes, because in the Ultrapanel mod, the panel has just a couple dependencies (I'm assuming the ones that were for the flag base it was injected over), but the plantfern it replaces has probably 1,000 dependencies someone had to add. How did they do it?
Maybe I'm going about this all wrong, but is there any way to add more depencies to something than there is already given? I'm assuming yes, because in the Ultrapanel mod, the panel has just a couple dependencies (I'm assuming the ones that were for the flag base it was injected over), but the plantfern it replaces has probably 1,000 dependencies someone had to add. How did they do it?