Chunks in Exult Studio

[fedabiblio]

Hello.

I'm trying to organize similar chunks together in Exult Studio (SI chunks seem to be ramdomly distributed ).
Is there a faster and better way to do it than by clicking on the Up/Down button to move them around in the u7chunk file?
If not, that would be my suggestion for the team: a way to move chunks and shapes around in their respective files just using drag and drop.
I hope that's possible.

Thank you in advance.

PS. I'm not sure where to report this, but I found a way for Exult Studio to recognize edited shapes on Windows. Thought it could be good info, just let me know if it's still useful and where I can share it

[agentorangeguy]

There is a neat feature in exult studio where you can create groups of the chunks. For example, click on the u7chunks file, click the "groups" tab, then at the bottom click "new" and name your new group - say you want to group together all 'forest' chunks. Once you create that "forest" group, scroll through all the chunks and select a forest chunk, right click til a menu comes up and it should have a "add to group" option and then it opens up all your custom groups, so then add it to "forest" or whatever you name it. Easy as that.

If you want to do some serious map building... DO NOT... I repeat... DO NOT rearrange the actual chunks in the U7chunk file... it messes thing up quick. I found out the hard way!

[Wizardry Dragon]

It would make my life MUCH MUCH quicker if there was a way to rearrange chunks in the view without rearranging them in the actual u7chunks file. It's a pain to constantly having to go digging through the u7chunks list to find things, and the last time I tried to make a groups arrangement (Dec of last year, to be fair), the groups file wasn't saving on exit of ES.

For me, though, just being able to rearrange the file would work better in my work flow.

Cheers,
Wizardry Dragon

[agentorangeguy]

it works now i think, saving group files. I've messed up maps with changing order of actual chunk file lol.