Is there an external meta editor?

Unofficial support for the creating and editing of metas.
msib
Posts: 6

Is there an external meta editor?

Post #1 »

I would love to work on these and tweak stuff with my downtime at work since I cannot run AC there.

bradacc
Posts: 128

Post #2 »

No, there is not.

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HellsWrath
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Posts: 389

Post #3 »

There have been several attempts, but nothing that was worth using or fully functional. And that was all before the introduction of expressions.

If you want to take a stab at it, or know someone who does, the Vtank profile file format is as follows
Virindi wrote:VTank uses a common data file format for character profiles, meta, and the gameinfo database. It works like this:

----

Table Count
[Tables]

--Tables are:--

Table Name
Column Count
[Column Names]
[Is column indexed? y/n]
Record count
[Records]

--Records are:--
  • --Fields are:--

    Data type code
    Value

    ----------------

    Data type codes options are:
    d: double
    i: integer
    u: unsigned integer
    f: float
    s: string
    b: boolean
    0: unassigned (null)
    ba: length-prefixed ascii blob (this is for strings that might contain a newline)
    TABLE: a nested database table, encoded the same as above.

    Indexing does not change anything in the file, it just tells the plugin that when the file is loaded it should build a runtime index for that column. Indexed columns cannot have duplicates.

    Internally, condition and action meta classes are asked to save and they return a dbfield. For simple ones, it is a single value. For others, it is a table containing multiple options.