Complete Documentation for all my NWN Custom Content:

Complete Documentation for all my NWN Custom Content JANUARY 04

I am taking the time to rename and renumber all my models for future compatibility with BioWare expansions and patches. Included are instructions for usage ‘as is’, instructions for culling out items if you don’t want everything, instructions for combining with other similar haks, and instructions for personalizing flags. Also a lot of tips, notes, and warnings along the way.

I am placing everything I’ve released into just 3 haks.

If you are currently using any of my other haks (anything without padded in its title) and you switch to these haks you will find that any export erf’s created with the old versions are now invalid and you will have to edit the appearance of any items based on the old models in your hak. You will find a few brand new items too. NOTHING FROM THE DEFAULT BIOWARE ITEMS IS REPLACED! But if you are using multiple haks, making them ‘play together’ nice is your job – but I’ve given some tips in the sections below.

If you want to combine my three haks, any files with the same name are exact duplicates so the overwrite/priority order does not matter.

Table of Contents:

1. Lisa’s Clothes Horse – HOTU padded NEW JAN '04

This hak contains all my clothes, armor, heads, parasols, and fans.

General usage information.
Tables of toolset numbers, model & texture names, inventory icon names, and appearances.
2da documentation and general combining with other haks info.

2. Lisa’s Placeables – HOTU padded NEW JAN '04

This hak contains all my placeables and any of their portraits.

General usage information.
Table of all items with model names, texture names, icon names, portrait names...
2da documentation and general combining with other haks info.

3. Lisa’s Holdables – HOTU padded NEW JAN '04

This hak contains my Staves (both weapon and torch versions), Holy Symbols, Whips, & Wieldable Standards.

General usage information
List of all items with appearance and model names.
2da documentation and general combining with other haks info.

4. How to Personalize the Logos on the flags ( Placeable and Holdable)

1a. General Usage of Lisa’s Clothes Horse – HOTU padded hak.

Getting Started:

v Old versions of NWN – you may need to shorten the name for the hak to work.

v Unzip the download file and place LisasClothesHOU.hak in your NWN/hak folder & LisasHOTUacces.erf in your NWN/erf folder.

v Open module in toolset.

v Go to EDIT – MODULE PROPERTIES and choose the custom content tab.

v Near the bottom you should see an arrow that if pressed will scroll out a list of all haks in your hak folder. Select the hak LisasClothesHPad.hak and add.

v OK the choice and the module will rebuild.

v Save your module (suggest you rotate save names just in case there is a problem).

v Quit the toolset and restart! or the items may not be available!

Now that the new items will be available for use:

v You may now import a base accessories set that I pre-made for you (no magic properties have been added) by going up to FILE – IMPORT and choosing LisasHOTUacces.erf . Accessories will be on your Custom Items Pallet under the SPECIAL-CUSTOM 2 branch. You may edit their properties, descriptions all you want. No clothing is included in the erf.

v OR use the ITEM CREATION WIZARD to create the mage staff accessory items or armor as you wish them to be in your module. I will assume you know how to select appearance and properties for yourself J. The Table below will aid you see column 1 for toolset appearance names. For clothing Noobs please check out Maximus’ tutorial on using my haks.

Notes:

· If items still don’t show up – try shortening the hak file name. This one worked fine for me but older builds of NWN required shorter names.

· Armor and clothing is arranged in the toolset armor appearance lists based on the BASE AC assigned the item in the 2da’s, col. 3. I always assign BASE AC of 0, but for some items you may feel the AC should be higher so see section 1c.

· Items of equal AC are clumped together in the lists in some order determined by the toolset. I assure you Nothing is lost! Just shoved around – and this has no effect on any items made previously with BioWare items or non-conflictingly numbered other armor haks!

· I tweaked my 2da files so that all my armor parts will appear AFTER Biowares, EXCEPT torsos, which because the AC class of Torsos actually matters, I put them before Biowares.

· The AC of the torso is the only one that really counts toward the AC of the outfit.

· Some people want to have all custom items show up at the end of the lists – um then all the evening gowns are gonna have AC more than 8 and hardly anyone can wear it! And they’d cost a fortune!

· I think: This Clothes Hak is compatible with other current NWN builds also.

1b. Tables of all items with Appearance and Model names and Tons of Info.

Accessories as Secondary “Lisa” Staff Based Items:

This table lists my new addon mage staff items - I have added a new class of weapons that the game thinks are also mage staffs – but your weapon specializations and feats do not apply to these. I did not edit files that could not be contained in a hak – so when using the toolset item wizard, the regular staffs are the first “mage staff” choice and my addon one appears second as another “mage staff” choice. Please note that I padded the baseitems.2da for compliance with BioWare future addons. I added a line at 211 for these to function. I may move some of my other non-staff staffs here at a later time.

NOTES:

· When holding a staff, the weapon position is with the arm held upward. This makes it perfect for parasols and fans. Most other weapons are held with the arm held down and that is all wrong. I selected staffs for appearance.

· Erf file imported versions have no magic properties; you may want to add a few.

· These are not meant to be used as a weapons but they can be with quite amusing results!

· All of these are MIDDLE section only models which must be paired with the true NULL model top and bottom sections for staves in the weapon creation appearance screen.

