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Topic: Weird Gems problems.Ideas anyone?
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 06:56
Few weeks ago I told ya about my gem problems.I recently tried to find what was causing the bug,but my discoveries confused me even more.Let me explain...The problem was that some of the gems crashed the game when you point them in your inventory.The gems that didn't crash the game had very strange mods.The strangest thing is that I have NOT edited gems.txt!Then I tried putting all the edited .bin files one by one in the mpq and see what causes the problem.I found that the problem is caused by ... guess what? ... weapons.txt!Tested it few times to see if I am not wrong...well I am not.Weapons.txt makes my gems crash the game x( During the testing I found something else - armor.txt also changes the gem mods,but only increases the bonuses(i.e. chipped amethist - +10 STR).No crashes,no different mods.Just more powerful ones. Another odd thing is that this only occurs when I use the mpq.When run the game with -direct -txt with the SAME files I have no problems x( All this confuses me SO much,I just have no idea what to do.So I ask for help...any ideas people? EDIT:Runes crash the game,too.  ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha! [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 03 January 2002).]

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:01
maybe this has somthing to do with the strange magic item mods bug that occured on closed in v1.08, some ppl found weapons and armor with about 30 mods which didnt make sence, there are a few screens of that on diabloii.net if you can find them, blizzard fixed it but probably only in a patch for closed, v1.09 might have a draw back from their fix------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:23
Honestly it doesn't seem very logical.Gem mods and magic item mods are quite different.And even if this is the problem the I still wonder what can I do?------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:29
if i understood you correct it does the ****up only when its in .mpq form? any how these item bugs i was talking abour added mods like those to normal equipment as well and probably also to runes/gems i didnt have this same problem until now and i changed some what stuff in gems.txt so far and had no weird draw backs if it happens to me too i might find a solution faster (it always helps when you deal or dealt with the same problem before), what i can advice is that you uninstall and reinstall it maybe that will help, can be that when u applied the v1.09 messed up stuff and might have added stuff to the .bins but i dont think it would do this but then again this is a blizzard game------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:30
"if i understood you correct it does the ****up only when its in .mpq form?"Exactly! ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha! [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 27 December 2001).]

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:35
did you try adding the files you modded to a clean patch and see if it still does this? it can be even im not sure this is even possible that for some reason when you import the files it dosent change the .bin files when the game then tries to generate them it creates them with messed up stats or you might have added wrong numbers to the gemapplytype column in weapons and armor.txt------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:40
"did you try adding the files you modded to a clean patch and see if it still does this?"I've set the .bat file so everytime I add files it uses a clean patch file. "when the game then tries to generate them it creates them with messed up stats or you might have added wrong numbers to the gemapplytype column in weapons and armor.txt" Maybe I forgot to mention this,but the gems are NOT inserted in a weapon/armor ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:43
hmm, im going to test if it does the same if i run my gems.txt in .mpq format------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:45
Ok,but I have NOT edited gems.txt ...------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 07:48
hmm this is REALLY weird, i put it in it was just normal, i overlooked you say you didnt have any edited gems.txt b4 sry, hmm i would say this is some kind of patching bug in lod not related to any thing you did, try to uninstall it and run scandisk and reinstall it. it might have saved old patch data some where in a temp file------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 08:00
Temp file doesn't seem logical either because I make changes to the patch file and they do appear in the game.I tried to only add weapons.bin(and itemtypes.bin because there are weapons which use new item types)and it still caused problems...  Another thing is that it caused the same problem when Trip was testing the mod(actually he found it because I was only using the -direct -txt thingy)on his computer so it can't be a temp file :| ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha! [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 27 December 2001).] [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 27 December 2001).]

