Being someone that has hex edited binary MTS files in the past in order to change node names, this mod is like a breath of fresh air providing a library and tooling for managing schematics in a way where they are easy to create, modify and version control. Converting existing binary MTS is easy with the provided command and if one ever wanted to go back to the stone age, there is a command to convert it back!
The text format may be less suited for extremely large schematics (think a big building stored as a monolithic schematic), but for smaller things like trees and bushes used for mapgen, the text format remains very manageable.
Addendum: There was an error when trying to convert MTS files that contain sliceprob data due to an oversight in the code that handles that, but I have opened a merge request to fix this.
Being someone that has hex edited binary MTS files in the past in order to change node names, this mod is like a breath of fresh air providing a library and tooling for managing schematics in a way where they are easy to create, modify and version control. Converting existing binary MTS is easy with the provided command and if one ever wanted to go back to the stone age, there is a command to convert it back!
The text format may be less suited for extremely large schematics (think a big building stored as a monolithic schematic), but for smaller things like trees and bushes used for mapgen, the text format remains very manageable.
Addendum: There was an error when trying to convert MTS files that contain sliceprob data due to an oversight in the code that handles that, but I have opened a merge request to fix this.