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Technetium
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posted 09 February 2002 12:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Technetium   Click Here to Email Technetium        Reply w/Quote   Visit Technetium's Homepage!
All right, I have a basic idea on how to add new uniques based on looking at other uniques in the uniqueitems.txt. I have two questions, really. Does anyone know of a reference I can use for the columns "code" and "type"? I've noticed sometimes the type column is spelled slightly different from the way it appears in the game. I'm just looking for a big list of codes and types. Can anyone help with this? Thanks.

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BMW
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posted 09 February 2002 13:36     Click Here to See the Profile for BMW   Click Here to Email BMW        Reply w/Quote   Visit BMW's Homepage!
"code" refers to the item code in armor.txt, weapons.txt or misc.txt. "type" is the name of the item type(armour, weapon, jewelry or charm) as it appears in the first row of armor.txt, weapons.txt or misc.txt.

Use these 3 files as references for your "codes" and "types" to use.

[This message has been edited by BMW (edited 09 February 2002).]

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FoxBat
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posted 09 February 2002 15:47     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
If your trying to implement the "unused" uniques, extract uniqueitems.txt from your d2exp.mpq. In there you will find the unused uniques with codes and base items (the codes are actually referring to which base item type)

BTW currently I am working on a very similar "patch the holes" mod for an unofficial realm, you may want to see it when it's done (it's 50% now)

[This message has been edited by FoxBat (edited 09 February 2002).]

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 09 February 2002 16:09     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
"BTW currently I am working on a very similar "patch the holes" mod for an unofficial realm, you may want to see it when it's done (it's 50% now)"

Hey, I was working on that too. Or was, now I'm just working on my main mod. But I was going to activate all the uniques and fix all inbalances with items, skills, etc.

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Technetium
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posted 09 February 2002 16:17     Click Here to See the Profile for Technetium   Click Here to Email Technetium        Reply w/Quote   Visit Technetium's Homepage!
Thanks, that was really helpful. I wonder why the uniqueitems.txt in the patch deleted the information that said which items each unused unique was originally intended to go to.

Something else that would be really useful is documentation explaining what all the prefix and suffix modifiers mean... I've seen something called "stupidity" as a modifier, for example, but I have no idea what that does in the game.

Thanks again.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 09 February 2002 16:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
The stupidity modifier is the modifier blinds target.

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FeistyGirl
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posted 09 February 2002 16:56     Click Here to See the Profile for FeistyGirl   Click Here to Email FeistyGirl        Reply w/Quote   
http://www.planetdiablo.com/phrozenkeep/magic-code-master-list.htm

Magical Codes Master List

(do a search to find the code you need )

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Technetium
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posted 09 February 2002 22:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Technetium   Click Here to Email Technetium        Reply w/Quote   Visit Technetium's Homepage!
Thanks, that was a very helpful link. Now, another question. I am not adding new lines for my uniques, just filling in information for all the names that were never finished, and then setting them to complete. Do I still have to add stuff to patchstring.tbl or does it already know the names of these unfinished uniques, since they were in the file before I started editing?

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Myhrginoc
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posted 10 February 2002 14:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
Look through expansionstring.tbl and see if you see any keys for the missing uniques. If not there, you probably have to add your own.

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Technetium
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posted 10 February 2002 21:42     Click Here to See the Profile for Technetium   Click Here to Email Technetium        Reply w/Quote   Visit Technetium's Homepage!
The only .TBL files in my patch_d2.mpq, the latest 1.09, are the different patchstring.tbl files for different languages.

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Myhrginoc
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posted 10 February 2002 22:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
Any time you are looking for a file that isn't in patch_d2.mpq, look in the release mpqs. Blizzard only binds up the files they changed since the release into the patches, or they would be hundreds of megabytes large.

The only difference between a mod and a patch is who made it.

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Technetium
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posted 10 February 2002 22:09     Click Here to See the Profile for Technetium   Click Here to Email Technetium        Reply w/Quote   Visit Technetium's Homepage!
Yeah... Thanks again for clearing that up (in the other thread too).

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