· When laying on the ground some of these items will appear angled or partially below ground due to the rotation to make the wield style vertical.

· Items will only be raised into proper vertical wield in the game (not in the toolset!)

· No changes to these items from my old haks but see comments in section 3c about weapons.

Description and Item type	Model Name with extension ‘mdl’	Inventory Texture Name with extension ‘tga’	Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’ (sometimes ‘txi’ as noted)
Holdable Swaddled Baby	wLisa_m_011	iwLisa_m_011	babyblanket
Black Mourner’s Umbrella (Mage Staff – Weapon)	wLisa_m_012	iwLisa_m_012	w_black_tex w_wood_tex
Golden Parasol (Mage Staff – Weapon)	wLisa_m_013	iwLisa_m_013	w_gold_tex
Dragon Parasol (Mage Staff – Weapon)	wLisa_m_014	iwLisa_m_014	Dragon
Spanish Lace Fan (Mage Staff – Weapon)	wLisa_m_015	iwLisa_m_015	Fans
Black/White Fan (Mage Staff – Weapon)	wLisa_m_016	iwLisa_m_016	Fans
Null Top MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wLisa_t_014	iwLisa_t_014	NONE
Null Bottom MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wLisa_b_014	iwLisa_b_014	NONE

Heads:

Appearance Info:	Model and Texture Names mdl and plt extensions.
Human Female Head 013 with longer hair PC or NPC if no Conflicts. Eyes:Metal 1&2 Lips: Cloth 1	pfh0_head028
Human Female Alias Head PC or NPC if no Conflicts. Eyes:Tattoo 2 Lips: Cloth 1	pfh0_head029
Human Female Worn Face NPC if no Conflicts.	pfh0_head150
Human Female Old Face with Hat NPC if no Conflicts.	pfh0_head151
Human Female Dragon Girl Head NPC if no Conflicts. Eyes:Metal 1&2 Lips: Cloth 1	pfh0_head152
Elf Female - Half-Elf head scaled version of # 1 above PC or NPC if no Conflicts. Eyes:Metal 1&2 Lips: Cloth 1	pfe0_head017
Halfling Female – Intended as child version of #1 above PC or NPC if no Conflicts. Eyes:Metal 1 Lips: Cloth 1	pfa0_head012
Nathraiben’s Halfling Female Child Heads NPC only probably. Thin Only	pfa0_head* where * is 161 to 167
Nathraiben’s Halfling Male Child Heads NPC only probably. Thin Only	pma0_head0*where * is 160 to 161

Clothing Tables By Part Names:

NOTES:

· Hopefully someone will eventually figure out how we can restrict items by Sex like you can race and class, but for now you will have to do it with item names and possibly scripting. All outfits can be worn by everyone though!

· All future releases by me will compatible with this hak. I started every part at 150. Any hak not using conflicting numbers should be easy to combine with mine – see part 1c below.

· All outfits made with previous versions of my stuff will need their appearances updated.

Brief description of model/texture name conventions for armor parts:

Example

pfh0_belt017.mdl

· The “p” is parts

· The “f” is female, use “m” for male

· The “h” is human (“a” is halfling, “d” is dwarf, “e” is elf, “g” is gnome, “o” is half-orc)

· The “0” is thin phenotype, use “2” for chubby.

· “belt” is the type of part – chest, pelvis, handl (left hand), shinr (right shin)...easy to figure out.

· The “017” is the 3 digit version of the number entered in the appropriate parts “2da” file column 1.

· The “mdl” is model, plt is the texture.

Each part has a maximum of two “plt” skin textures – male and female and named to correspond to thin-human but all races and both phenotypes use those same two “plt’s!!!!

There are up to 24 mdls if the part is made for all races, both sexes, both phenotypes.

Chest, pelvis, belt, and shoulder parts should have inventory plt’s so you have a little picture of the outfit when it is in your inventory screens. Max of two, one male and one female. Example Names: ipf_chest055.plt and ipm_chest055.plt (“IP” for inventory picture, F or M for female and male)

Hands, forearms, biceps, shoulders, thighs, shins, and feet each have only one 2da file but there are two models of each kind r, right and l, left: Example: pfh0_footl009.mdl and pfh0_footl009.plt and pfh0_footr009.mdl and pfh0_footr009.plt and you have a pair of shoes for human thin females.

ROBES

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	Model, Texture, and Inventory Icon Number	Female Appearance	Male Appearance
005	150	Mexican Ribbons Skirt	Mexican Ribbons Skirt
006	151	Mexican Floral Skirt	Mexican Floral Skirt
007	152	Wizard Skirt	Wizard Skirt
008	153	Flower Gown	Flower Gown
009	154	Apron Gown	Apron Gown
010	155	Scale/lace Gown	Scale/lace Gown
011	156	Dragon Wizard Skirt	Dragon Wizard Skirt
012	157	Crane Kimono	Crane Kimono
013	158	Dragon Kimono	Dragon Kimono
014	159	Bamboo Kimono	Bamboo Kimono

v Please note – Since the robe does not replace the torso, the toolset overlays the robe and torso icons – which looks horrible. In the game the robe icon totally replaces all other icons so you will see only the skirt(robe) icons and they look much better in inventory. Unfortunately the game cannot display a merged robe and torso icon :(

v ******* THIS VERSION DOES NOT include scripts for allowing the robes to fit into the in game armor crafting system. You should look at Sartrix scripts for this or examine Bigfoots Alienest Robe hak to see how to script this as a feature in your mod.

v TO COMBINE with other robe haks – you only need to merge the parts_robe.2da. I padded mine to line 199, and started at line 150 for my models, to activate another line, copy it from the other haks 2da and past it over that line number in mine (or viceversa) . Lines with **** in column 3 are padded but not active. For example to add bigfoots alienest robe and mine, copy his line 26 and past over my line 26 and make sure the new 2da is higher in priority than either of the original haks.

