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Evening or morning folks. I am attempting to modify the Phwexe file for my mod but I am having no success opening the application. PC asks for confirmation, I say yes and the outline of the application flashes for a moment and then closes. The application I recall using is witploadAE. Is this correct? Any ideas on why the application is not opening?

I had success modding the Phwexe files pre covid, but am updating to a new map and want to reopen a few rivers.

Many thanks

I currently use the pwhex editor for editing map data.

From the "about" file:
Editor for pwhexe.dat files (AE map data files)
Version 0.5 (Beta)


By Dave Bradley

The Pwhexe.dat_editor program is a freeware utility for use with Matrix Games' War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition. War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition is the property of Matrix Games. The author is not affiliated with Matrix Games in any way.



The Pwhexe.dat_editor is completely free and you are free to use this utility in any way you wish except that I ask that if you redistribute it you do so only with the complete installation package, containing all of the readme and license documentation. No warranty, express or implied, is provided with the software. Your use of it is entirely at your own risk. The editor was created using AutoIt, a freeware script editor for Windows. More information concerning AutoIt may be found at:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The work to produce the editor was cooperative effort and I must acknowledge the great contribution of Dani Mendoza. He has been invaluable in helping with the overal design and in de-bugging but most especially in working out the pwhexe.dat file format, without which no editor could have been produced.

Dave Bradley
12/15/10

Here's an old post containing a link to the editor:
https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=192031

AFAIK the latest version of the map data editing tools incl. PWHEXE_Editor_0.7 can be found here: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 7#p2779477

witploadAE is a tool that allows to dump scenario files into .csv files for easier data modifications with Excel and to re-convert the .csv files into scenario files. It requires DOS to run.

LargeSlowTarget wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 8:55 pm AFAIK the latest version of the map data editing tools incl. PWHEXE_Editor_0.7 can be found here: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 7#p2779477

witploadAE is a tool that allows to dump scenario files into .csv files for easier data modifications with Excel and to re-convert the .csv files into scenario files. It requires DOS to run.

or a command line window, with Admin privileges.