Market Research. Light Placing Utility

[MikeTrams]

guys, why don't you use blueprint editor?

And how do you use the blueprint editor to edit existing locomotives? The blueprint editor will only edit Source files of items you have the Source for?

Mike

That's in interesting concept though. Wouldn't it be possible to make a whole new Blueprint editor program to read already exported xml files? Though, it would be quite time consuming to develop, and then again it might just be easier to edit the xml directly.

Idea I suppose.

Cheers,
Mike

[FoggyMorning]

I think the concept of using the BP editor for modifications where you do not have access to the source was discussed some time back, and it was found that you can create new blueprints for existing items by using an appropriately named "dummy" .igs file in your source directory.

[crazyfrogbro]

For new lights, you don't need to modify blueprints, you can create a new one. Adding as child to a de-serzed parent blueprint is piece of cake, a 10 sec work.
If this is not enough, i just read the de-serzed xml, and re create the source in blueprint editor, by copying values.
It could be possible to make a reverse transform from exported blueprint to source, but for that the xsl file which used to tranform is needed(but RSC probaly won't help for modders), or mapping manually back everything and program it, which is very time consuming. The last is not an option, it's easier to make a new blueprint editor, that reads the exported xmls, because the source xml is a big mess, and frankly i don't have a clue why this conversion thing is needed at all. It can't stop reverse engineering, just makes some unpleasant minutes for modders.