1. BELTS

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	Model, Texture, and Inventory Icon Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
15	150	Yuan-Ti skirt	Long Belt
16	151	Hound Archon belt	Hound Archon belt
17	152	Alias – Belt	Alias – Belt
18	153	Belt with Sporran	Belt with Sporran
19	154	MiniSkirt	Long Belt
20	155	Cat-Like Tail	Cat-Like Tail

2. BICEP:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
14	150	Plain Leather Sleeve	Plain Leather Sleeve
15	151	Evening Glove Top	Evening Glove Top
16	152	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
17	153	Crane Kimono	Crane Kimono
18	154	Dragon Kimono	Dragon Kimono
19	155	Bamboo Kimono	Bamboo Kimono
20	156	Alias' Cuff	Alias' Cuff
21	157	Leather Sleeve for Bolero Jacket	Leather Sleeve for Bolero Jacket
22	158	Crushed Velvet Sleeves –Fop Jacket	Crushed Velvet Sleeves –Fop Jacket
23	159	Monk Shirt Sleeve	Monk Shirt Sleeve
24	160	Swashbuckler Sleeve	Swashbuckler Sleeve

3. CHEST (TORSO):

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	Model, Texture, & Inventory Icon Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
1	150	FlamboyantWizardCollar Low collar on Large Pheno	FlamboyantWizardCollar Low collar on Large Pheno
2	151	Midi-Tee shirt	Midi-Tee shirt
3	152	Leather Bustier	Leather Bustier
4	153	Cloth Corset/undershirt	Cloth Corset/Undershirt
5	154	Crane Kimono	Crane Kimono
6	155	Dragon Kimono	Dragon Kimono
7	156	Bamboo Kimono	Bamboo Kimono
8	157	Alias' Torso	Alias' Torso
9	158	Gypsy Blouse	Gypsy Blouse
10	159	Modest Dragon Tattoo	Dragon Tattoo
11	160	DragonTattoo with chain	DragonTattoo with chain
12	161	Chest Chain not tattoo	Chest Chain not tattoo
13	162	Dragon Skin w/tattoo	Dragon Skin w/tattoo
14	163	Fallen Angel Wing Scars	Fallen Angel Wing Scars
24	164	Scoop Neck Child Chest Female Halfling Only (dummy set-up model on human for toolset use)	Scoop Neck Child Chest dummy set-up model on human for toolset use
25	165	High Neck Child Chest Female Halfling Only (dummy set-up model on human for toolset use)	High Neck Child Chest dummy set-up model on human for toolset use
	166	Black Widow Spiders	Black Widow Spider
26	167	Pregnancy Torso	Pregnancy Torso
15	168	Tooled Leather Bolero Jacket	Tooled Leather Bolero Jacket
16	169	SeaShell Mermaid Chest (not released in general yet, was a special request)	Naked Chest
17	170	Leopard Bra	Naked Chest
18	171	CutAway Velvet Fop Coat (tails removed due to sever clipping in female stance.)	CutAway Velvet Fop Coat
19	172	HoundArchonSuspenders	HoundArchonSuspenders
20	173	Plain Monk Shirt	Plain Monk Shirt
21	174	Twin Dragon Monk Shirt	Twin Dragon Monk Shirt
22	175	Swashbuckler Shirt	Swashbuckler Shirt

4. FOOT:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
11	150	Invisible (no texture)	Invisible (no texture)
12	151	TwoTone High Heel	High Heel with Flap
13	152	OneTone High Heel	High Heel with Flap (different Leather)
14	153	Little girl foot –Halfling only (dummy set-up model on human for toolset use)	Little boy foot –Halfling only (dummy set-up model on human for toolset use)
15	154	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
16	155	Curl Toe Harem Shoe	Curl Toe Harem Shoe
17	156	Cloth1&2, Two tone HighHeel for Mexican Skirts coordination	Cloth1&2, Two tone HighHeel for Mexican Skirts coordination
18	157	Boot foot for tooled leather shin boot	Boot foot for tooled leather shin boot
19	158	Hound Archon Foot	Hound Archon Foot

5. FOREARM:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
22	150	Plain Leather Sleeve	Plain Leather Sleeve
23	151	Evening Glove lower	Evening Glove lower
24	152	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
25	153	Slave Cuff	Slave Cuff
26	154	Crane Kimono	Crane Kimono
27	155	Dragon Kimono	Dragon Kimono
28	156	Bamboo Kimono	Bamboo Kimono
29	157	Alias' Bracers	Alias' Bracers
30	158	Helm Horror Gauntlet	Helm Horror Gauntlet
31	159	Bangle Braclets	Bangle Braclets
32	160	Leather Sleeve for Bolero Jacket	Leather Sleeve for Bolero Jacket
33	161	Velvet and Lace Fop Sleeves	Velvet and Lace Fop Sleeves
34	162	Monk Shirt Sleeve	Monk Shirt Sleeve
35	163	Swashbuckler Sleeve	Swashbuckler Sleeve
36	164	Hound Archon Bracer	Hound Archon Bracer

