Looking for someone to fix the store sellable Item lists?

Some items are jsut not available from stores.. Like Bullets for xample

it looks like .\ToEE3\rules\InvenSource.mes

Might be a shopkeepers available item list..

{Otis's store: buy_list_num,7 50,6018 50,6019 50,6225 50,6020 50,6021 50,602
50,6032 50,6040 50,6041 50,6047 50,6060 50,6074 50,6075 50,6093 50,6223 50,6096 50,6227 50,6103 50,6226 50,612
50,6153 50,6154 50,6158 50,6229 50,4012 50,4015 50,4157 50,4021 50,4189 100,4036 100,4132 50,4045 50,4048 50,4
9 100,4060 100,4155 50,4059 50,4160 50,4064 50,4065 50,4067 50,4165 50,4068 50,4166 50,4070 50,4168 50,4071 50
072 50,4170 50,4073 50,4171 50,4076 50,4174 50,4077 50,4175 50,4118 50,4185 50,4119 50,4186 50,6059 50,6231}

Those may be internal name (key) references that are lookupable in

toee3dat\ms\description.mes

 

Ok, I'll look into this and report back.

 

It's the same format as Arcanum's inventory file, but I haven't been able to make use of customizing it - the game reads the file but doesn't appear to apply the changes.

 

Maybe you need to start a new game for that.

It shouldn't be the same with spells though. That probably needs compiling.

 

you are creating the respective directories in side of the data dir?

 

Yeah I'm having the same problem, I've tried replacing items, adding items, changing the percentage value before the item, loading from a saved game, and starting a new game. But I can't seem to add or replace an item.

i'm dropping the edited file into .\data\rules

 

Tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. I know it's reading the file from data/rules as I tested it with garbage text and that just crashed the game. Tried changing the shopkeeper contents in Hommlet but they stuck with their default items.

 

That's a strange one.. I wonder if some mes's are hardcoded?

There has to be a nexplanation... Though Im to tired to think about it any more tonight..

Thanks for looking into this though..

 

Try putting them into C:\Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\modules\ToEE as well

I placed the fog fix in C:\Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\modules\ToEE\maps and it worked just fine. I'm wondering why these don't.

 

Exitium- tried that already.

This .mes also lists the inventories of NPC's in the game.

Store Example:
{7}{Blacksmith's store: buy_list_num,7 75,4214 75,4215 75,4215

Inv Example:
{23}{Blacksmith: buy_list_num,7 100,4222 100,6013 100,6011

this secend example is what is on the blacksmith when you kill him but this too, has no effect when edited.

I also opened the ToEE.exe in my Hex editor and serched for the acsii string of the file name, and if you read along there seems to be compiling errors concerning this .mes and also InvenSourceBuy.mes which is referenced by InvenSource.mes (the store/inventory .mes)
I wonder if they are hardcoded, you'd think that there would be a way to overide this though. hmmm.. fishy.. and not in that good way.

 

There's also this Python script...

py00231shopmap_shopkeeper.py

Only one I could find, but I might have missed one somewhere... looks like it uses a custom Proto script... hmmm... lemme look at the py files for the shopkeepers themselves...

looking into the dlg for hints, too...

hmmm... can't find anything.. let me look at more py files.

 

good call Dhoom, though that script dosn't seem to reveal much, at lest to me, but I'm going to look for any other scripts that may be useful.

 

Could you offer a little more info on what you did to crash it? I can't seem to get it to reaqd the file.

 

Just clear the contents of InvenSource.mes making it empty. If it's in /data/rules/ the game will crash when it tries to read the file (at least it does in my case). It doesn't read the file at all from within /modules/ToEE/rules.

 

I think the inventory of NPC's are being creted somewhere else. I haven't figured out where yet.