Item upgrade question

[Raumoheru]

since the item maker i use does not support the descriptions, i was told to use this command

 

COPY ~mymod/myitem.itm~ ~override/myitem.itm~ This copies your item from your source folder to the override folder

SAY NAME1 ~Some Sword~

SAY NAME2 ~My Sword +1~

SAY UNIDENTIFIED_DESC ~This is an unidentified sword.~

SAY DESC ~This is my sword. It is +1.~

 

 

i wanted to see how weimer did his and i looked in the item upgrade tp2 and found this

 

COPY ~c2/itm/c2keld01.itm~      ~override/c2keld01.itm~

  WRITE_ASCII 0x3a "c2keld01"

  WRITE_LONG    0x34 20000

  WRITE_SHORT 0x42 0

  SAY NAME2  @144

  SAY DESC      @145

 

it would be much easier to do it like weimer instead of having a huge section for 1 item, so how do i make this happen? how do i make a reference to a number instead of an actual description?

[Andyr]

The @number after SAY NAME and SAY DESC point to a translation file, which has lists of numbers then strings. It's just another way of assigning the name and description, which makes it easier for people wanting to translate your mod.

 

Personally, I tend to just use code like you posted in the first example.

 

The WRITE_LONG etc commands, by the way, are not to do with assigning the name, they are patching other parts of the item file. You probably won't need to do that.