Questions about the update

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TheVeryLeast
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So I have been lightly modding for a while, just to make my own ship and weapons and small things, but I have always just opened up the main .tdb, found the weapon I want to replicate, and copied it to my own extension. However, with the 1.2 update, it appears that the .tdb has been subdivided into different .xml files, and I was wondering if I could still continue in my copy/paste ways with the new format. Right now I'm using notepad/notepad++, and most of the text on the screen is gibberish. Before, only about half of it was, and I could still find all the data on the ships/weapons, but now it appears they are put in these .xml sub-divisions. Maybe I have to download a different program to access them, or just change the way I'm modding? Any help would be appreciated :D
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hi! due to multiverse constraints on filesize, such as bandwidth, tdb files are now compressed. however, the solution is easy to do; just download transdata (on a phone right now, cant find the link easily) then use transdata.exe /decompile from the commandline
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Well awesome :) Dunno how I haven't figured that out yet...I assume it's the one on the downloads page. Thanks much! If I have any trouble with it, I'll ask again. Happy thanksgiving (in the US)!
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here, I got on a computer and found the link:
http://kronosaur.com/downloads/TransData.zip (I believe the one on the download page is out of date)
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Since this is help for modding, I moved the thread to Shipyards.

But here is the link (old, but still good) for some help with transdata:

http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1129
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Thanks for the help guys. I got everything figured out, except I couldn't figure out if it could extract things in the 'collection' folder, like with the corporate command .tdbs. I ended up just changing the name of the different files to 'transcendence.tdb' and running it 3 times, so it worked fine, but I don't know if there is a better way.
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