- Jun 17, 2017
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Hey!
For those of you that like to modify text-based scripts in games, there's a tool I use extensively for this when updating my mods to the latest version of a game.
WinMerge
It's a 'differences comparison' tool that allows you to compare two text or text-like files side by side. It highlights the changes between the two versions, and allows you to copy changes over, individually or en masse, and/or edit either file directly.
Then you can save either or both files (left, right) once you've finished your comparison.
It can even generate a 'report' file that highlights the differences between the two files, in .html format (maybe other formats too), so that you can show others what the changes are. This can be useful if someone wants to know what exactly you've changed in your version of a file...
As a Renpy modder, I use this tool a LOT when looking for changes between .rpy scripts. Say to see what a developer might have changed between versions of a game, so that I can study the changes and decide how best to proceed.
And, it works for a number of text-based file formats.
There are other tools that do this as well. WinMerge is free and open source.
I highly recommend this tool!
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For those of you that like to modify text-based scripts in games, there's a tool I use extensively for this when updating my mods to the latest version of a game.
WinMerge
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It's a 'differences comparison' tool that allows you to compare two text or text-like files side by side. It highlights the changes between the two versions, and allows you to copy changes over, individually or en masse, and/or edit either file directly.
Then you can save either or both files (left, right) once you've finished your comparison.
It can even generate a 'report' file that highlights the differences between the two files, in .html format (maybe other formats too), so that you can show others what the changes are. This can be useful if someone wants to know what exactly you've changed in your version of a file...
As a Renpy modder, I use this tool a LOT when looking for changes between .rpy scripts. Say to see what a developer might have changed between versions of a game, so that I can study the changes and decide how best to proceed.
And, it works for a number of text-based file formats.
There are other tools that do this as well. WinMerge is free and open source.
I highly recommend this tool!
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