Modding help

To answer WizGeorge's question again (since I alluded to it in another thread ) the InvenSource only kicks in for new stuff. So if you spawn a new NPC with the console, or respawn a traders inventory, or create a wandering monster, then it gets its gear from the Invensource.mes entry.

The mobs in the game, however, have their own gear: each item of gear (sword, shield, armour, gold in pocket etc) will have its own mob. To change these, go to the map files (modules / Co8 5.0.0 / maps / whatever map the mob occurs on) and copy the .mob files into the Mobiles folder of ToEEWB. Then open the relevant npc mob in ToEEWB, and go to the NPC/Critters tab: there you will see its inventory. Add whatever you want, then hit save. This will create a new mob for each new peice of gear AND change the NPC mob (so if you added a sword and shield to ophelia, you will have to copy over the sword mob, the shield mob and Ophelia's mob, back to the relevant map folder of the game).

To see your changes in game, you will have to clear the map cache and use a save that has never visited that map before. Or it will CTD

EDIT: Zuluwarrior94, all you need to get started is Notepad (for dlg, mes and py files), ProtoEd for .tab files, and ToEEWB for pretty much everything. Very little actual hacking takes place any more (though I did some this morning in a .ska file. So there.)

And some tutorials - try these: :eyebrow:

http://rpg-rant.blogspot.com/2005/11/tutorial-list.html

 

George - to spawn a new charlotte with gear, just add an entry for her in InvenSource. The number will go in column 44 of ProtoEd.

Be careful with InvenSource.mes, it needs everything letter perfect or the game won't even load. But it is straightforward to use and there are instructions at the start of the file.

 

Yep, with a new invensource entry, and the link to it in protos.tab in the column Ted mentioned, you can simply open the console and type...

create #####

Replace ##### with Charlotte's protoID number and she will appear next to the party with all the stuff you gave her in Invensource.mes

 

Due to the "constantly changing" nature of ToEE's files within this community, including a copy of Protos.tab would be pretty pointless as it's be out of date about a day after release of the WB.

Open your ToEE folder (C:\program files\atari\temple of elemental evil) then open the data folder, in the rules folder are (among others) files called Protos.tab, and Invensorce.mes, copy and paste these to your desktop, go back to the data folder and open the mes folder, copy and past Description.mes and Long_description.mes to your desktop too, now cut all four files from your desktop, put them in the ToEEWB folder and re-open WB.

 

WizGeorge - as I said above, you have to link the proto of the NPC you want to create to the entry in Invensource.mes. So if the next free line is 350, and you put in an entry like this:

{350}{Ophelia: 100,4010 100,6010 100,8010 }

or whatever, you would link this to Ophelia's proto by putting 350 in col 44 of Protos.tab.

Then she spawns with that gear (whatever it is, I was just making it up).