6. HAND:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
7	150	Evening Glove Hand	Evening Glove Hand
8	151	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
9	152	Alias' Glove	Alias' Glove
10	153	Pirate Hook	Pirate Hook
11	154	Helm HorrorGauntlet	Helm HorrorGauntlet

7. LEGS (THIGHS):

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
15	150	Invisible (no texture)	Invisible (no texture)
16	151	Plain Pants	Plain Pants
17	152	Sleek Boot Top	Sleek Boot Top
18	153	Nubby Rolled Top Boot	Nubby Rolled Top Boot
19	154	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
20	155	Alias' Laced up Pants	Alias' Laced up Pants NO LACES ON MALE VERSION
21	156	Harem Pants thigh	Harem Pants thigh
22	157	Hound Archon Pants	Hound Archon Pants
23	158	Plaid legs for Kilt	Plaid legs for Kilt
24	159	Sleek Leather Pant	Sleek Leather Pant
25	160	Monk Pants	Monk Pants

8. NECK:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	Model, & Texture Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
5	150	Yuan-Ti Spikes	Yuan-Ti Spikes
6	151	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
7	152	Slave Cuff	Slave Cuff
8	153	Cravat for Lace collar	Cravat for Lace collar
9	154	Fancy Cloak – Narrow Model	Fancy Cloak – Narrow Model
10	155	Fancy Cloak – Wider Model	Fancy Cloak – Wider Model
11	156	Plainer Cloak – Narrow Model	Plainer Cloak – Narrow Model
12	157	Amulet on Choker	Amulet on Choker
13	158	Tooth/Claw Necklace	Tooth/Claw Necklace

9. PELVIS:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used.	Model, Texture, and Inventory Icon Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
36	150	Invisible (no texture)	Invisible (no texture)
37	151	Plain Pants	Plain Pants
38	152	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
39	153	Long Loin Cloth	Long Loin Cloth
40	154	Alias' Laced up Pants	Alias' Laced up Pants NO LACES ON MALE VERSION
41	155	Spider Web Skirt	Spider Web Skirt
42	156	Plaid Kilt	Plaid Kilt
43	157	Mermaid Tail (special request – not released generally)	Merman Tail (special request – not released generally)
44	158	Leopard Loin Cloth	Leopard Loin Cloth
45	159	Even Plainer Silk pants	Even Plainer Silk pants

10. SHIN:

Toolset numbers if just this hak is used..	L/R Models, & Textures Number (See Naming conventions above)	Female Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)	Male Appearance (any limitations are noted, otherwise ‘all race both phenotypes’)
16	150	Invisible (no texture)	Invisible (no texture)
17	151	Sleek Leather Pant Shin	Sleek Leather Pant Shin
18	152	Socks/Stocking	Socks/Stocking
19	153	Plain Pants	Plain Pants
20	154	Sleek Boot Shin	Sleek Boot Shin
21	155	Nubby Rolled Boot Shin	Nubby Rolled Boot Shin
22	156	Dragon Skin	Dragon Skin
23	157	Slave Cuff	Slave Cuff
24	158	Alias' Boot Shin	Alias' Boot Shin
25	159	Harem Pants shin	Harem Pants shin
26	160	Monk Pants	Monk Pants
27	161	Tooled Leather Boot	Tooled Leather Boot
28	162	Hound Archon Boots	Hound Archon Boots

1c. 2da Issues and Combining Tips for Armor Parts and Heads. For the Accessories info., see part 3c, weapons.

New armor is added by using the so called ‘parts 2da’ files. No lines can be skipped but they can be padded – that is made to be reserved for later use.

There are 11 different parts 2da files NOT COUNTING ROBES 2DA which is similar, here is a list along with the ending line numbers BioWare wants us to reserve for their future use:

parts_belt.2da – pad to 30

parts_bicep.2da – pad to 30

parts_chest.2da – pad to 75

parts_foot.2da – pad to 30

parts_forearm.2da – pad to 40

parts_hand.2da – pad to 20

parts_legs.2da – pad to 30

parts_neck.2da – pad to 20

parts_pelvis.2da – pad to 50

parts_shin.2da – pad to 30

parts_shoulder.2da – pad to 50

There are a lot of modelers making armor parts, and if you are lucky, the ones you want will choose different numbers making combining a matter of editing these 2da files. I choose to start all my stuff at line 150 in every file. I have stuff in every category except shoulder.

NOTE:

So, it is even weirder in the numbering situation with armor than we thought!

I was originally going to number from 200 up, but I've changed to 150 up because of weird stuff BioWare inserted in the parts number 200 up. And it is weird. I'll try to explain.

It seems BioWare has actually reserved all parts 200 and up to be declared as custom NPC parts that get chosen in the NPC's creature appearance screen instead of OR along with the armor creation apearance screen.

