Hack the planet, err I mean Proto! Hack the Proto.

Here's the proto.tab thread. Every thing you would ever want to know about the proto tab.

 

Dhoom started a decipher list for this..
Until he gets here, it's here:
http://members.cox.net/dhoom/proto_key.txt

and here
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update 9/25/03 0:47
made corrections additions.
54 is internal name/key into ToEE1\art\interface\inventory\inventory.mes for inventroy picture

(contains the reference to the inventory picture of this thing)

81 is Armor Check Penalty
80 is Spell Failure Percentage
170 is acBonus
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Field001: Item Number [[referenced in various code bits]]
Field002: Item Type (obj_t_npc, obj_t_armor, obj_t_weapon, obj_t_scenery, obj_t_container, obj_t_money, obj_t_projectile, obj_t_npc, obj_t_generic, obj_t_ammo, obj_t_portal, obj_t_food, obj_t_pc, obj_t_key,obj_t_written, obj_t_scroll, obj_t_bag)
Field003: BLANK
Field004: BLANK
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Field025: Item Size (size_diminutive, size_tiny, size_small, size_medium, size_large, size_huge)
Field026:
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Field028: Material Type (mat_flesh, mat_liquid, mat_gas, mat_wood, mat_metal, mat_cloth, mat_plant, mat_glass, mat_stone, mat_force, mat_paper, mat_powder, mat_fire) [[Used for item saving throws?]]
Field029: BLANK
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Field032: PI (3.14159265358) [[ used to dictate targeting sphere? obj_ use is scenery only]]
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Field054: internal name/key into ToEE1\art\interface\inventory\inventory.mes for inventroy picture
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Field062: Equipable Slot (OIF_WEAR_WEAPON_SECONDARY, OIF_WEAR_ARMOR, OIF_WEAR_GLOVES, OIF_WEAR_BOOTS, OIF_WEAR_HELMET, OIF_WEAR_RING_PRIMARY, OIF_WEAR_RING_SECONDARY, OIF_WEAR_RING, OIF_WEAR_CLOAK, OIF_WEAR_ROBE, OIF_WEAR_2HAND_REQUIRED, OIF_WEAR_AMMO, OIF_WEAR_BARDIC_ITEM, OIF_WEAR_NECKLACE, OIF_WEAR_BRACERS)
Field063:
Field064: Type of 2handed (OWF_TWO_HANDED, OWF_RANGED_WEAPON, OWF_MAGIC_STAFF, OWF_DEFAULT_THROWS, OWF_THROWABLE) [[last two are shuriken only]]
Field065:
Field066: Range Wpn ??? (light_hammer, club, dagger, arrow, bolt, bullet, javelin, spear, ball_of_fire, shuriken, throwing_axe, dart, bottle) [[Bottle?? heh]]
Field067: BLANK
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Field070: Damage Type (D20DT_SLASHING, D20DT_BLUDGEONING, D20DT_BLUDGEONING_AND_PIERCING, D20DT_PIERCING_AND_SLASHING, D20DT_PIERCING, D20DT_FIRE, D20DT_ACID) [[looks to be WEAPON ONLY damage type.. D20DT=D20 Damage Type]]
Field071: Damage Dice (1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10, 1d12, 2d4, 2d6, 2d8, 0d0) [[pretty standard stuff, here]]
Field072: BLANK
Field073: Weapon Class (orc_double_axe, Longsword, Warhammer, light_hammer, Club, gnome_hooked_hammer, Handaxe, Scythe, Light_mace, Morningstar, Heavy_pick, Heavy_Mace, Greatclub, Greataxe, Dwarven_waraxe, battleaxe, Dagger, Shortsword, short_sword, Scimitar, Rapier, Falchion, Greatsword, Bastard_sword, longbow, light_crossbow, heavy_crossbow, glaive, spear, javelin, ranseur, quarterstaff, quisarme, sling, dart, shuriken, shortspear, heavy_flail, spike_chain, halfling_siangham, kukri) [[only one item for halfling_siangham, and the kukri... lame.)
Field074: Crit range (18, 19, 20) [[where the range begins in relation to 20]]
Field075:
Field076: Relates to #077 somehow... weight per stack?
Field077: Ammo Type (arrow, bolt, bullet)
Field078: BLANK
Field079: BLANK
Field080: Spell Failure Percentage
Field081: Armor Check Penalty (5,10,15,20....)
Field082: Armor Skill Check Penalty (2, 4...)
Field083: Armor Feat Req. (ARMOR_TYPE_LIGHT, ARMOR_TYPE_MEDIUM, ARMOR_TYPE_HEAVY, ARMOR_TYPE_SHIELD
Field084: Helm Types (HELM_TYPE_MEDIUM, HELM_TYPE_SMALL, HELM_TYPE_LARGE) [[No clue what this does -- armor only]]
Field085: BLANK
Field086: Relates to #087 only (50) [[only value is 50]]
Field087: Coin Type (Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum)
Field088: BLANK
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Field095: Bag of Holding Value (OBF_HOLDING
OBF_HOLDING_500 or OBF_HOLDING
OBF_HOLDING_1000) [[hmmmmm...]]
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BTW, proto.tab opened as a text database just fine in OpenOffice but it crashed when I tried to cut and paste the entire 'table' into a spreadsheet to export as CSV.

Most likely you could set this up fairly easily as a text database with ODBC and then use it like an ODBC table source in Access or a custom app.

-Zane

 

BTW, According to OpenOffice there are 334 columns. I'm browsing it right now.

 

I successfully made my starting equipment uber'd by modifying the proto say thats good news..

(+10 AC Blue Mystical Garb, woohoo!)

The proto also contains Door, NPC, and monster info as well.. I think that attributes for those are in reach too.

 

Alright, this is my current area. I'm doing up a prog to at least view the contents of protos in some structure, if not allow editing as well.

The entries are all over the place, I want to at least sort them by type and correlate what fields are and are not used. Wish me luck

 

Sweet. I bet we could reimplement the Brothel with this by replacing one of the doors/portals in Nulb.

 

progress on proto editor going slowly. I can't get the stupid grid to load the data (tho I am getting it loading fine on the logic side - just can't display)

Goin to bed now, might try more tomorrow.

Ciao ppls. Ugh gotta be up in 7 hours to go to work.. :0

 

I think it is bad idea to work with entire file.
Right now i'm splitting it into several files based on type of record (ie. armor, weapon,etc), because most types use just few (less than 20) colums, rest is blank.

 

Maybe someone with some coding skills should code a small tool to make life easier.
Well, i'm to lazy to sit down and code one (would be kind of "learning by doing" ... i didn't wrote a line for years (last tools i wrote on AMIGA *lo*l))

 

Please feel free to share your version

 

If someone pputs up the protos file link I will take a crack at in in delphi, though not database wise since all the database types I tried with delphi are limited to 255 fields also. Though some sort of string grid might work maybe even might be able to work in a sort method if I make it my own string grid instead a addon component I used for my D2 modder... If it is just tab delimited it shouldn't be too hard...

 

I have a question, if say ten fields or so are only used for items and # for this, and # for that. Why didn't they jsut reuse the first fields? You could have the very first field be the type and upon reading that know how many other fields need to be read in??? Kinda silly to have blank fields between values but that is just my opinion.

 

In what format should protos changes be? Is it just a case of having a text file with the updated data in a certain directory?

 

What do you mean ? For game, you have to modify original proto file.
But for exchanging your modifications with other modders , best format would be IMHO something simple like this :
row,column = value
row,column = value
....