Need help in recompiling arcanum3.dat back into a dat file

Discussion in 'Modding and Scripting Support' started by TheAvatar, Nov 27, 2001.

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  1. TheAvatar

    TheAvatar New Member

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    I have undat arcanum3.dat and edited and now i can't figure out how to put all the folders back into a dat format i have tried dbmaker but it crashes everytime i try to compress the folders you get when you undat arcanum3.dat, can anyone help me i know my backgrounds work because i replaced arcanum3.dat witha folder of the same name and the game reads it, but i can't get it back into dat format
     
  2. Jarinor

    Jarinor New Member

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    You don't need to recompile it. Copy the files you've edited (and the folders they are in, not everything in the folders mind you, just the files that you've edited and their folders) to C:SierraArcanumdata

    Works for me. I have datames with 2 files in there for backgrounds and datarules with 1 file in there for the modified backgrounds...for backgrounds all you need is gameback.mes, effects. mes and backgrnd.mes in the relevant folders.

    Hope it helps :smile:.
     
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