They are crappy... Either way, I decided as I mod I would describe how to do things. Starting off... 1) How Mods Work, Mods Folder Structure.
Nice introduction to server modding video, but it's kinda sad to see you are still using Nodepad after months of modding. The "id" property doesn't serve any purpose anymore, you can remove it safely from your modinfo files.
He prefers it over notepad++ because it keeps it in paragraph format. We formated all the .jsons differently into the traditional format and he'd rather have it all in one block, because it's easier to catch syntax errors. (Or to fix them I might say)
I can't tell how this could be easier with notepad than formatted and colored in notepad++ or any other code editor, but, well, if he say so Firefox + JSONView plugin can help a lot for a quick & dirty json syntax error diagnostics : I was hoping for a Notepad++ plugin, but none of the 3 available do that properly.
Honestly, firefox looked better in your pic than notepad++ Depending on the syntax, notepad++ does in fact not find anything or even highlight brackets usefully. Otherwise I would suggest it. notepad++ sort of works in column format, but the original game files arent and it is another 20 minutes I might show some other time to reformat them. Well, I included a new video using jsonview on firefox. I showed notepad++, it doesn't color anything so I showed that and ridiculed it for this particular task. I showed jsonview. It makes it incredibly easy to read. It reformats it to columns too. However, it doesn't edit, to edit you have to have notepad or ++ open at same time beside it. However, you can copy-paste from firefox to notepad and it reformats it to columns. That itself is pretty nice.
Firefox+JSONView is good to quickly show the content of a json file, but when it come to editing, you need proper tools By default, notepad++ doesn't have any language associated with .json files. But it is easily fixable : Menu / Settings / Style Configurator Choose "Javascript" in the "Language :" list add "json" in the "User ext.:" textbox click "Save & Close" open any .json file and enjoy the new colors (you can even change them if you want in the previous panel) you can have the same behavior as Notepad by activating "Word Wrap" on the toolbar if you want more than one single line But, you can also revert the (pointless) minification from the Uber build chain and have this nicely formatted. Menu / Plugins / Plugins Manager / Show Plugin Manager Install JSTool open one of your json files press CTRL+ALT+M You can also customize the formatting in Plugins / JSTool / Options You can open some JSON Tree editor by pressing CTRL+ALT+J And I think I understand you don't like sources versionning tool very much, but for information, having your json files in more than one single line will help the sources diff a lot. Sadly, this will not validate your JSON syntax, Firefox+JSONView stay a good option. I bet there is even better free tools than Notepad++ for Javascript/JSON editing, but it's a pretty good start. I hope it can help you to mod with more comfort.
Recommended to reformat all the json files at once: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/reformat-your-json-files.47529/
Now THIS is preference. Recently, I have been dissecting for the videos, so I have been reformatting to columns. However, the strict spacing from columns means if I play around with too many things something doesn't work. With paragraph, you literally just need a single space between each thing and the correct quotes and commas and brackets. No worrying about too many or few spaces, because the spacing is what I mess up on columns.
Thank you so much for this video, as someone who has modding ambitions but lack the basic know how this is a really helpful lesson. Side note, @thetrophysystem you totally sound like Cobra Commander. That or Duff Man form the Simpsons
