(Tutorial) The LWO: Part 3

Hello, Universe! Welcome back to "The LWO" a toutorial about, well, LWO! If you want to see all of the parts of the series, click HERE. Now, let's review. Last time, we talked about editing the camera angles in LEGO® Universe. In te first part of this tutorial, I elplained a few things. Sorta like an FAQ. Now, We will talk about changing your screenshot format to a .PNG file! All you have to do is follow these few basic steps and you'll have high quality pictures in a jiffy!

(1) Find and open the lwo.xml file (See Part 2 for more info)

(2) Now search in the document for SCREENSHOT_FORMAT (Also in Part 2)

(3) Then you will see this:

    <ConfigurableOption name="SCREENSHOT_FORMAT" type="1">
            <ValueSet>
                <Value>1</Value>
            </ValueSet>
        <ConfigurableOption name="SCREENSHOT_FORMAT" ype="1">
            <ValueSet>
                <Value>1</Value>
            </ValueSet>

(4) Now, just change the "1" Value to a "3" Value!

A Screenshot I took using the LWO edit


IT'S THAT EASY! =P If you would like to save as any other format, try typing in a "0", "1", "2", "4", etc... I have not tried it, but I think it may work in other formats (remember in beta, they saved as .BMP files).


Well, now that you know the basics of LWO, why don't you try your whack at editing? It's fun to see what you can find!


To Imagination And Beyond...


-Rioforce


P.S. if anyone can find a way to hide the User Interface (UI), please comment!

P.S. #2 Sorry for the formatting errors. There are some bugs with this new Blogger. 

(Tutorial) The LWO: Part 2

Welcome back to my tutorial, "The LWO"! I am going to tell you some things that you can do by editing lwo.xml! (If you haven't read the first part, click HERE). Before we get started, I need to tell you where lwo.xml is stored on your computer:


C:\Users\YOUR USER\AppData\Local\LEGO Software\LEGO Universe
(Window Vista/7)

C:\Documents And Settings\YOUR USER\Application Data\Local\LEGO Software\LEGO Universe
(Windows XP)

NOTE If you have a Mac, you'll have to find it yourself.


Now that you have that down, I'll tell you how to edit some camera angles in LEGO® Universe.

(1) First, you will need to locate LWO.

(2) Second, you will need to right click on it and click the "Edit" button.

(3) Then, you need to search in the document  (Ctrl + F)  for "FIELD_OF_VIEW". You should see this:

<ConfigurableOption name="FIELD_OF_VIEW" type="3">
            <ValueSet>
                <Value>40</Value>
            </ValueSet>

Now all you have to do is change the "40" value to the any number to change the field of view! Please Note: The lower the number, the more zoomed-in the camera will be. The higher the number, the more zoomed-out the number will be.


In the next part of this tutorial, I will tell you how to save screenshots as .PNG files and more!

To Imagination And Beyond...

-Rioforce

(Tutorial) The LWO: Part 1 [UPDATED]

Hey! It's Rio here an I've written a tutorial on editing LWO.xml in the LEGO® Universe Game files! I'll start with a few questions.


What Is LWO?

This is the most frequently asked question of all time: "What is it?"  Well, lwo.xml is a document consisting of code that tells LEGO® Universe how to control your minifigure. XML files are used in many other things and in many other games, but we're only going to talk about the one used in LEGO® Universe.


Can I edit it and is it Legal?

Yes! lwo.xml is completly editable and legal to edit! All you need is a little bit of knowlege on how to do it. (That's why I'm doing this tutorial, right?)


What can LWO do?

Well, lwo.xml can do multiple things. It basically tells your keyboard and mouse what to do if a button is pressed (Although there's another [Un-editable] XML file for some of that).


Well, that is part one of "The LWO" tutorial! Come back for a tutorial on how to edit you camera in lwo.xml!


To Imagination And Beyond...

-Rioforce


UPDATE: To see the rest of the post, click HERE!