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 08:07
this is a true dilema, cant figure what might cause it, i once applied a double patch by mistake and it made all my chars invisible but something like this... maybe it will fix itself when they bring out v1.10 until then try to avoid using mpqs, but ill keep a eye out for stuff like this and possible fixes and tell u if you wan------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote:
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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 08:18
Yeah...a dilema...I have no ideas either.I'll be really thankful if you find out something that may help.I'll go get some food now so let's stop with this chit-chat stuff.It was nice tho  ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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Watcher WarLord
  
Posts: 196 From: Who cares anyway? Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 11:20
Got it! I think. I read in another post that if you add lines to misc.txt, weapons.txt, or armor.txt, then you must add the bin files for all three of these files, even if you didn't edit them. Apparently these bin files are dependent on each other. Maybe that's the problem.Watcher ------------------ "See you in the next Hell, sucker!" --Al Stark in The Wonderland Gambit

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 13:30
Nope,this is not the problem.The problems appears with all files in the mpq(this means armor.bin,misc.bin and weapons.bin included).Also if I only put misc.bin and armor.bin,but no weapons.bin there is no problem(except the increased bonuses,but that's another matter...)------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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jbouley Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 4907 From: Portland, Maine, USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 13:38
I've also heard that sometimes the game wants to see four files installed...not just armor, weapons, and misc but ALSO gems.Have you added the gems file when you do this...even though you're not modding that file? Just a thought... ------------------ - JEFF "A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer." For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download Version 1.0 of Sanctuary in Chaos - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 13:50
I will try to add it but I thing it's already in the original patch so it should be in my modded mpq...------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 27 December 2001 13:54
The regular gems.txt is in the so this is not the problem either...  ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 28 December 2001 15:04
Everyone's busy around the holidasy,eh?  EDIT:Except Nefarius...  ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha! [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 29 December 2001).]

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NefariusDX Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1392 From: The Hadal Abyss of Eternal Oblivion Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 28 December 2001 15:42
not really, but you prolly can guess from how often i reply and help ppl even now  ------------------ Nefarius' Secondary Mod Site Nefarius' Primary Mod Site ------------------ XyRAX v21.00 Comming Soon! ------------------ NëƒarIu§ ÖƒƒiçláL [V]oÞÞ¦hg §¡Nce D2C V1.02!!! quote: Gaze into the Oblivion within yourself and you shall become your greatest fears. the escence of leeching is to request before you try

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 30 December 2001 14:47
I hate to do this,but...bump! :|------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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Kobu Lord
 
Posts: 105 From: Tokyo Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 30 December 2001 15:07
This might not help at all, but I was having problems with runewords because of blank descriptive lines I added in weapons.txt and others.If that's not it, just try a process of elimination in your files. Start with clean files and slowly remod it, testing every so many changes. ------------------ Bleak Times are coming. [69.5348%]

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 31 December 2001 10:41
Jesus!Do you mean putting lines like the empty "Expansion" lines?I have such lines all over my files!DAMN!Thank you,man!THANK YOU,THANK YOU,THANK YOU!This may not help,but anyway - THAAAANKS!  ------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha! [This message has been edited by DigiBO (edited 31 December 2001).]

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DigiBO Moderator
   
Posts: 1413 From: Bulgaria,Varna Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 31 December 2001 12:05
Removed all the lines.Nothing.Still the same.Stupid gems...------------------ My Supah Cool Mod will come out soon!!!And then you all will be UNEMPLOYED!!!Mwahahaha!

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jbouley Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 4907 From: Portland, Maine, USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 31 December 2001 12:30
Well, even if that's not the source of your problems, make sure to go back and start from clean files...putting in blanks lines can really mess things up in many other ways...so you should probably start completely clean.Also, you might have missed a file somewhere. The kinds of problems you are describing almost always seem to be associated with deleted a string/key from a .tbl file or with extra lines in .txt files. I honestly don't know what messing you up here. Gems.txt is a pretty benign file even when you mod it...which you apparently have NOT done...something somewhere in one of your files is probably set incorrectly and is causing the gem references to mess up. Damned if I can guess what it is...but that's about the only thing that makes sense. Tell you what: E-mail me your modded misc, weapon and armor files...and if you've modded it, your itemtypes file as well. And send me gems.txt for good measure, even though you are certain you haven't done anything to it. I don't guarantee I'll find anything, but I will try. ------------------ - JEFF "A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer." For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download Version 1.0 of Sanctuary in Chaos - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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