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Lord
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posted 24 January 2002 19:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
I am working on the tutorial on, "Changing the Necro's Teeth skill into Ice Bolts." I have completed it all steps, except where I am supposed to scearch for the file 'teeth in tbleditor102. I search for a file (in this case 'teeth' it comes up with this note: "Finsihed scearching through entire list." then I press okay, and nothing has happened.

Also in the page of the tutorial it states: "For those of you wondering what the line in you script file for adding the string.tbl file should be:"

A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl

I added this to my diablodata.txt in the mpqview folder *exactly* how it was. Is this right? Well, all I I know is that tbleditor brings up a weird "done searching excimation" (which in the tutorial says sould bring up Strskill28 and i am unsure of wher to put the "A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl"
If anyone knows whats going wronge please tell me. Thanks

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MPHG
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posted 24 January 2002 20:13     Click Here to See the Profile for MPHG   Click Here to Email MPHG        Reply w/Quote   Visit MPHG's Homepage!
Ok I'll see if i can help ya here

first off

code:

A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl


this is for the MPQ2K when you make a batch.
if you are making a batch use this coding.

Code1 List File (save as lister.txt)

code:

O Patchd2.mpq
A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl
C PatchD2.mpq

Code 2 (save as runme.bat)

code:

MPQ2K l lister.txt

Now. off to the magic table of lore
on the left side you should see alot of words, and on the right is alot of sentences(or words)
look on the left side for Strskill28
click itnow on the right hand side you shold see the word Teeth. Just delete that word and type "Ice Bolt" save then run that
bat file you just made.

I'm positive this is what you mean
and if it didn't work let me know and i will
try to go into more detail

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 24 January 2002 20:14     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Look for teeth manually, scan all skills entries in the tbl files. And yes, you need to add the: A string.tbl data\etc line to the mymod.txt file.

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Lord
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posted 24 January 2002 22:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Hum... thanks but i am still unclear of what I am supposed to be doing with the "A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl". Should I leave it where I have it right now, in my diablodata.txt file located in the folder with Mpqview? Also I put this in and then saved it but then when I ran mpqview I couldn't find it.
And as far as the table editor goes, Im screwed because I can't find 'strskill28' anywhere manually. And plus I wouldn't want to find every file manually each time I have to get something. There has got to be a way around this...

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 24 January 2002 22:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, go to Edit-->Search and choose "teeth." It should immediately take you to StrSkill28. Atleast it does for me.;;;

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Lord
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posted 24 January 2002 23:07     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Well, it doesn't. I dunno. I click on edit search, type in: "teeth". Then it says; Finished scearching, and brings me no where different.
What tbl file do you use? Mine is labled 'patchstring.tbl' and I got it from Mpqview. In the tutorial it says I should use string.tbl. or does it matter?
Well I'm going to sleep now, I'll rest on it. Maybe I'll find a response tomarrow.
G-nite.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 24 January 2002 23:16     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
You need string.tbl, not patchstring.tbl.

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Myhrginoc
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posted 25 January 2002 17:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
String.tbl is in d2data.mpq, it came with original D2.

Expansionstring.tbl is in d2exp.mpq, it came with LoD.

Patchstring.tbl is in patch_d2.mpq, that you get each time you download an update to D2/LoD. Although the likelihood of another patch is getting less and less, 'tis best not to modify this file UNLESS you are relabeling an existing string.

The line "A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl" goes in the script file you are making to run MPQ2K, not the data file you use to configure MPQView. In the latter file (Diablo2ExpansionData.txt), you only need to add three lines with

data\local\LNG\ENG\string.tbl
data\local\LNG\ENG\expansionstring.tbl
data\local\LNG\ENG\patchstring.tbl

...or better yet, download this file from the Phrozen Keep, it will have all these lines, and many more.

If a string is listed in patchstring, that definition will be used over the other two. Expansionstring.tbl entries take precedence over same-key entries in string.tbl.

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Lord
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posted 26 January 2002 16:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord   Click Here to Email Lord        Reply w/Quote   Visit Lord's Homepage!
Well, through all of your guys help, and a little of my own trial and error, I have got it almost to work. I just have one more question to ask though. I have: "patch_d2", "string.tbl", mpq2k.exe", "StarEdit.exe", lmpqapi.dll", "strom.dll", runme.bat", and "lister" (which contains this:
"O Patch_d2.mpq
A string.tbl data\local\lng\eng\string.tbl
A data\global\excel\skills.txt
A data\global\excel\Missiles.txt
C Patch_d2.mpq"), all in my 'newmod' folder on my desktop. But when I run my batch, it says: "Error: Attempt to add nonexistant file data\global\excel\skills.txt to archive"
and
"Error: Attempt to add nonexistant file data\global\excel\Missiles.txt to archive"
Does anyone know what this means???

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 26 January 2002 16:33     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
"A data\global\excel\skills.txt
A data\global\excel\Missiles.txt"

It has to be like this:

A skills.txt data\global\excel\skills.txt
A skills.bin data\global\excel\skills.bin
A missiles.txt data\global\excel\missiles.txt
A missiles.bin data\global\excel\missiles.bin

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