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Thu, 04 September 2008 21:37

bigcanuknaz

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How do you open a p file, to get the planet information.

I did a search on "p file" but didn't find anything. I seem to remember reading about a tool that created, and read these files, and perhaps was able to merge them too.

I can't find it, though.

thanks,

naz

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Thu, 04 September 2008 22:37

m.a@stars

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bigcanuknaz wrote on Fri, 05 September 2008 03:37

How do you open a p file, to get the planet information.

p files are tab-separated text data, able to be imported by Excel. You can also open them with Notepad, or even vi. Twisted Evil

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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 07:55

joseph

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Right click, "open with" choose excel.
Job done

Joseph
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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 11:27

Altruist

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The tools you mentioned, help you to organise the information. they also give some graphical support:

* Stars! Notebook
* Xtreme Borders

For a description see here: Hints & Tips: Diplomacy

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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 18:25

bigcanuknaz

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Ahh, of course. So a p-file is exactly the same as a pla-file. Is that right? Maybe just the diff is extension for 2.7 vs 2.6??

naz

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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 18:33

Altruist

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bigcanuknaz wrote on Sat, 06 September 2008 00:25

Ahh, of course. So a p-file is exactly the same as a pla-file. Is that right?

Correct.

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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 18:34

Mynd

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Ah, not quite. They're the same type of file, .p files just have more information in them. You get .p files by changing a certain line in your stars.ini file, so that it knows to add extra information to the file when you do a planet/fleet/universe dump-to-text.

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Re: p file

Fri, 05 September 2008 21:20

bigcanuknaz

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Thanks so much.

That extreme borders is what I was looking for a few weeks ago for making the maps to help tell the game stories.

And it'll help with allies info too.

nice to have all the info in one place.

naz

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