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Changing item description with WeiDU

DexterFoxxDexterFoxx Member Posts: 3
in General Modding
Hi all,

I recently decided to try my hands on some item creation for BG2:EE, and I've found numerous helpfull guides around the interwebs. I've been pretty successful so far, managed to create an item and see it ingame, but I hit a wall when I try to change item description. I've tried to use WeiDU, and been following a guide where it says to create a textfile, rename it, rename WeiDU.exe and then its should work. But when I try I get an a msg in a DOS window saying:

(SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.EXE.DEBUG) Queried (pid= -1)

and the item description doesn't show ingame. Anyone know what the problem is? Or how to fix it?
I've been using the guide found here: http://forums.rpgdungeon.net/index.php?topic=1847.0;wap2

Please help, getting pretty frustrated :)

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  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    It looks like you have hidden extensions (so your file is actually named SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.EXE.EXE instead of SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.EXE)

    Try following the advice in this article.

    Hope this helps :)
  • DexterFoxxDexterFoxx Member Posts: 3
    Erg said:

    It looks like you have hidden extensions (so your file is actually named SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.EXE.EXE instead of SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.EXE)

    Try following the advice in this article.

    Hope this helps :)

    Tried this, deleting one of the .exe extensions... Alas, I get the same message.
  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    Did you do the same to your tp2 file? It should be named ITEMTUTORIAL.tp2 (or SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.tp2) without extra extensions.

    If this still doesn't work I can check your mod, if you want. Just zip it and upload it here (but be sure to include all the relevant files in the zip: exe, tp2, etc.).
  • DexterFoxxDexterFoxx Member Posts: 3
    Erg said:

    Did you do the same to your tp2 file? It should be named ITEMTUTORIAL.tp2 (or SETUP-ITEMTUTORIAL.tp2) without extra extensions.

    If this still doesn't work I can check your mod, if you want. Just zip it and upload it here (but be sure to include all the relevant files in the zip: exe, tp2, etc.).

    I would THINK those were ok... Can't be sure tho, as I have very limited modding experience :) But I've add'ed a file with the files I've tried to get working. If you could look that over it'd be great. Its not this item I want to make, its just the one described in the guide posted earlier.

    If you figure out whats wrong... or get it working... Is it possible to make a "template" or something which could work with other items with few adjustments? Anywho, if you would look these over I'd be very grateful. Sorry for my mistakes (rookie modding mistakes, grammar and otherwise)
  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    There were two issues:

    1) BACKUP must precede AUTHOR, so I swapped the first two lines in the tp2 file (actually I didn't know that because I always had BACKUP first in my mods and never tried the opposite :)

    2) you have in the tp2 the following code 

    COPY~itemtut/axedeath.itm~ ~override~

    this means that WeiDU will look for the file axedeath.itm inside a folder called itemtut. This folder was missing, so I created it and moved axedeath.itm in it.

    The attached modified version should work.

    Also for a basic introduction to WeiDU and a simple mod template see this.
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