Gibberish opening Pilotx.sw files

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:01 pm

Hey guys,

I just ran into a little issue while trying to open one of my pilotx.sw (ie pilot04.sw) files located in C:/sw3dg/EvochronMercenary. They open with a text reader like Note Pad - which they should - but Note Pad just displays a bunch of gibberish, which resembles a mix between Chinese and WingDings or something. It's completely illegible.

I've opened these files in the past without any problems. What am I doing wrong this time?...

Thanks in advance for any help.
~ Viper.

Edit: EEEK typo!

[Edited on 10-5-2012 by Viper]

Post by **Vice** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:14 pm

That is what you should expect to see, they are encrypted.

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:43 pm

Right, that explains it. I'm probably mistaking the pilotx.sw files for the maplogx.sw files or something else then. I'm pretty sure that back when I used to mod around I used to look in some kind of file to see what the number was for the gun my ship was using. Is there another file I can find that in? Some kind of savegame or similar file perhaps?

Post by **Marvin** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:37 pm

If you place a text file called savedatasettings somewhere (mine is in the main game folder ... for use with Atollski's Map Log program), it generates another file called (oddly enough) savedata. That one you can read with Notepad.

http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewtop ... 195&page=3

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:17 am

That's what I was talking about. Thanks Marvin!