SimPE experts -- Is there a find/replace option?

[jrd]

Okay this is a question for someone more experience with SimPE than I. Also asked at the SimPE forum.

I am trying to hide the mascot outfits from OFB, and have succesfully extracted all their property sets into a new package. To hide the outfits I have to append 1 to all the flags.

Is there an easy way to do this, rather than going by them one-by-one and changing flag 0x00000008 to 0x00000009, flag 0x0000000A to 0x0000000B etc.?

Basically I want to replace any occurence of a given string inside a package with a different string, but I don't see a way to do that.

I really don't feel like going over 342 lines one-by-one...

[syberspunk]

I'd love to have this feature as well, but have yet to find anything like this. Let me know if you do. Otherwise, you may have to suggest it to Quaxi, if it hasn't already been suggested.

It's a pain when trying to edit BHAVs and you want to replace all the instances of something in a similar fashion. It'd be great if we could do a global replace rather than having to hunt and peck each line of code. But I wouldn't know if this would even be feasible. 

Ste

[jrd]

Ah well I'm at line 50 now... will continue tomorrow. I'll get this mod (mascot hider) out this week probably.

Hopefully there /is/ a find/replace I am overlooking though, that'll save me some time and allow for more testing. (I probably forgot a few uniforms -- there's the chef/baker, ninja, apron, aviator, gorilla, diver, knight and?)

[angelyne]

How about using a hex editor.  Would that work?

[jrd]

angelyne, you are brilliant.

[jrd]

I have a working version of the mod now at VS and at MTS2. Thanks again for the advice!

[atavera]

Hex editors work great for BHAVs too if you need to replace some GUIDs   Maxis loves to make objects that require the original GUID by making every other line a Test Object Type GUID...really annoying when you want a clone which will have different GUIDs 

[angelyne]

Hehe glad to help.  I saw your mod already.  That is going to be pretty useful!