Posted December 09, 2011
Ok, here's an odd and obscure question.
I've been having fun with this pack. Now, one of the odd (and little known) facts about BI2 and BI3 is that there's a mission editor out there. It's a nasty old DOS thing (which you'll need to use DOSbox and a fair old bit of know-how to use), but it allows you to both customise the existing missions and create new ones from scratch. The editor works with BI2, Titan's Legacy and BI3.
However, while I've had no problem using the editor with the GOG version of BI3, I can't use it with BI2 - for the simple reason that the maps don't appear to be stored in the same format they were originally. So far as I can tell, they're all compressed up in a file called bi2.gog
Does anybody know if there's a way to extract the map files? Or some other work-around? I'd love to play around with the editor again.
I've been having fun with this pack. Now, one of the odd (and little known) facts about BI2 and BI3 is that there's a mission editor out there. It's a nasty old DOS thing (which you'll need to use DOSbox and a fair old bit of know-how to use), but it allows you to both customise the existing missions and create new ones from scratch. The editor works with BI2, Titan's Legacy and BI3.
However, while I've had no problem using the editor with the GOG version of BI3, I can't use it with BI2 - for the simple reason that the maps don't appear to be stored in the same format they were originally. So far as I can tell, they're all compressed up in a file called bi2.gog
Does anybody know if there's a way to extract the map files? Or some other work-around? I'd love to play around with the editor again.
