Looking for some help with 2das

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               I did a merge of a few haks using the codi custom content creator.
Well after doing my merge two of my 2das don't seem to be right. I
have tried contacting a couple of friends to help sort it out but
they unfortunately they can not help. So I must ask can anyone help
me out? What I need is someone to look at what I did so far and tell
me what I did wrong and how to fix it. I will do all 2da work
involved unless someone will want to . I can send the files via
e-mail or MSN messenger . I am trying to learn how to do this all
myself but I am stuck and need some one to explain my mistakes to me.

If you are interested in helping me out either send me a PM or post a reply here and i will respond.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_420]

               Have you tried Excimer's 2da Combinulator?



From what I understand, it is the best tool out there.



-420
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               I will try using it, though I think my problem is in the merging I did. I really need someone to compare the work I did with the resources I was trying to merge and tell me where I went wrong. Thank you for the link to this tool, hopefully this can repair my errors.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               What sort of content are you merging?  How many lines of conflict were there in the 2da?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               Well I initially tried merging content from 4 haks, placeable’s
IIRC , the second merge was the PRCS item properties merged with B
Harrisons item properties expanded. As far as lines of conflict I am
not sure, the codi content tool merged all the 2das into one but now
that 2da will not work.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par omen_shepperd, 25 septembre 2010 - 02:00 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               Hmmm I think you'd get into trouble, because you'd have to edit both itemprops.2da and itempropdef.2da.





You'd have to be very careful to make sure the lines in both sets matched up the same.  And those in turn reference other 2da tables as well.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               Just a quick example of what I'm talking about.

Itemprops.2da says what the property can go on. I am just basing this off the PRC's tables.

so the very first line looks like

0 1 1 1 1 **** **** 1 1 **** **** **** **** **** 1 1 **** 1 **** **** **** **** 1 649 Ability_Bonus 

itempropdef.2da looks like this:

0 649 Ability IPRP_ABILITIES 1.2 1 **** 5476 **** 

I really sugggest getting something like tlkedit for working with 2da files, it is much much easier.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Calvinthesneak, 25 septembre 2010 - 02:09 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               With the PRC’S and B Harrisons item properties merge there was IIRC around 9 2das I had to merge. I had everything working before I realised I needed to re merge the two so I could get everything to show up. Now nothing is working and I didn't do anything different other than the order of 2da placement in the codi custom content creator tool.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par omen_shepperd, 25 septembre 2010 - 02:11 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               I've no idea how the combinators work, I've always merged my 2da's manually, in order to preserve buffer lines in some cases and others to suit my own whims.  It takes longer, but a better end result.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               So I should probably redo it all using either the tlkedit or Excimer's 2da Combinulator?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               tlkedit is merely a 2da and tlk table and hak editor.  Process is you manually open both of the 2da files from each hak (so say do itemprops.2da first)  go through and see where lines conflict.  Then have to work out a scheme for how you want to move lines and do so and save you new combined 2da.  Then repeat for every other 2da file set where there is conflict.