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Pharaoh
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posted 30 January 2002 00:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Pharaoh   Click Here to Email Pharaoh        Reply w/Quote   
I am trying to do a line to change colors of armor and weapons, and the new cubemain.txt seems alot different from what I'm use to. I'm totally lost now. I know this is possible because |Wraith| did it in his uber-kit mod. Can anyone help me out?

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Countless they congregulate
On tumultuous snow...
On tumultuous snow...
Which flowers in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow

Upon this star, I fixed my eyes
All over the white wide lands
My horse moved on, hoof after hoof
He raised and never stopped again

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OnSLT
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posted 30 January 2002 01:21     Click Here to See the Profile for OnSLT   Click Here to Email OnSLT        Reply w/Quote   
I too once asked this, in a previous posting, asking if anyone knew a Cube recipe for colors that actually worked.
So far nothing has turned up for me, or anyone else that I know of. I have Wraith's D2-Ice mod-kit, and the most I got out of it, was some insight on Inputs and Outputs.

I do know that you can change the colors of the Unique and Set Items(uniqueitems.txt & setitems.txt) There's a Color Guide from Perfect Cell here at the Keep(Mod Resources.)
It will tell you the codes for colors.

I also found, that there's a Attribute code for color as well(Properties.txt in the d2exp.mpq) it's called "color", it has a 1 in the Done column, but I haven't got any clue what it does.

The only thing I know other than Cube Recipes that will change item colors, is the Magic Prefix, and Magic Suffix txt files.
In there you'll see color columns there too, and it doesn't go by #'s like the Unique and Set Items do, they go by a 4-letter abbreviation. dgld=Dark Gold

I'm also trying to find out, what Rare Affixes give off their color, maybe it's tied into the magical affixes, I'm not certain.
But I also heard most items with a fixed color, are ones that have been Hex Edited, from a Character Save file. I know nothing about that.
Anyway that's all I know, next to color changes, I hope any of that helps, but I haven't had much luck changing item colors.

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Pharaoh
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posted 30 January 2002 01:42     Click Here to See the Profile for Pharaoh   Click Here to Email Pharaoh        Reply w/Quote   
It seems that |Wraith| is the only one that knows how to do this. If the cubemain.txt didn't get changed, I would be able to use the lines from the uber-kit. But the cubemain.txt has been changed in 1.09 and everything is all different. I will try to get |Wraith| to share his secret with me.

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Countless they congregulate
On tumultuous snow...
On tumultuous snow...
Which flowers in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow

Upon this star, I fixed my eyes
All over the white wide lands
My horse moved on, hoof after hoof
He raised and never stopped again

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OnSLT
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posted 30 January 2002 13:50     Click Here to See the Profile for OnSLT   Click Here to Email OnSLT        Reply w/Quote   
I don't know if he did change his cubemain.txt or not, I'm using the 3.0 version, it supports all 1.09 versions of D2:LOD. By the way, if he does share you his secret, let us know.

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MPHG
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posted 30 January 2002 14:39     Click Here to See the Profile for MPHG   Click Here to Email MPHG        Reply w/Quote   Visit MPHG's Homepage!
well this is what i would do for color changes.


make 5 new suffexes that do nothing at all.
making each a different color.

do not add anything to string.tbl
so when you alter color, it will read
"sword" instead of "sword of colorA"

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OnSLT
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posted 30 January 2002 14:55     Click Here to See the Profile for OnSLT   Click Here to Email OnSLT        Reply w/Quote   
I can try that, but will it stick??
Like say i make the 5 new Suffix's, with a diff Color, and Add the Item Types in...then when I get the item, will it stay or give me a bad inventory item when I start up the game originally with no mod running?
Or will it just not be there?? lol

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jbouley
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posted 30 January 2002 17:08     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
By the way, the color attribute listed in properties.txt either doesn't work or it refers to the color of light that your item gives off...one or the other. I don't recall, as this magic tag hasn't been discussed in ages and I've never played with it.

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