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Before you give up on your mod

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:24 pm
by darkriot
Look up Diffchecker. I cant post links yet which is stupid. it compares the text files. Use a back up txt to compare to the one that you just edited. It highlights differences in lines in one color and new lines of text in another color. It saved me some modding rage quit lol. Hope this helps

RE: Before you give up on your mod

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:44 pm
by rjord2021
With my Star Trek mod it would be a disaster if something I added suddenly broke the mod. DiffChecker is good in that it helps you detect the changes in the txt file that may have caused the problem for the mod.

In my case I do 2 things to ensure the stability of the mod.

1. After each change I test the mod and make sure that change works before signing it off as complete and going to the next mod change.
2. Every day I work on the mod I have the mod saved in a different folder going back 7 saves. This means if something goes wrong I can go back anything up to 7 days prior to what broke my mod and fix the problem by renaming the folder name from backup name to folder name.

RE: Before you give up on your mod

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 2:02 pm
by Retreat1970
Useful thank you. Checking for errors manually blows.