How to easily change the name of a kit?

[gamemaster76]

I have a mod that adds more Dragon Disciple kits for each element. I have everything working except for renaming the original kit. Right now I'm just rewriting the string. Sloppy but I can't figure out how else to do it.

Except now I decided to install the Enhanced Edition Trilogy mod to merge both Baldur's Gate games into one. And now the mod doesn't recognize it has either BG2EE or BG1EE ( the mod is in the BG2EE directory).

The code is:

 

"REQUIRE_PREDICATE GAME_IS ~BGEE BG2EE IWDEE~ ~This component can only be installed on BGEE, BG2EE, and IWDEE games.~

/....\

 

ACTION_IF GAME_IS ~BGEE~ THEN BEGIN // For BG1EE        
        STRING_SET 31976 ~dragon disciple (fire)~ // Changes original kits name in character creator
        STRING_SET 31977 ~Dragon Disciple (Fire)~
END

ELSE ACTION_IF GAME_IS ~BG2EE~ THEN BEGIN // For BG2EE        
        STRING_SET 74302 ~dragon disciple (fire)~ // Changes original kits name in character creator
        STRING_SET 74303 ~Dragon Disciple (Fire)~
END

ELSE ACTION_IF GAME_IS ~IWDEE~ THEN BEGIN // For IWDEE         
        STRING_SET 37252 ~dragon disciple (fire)~ // Changes original kits name in character creator
        STRING_SET 37254 ~Dragon Disciple (Fire)~
END "

 

So either how do I skip the need to check what game and just have it look for the kit name an rewrite it;

Or how do made this code work with EET?

 

 

Edit: 

the error message I get is:

This component can only be installed on BGEE, BG2EE, and IWDEE games.

weidu_external/lang/english/ubsetup.tra file not found. Skipping...

Edited March 20, 2022 by gamemaster76

[DavidW]

Read in the strings from clastext.2da

[gamemaster76]

25 minutes ago, DavidW said:

Read in the strings from clastext.2da

Ok?  Do you mean rewrite the name in the clastext.2da file?

I'm not sure if that would be different then the other files. Would it be something like this?:

 

COPY_EXISTING ~clastext.2da~ ~override~ 

            SET_2DA_ENTRY 58 ~ Dragon Disciple (Fire)~

 

Would this change it both places were the name is referenced?

Edited March 20, 2022 by gamemaster76

[subtledoctor]

That entry needs to be a string reference, not a string, so you need to use RESOLVE_STR_REF first, and SET_2DA_ENTRY to the resulting variable. 

[DavidW]

You need to read the string out of the clastext file, then set it. Something like this:

COPY_EXISTING - "clastext.2da" nowhere // we're read-only, no need to write the file
	COUNT_2DA_COLS colcount
	READ_2DA_ENTRIES_NOW clastext_data colcount
	FOR (row=0;row<clastext_data;++row) BEGIN
		READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 0 kitname
		PATCH_IF "%kitname%" STR_EQ "DRAGON_DISCIPLE" BEGIN
			READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 3 lower
			READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 5 mixed
			row=clastext_data // done now, no point keeping going
		END
	END

	
STRING_SET lower ~dragon disciple (fire)~ 
STRING_SET mixed ~Dragon Disciple (Fire)~

 

[jastey]

5 hours ago, gamemaster76 said:

Or how do made this code work with EET?

The check for EET is ~eet~. You'd need to include it into your game checks. As for the content, I'd assume the BGII:EE content should work with EET as well, but you best check whether the kit uses the same string in EET.

5 hours ago, gamemaster76 said:

weidu_external/lang/english/ubsetup.tra file not found. Skipping...

It looks like you have a reference in your mod to that tra file somewhere. If it's not intentional you need to replace it with an own tra file / text.

[gamemaster76]

3 hours ago, jastey said:

The check for EET is ~eet~. You'd need to include it into your game checks. As for the content, I'd assume the BGII:EE content should work with EET as well, but you best check whether the kit uses the same string in EET.

It looks like you have a reference in your mod to that tra file somewhere. If it's not intentional you need to replace it with an own tra file / text.

That did it! thanks! I was trying to put BGEET and it didn't work but EET only worked.

That's the thing, no where in my code it references a .tra file

 

3 hours ago, DavidW said:

You need to read the string out of the clastext file, then set it. Something like this:

COPY_EXISTING - "clastext.2da" nowhere // we're read-only, no need to write the file
	COUNT_2DA_COLS colcount
	READ_2DA_ENTRIES_NOW clastext_data colcount
	FOR (row=0;row<clastext_data;++row) BEGIN
		READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 0 kitname
		PATCH_IF "%kitname%" STR_EQ "DRAGON_DISCIPLE" BEGIN
			READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 3 lower
			READ_2DA_ENTRY_FORMER clastext_data row 5 mixed
			row=clastext_data // done now, no point keeping going
		END
	END

	
STRING_SET lower ~dragon disciple (fire)~ 
STRING_SET mixed ~Dragon Disciple (Fire)~

 

there we go. Thanks!