Appearance.2da and Racialtype column

[Legacy_henesua]

                So what is the deal with the weird racialtype column in appearance.2da?

I figure the column means nothing. The numbers are certainly random. They do not appear to be consistent, and they don't correspond with racialtypes.2da.

I've ignored this column for a long time, but it bugs me and wondered if this knowledge is still in the "forum-mind". Anyone know? I've looked in the documentation of various places (NWNWiki, the handy dandy 2da reference, Google, NWN Lexicon)... I gathered no valuable intelligence.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par henesua, 05 février 2012 - 02:48 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               I experimented with this quite a bit while working on NwnE. To the best of knowledge it does nothing. I came to the conclusion that it may have been a marker column that predated the racial type 2da and was never removed as the game evolved during development.

Furthermore, I emailed/PMd both Craig and Brian about it and neither one could provide any information (well, Craig didn't respond).
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               Thanks. That's what I figured too but it feels better to have some confirmation.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_AndarianTD]

               Thanks for the feedback. This just came up in my latest hak merge and it's useful to know it.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Carcerian]

               That makes sense, as once you start using an appearance for say both a bandit and a werewolf, for example, using the appearance alone to determine the racialtype becomes impossible.

Sounds like it's a free column that could be re-used for other data '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               Carcerian... shoulda thought of that. The free column aspect. But instead of making use of it, i added eight columns to my appearances 2da It hasn't been a major hassle with merges so far. We'll see how upgrading to Q1.5 goes.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               

Pstemarie wrote...
I experimented with this quite a bit while working on NwnE. To the best of knowledge it does nothing. I came to the conclusion that it may have been a marker column that predated the racial type 2da and was never removed as the game evolved during development.

Furthermore, I emailed/PMd both Craig and Brian about it and neither one could provide any information (well, Craig didn't respond).

Thank you for that info!