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Writing an editor?


Sorrow

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Well you need to program an interface, read bytes/shorts/integers from a file at specific offsets and write them back again. :) Ofcourse you also need to find the stats you want to edit in the program first!
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I'm no expert but any and all the topics you can learn from your course will be useful in some way. Though courses generally only cover what's needed to satisfy the syllabus, so you'll probably miss out on a lot of interesting stuff that you'll have to supplement yourself with self study.

 

I assume you're learning C/C++, C# or something along those lines?

 

I'd say definitely brush up on the I/O topics (binary mode, binary mode is your friend!) and Classes.

 

And for C++, it wouldn't be a bad idea to supplement your knowledge by familiarising yourself with the STL and its handy dynamic containers like vectors, lists, queues. They're very useful if you don't want to build dynamic data structures from scratch each time you write a program.

 

- NKF

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