Batch crosshair modding
How to change pretty much all of your weapons to the same crosshair at once.
Prerequisites
This guide requires that you understand the basics outlined in Modding introduction, How to backup, extract & repack, and Modding tools. If you do not understand these concepts, please click below.
This guide also requires that you download a program called TextCrawler 3. Download link can be found here. Any other application capable of making batch modifications based on regular expressions will also work. Other required tools can be found on the tools page.
This guide is for Windows 10, and we will not provide extended support for other operating systems. Sorry.
Guide
Step 1. Isolation of files you'd like to modify
Create a folder for yourself to perform these edits within, mine is called CrosshairMods. Place the config files for weapons you'd like to modify. We don't recommend setting titan weapons to all the same, as most of these have alternate states and etc not friendly to static, stock crosshairs. Once this folder is created and it contains your config files move on to the next step.
Step 2. Open TextCrawler, and configure settings.
This step consists of 5 parts, listed below.
Slap the path to that folder containing configs you made before into this box
Select the "Regular Expression" tab.
Change the "Rex Ex:" box to
ui/crosshair_\w+this filters for all strings beginning withui/crosshair_and stops the selection at the end of the "word" (section of text with no spaces)Set the "Replace:" box to the full id of the crosshair you would like to make your base.
Click "Find"
Step 3. Verify settings are working correctly
If all is done correctly, you should see a list of your configs appear with the crosshair settings within them highlighted. Make sure that all of your configs have the "Matches" column value of 1. If this is not the case you will have to manually modify as these configs have multiple overlaid crosshairs.
Step 4. Batch change your configs
If all is to your satisfaction, click the "Replace" button, and confirm your choice in the popup.
Step 5. Clean up folders and configs
Open up a config, and verify that the change has gone through, and delete all the .bak files created during your edit. Once finished, move all of your configs back into your scripts/weapons folder and repack.
Footnotes
If you screw something up by improperly using this program, your fault, not ours. If something in this guide is incorrect, message us on discord by tagging @Frontier Militia
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