Fred Tetra Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Here's the place to request features you'd like to see added or changed in Kotor Tool. Don't bother requesting that the Dialog Editor be made to work with KotOR II. It isn't something I have the patience for these days. Please keep in mind that this thread will be pruned from time to time, removing non-request postings (once I think they've been seen) to keep it on-topic and easy to read. Don't be offended if you have your response to someone else's request eventually deleted; it's nothing personal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Don't bother requesting that the Dialog Editor be made to work with KotOR II. It isn't something I have the patience for these days. Perhaps it should display a warning when opening a KotOR2 Dialog file, or disable the save function when one is opened? It would help people from having to find out the hard way that the dialog editor is KotOR1-only and TSL DLG files become messed up if they save them with it. Added in v2.x (upcoming) Notes by FT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancharos Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 COmpatibility with the Xbox version. There are some great xbox kotor modders out there, but no tools to help us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Random quotes from Russian literature of your choice at the start. Umm...an easier way of sticking rooms together than fiddling constantly with .lyt's? It's probably not possibly, but I thought it was worth asking. Erh...An easier way to add columns to .2da's (I still haven't figured this one out...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 It does place things at zero by default, and there isn't any way for it to "know" what the correct Z values are for items since it doesn't know where the floor is. For flat levels, like 204tel, once you know the floor's Z, you're OK. On the other hand, places with ramps, like the Peragus asteroid exterior, are a lot more work. I have been thinking of putting either a set of text call outs on the maps for various areas, and encoding the most common Z value within the MapInfo.bfd. (quote taken from the general KT thread) This would be really useful as lots of Kotor 2 areas have different z coordinates (262TEL and 402DXN per example). Having an approximate idea of what the z value should be would definitely help a lot. Added in v2.x (upcoming) Notes by FT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 There's little point in adding columns to a 2DA file; the game engine is only designed to handle the ones already there. While this is true in most cases, there are exceptions. If you add a new class to classes.2da for example, you can add new columns for your class in some of the support 2da's used by it (e.g. acbonus.2da, feat.2da, featgain.2da) which will be used by the game (since you set their column name in classes.2da for your new class), giving your class unique progressions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 While it might seem of little use a Bif Builder utility would be nice for KT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osuirof Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 You, and we know that KT is tha tool for KotOR modding. But some (IMO) features could be added that could make it even more (IMO) usefull: an adress bar in ERF/MOD builder under "Add dir" options would be very handy. Added in v2.x (upcoming) preview of items in character inventory editor would be helpfull too. In progress - more in v2.x (upcoming)Edited tooltip, help under RMB for things (radio buttons, combo\check boxes, text fields, etc.) on KT forms. In progress - more in v2.x (upcoming) Notes by FT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 One thing that could be quite useful (or at least I think so) - a "model/ texture variation" thing in the placeables box. Otherwise, reskinning them is going to be hell Not possible - sorry! Notes by FT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathdisco Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 How about turning decompiled .pcode to .nss If this is worse than K2 dialogs I'll understand if you say no. It never hurts to ask. FT: Since JdNoa created the fine DeNCS tool, I ceased putting much effort into duplicating it, especially since she made (almost?) all of the decompiled game scripts available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjt0202 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 It also does not support K1.It wasn't intended to support K1, but I've used it on K1 scripts fairly often. I just swap in the nwscript.nss from whichever game I'm working on at the moment. Maybe it warns about the recompiled version not matching the original a little more often since it's hardcoded to use the K2 switch when it compiles, but I've never had any problems with the .nss code it generates. Back to KT feature requests... it would be nice if the search results gave some indication of where the file was found. For example, when I was looking for all of Carth's appearances in K2, having a list of his .utcs was handy, but I still had to dig through all of the modules to figure out which .utc was used by which scene. Added for v2.x release - see here: http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2029172&postcount=1559 Notes by FT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Back to KT feature requests... it would be nice if the search results gave some indication of where the file was found. For example, when I was looking for all of Carth's appearances in K2, having a list of his .utcs was handy, but I still had to dig through all of the modules to figure out which .utc was used by which scene. We already have a tool that does that: Findrefs. You can dowload it from the SWK website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjt0202 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 We already have a tool that does that: Findrefs. You can dowload it from the SWK website.I have it, but unfortunately tk102's tools intensely dislike being asked to run on my computer, so I've never actually seen what its search results look like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osuirof Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 1. Please add "Dialog" and "Items" to Resource Type Selector under Extract for Module Editing option. It will probably help other not so smart people like me. Items extraction support has already been added, but Dialogs can be done as well. See here: http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?p=2002389&postcount=1533 Notes by FT Added\Edited Hmm, It seems that I got "special" version of KT: - v1.0.2131.27110 (not in changes\history in readme) - when I use "Check for program updates" options, it displays info that there are no updates (it isn`t blocked by Firewall) So probably I`ll wait for v2.0, and sugested (by me) changes . