thestemmer

I'm having trouble understanding certain aspects of KOTOR 2 modding, and I'd be grateful for any assistance. Please bear with me if any of these questions seem obvious, I have very little modding experience.

1. What is "compiling" scripts? One mod I am trying to install, stoff -mbk-'s improved AI mod, has a bunch of loose .nss files. I think that they have to be "compiled," but I'm not sure what that means or how that works.
2. What is a "source script"? For a while I thought I had the TSL Hardcore Mod installed correctly until I noticed that I had only copied the k_ai_master file into the Override folder and not the "source scripts." What difference does this make?
3. If I need to edit a specific line in one of the .nss files, how do I do that? In the case of stoff -mbk-'s mod, I had to find a specific line number in one of the files and add some lines of text. I tried using Notepad's "goto" command to find the specific line number I needed, but it seemed to fall in the middle of another block of text, and I was afraid of screwing it up. Am I doing something wrong, or should I use another text editor?

I'd post this over at Holowan Labs, but it's taking forever for me to register there. Thanks in advance for your help.