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reno_rainz
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posted 20 February 2002 04:11     Click Here to See the Profile for reno_rainz   Click Here to Email reno_rainz        Reply w/Quote   
Hi, i've downloaded some txt files for D2 lod but i don't know how to use them.
Someone to help me?

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BMW
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posted 20 February 2002 05:03     Click Here to See the Profile for BMW   Click Here to Email BMW        Reply w/Quote   Visit BMW's Homepage!
Go to this URL and read the modding tutorials.

http://www.planetdiablo.com/phrozenkeep/tutorials.htm

If u wanna know what to do with the .txt files, read the tutorial on -direct -txt and also download the D2 Excel Editor for editing the .txt files. U can find the editor at the Tools of the Trade section.

WARNING!!! Do NOT use any other .txt editor like Microsoft Excel. Excel can truncate certain parts of certain .txt files and cause D2 to crash when u try to enter a game.

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jbouley
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posted 21 February 2002 00:45     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Actually, MS Excel is generally great for modding. Only two files get truncated that I know of...runes.txt and, well...I don't remember what the other one was. Either itemstatcost or itemratio, I think.

Don't get me wrong, d2excel is a great little tool. But unless I'm modding runes.txt, MS Excel is my weapon of choice personally. Of course, if it wasn't already on my computer, I sure wouldn't go buy it when d2excel is free.

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 21 February 2002 07:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Yeap, itemstatcost.txt and runes.txt like to deal hell to D2 after using Microsoft Excel on them. For my purposes, I went ahead and reloaded Staroffice and used it instead since it also properly edits those files.

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Deathscythe
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posted 21 February 2002 18:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Deathscythe   Click Here to Email Deathscythe        Reply w/Quote   Visit Deathscythe's Homepage!
the d2excel is simply the best prog to edit the . txt you can download the file in keep. when you have this you can almost edit everything.hehehe

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NefariusDX
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posted 22 February 2002 08:20     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
d2excel is nice but SLOW as hell when it comes to deleting rows since u have to delete each entry or if u plan to multiply a large amount of entrys at once. i found that there are many better spreadsheets then excel which can use these files w no problems if u want i can post a few of them here

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