Now if BioWare uses say up to 75 lines for their armor, that only leaves 124 slots for the rest of us. So we are back to big time conflicts. "Communication" between hundreds of modelers to split up the few #'s left was their not helpful & only suggestion so far. Yeah.

So basically you can only use up to 199 safely for given armor part, higher than that you will get NPC torsos and armor torsos.

Let me explain from my "experiments"

I made a torso for the following chest numbers

199

200

201

214

215

235

255

The First experiment, no 2da alterations from the default parts_chest.2da:

With no lines added to the 2da. Models between 200 to 255 showed up on the NPC's creature appearance screen under torso choices. Model 199 did not show up there.

None showed up new in the armor creation apearance screen.

2^nd Experiment:

Now I added a 2da, padded but with lines 199,200,201,214,215,235,255 activated.

The effect on the NPC's creature appearance screen was unchanged from the first experiment.

Now however they all also showed up in the armor creation apearance screen .

Upshot – I plan to avoid 200 and up unless there are no other choices.

End of Note.

Other BioWare Comment: When pasting new rows into 2da files, the columns don’t have to line up precisely. As long as there is at least one space between items it will be read as a new column. Of course you need the correct number of columns even if they don’t line up. Don’t use “TAB” to make spaces!

Also Thallion tells me that line 99 is reserved for NPC’s like Aribeth and Gend so don’t use line 99 ever either.

TIPS ON COMBINING WITH OTHER ARMOR HAKS:

WARNING:
If model number(names) conflict, you will have to do extensive work to combine the items. I have a tutorial about it on NWNbuilders.com called Adding New Armor Without Losing the Old.

Assuming no model number(name) conflicts, you just need to make a COMBO 2da file following these easy tips:

v First let’s discuss the format of every one of these parts 2da files.

Open it in notepad and you will see 3 columns – here is just the start of one:

COSTMODIFIER ACBONUS

0 0 0.00

1 0 ****

2 0 ****

3 0 0.10

4 0 0.02

5 0 0.34

The first column is the line number that will correspond to the model name; when used in the model name it must be 3 digits such as 009, or 037, or 224. Currently, nothing numbered higher than 255 will show up which is something I hope BioWare changes and makes unlimited like other 2da types. And as discussed above you really can’t use 200 to 255 cleanly)

The second column is a cost modifier. Putting 5000 in this col. will increase the base cost of that part 5000gp!!!! Putting in -5000 will reduce the base cost of that part by 5000 but if the item cost less than 5000 when built in the toolset it will not have a price lower than 0. Generally, this is kept to 0 and cost is modified through means of properties and AC. I never have it other than 0.

The third column is the Base AC for the item. This is how the item will be sorted in the toolset. Decimals are rounded to whole numbers. AC range is 0 to 8 for legit items. I always use base AC 0, but say you want Aliases chain vest to become light armor – make the AC col. 1 to 3. Medium armor is 4 to 5, and heavy armor is 6 to 8. Remember the only one that actually counts is the one assigned to Chests(torsos). You can fiddle-faddle around using decimal increments to move models to the end of the toolset sort BUT DON’T EVER DO IT ON CHESTS UNLESS YOU MEAN IT!!!!!!!!!! To reiterate, I always go for 0, toolset numbers – who cares – not worth the fussing about in the AC col. IMO.

v Now something Important:

You see those little **** in the 3rd col.? These are the PADDED lines, if AC is **** the toolset armor appearance screen will ignore those lines. The reason it appears on some early lines is for the default “naked/underwear” plain and “naked/underwear” tattooed parts used in setting up the characters appearance screens (i.e. with no clothes like when setting up tattooed part to create a new PC at the start of a game or in the toolset when creating a generic race NPC.)

v OK, shooting your eyeballs down any one of my parts 2da’s you’ll see the AC column drops the **** at line 150 and those are my things. For your convenience, I padded it all the way to the nice number of 199. My stuff starts at 150 and goes until you see **** start again. If I add new stuff I will pick up where-ever I left off.

v Let’s just say someone else’s hak has lines 75-90 filled in for their stuff. Doesn’t matter if they have pads after their things. Copy only their “active” lines (the ones that have something other than **** in the AC col. and are after Biowares stuff at the beginning) and paste those over the exact same lines in my 2da and you will have a nifty COMBO 2da that will make everybody’s parts work all friendly like.

v If they number higher than my parts – you need to leave in the **** pad lines to fill in between mine and theirs, but by now, you should now know what you are doing. Cut an paste in their lines.

WARNING:

If they have stuff below BioWare’s requested reserves, I suggest you read that tutorial on adding new armor and do a major rewrite of their stuff or you may have problems when BioWare patches or releases another expansion!!!!!!

Once you finish your new 2da’s you may make a new hak just with the 2da’s as long as it has higher priority, and just use the original haks with the models below it. You could repack the new models and 2da’s in to a new custom hak of your own.

I told you it was easy J

Now on to ‘messing with heads’. *wink*

Heads – what can I say. Confusing at first but gets easier with a few tries.

First off: no 2da file for heads which actually makes them open for being hit by expansion paks.

To make a head usable for PC and NPC you have to number it low and in strict sequence with the last head BioWare had. Each Race and Sex has a different number of heads – so you’ll have to figure it out by checking the NPC set-up screen in the toolset for the race and sex you want to add heads for.

