Text Editing

A file editor for the text based files, there are many things you can use for this: Notepad will work but I do not recommend it too highly, Wordpad will also work and is better to use than Notepad. Others are available too and have many more features than either of the afore mentioned windows standard editors, personally I use a program called Notepad++ its a good program that allows you to have several documents open at the same time aswell as search through all open documents, replace the the same statement in all open documents, save all documents and keeps the open docunments in tabs and will reopen them if you close the program ready for next time.

Editing a ship file
Alright now we are all setup to start some modding we now need to edit some odf files, odf means Object Definition File and has all the statistics and parameters for all objects in the game.

ODF Editing
Down and dirty with odfs

Now that we have the hang of basic editing of the odfs, lets take an in depth look at what all the commands mean. This will include all commands from A1 and A2, and the best explanation I can give of them all Some will be A2 Only commands and that will be noted where applicable.

Ships & Stations

Weapons & Special Weapons

Physics

Race Files

Misc.

FleetOps (inc. PP)