bep713
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3 years ago Hey @ghubbard8 the college data is in a separate FTC file. The franchise file contains things that will change from franchise to franchise, the FTC files (located elsewhere in the actual game files) will contain static things like Colleges.
The college field is a asset table style reference which is used by the franchise file to reference external FTC files. It follows a different convention from the other table references that the editor supports. The editor does not support opening separate files at this time but you can manually find the reference yourself by using a hex edit tool and finding the references. I don't recommend this it's very time consuming.
The editor will edit FTC files (with a few notable issues) but as of now we have no way to "inject" them back into the game on M21 without Frosty. If you are talkin M20, you can edit the FTCs and re-import back in Frosty.
If you're editing any FTC file, the string lengths cannot change - so for example if you edit 'Air Force' the edited name MUST be 9 characters long.
If you don't care to edit the college name and just want to edit the College field on the player, you will still need to map the reference to a college in the FTC file. Again this is pretty time consuming because youre dealing with those huge binary nums and two files.
I may have missed something in the READ.me, but I cannot figure out the college data. It's a binary number and I don't know what it means. Taking out the first 1 gives you a 4 digit number, but I can't find any college code that matches up. Does anyone know how to interpret this data?