For example, I know PC usable heads go up to number 015 for human females.

By making my female human heads start at 016 and count up, they become available for use on both NPC’s in the toolset, and PC’s at creation in the game. If I make it number 017 and there is no 016, then it will be usable only by NPC’s. If BioWare ever adds human heads for female PC’s I will have to renumber all my models.

Now there is some weird business with some generic pot helms (GPH) that show up as PC heads if you number up to 49 (I think I was told) The GPH’s were some kind of flotsam left in the game – ich! So you probably should only have up to 48 PC heads for any race/sex. I’ve never run up that high, so I don’t know the full scoop on these GPH and what the heck they are there for. They run out after awhile but apparently there are a slew of them and all identical.

Also BioWare has some NPC only heads in some of the race/sex categories. For example the human female NPC only heads are numbered 140 to 143. The first 3 are repeats of PC heads so I have no Idea why they felt they needed them in again! 143 was added with SoU and is a very nice hooded masked head (but the large pheno version of it was screwed up in the texture mapping stage so beware. LOL.)

Heads numbered up high enough are safe from expansion probably but are usable only in the toolset for NPC’s. I have 3 NPC heads numbered starting at 150. The rest are PC/NPC if you have no other add on head packs that conflict.

If you need to renumber heads the deal is almost the same as for the armor parts in that tutorial I mentioned

EXCEPT

heads have no 2da files
every head has a separate plt for each race and sex.
they don’t have inventory plt icons.

Also I am not renumbering Nathraiben’s child heads, so they probably will not appear as PC choices.

2a. General Usage of Lisa’s Placeables – HotU Padded hak.

Getting Started:

v Unzip the download file and place LisasPlaceablPad.hak in your NWN/hak folder & LisasPlaceHotU.erf in your NWN/erf folder.

v Open module in toolset.

v Go to EDIT – MODULE PROPERTIES and choose the custom content tab.

v Near the bottom you should see an arrow that if pressed will scroll out a list of all haks in your hak folder. Select the hak LisasPlaceablPad.hak and add.

v OK the choice and the module will rebuild.

v Save your module (suggest you rotate save names just in case there is a problem).

v Quit the toolset and restart.

v Very few changes needed for HotU. I updated the crystal ball textures, and added a HotU style version of the Black Dragon's Mirror.

Now that the new items will be available for use:

v You may now import a base set that I pre-made for you (no magic properties have been added) by going up to FILE – IMPORT and choosing LisasPlaceHotU.erf . Everything will be on your Custom Placeables Pallet under the SPECIAL-CUSTOM 1 branch. You may edit their properties, descriptions all you want.

v OR use the PLACEABLE CREATION WIZARD to create the items as you wish them to be in your module. I will assume you know how to select appearance and properties for yourself J. The Table below will aid you see column 1 for toolset appearance names.

Notes:

· If items still don’t show up – try shortening the hak file name. This one worked fine for me (in fact I had a hak with a 50 character long name and it worked) but older builds of NWN required shorter names.

· Some placeables have portraits (useful when you have talking objects) but not all do. Those with no custom portrait will have a default ‘blank’ portrait which you can reset to any other in game portrait if you like. A few items share a portrait and it must be selected by you specially – I have noted these in the table below. If you are making a custom hak and want to save on file size the portraits may be safely omitted.

· Some placeables were made using textures from within the game, most have my custom textures. If you are pulling individual items, open the ‘mdl’ file in notepad, search for all BITMAP lines and these will tell you what the custom texture names are that go with any given item. I used my custom textures sometimes for multiple objects. All my textures are in ‘tga’ format; animated textures have corresponding ‘txi’ files. Also all of the info is in the table below.

· All placeables have two main files besides their textures the ‘mdl’ file and corresponding ‘pwk’ file.

This Hak Contains all Placeables out of ALL MY INDIVIDUAL PLACEABLE HAKS.

Many items in the old individual packs have NOT been updated and you should use the ones in this hak.

2b. DATA ABOUT PLACEABLES IN THIS HAK:

