Scribing and Crafting Fixes

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

Okay, fixed everything having to do with ScrollFixes.zip. Some comments ...

This is due to the mid-development shift from 3.0 to 3.5. In 3.0, Cure Light Wounds, Mass was Healing Circle and Inflict Light Wounds, Mass was Circle of Doom. There's actually quite a bit of that in various places throughout ToEE.

I had some other fairly significant comment or question about something, but now I can't remember what it was. :blank:

 

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

Sure thing.

 

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

You have to extract the data files that shipped with the game (aka DATs). Have a look here: http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1887. I'd suggest Agetian's DAT Tool.

Once you do that, you will have 5 massive directories of all the assets that make up ToEE. (These should be stored separate from your game installation.) There's a fair amount of crossover, but generally the DATs break down like this:

ToEE - contains the ToEE module, including, most significantly, the various map graphics and other related data.

ToEE1 - contains mostly art assets.

ToEE2 - contains mostly audio assets.

ToEE3 - contains mostly audio assets and various other stuff.

ToEE4 - contains the most up-to-date versions (as shipped by Troika) of all control files (dialog, script, mes, etc.). Use this for what you're after.

You could actually skip everything but 4 for your purposes, really.

So, you'd go to ToEE4/data/scr and find the script file for Cure Critical Wounds sitting there waiting for you. Copy it to the scr folder in your real game installation and you're good to go.

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btw, I took the liberty of capitalizing all the spell names in item_creation_names.mes - just a pet peeve of mine reading lowercase words for something that is actually intended for consumption by the masses. Anyway that should be reconciled sooner rather than later so our versions don't fight.

 

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

Here it is.

 

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

Thanks for the latest.

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Just FYI, I removed 12658 from {5} in rules/item.creation.mes because it pointed to 'Jaroo's White Pearl,' an item I added recently. Obviously the code refers to something else.

{12658}{"FCraft Wondrous Item" "SFreedom of Movement"} appears later and seems to be an indication that Freedom of Movement is spell req for something. Obviously not Jaroo's white pearl. I did a search of long_description.mes for all references to "freedom of movement" and found that aside from the ring and wand of the same name, which are already handled properly crafting-wise, only the Vest of Escape grants the Freedom of Movement ability. I'm not very familiar with crafting really but I assume that in order to confer that ability the crafted item's spell property must be known by the crafter? Anyway, the Vest of Escape is listed in {5}, proto number 6285 (rather similar to 12658), and points to this prereq: {6285}{"FCraft Wondrous Item" "SKnock" "SGrease" C4}. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. :dizzy:

I suspect that the Vest of Escape is really supposed to point to the 6285 prereq, which should refer to Freedom of Movement, not Knock and Grease, and that the 12685 prereq is superfluous, but I don't know what SKnock and SGrease from the existing 6285 are supposed to point to, if anything, and at this point my eyes started to bug out.

You seem to be more adept at this item creation stuff than me Rudy ... care to try to run it all down?

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I'm ordering all craftable proto #s in rules/item_creation.mes by number for ease of looking them up. In so doing, I think we will end up transferring basically all descriptions from description.mes to item_creation_names.mes, because probably almost all of them will end up needing to be truncated when Priory comes to town. Also it is best I think to completely divorce the interface from the description stuff, which pretty clearly wasn't meant for it.

I noticed that 9097 - Darkvision is not a craftable scroll, though it's proto exists. Is that even a real spell in ToEE? The scroll is listed in item_creation_names.mes, just no proto in item_creation.mes.

Also, 9229 is the scroll of Grease, but called Hold Portal in item_creation_names. It's not in item_creation.mes. (I'm not nitpicking this, just reporting stuff as I go.)

Also, 9672 - Flaming Sphere is in item_creation_names but not item_creation.

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There are a bunch of wands missing from the interface. I'm changing item_creation_names to reflect only the ones that are currently there.

Wow, what a mess. Proto numbers jumbled in out of order, lots of stuff missing ... to wit, wands of:

12032, 12060, 12063, 12064, 12065, 12067, 12068, 12069, 12072, 12129, 12130, 12130, 12132, 12141, 12154, 12167, 12201, 12227, 12229, 12239,
12265, 12309, 12320, 12379, 12404, 12437, 12451, 12471, 12480, 12492, 12508, 12534, 12555, 12556, 12557, 12558, 12559, 12568, 12591 _O:

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Wondrous items seem to be okay. No idea what isn't in there that should be though, as there is no universal "Wonderful" tag to go along with each item. It does seem a bit spotty.

Incidentally Rudy I seem to have at least temporarily overwritten some of your custom items that haven't been integrated yet. Sorry about that, but I don't want to work off of a protos.tab that's different from the mod's.

Rings and staves seem okay as above.

Does craft wand have its own interface, like scribe scroll? If so, we can drop the 'wand of' for everything and probably solve some text length issues.

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Also note Rudy that some of the abbreviations are going to have to be redone, sorry, but now we can easily see what amount of text will fly and what won't, and truncate accordingly. Which leads me to my final point - the carriage return thing is a bust. You can indeed get a line to stop with a carriage return and carry down to the next, but the next item still prints on that line no matter what. If you try to start that line with a carriage return, it screws up and puts the item at the top of the list. In the same line as the actual first item in the list. :no: I swear, so much of ToEE's text interface is like an HP word processor from 1989.

[edit - final update pending final update review update]

Just FYI I have enabled .dlg, .mes, .py, and .tab file extensions as legitimate for the site so we can upload raw files. All have a nice size limit of 2 mb - that means we could even post a protos.tab.

 

Re: Creating a Spell Spreadsheet

Okay, thanks.

Priory is the larger, stylish font that ToEE uses. It will be taking over basically all of ToEE before much longer as part of the comprehensive UI overhaul. It's a 12 point font as opposed to the other (Arial), which is a 10 point font, so it will take up more space wherever it appears ... including the crafting UI.

Okay, will do all.

None of those protos are listed among the craftable wands protos in {3} of item_creation.mes. So 12032 for example, a wand of Hold Person, is not currently craftable in ToEE.

Cool, we can shitcan all the "wand ofs" then.

I don't know that it will really be an issue once we start working off the same base files, which I think should pretty much be now, since I got that description stuff moved over.