Arteale Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 How do you do this? I'm trying to get two different mods in at the same time but two of them have different upgrade.2da files and I have no idea what to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunSolo Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 u can do that with the kotor tool. just open the tool and open up the 2da files u want to change/compare/merge. its not that easy, cause u need to edit some rows. i tried it with the appereance.2da a couple of times but with no real result, sadly *lol* but thats the way it it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 upgrade.2da is a really simple .2da file to merge, you just need to "copy and paste". Just write the row you want down on a piece of paper and then transfer it to the .2da file you're using Oh and FunSolo the reason you probably didn't have sucess editing the appearence.2da file is because you would also have to edit the .uti for whatever appearence you are changing, because the .uti's have some reference to the appearence.2da row numbers. Hope this helps, Mav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunSolo Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 ah.. yeah, maybe thats why. i just merged the app.2da´s and heads.2da´s.. dayumm.. *lol* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 yup that'll do it, although with all those mods for KotOR 1 I lost track of my appearence and heads.2da files after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunSolo Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 yea same happened to me.. i had like 40mb of all these lil changes in the override folder and tried to edit them from one to another... duh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 Originally posted by maverick187 upgrade.2da is a really simple .2da file to merge, you just need to "copy and paste". Just write the row you want down on a piece of paper and then transfer it to the .2da file you're using Oh and FunSolo the reason you probably didn't have sucess editing the appearence.2da file is because you would also have to edit the .uti for whatever appearence you are changing, because the .uti's have some reference to the appearence.2da row numbers. Hope this helps, Mav For those still slightly confused still or that are not aware. Kotor Tool has a copy row function that can be used in 2da files. It may seem tricky at first but it is truly quite simple. 1st: follow the above instructions and compare 2da files. I would choose the 2da file with more rows to be my base to merge into as that means less copy pasting. 2nd: close your base 2da file and leave the one you intend to copy from open. 3rd: click on the row number for the first row you wish to copy so that it highlights the row. 4th: right click the highlighted row it should give you a copy row choice choose this. 5th: go to file menu and choose load 2da and load your base 2da file to be merged into. Now you will be prompted with an error because you are loading a file by the same name when you already have one open in that screen. just tell the error continue. please note for any of this to work you "MUST" work within the same 2da editor window because you "CANNOT" copy rows between 2 2da editor windows. 6th: go to the first empty row (the one with the asterick at the bottom) right click on the asterick and choose paste row. 7th: Renumber your new row to be in the proper numerical sequence. "DO NOT USE" the renumber rows feature. Many 2da's start with 0 as there first row number. Renumber rows will start with 1 and go down very bad when working with appearance.2da when it can get up to 600-1000 lines in high merges. 8th: choose save as 2da file menu option and save your new merged 2da file in a new location you don't want to overwrite the old file as if you mess up you may need it again. 9th: Reopen any 2da file you still need to copy rows from and repeat process above. The above method is the easiest method out there and the most effective. "PLEASE NOTE" there are many 2da files that will require that you have a GFF editor handy. The reason is you will need to change the apropriate entry in a uti or utc file depending on what line you changed in the 2da files. Also of note when merging appearance.2da files and heads.2da both for some mods you will also need to edit the new lines in appearance.2da to match the new lines in heads.2da for new heads. Alot of this last paragraph has detailed instructions in the stickies at the top of the forums. I posted the 2da merge instructions as I'm not sure if they have made it there yet or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arteale Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 Maybe someone could put up a tutorial on how to merge .2da files in the .2da editing section; could be helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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