Item Description and ‘Appearance’ name in toolset.	Model Name with extensions ‘mdl’ and ‘pwk’	Portrait Names with extension ‘tga’	Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’ (sometimes ‘txi’ also as noted)	Current Line(s) in MY padded 2da’s
1. Amethyst Crystal Ball on Marble Table Toolset Appearance: ‘CrystalBall’	PLC_MCB	PO_PLC_MCB_m PO_PLC_MCB_s PO_PLC_MCB_t	PLC_marble w_violetc_tex (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1011 Portraits 2da line #: 2100
2. Gold Crystal Ball Toolset Appearance: ‘CrystalOrb’	PLC_MCB2	PO_PLC_MCB2_m PO_PLC_MCB2_s PO_PLC_MCB2_t	w_gold_tex w_goldc_tex (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1012 Portraits 2da line #: 2101
3. Amethyst Crystal Ball Toolset Appearance: ‘CrystalOrb2’	PLC_MCB3	PO_PLC_MCB3_m PO_PLC_MCB3_s PO_PLC_MCB3_t	w_gold_tex w_violetc_tex (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1013 Portraits 2da line #: 2102
4. Marble Side Table Toolset Appearance: ‘Marble Table’	PLC_MTBL	PO_PLC_MTBL_m PO_PLC_MTBL_s PO_PLC_MTBL_t	PLC_marble	Placeable 2da line #:1014 Portraits 2da line #: 2103
5. Golden Vortex Mirror Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorVor’	PLC_Mir1	PO_PLC_Mir1_m PO_PLC_Mir1_s PO_PLC_Mir1_t	mirror1 (tga and txi) frame1	Placeable 2da line #:1015 Portraits 2da line #: 2104
6. Lady of the Mist Mirror Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorLdy’	PLC_Mir2	PO_PLC_Mir2_m PO_PLC_ Mir2_s PO_PLC_ Mir2_t	mirror2 (tga and txi) frame2	Placeable 2da line #:1016 Portraits 2da line #: 2105
7. The Black Dragons Mirror – Original Misty Version Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorDrg’	PLC_Mir3	PO_PLC_Mir3_m PO_PLC_Mir3_s PO_PLC_Mir3_t	mirror3 (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1017 Portraits 2da line #: 2106
8. Dragon Head Canopic Vase Toolset Appearance: ‘CanopicDrg’	PLC_VS1	PO_PLC_VS1_m PO_PLC_VS1_s PO_PLC_VS1_t	marble	Placeable 2da line #:1018 Portraits 2da line #: 2107
9. Hell Hound Head Canopic Vase Toolset Appearance: ‘CanopicDog’	PLC_VS2	PO_PLC_VS2_m PO_PLC_VS2_s PO_PLC_VS2_t	frame1	Placeable 2da line #:1019 Portraits 2da line #: 2108
10. Raven Head Canopic Vase Toolset Appearance: ‘CanopicRav’	PLC_VS3	PO_PLC_VS3_m PO_PLC_VS3_s PO_PLC_VS3_t	marbleb	Placeable 2da line #:1020 Portraits 2da line #: 2109
11. Tiger Head Canopic Vase Toolset Appearance: ‘CanopicTig’	PLC_VS4	PO_PLC_VS4_m PO_PLC_VS4_s PO_PLC_VS4_t	amber	Placeable 2da line #:1021 Portraits 2da line #: 2110
12. Black Dragon Mirror Frame without the Glass piece for use with special effects Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorFrame’	PLC_Mir4	PO_PLC_Mir4_m PO_PLC_Mir4_s PO_PLC_Mir4_t	None (uses game texture)	Placeable 2da line #:1022 Portraits 2da line #: 2111
13. Lady of the Mist Glass piece without the frame for use with special effects Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorGlass’	PLC_Mir5	PO_PLC_Mir5_m PO_PLC_Mir5_s PO_PLC_Mir5_t	mirror2 (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1023 Portraits 2da line #: 2112
14. Tutankhamen’s Sarcophagus Toolset Appearance: ‘EgyptSarco’	PLC_Tut	PO_PLC_Tut_m PO_PLC_Tut_s PO_PLC_Tut_t	Tut	Placeable 2da line #:1024 Portraits 2da line #: 2113
15. Alter with Egyptian Hieroglyphs Toolset Appearance: ‘EgyptAlter’	PLC_Ealt	PO_PLC_ Ealt _m PO_PLC_ Ealt _s PO_PLC_ Ealt _t	Ealt	Placeable 2da line #:1025 Portraits 2da line #: 2114
16. Tutankhamen’s Golden Sarcophagus Toolset Appearance: ‘EgyptSarco2’	PLC_Tut2	PO_PLC_Tut2_m PO_PLC_Tut2_s PO_PLC_Tut2_t	Tut2	Placeable 2da line #:1026 Portraits 2da line #: 2115
17. Marble and wood commode with rolled pillow back. Toolset Appearance: ‘Commode’	PLC_Can	PO_PLC_Can _m PO_PLC_Can _s PO_PLC_Can _t	Sink Marble	Placeable 2da line #:1027 Portraits 2da line #: 2116
18. Claw footed table with Chinese dragon pitcher and Basin Toolset Appearance: ‘WashBasin’	PLC_Sink	PO_PLC_Sink _m PO_PLC_Sink _s PO_PLC_Sink _t	Sink Marble BlueDragon	Placeable 2da line #:1028 Portraits 2da line #: 2117
19. Bathtub with Black Dragon spigot Toolset Appearance: ‘BathTub’	PLC_Tub	PO_PLC_Tub_m PO_PLC_Tub_s PO_PLC_Tub_t	Marble Tub_water (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1029 Portraits 2da line #: 2118
20. Joke ‘Sims’ style pee splat. Toolset Appearance: ‘PeeSplat’	PLC_Pee	PO_PLC_Pee _m PO_PLC_Pee _s PO_PLC_Pee _t	Pee (tga and txi)	Placeable 2da line #:1030 Portraits 2da line #: 2119
21. Dragon with Geese Rug Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonRugA’	PLC_RugA		Rug4_5	Placeable 2da line #:1031
22. Dragon on Cream Background Rug Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonRugB’	PLC_RugB		Rug4_5	Placeable 2da line #:1032
23. Dragon Eating Deer Rug Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonRugC’	PLC_RugC		Rug2_3	Placeable 2da line #:1033
24. Chinese 4 Cloud Dragon Rug Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonRugD’	PLC_RugD		Rug2_3	Placeable 2da line #:1034
25. Worn Caucasian Dragon Rug Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonRugE’	PLC_RugE		Rug1	Placeable 2da line #:1035
26. Dragon with Geese Tapestry Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonTapA’	PLC_TapA		Rug4_5	Placeable 2da line #:1036
27. Dragon on Cream Background Tapestry Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonTapB’	PLC_TapB		Rug4_5	Placeable 2da line #:1037
28. Dragon Eating Deer Tapestry Toolset Appearance: ‘DragonTapC’	PLC_TapC		Rug2_3	Placeable 2da line #:1038
29. Babylonian Spearmen Wall Toolset Appearance: ‘BabylonMen’	PLC_Bab1		Babylon1	Placeable 2da line #:1039
30. Babylonian Dragon Wall from Ishtar Gate Toolset Appearance: ‘BabylonDrg’	PLC__Bab2		Babylon2	Placeable 2da line #:1040
31. Babylonian Lion Wall from Ishtar Gate Toolset Appearance: ‘BabylonLeo’	PLC__Bab3		Babylon3	Placeable 2da line #:1041
32. Babylonian Ox Wall from Ishtar Gate Toolset Appearance: ‘BabylonOx’	PLC__Bab4		Babylon4	Placeable 2da line #:1042
33. Medium Celtic Cross Toolset Appearance: ‘CelticMed’	PLC_CCM	PO_PLC_cc _m PO_PLC_cc _s PO_PLC_cc _t Note: since shared with next item you must set this portrait by hand.	CelticHoly	Placeable 2da line #:1043 Portraits 2da line #: 2120
34. Huge Celtic Cross Toolset Appearance: ‘CelticHuge’	PLC_CC	PO_PLC_cc _m PO_PLC_cc _s PO_PLC_cc _t	CelticHoly	Placeable 2da line #:1044 Portraits 2da line #: 2120
35. Dragon Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag30’	PLC_FL30		flag30	Placeable 2da line #:1045
36. Snake Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag31’	PLC_FL31		flag31	Placeable 2da line #:1046
37. Tiger Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag32’	PLC_FL32		flag32	Placeable 2da line #:1047
38. Horse Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag33’	PLC_FL33		flag33	Placeable 2da line #:1048
39. Rooster Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag34’	PLC_FL34		flag34	Placeable 2da line #:1049
40. Ox Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag35’	PLC_FL35		flag35	Placeable 2da line #:1050
41. Dog Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag36’	PLC_FL36		flag36	Placeable 2da line #:1051
42. Monkey Flag Toolset Appearance: ‘Flag37’	PLC_FL37		flag37	Placeable 2da line #:1052
43. Baotou woven tiger pattern rug Toolset Appearance: ‘TigerRug’	PLC_rgt		TigerRug	Placeable 2da line #:1053
44. Monumental Sword of the Gods. Toolset Appearance: ‘GiantSword’	PLC_Sws	PO_PLC_Sws _m PO_PLC_Sws _s PO_PLC_Sws _t	Sws	Placeable 2da line #:1054 Portraits 2da line #: 2121
45. Gothic Cathedral Window – Lancet Madonna Toolset Appearance: WindowMadon	PLC_gca1		Window1	Placeable 2da line #:1055
46. Gothic Cathedral Window – Rondelle Toolset Appearance: WindowRound	PLC_gca2		Window2	Placeable 2da line #:1056
45. Gothic Cathedral Diptych, Madonna Toolset Appearance: Diptych	PLC_gca3		Diptych	Placeable 2da line #:1057
46. The Black Dragons Mirror – HotU Bioware style glass Toolset Appearance: ‘MirrorDrg’	PLC_Mir3	None use the ones for PO_PLC_Mir3 or blank.	None (uses game textures)	Placeable 2da line #:1058

