noob question viewing game source code

[Meatbomb]

Hello guys,

Apologies for the vary basic question. I want to be able to browse the original game XML.

I am looking at this thread https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=33219.0

And downloaded

Zentar's ILSpy   |   This is for referencing the game's decompiled C# scripts.

This seems like what I want to do, look through these files, right?  But I try to open cs files and it does not recognise them.

It seems I am missing a step.  Please could someone point me in the right direction? Where does the base game xml live and how to look at it?

[jamaicancastle]

The file you want to open in ILSpy is at Rimworld/RimworldWin_Data/Managed/Assembly-CSharp.dll
Note that this doesn't include the game's XML, which can be viewed (by any standard text editor) in Rimworld/Mods/Core/Defs

[Meatbomb]

Oh man, I did not think to look in the mods folder but obvious now...  thanks a lot.

Follow-up question, do you know where to find the backstories?  In translations they have a discreet file, but in English...  ?

[Rimrue]

Backstories are in the asset files (in the same folder as the assembly.dll). You will need an asset extractor (I think it's called) to access them.

Hope that helps.

[RawCode]

backstories are plain text and appended to asset file, you can extract them without any 3rd party tools.

[Fluffy (l2032)]

They're slightly obfuscated because these are largely rewards for patrons paying extra for their name-in-game. That said, still possible to mod - but you may want to use one of the mods that allows editing backstories... (anyone have a link? I can't seem to find it anymore).

@RawCode; technically correct, but completely misses the point.

[dburgdorf]

(anyone have a link? I can't seem to find it anymore)

In my sig.

[Meatbomb]

Hey there guys, thank you so much for your help so far.  So I figured out how to use ILSpy and I can open the Assembly-CSharp.dll

Wow!  So cool!

But.. searching "backstor" shows me all kinds of code for how they get inserted, etc., but I cannot actually find the stories themselves... Any tips further?

[JT]

Backstories are in the asset files (in the same folder as the assembly.dll).

[Strikethrough mine.]

The backstories are actually contained in the resources.assets file, not the Assembly-CSharp.dll, and can only be opened with a Unity 5 asset extractor.  I'm not even sure how you'd go about modifying them directly.

Since he was too kind to shill it directly, I do highly recommend dburgdorf's Editable Backstories, which also contains mostly faithful reproductions of the vanilla backstories.

[Rimrue]

That's what I said. Lol Assets are found in the Rimworld Data (not sure on the exact name) folder. The same folder that the assembly.dll is found in.

[JT]

Yep.  It wasn't personal. ;-)  I was just re-showing it as the direct reply to Meatbomb's last post with clarification, since s/he was possibly interpreting the stricken-through part of the sentence to mean it was literally contained in the assembly. =)