Barrowstone Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I've been working on assembling a large number of mods for a new playthrough of KotOR. I've used the TSL Patcher to install mods where possilbe. I have, however, come across a couple of potential problems in the my baseitems.2da file... Under the name column I've found two instances of repeated numbers. Specifically, two separate rows with the respective labels "Long_Sword" and "Ryyk_Blade" have 490 listed under the name column, and two separate rows with the respective labels "Belt" and "Stealth_Unit" have 535 listed under the name column. My understanding is that the number under the name column refers to a line in the dialog.tlk file. What is the best way of resolving this conflict? Can I simply edit the dialog.tlk file and add two new lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Under the name column I've found two instances of repeated numbers. Specifically, two separate rows with the respective labels "Long_Sword" and "Ryyk_Blade" have 490 listed under the name column, and two separate rows with the respective labels "Belt" and "Stealth_Unit" have 535 listed under the name column. My understanding is that the number under the name column refers to a line in the dialog.tlk file. What is the best way of resolving this conflict? Can I simply edit the dialog.tlk file and add two new lines? This sort of thing was one of the primary reasons the TSLPatcher utility was made. It can be used to add new entries to the dialog.tlk without overwriting anything and then insert the StrRef index value (which is what you set in the name column) that the new dialog.tlk entries ended up as into 2DA files, GFF files and scripts. This is handy since the StrRef values won't necessarily be the same in every game the mod is installed in, depending on if that game has other mods that has added entries to the dialog.tlk file. There should be instructions in the ReadMe.pdf file that comes with TSLPatcher for this, though in short you create an append.tlk file that contains your new text entries that are to be inserted into dialog.tlk and then configure the patcher to insert them, store the StrRef values into memory tokens, and then insert the value stored in those into cells in 2DA files etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrowstone Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Thank you for your reply Stoffe. However, I must have been unclear in my original post. I'm not actually making a mod for others to use. Rather, I'm installing a number of mods for my own game - and doing my best to make them all play together nicely. I came across the baseitems.2da issue when I was using the Kotor Tool item editor to look at the .uti of the Ryyk Blade mod (by Inyri Forge, which, by the way, does install using the TSLPatcher). I saw that the Base Item of the ryyk blade was listed as "Long Sword" in its .uti, although I knew that the Ryyk Blade 1.1 mod added a new type to the baseitems.2da, namely "Ryyk_Blade." I also discovered that "Ryyk Blade" was not available in the Base Item drop-down menu of the Kotor Tool item editor. Further investigation revealed the duplicated StrRef index values in the baseitem.2da file. So, what I really want to do is to make sure that the items in question have the correct base item type and there are no conflicts just for use in my own game. I'm thinking that I could add a new entry to my dialog.tlk. The last index number in my dialog.tlk is 49265. So I could make a new entry, 49266, with the dialog text "Ryyk Blade." And then change the StrRef index value of the Ryyk Blade entry in the baseitems.2da to match. Is this correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Admiral Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Yes, that is correct, for the part about editing the dialog.tlk file. Regarding the issue with the Ryyk Blade not showing up in the BaseItem drop-down menu of KT, you should check the Options menu of KT and make sure that the checkbox "Look in the Game's Override folder for 2DA files" is checked. That should get it to appear. - Star Admiral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrowstone Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 The "look in the game's override folder for 2da files" was checked - the problem was that the StrRef index values for the Ryyk Blade and the Long Sword were the same. I don't know how KT "chose" which one to use, but clearly one or the other item was going to have the wrong base item type. I ended up adding a new line to the dialog.tlk. That seemed to solve the problem as far as KT was concerned. Thanks for you input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 So, what I really want to do is to make sure that the items in question have the correct base item type and there are no conflicts just for use in my own game. I'm thinking that I could add a new entry to my dialog.tlk. The last index number in my dialog.tlk is 49265. So I could make a new entry, 49266, with the dialog text "Ryyk Blade." And then change the StrRef index value of the Ryyk Blade entry in the baseitems.2da to match. Is this correct? If this is just to get KotorTool to display it as something distinguishable in the base item dropdown just null out the name column for that row (set the value to ****) and KotorTool should use the value from the label column instead when populating that menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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