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brwarner Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I have 2 things that i think would make a few people's lives easier. 1. Show lines for the angles of cameras. Odviously not for the 3D angles but just for the one similar to bearings on creatures (I think it's pitch) 2. In the Camera Editor a thing similar to the window that shows bearing for creatures but for all axises 3. Possibly team up with Tk102 and use his K2 dialog editor and integrate it into kotortool (with his permission of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Under Tools: Options: Project Manager Tab it would be nice to designate a path to a GFF editor. Edit: Scratch that. Actually what would be very nice is to expand the Other Paths in Path Manager (File: Manage Path) to include: - External Dialog Editor - External GFF Editor - External NSS/NCS Editor with the caption including something like "(use Ctrl+Right Click)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Under Tools: Options: Project Manager Tab it would be nice to designate a path to a GFF editor. Edit: Scratch that. Actually what would be very nice is to expand the Other Paths in Path Manager (File: Manage Path) to include: - External Dialog Editor - External GFF Editor - External NSS/NCS Editor with the caption including something like "(use Ctrl+Right Click)". I would like to 2nd this or in the least keeping with Tk's original request for a "Project Manager Tab it would be nice to designate a path to a GFF editor." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I updated K-GFF to v1.1.6 that you can use to masquerade as GFFEditor if that was your intention DK. Sorry, didn't mean it as an advertisement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I updated K-GFF to v1.1.6 that you can use to masquerade as GFFEditor if that was your intention DK. Sorry, didn't mean it as an advertisement. I never used Bioware's gffeditor so I'm unsure of what it's layout used to be. I've almost always used NWNeditor for most of my Gff Editing. Mostly because NWNEditor Allows you to open an ERF and then open the gff files in a seperate tab edit them and then reinsert them. It's one big flaw though seems to be with reading default game rim files it only likes mod files that have been recompiled by a seperate tool. That's one of many reasons I previously have asked if you could do a combo editor for K-GFF. However I've really derailed Fred's Tool feature thread so I'll stop and hide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowriath Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Ignore where of file says that needed files are and go just by where the tool has them pathed to. To edit a couple files I have had to make copies of stated files to the location....luckly the locations were not another drive letter (Though making a virtual drive might work in this case). But I see coping or moving source files just for the means of editing one or two files should not be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkkender Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Ignore where of file says that needed files are and go just by where the tool has them pathed to. To edit a couple files I have had to make copies of stated files to the location....luckly the locations were not another drive letter (Though making a virtual drive might work in this case). But I see coping or moving source files just for the means of editing one or two files should not be needed. I must say I'm a little confused at this request. What is the actual feature your looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowriath Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 When you go to edit files like .uti's. Those files keep track of where the source files were installed when they were created. So if you don't have the source files in the same location they become unable to be opened with say KT, with out coping source files to those locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 When you go to edit files like .uti's. Those files keep track of where the source files were installed when they were created. So if you don't have the source files in the same location they become unable to be opened with say KT, with out coping source files to those locations. Uh? No they don't... the only thing KotOR Tool does to a .uti file is add in some nodes telling the version of KT it was edited with. Uti files are GFF files, they are not what you seem to think they are. They do not "keep track" of anything they merely hold item information for the game. There are no source files for uti's. The only files that have "source files" are .nss scripts, you can edit the source script .nss then compile them to a .ncs script file the game uses, you cannot directly edit compiled .ncs script files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowriath Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Then why else would opening only isolated .uti files ask for files in one location...while the tool has them pathed to some where else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackel Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 shadowriath may I suggest taking screenshots to clarify exactly what you mean? This way hopefully no more misunderstandings will occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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