Hello. Where is the Actor Editor, exactly?

[Jackerino]

If I need to just go and modify the XML files "raw" I don't have any issues with that.  The problem is that the documentation talks about an Actor Editor, and I'd love to use it, but it doesn't seem to actually be included in the packaged files.  Considering the documentation of the tool is 12 years old, now, is it just wildly deprecated and lost to time?  Or am I just overlooking something?

 

[Stan`]

15 hours ago, Jackerino said:

If I need to just go and modify the XML files "raw" I don't have any issues with that.  The problem is that the documentation talks about an Actor Editor, and I'd love to use it, but it doesn't seem to actually be included in the packaged files.  Considering the documentation of the tool is 12 years old, now, is it just wildly deprecated and lost to time?  Or am I just overlooking something?

 

Depends, on what your OS is. It's usually next to your pyrogenesis executable.

[Jackerino]

I'm on Windows, but, it's just simply not there, which is why it's confusing.  I have Atlas and everything, but I don't seem to have the Actor Editor specifically

Edited July 19, 2025 by Jackerino

[Stan`]

Mmh then maybe the installer doesn't install it anymore (or never has cc @Itms)

You can grab the exe from here https://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/system

 

[ThePoshBarbarian]

Might this tool be added back into the regular game install again? Seems like a very useful tool to modify actor entities with. Been trying to get into modding myself, the only thing that's been an abolute pain has been editing actor models in plain text.

[Itms]

This is an oversight from the git migration. I have opened #8637 so that the actor editor is available again in the upcoming release. Thanks for the reports!

[ThePoshBarbarian]

Hey so I've just tried to ue the actor editor, and unfortunately I get an error message. I'm on windows 10, and using a28.