Creature Editing in Heroes 3

[^Dagon^]

I would like to know how you can edit creatures in Heroes 3. Is it possible to do it without the expansions?
Can it be done with a hex editor? I used a hex editor to locate the creture's stats (and many other things) in Heroes 2 (they were in the .exe) but that doesn't seem to work for Heroes 3 .exe. I read a post saying that they are in a file CRTRAITS inside the .lod file and exported it but when I opened it I saw a bunch of meaningless symbols. No numerical values, no stats. Is it somehow encrypted? If yes, is there a way to decrypt it?
Any help would be appreciated.

[Kristo]

Closed as duplicate of this thread.