How to edit files

[Waspy]

Hello all.

I am wondering if anyone can explain to me how we can edit files in the latest Guardian files that have been released on here. I'd like to edit drops and all that nice stuff, as well as populate the market and learn the whole game more indepth before I think about developing on the files. Thanks in advance!

[MentaL]

[PenguinJoe]

As far as I understand it BDO is a little more involved than some games that can simply edit some binary files with a specialized editor. The file formats between client and server are very different.

Most, if not all data editing beyond simple config files editing for BDO is in editing the .bexcel client content file and sqlite server data database.

Modifying the client side gets a little complicated because you need to extract the .bexcel file from paz (compressed archive with seperate content and manifest files) files, edit it using a specialized bexcel; editor tool and re-inject it back into the paz files after (not always an error-free process). The server side is much easier since you can use a database editor like navicat to modify it. You just need to make sure any changes done on the sqlite file is reflected in the client side bexcel file otherwise you will get some pretty strange behavior.

On the upside there are sites out there that walk you through some pretty, um, interesting mods like nude characters & such.

See some of the threads in the bdo release and bdo development forums to find the tools you need to work with .paz and bexel files. You light want to look for posts made by Ledie - who seems one of the more active releasers of these tools and emus here. Ledie is pretty knowledgeable in regards to BDO emus and will sometimes answer the less common how-to questions that hasn't already been answered a thousand times.

This is to the best of my knowledge on bdo editing and it may be totally wrong. Any advice I provided here is worth exactly how much you paid me for it.

[Waspy]

As far as I understand it BDO is a little more involved than some games that can simply edit some binary files with a specialized editor. The file formats between client and server are very different.

Most, if not all data editing beyond simple config files editing for BDO is in editing the .bexcel client content file and sqlite server data database.

Modifying the client side gets a little complicated because you need to extract the .bexcel file from paz (compressed archive with seperate content and manifest files) files, edit it using a specialized bexcel; editor tool and re-inject it back into the paz files after (not always an error-free process). The server side is much easier since you can use a database editor like navicat to modify it. You just need to make sure any changes done on the sqlite file is reflected in the client side bexcel file otherwise you will get some pretty strange behavior.

On the upside there are sites out there that walk you through some pretty, um, interesting mods like nude characters & such.

See some of the threads in the bdo release and bdo development forums to find the tools you need to work with .paz and bexel files. You light want to look for posts made by Ledie - who seems one of the more active releasers of these tools and emus here. Ledie is pretty knowledgeable in regards to BDO emus and will sometimes answer the less common how-to questions that hasn't already been answered a thousand times.

This is to the best of my knowledge on bdo editing and it may be totally wrong. Any advice I provided here is worth exactly how much you paid me for it.

I see, I see. Thank you a lot for replying. I am currently just playing around with the Guardian files... and looking for my 64GB RAM sticks! Haha.