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Lord
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posted 28 January 2002 19:43     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Im pretty new in this mod making stuff, about a week or so, and I have learned all the basics, and all that junk (so i know what most things mean and I can work the programs, and all the txt fiels I've incountered so far). And now want to get into what I've really started modding for in the first place. Image and animation modding. I want to just first start up on inventory item modding, and then later go into the more advance stuff.
Anyway, what my question is about is if anyone knows any good tutorials on making inventory type images (dcc?), and what programs I will need to extract/reinsert into my new mod. If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 28 January 2002 19:48     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Inventory items graphics are .dc6 files, not .dcc. You can extract them with any extraction tool, MPQView works fine. Most graphics are in D2data.mpq file. I have already extracted EVERYTHING from my mpq. EVERYTHING. That includes all .dcc, .dc6, .ds1 maps, everything. So, I suggest you extract everything from your mpqs so you don't have to keep extracting back when you need somehting. To edit .dc6 files, convert them to .bmp or .pcx and edit them there(in paint). Then, to convert them back to .dc6, use dc6con or dc6maker programs that are located at the keep. To reinsert them back into the mpq, it works the same as txt files, just use different paths.

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Lord
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posted 28 January 2002 22:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Okay thanks a lot I am doing it. But also I was wondering about this.
I have a set I made up using the tutorial, and now I want to customize the graphics of these items (just the invtory ones(so .dc6, like you said)). I have found the first item I want to edit. It is a 'Zakarum Shield'. where do I go from here? I have looked in the data.mpq, searching for invpae, pa3, pa4, and pa9, (all of these were codes I found in the armor txt.)but I found nothing.
what do I have to do to find this sheild?
Also if I modify this sheild, do i have to make a new name for it (i.e. invxxn)???

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 28 January 2002 22:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
In your case, you don't have to look for the graphic(unless you want to change how an item already looks like). You have to great or use your own graphic. There are MANY itempackages at the keep that can be downloaded. So, select one, change it to .dc6, then name it something like this for example: inv123. Now, in armor.txt, go to the base shield type, and under the setinv column, type the exact name of your new graphic which in this case is inv123. Then, reinsert your inv123 graphic back into your mpq.

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Lord
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posted 28 January 2002 23:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
I'm sorry I'm still pretty new to this. I looked but did not find, where would i get an 'itempackage', and *what exactly* do they do?

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 28 January 2002 23:35     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Look in the tools of the trade section of this site. And basically, these itempacks have various inventory graphics of different items from different games you can put into your D2 game.

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Lord
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posted 29 January 2002 11:54     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Yeah I looked there before, but I don't know what it is called. I looked through them all (especially the Image Utilities), but couldn't find anything.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 29 January 2002 12:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/image/dc6maker2.zip
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/image/dc6maker21.zip
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/image/dc6con.zip
http://xferla3.fileplanet.com/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/plugins/itempackage.zip
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/plugins/stargazer_items.zip

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Lord
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posted 29 January 2002 16:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Ok thanks a lot. I also re-read your posts about my question, and realized that I'm an idiot becase I didn't understand it earlier.
Again, thanks a lot.

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