How to tweak OXZ's

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OXZ's live in your ManagedAddOns folder.

  • To tweak an OXZ, you expand it, rewrite part of the code (following the instructions), and then repackage it as an OXP.
  • You then put the tweaked OXP in your AddOns folder.
  • You then restart the game holding down the shift button.

When you next dive into the entrails of the in-game Expansions Manager you will notice that that Expansion is now listed in red!

  • Note that you can directly download the OXZ in expanded state into your AddOns folder by pressing x when the Expansion is highlighted. The expanded expansion will have an .off extension superadded to the folder.
  • Note that the old OXZ if you have already downloaded one remains in your Managed Expansions folder.
  • Note also that the OXPs in your AddOns folder trump the OXZs in your Managed Expansions folder.
  • Note also that an OXZ is just a zipped OXP - there is essentially no difference between the two... Reval recommends adding a simple step to the tweaking process: create a folder in AddOns with an .oxp extension, and unzip the contents of the oxz to it (after renaming it .zip). Presto! - an OXP.
  • An OXZ, to be accepted, must also contain a manifest.plist, (it is basically a zipped version of the entire OXP with an added manifest.plist) whereas a pure OXP needs only a requires.plist. Reval's belt'n'braces approach is to include both.


Links

  • OXP for details on finding the ManagedAddOns & AddOns Folders for AppleMAc, Windows & Linux.
  • BB Thread with more detail and long list of tweaks.
  • Suggestions for change to the system of doing this.
  • Aegidian's views on tweaking (and on OXZ's generally!): here. Tweaking an OXP is easier than doing the same to an OXZ.
  • Tweaking galaxy seeds: [Maps] - and see the linked discussion

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