Modding Tutorial for BOTF by Editor Program

This Tutorial is not up to date the best program to use at this time is DCER's UE and it can be found here;

Section A ---------- In order to successfully hack Birth of the Federation, you'll need the following programs: 1) Birth of the Federation version 1.02 (original files, no mods) 2) Winzip version 8 or higher (available for free at www.winzip.com) running in "Classic" Mode 3) Quick editor "These are found in our tool section" You'll also need to know how to perform basic Windows operations such as renaming files, copying and pasting files, etc. Section B ---------- First thing you must do is search your computer for "boft" this folder is your starting place. This is the default load location for BOTF is C:otf you will find a file named stbof.res "it 77.396 mb file Copy that file and make new folder on desktop. Like i did botf modding Next thing you do is rename stbof.res to stbof.zip I use my ftp program to do that. You can get a free 30 day trial at http://www.cuteftp.com and use that to rename file. Click on stbof.res and right click and then rename file stbof.zip New it time to open stbof.zip Right click and use "open with winzip" click open with winzip classic. Extract ALL files into your botf modding folder. Just click extract and this window opens click extract again. Now you can delete the zip file now. You will have 6005 files in that folder now. Maybe more if you edited it before. Now the editor you downloaded from tool section, now goes into that folder to edit the game. Here is a small piece of those 6000+ files as you can see i have added the editors in the folder your all set to mod BOTF game now. While in this you can change race pictures and other images inside game. There are several editors you can use here are some examples. After you made changes you wanted in the game just zip it back up and reconvert file name back to stbof.res you used cuteftp to convert it already your just reversing what you did when you started to editing file. Click on stbof.zip and right click and then rename file stbof.res Now just take stbof.res and put back in the is the default folder you got file from. Overwrite the one that in there now. Your done go play your mod you just made. HAVE FUN There is also a save editor where you can change stats in a saved game, Like ship info and races money. You can edit these without opening stbof.res file.