How do i read gamefiles to look random treasure possibilities?

kamuizin

Just like to know how to explore the game files to see random treasures possibilities. Using steam install of IWD:EE (if this gives any difference).

Zyzzogeton

Alternate solution, DSimpson's FAQ on GameFAQs has all the random treasure tables for the original + HoW + TotLM

And apparently the EE didn't change any of the random drops.

kamuizin

While i really enjoyed the answer @Zyzzogeton, and i'm using this way for the moment, i really would like to know how to read the inner files to know exactly every possibility of random treasure in each random spot of the game.

Can someone help me with this?

Haeravon

I wish I knew, myself. I couldn't find the information using Infinity Explorer-it just shows that a drop is, indeed, random. The best I could do was immense amounts of trial-and-error and record everything I found.

AstroBryGuy

The file that controls random treasure is RNDTRES.2DA. You can read it with Near Infinity.

The first column is the name of the "random treasure item". These are ITM files in the game that are placeholders for a random item. When a creature (or a container) has one of these random treasure items in its inventory, the game will look up that item in RNDTRES.2DA and replace the placeholder item with one of the random items from the specified row in RNDTRES.2DA.

Here's an example row:

RNDTRE01 arow01   arow01   arow01   arow02   arow08   arow01   arow01   arow01   hqarow   *        *        *        *        *        *        *        *        *        *        *

So, if a creature has RNDTRE01 in its inventory, the game will replace that with AROW01, AROW02, AROW08, or HQAROW.

See @swit's post here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/622993/#Comment_622993