Console commands on Beta

[mr_tfool]

Do we need to do something to re-enable it?

[nihilcat]

It can be done with a simple mod that edits this property to true:

General.xlsx / Settings / System / Enable Developer Console

[Marwan [KTHD]]

Originally posted by nihilcat:

It can be done with a simple mod that edits this property to true:

General.xlsx / Settings / System / Enable Developer Console

Tried to, doesn't seem to work sadly

EDIT: Nevermind. After tinkering a bit I managed to make it work!

[Panzerchicken84]

Originally posted by Marwan KTHD:

Originally posted by nihilcat:

It can be done with a simple mod that edits this property to true:

General.xlsx / Settings / System / Enable Developer Console

Tried to, doesn't seem to work sadly

EDIT: Nevermind. After tinkering a bit I managed to make it work!

So what did you use to read thje general.xlsx file by chance?

[Wick]

HOW AND WHAT TOOL TO OPEN ?

[jhendriks87]

Go to C drive - program files x86 - steam - steamapps - common - UBOAT - UBOAT_data - data sheets - General.xlsx. Open with excel, go to the bottom of the page and select the settings tab, go down to the "/system" subheading and change "enable developer console" to True. Ensure to press the space bar after true and make sure the word is aligned to the left.

[Ashenfell]

Now i have to buy excel? Pff lol

[-=[Sesa]=-Graf Zahl]

Originally posted by Ashenfell:

Now i have to buy excel? Pff lol

Open Office = Freeware

[Sevrun]

Originally posted by -=Sesa=-Graf Zahl:

Originally posted by Ashenfell:

Now i have to buy excel? Pff lol

Open Office = Freeware

And figure out how to get the file BACK from their online service. that alone took me 20 minutes, since you can't do it from that screen, you have to drop into OneDrive. And of course it still doesn't work. This is clearly a huge improvement over the old way.

[mullyvon]

not work,update please

[TKessel]

It works as described

Change "Enable Developer Console" from "False" to "True" in General.xlsx "UBOAT_Data\Data Sheets"

[DECAFBAD]

Originally posted by -=Sesa=-Graf Zahl:

Originally posted by Ashenfell:

Now i have to buy excel? Pff lol

Open Office = Freeware

Learned recently that OpenOffice can not handle XLSX files. Use LibreOffice instead.

[Currahee]

Originally posted by Sevrun:

Originally posted by -=Sesa=-Graf Zahl:

Open Office = Freeware

And figure out how to get the file BACK from their online service. that alone took me 20 minutes, since you can't do it from that screen, you have to drop into OneDrive. And of course it still doesn't work. This is clearly a huge improvement over the old way. :death:

You can edit a spreadsheet with a hex editor, and there are many free hex editing tools.

Have fun!

[Asghan]

Originally posted by nihilcat:

It can be done with a simple mod that edits this property to true:

General.xlsx / Settings / System / Enable Developer Console

Can't you just give us this as an option in the settings menu?

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by DECAFBAD:

Learned recently that OpenOffice can not handle XLSX files. Use LibreOffice instead.

Was about to point this out. As an Open Office user, I switched to Libre Office a few years ago because of my experiences modding this game.

[ждун]

You shouldn't change game files directly, if you receive an update or perform files check on steam, steam will realize that the checksum of the file has changed and will replace it again.
If you don't want to do it over and over again, better is to make a simple mod.

1. create a simple mod (not script mod) with the launcher
2. go into mods folder and create a folder there "Data Sheets"
3. copy original general.xlsx file there
4. open the copied file with libre office and find the line you want to change.
5. (IMPORTANT!) delete all other tabs in the sheet, leave only the tab w6hich has the line you want to change.
6. (IMPORTANT!) in the remaining tab, delete all lines and leave only the line you want to change and also the next top heading line. In the end you should have just a heading and the line you want to change.
7 modify the line, save
8 activate your mod and enjoy.


PS: the reason why we delete everything from modded xlxs files that we don't change is that the game will merge data sheets from different mods into one single data sheet. If you don't do that, and use the complete general.xlxs copy, you will have compability issues with other mods.