Episode 83: Alpha Testing (Stage One)
1 week ago
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Exhausted
I am. The past 3 days I've worked on a new set of haks, dropped the 3C compilation and building everything from scratch. The content was easy to find, a lot of stuff 3C used is still in there for backwards compatibility with my old areas, but I wanted to know exactly where what content is and what I really need, so I went through the whole thing with 2da merging, padding, renumbering stuff... 12 pages of notes on my notepad here, mostly numbers. PHEW! Now I'm hanging at the PC body parts, the old problem of too many heads wanting to share the same numbers, and NWN2 heads are just.... ugh... not as easy to renumber as NWN1 heads. Think I should take a break and get some sleep, but at least this one hak will be THE LAST one to fix up, and then everything's done, back to area design... yay. Um.. I should've made some screenies of some changes I made to Rungholdt, but I haven't thought of it, and I won't anymore today. Maybe tomorrow or the day after. Sleep well you people out there, I definitely will.
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Please don't tell me you manually renumbered the 2das? Take a look at this program: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Other.Detail&id=1282 (There are a few others, but I like this one best). It is handy for editing 2das, but it also has one excellent undocumented feature. When you want to add entries from one 2da to the other simply copy-paste them at the end of your 2da, save, then open your 2da with this program, and save again. Voila. Renumbered.
Works this way:
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100 // Your original 2da last line
1274 // Newly pasted line
12 // Newly pasted line
138 // Newly pasted line
100 // Newly pasted line
1274 // Newly pasted line
Becomes this:
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Just two things to be careful about:
1) If you want to leave room between some entries, you'll have to add blank rows (all values set to ****), and not just skip them.
2) The rows you paste need to have the same number of columns as your own 2da. This can be a problem if you're using old content and Obsidian added another column to the 2da in a patch. In that case, you'll have to manually add **** at the end.
Thanks for the tip, Sherincall, but I believe I got it done without much extra effort. The app you linked might've saved me a little time, but the only case of a huge renumbering was just shifting the lines 1000 up, which meant hitting a hundred times the key combination backspace-8-cursor down (to kill a 6 and make it an 8 in the lines 6xxx).
Most of the trouble was actually organizing it and deciding what goes where, the rest was pretty much copy and paste, which I used TLK2Edit and notepad for.
The absolute hell was updating the placeble appearances in the toolset for about a thousand placeables. :)
Next time, tell me before. I know a way to do it en-masse in NWN1, perhaps it will work with NWN2 as well.
I hope there won't be the need for a very long time, hehehe. However, I'll think of you should there be a "next time", I really appreaciate your offer.
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