TextVessel - Text Data Editor

This tool edits the . FMG text string package files that are packed within the . MSGBND files.

Requires your game to be unpacked with UnpackDarkSoulsForModding

You may be wondering "why would I use TextVessel instead of Wulf's FmgEdit?".

• []TextVessel lets you view/edit/save all 590 FMG files in the game's data (59 for each of the 10 languages) in one instance of the program, all without unpacking/repacking any binder files (aside from the initial unpacking done by UnpackDarkSoulsForModding, of course)

  []TextVessel has English translations of the Japanese text package file names so you know what's up.

  []TextVessel saves/loads the files so much faster that it is honestly pretty ridiculous; Wulf's tool takes upwards of 10 seconds to load/save one FMG file, whereas TextVessel takes a quarter of a second to load/save all 59 FMG files for any given language

  []TextVessel allows you to view/edit line breaks as actual line breaks whereas Wulf's tool has /n/ to represent a line break. In TextVessel, multi-line entries such as inventory descriptions actually appear as long paragraphs.

  []TextVessel highlights the game's special parameter value tokens in blue so they are more obvious. Special tokens include things like <?goodsNameId@108?>,<?pcPlayTime?>, <?mapName?>, etc. It achieves the highlighting by utilizing the AvalonEdit code editor control (using a modified version of the standard XML syntax highlighting definition)

  []TextVessel displays the game's text in what appears to be the original font that the ingame font textures were created with: Times New Roman, 24-pixel size, bitmap-scaled down to 75% scale.

  []TextVessel allows you to jump to a specific entry ID number with Ctrl+G.

  []TextVessel lets you filter which entries appear in the list using the controls on the top right (e.g. searching all entries with "catarina" in them)

  []TextVessel allows you to batch export text data to Json files as well as batch import text data from Json files (these options are under "File" in the menu bar)

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  Installation

  • []Unzip anywhere you want.

    []Run program.

    []Browse to your DARKSOULS.exe file when prompted (this step is only done on first run).

    []Edit stuff.

    []Press Ctrl+S to save.

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    Requirements

    • []Game unpacked using UnpackDarkSoulsForModding by HotPocketRemix

      []Either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of

      Windows 7 or later

      (does not work on Windows Vista/XP/etc)

    • . NET Framework 4. 7