So i've been fooling around with the bsp files in notepad... made few modifications to some levels, but when they try to load, i get the following error:

"Version 538976257 should be 1"

Any idea what this means? I can't find anything about versions in the bsp files themselves. Also, the only think I have touched is entities, haven't modified any of the architecture at all.

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Heh! Your not the only one. They appear to have changed a lot of the lump formats, so expect a lot more errors.

There is an 8 byte header at the start of a BSP file with this format.
magic: array[0..3] of char;
version: longint;

So, the first 8 bytes should look like this in a hex editor.
52 42 53 50 01 00 00 00

You'd be better off using a proper hex editor rather than Notepad. FRHED is pretty good.
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html

[This message has been edited by UGG (edited April 16, 2002).]

Sweet, thanks. I'll definatly check that out.

I've been using notepad mainly because the entity entries aren't in HEX, and are plainly readable by any text editor.

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I'm just gona wait 'til the SDK comes out (if it ever does.)

Yeah, text editors show the data as ASCII characters, but your asking for trouble editing binary files with them. Just one extra space can make all the data below it unreadable. The good thing about hex editors is that you can see where all the data is. Pretty hard trying to find extra spaces in a text editor.

Even with a hex editor, you'll still need to change the offsets and lengths in the lump directory.

[This message has been edited by UGG (edited April 16, 2002).]