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So I'm ready to start modding things myself finally, and have been taking a look at Iron Forge's (excellent) tutorials on this server. Unfortunately, I'm on a mac so I can't use his recommended Hex Workshop, and am instead using HexEditor, off of good ol' versiontracker.com.

Anyway, he (/she?) suggests poking around in the meta and testing to see what the values would be if they were floats, integers, etc. My question is, though, does HexEditor (or at least Hex Editors in general) know that the data is little-endian? For instance, if I have it investigate a four byte value, does it automatically switch them? You might not know for HexEditor specifically, but do they do it in general? Thanks.

im not sure if it will run on a mac, but my hex editor "hexedit" does it fine

There is a HexEdit for the Mac, but it doesn't seem very good. I tried it, but it will pretty much only let you see the hex values themselves, as well as the ascii interpretation. There's no way to see what certain hex values would be if interpreted as an integer, or if interpreted in a different way.