For those in need...I have successfully edited my elerium, alien alloys, and weapon fragments and got it to stick with a hex editor. The items are in an array with I am guessing all the other research material. Search for the text string m_arrItems and you find the values for elerium, alien alloys, and weapon fragments near the bottom of the array.
Here is edited save file with elerium, alien alloys, and weapon fragments at 9999.
Scientists and Engineers at 99.
Credits at 99975678.
EDIT::Removed endgame save and replaced it with a beginning of the game save.
Last edited by lucred; 05-13-2013 at 11:50 AM. Reason: see post
can u make a save um everything max and have it at start of the game? plz i have no clue wat im doing with the cmd prompts
Followed ur inst. to the t but your editor kdoesnt open the d file the shuts down an y clue?
Editor crashes every time I load up the save
Thanks, I'll try it out.
I can confirm that this not only works, but if you make a note of the quantities of all the other items you have (Sectoid corpses, etc), you can find and edit those values as well. They're actually found in the same order as they are listed in the 'grey market' in the game.
Thanks for the very fruitful investigating.
UPDATE v1.4:
Code:- Fixed Elerium, Alloys and Weapons Fragments modding (Thanks to lucred for the save) - Removed Rank and Psi Rank Editing for Soldiers (Kept the XP though)