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TB55555
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posted 01 February 2002 13:09     Click Here to See the Profile for TB55555   Click Here to Email TB55555        Reply w/Quote   
How, if there is a way, can i change the text that characters say? And is there and way that I can create totally new quests?

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Alkalund
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From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 01 February 2002 13:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by TB55555:
How, if there is a way, can i change the text that characters say?

You mean what the npc's say? All the text speeches are located in string.tbl, expansionstring.tbl and perhaps patchstring.tbl as well.

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Originally posted by TB55555:
And is there and way that I can create totally new quests?

You can't add new quests, but you can do some slight modifications in the existing ones.

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jbouley
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posted 01 February 2002 15:50     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Two things:

1) Changing what the NPCs say in those entries in the .tbl files won't change the audio...so if you don't want to see and hear two different things, you'll need to turn the volume to zero...I think the options menu allows you to just turn off speech...but I cannot recall.

2) For NPC "scrolling text" speech in the .tbl files, you must always leave a blank return after the last line of text. If there isn't an empty line after the end of the text...you will end up with huge problems in your mod.

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Baz
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posted 02 February 2002 09:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Baz   Click Here to Email Baz        Reply w/Quote   
It is possible to make new quests. Like for example, you can make an npc say "go to this cave, kill this boss and he should drop a certain magic item. Then combine it with this item and you will get something else" for example. But... you just won't get the fancy quest log entries, unless you're prepared to do a lot of graphics and probably some DLL editing... good luck

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