LOTR: Battle For Middle Earth I & II EditingDiscuss any modding related issues to do with the Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth I and II RTS games here.
You'll see two windows, on the left something unintelligable, the HEX, on the right normal characters. The first four letters are BIG4. Change the 4 into a F so it reads BIGF
Nice and simple I tried to change it my self before I found this and I didnt think it was that simple to get FinalBig to open the big files. My attempt without any help succeded in opening but didnt have all files in the big file.
I've done these changes as well and it works (for my INI.big at least). But there must be some reason why they changed it... must be some incompatibility somewhere... right?
I've found no problems yet, and I'm using the edited header .big files with the game to play skirmish and campaign modes. I'm not sure if they changed it to mess with the modders or if it was just something to make them different from the C&C Generals files.
Got a Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 CD with a Computer architecture course I followed on the VU, but never got around to compile anything with it, the VU only instructs in Java untill the 3rd year, where you get Assembler and C (I think).
Just wanted to remind you all, that with the release of BFME patch 1.01, you have to change the BIGF back in to BIG4 or the patch will give you an error.
Easy to use guide for changing headers in BIG files
BTW your color tags are a bit screwed.
I tried to change it my self before I found this and I didnt think it was that simple to get FinalBig to open the big files. My attempt without any help succeded in opening but didnt have all files in the big file.