2c. 2da documentation and general combining with other haks info.

To Combine with other placeables haks:

Ø You will need to make a COMBO version of the Placeables.2da, Portraits.2da (and any others that the other haks may have)

Ø If you want to make a totally new hak: Copy the MDL, PWK, PORTRAIT, and TEXTURE files as noted for each object in the table above that you want to use.

Ø Open (with NOTEPAD) my Placeables.2da and copy the lines for the object(s) you want and paste them into YOUR COMBO Placeables.2da at the bottom. Renumber column 1 and save.

Ø Repeat with Portraits.2da if desired.

Note: Never use Tab to make spaces in your 2da files. (Because BioWare says that is bad J )

Note: BioWare Requests we Reserve Lines up to 1000 in Placeable.2da for their future use and up to 2000 in Portraits.2da.

Note: Erf will no longer work once items have been moved to new lines in 2da. You will have to use the wizard to rebuild the items or edit them off the palettes.

Getting Started:

v Unzip the download file and place LisasHoldablePad.hak in your NWN/hak folder & LisasHoldHotU.erf in your NWN/erf folder.

v Open module in toolset.

v Go to EDIT – MODULE PROPERTIES and choose the custom content tab.

v Near the bottom you should see an arrow that if pressed will scroll out a list of all haks in your hak folder. Select the hak LisasHoldablePad.hak and add.

v OK the choice and the module will rebuild.

v Save your module (suggest you rotate save names just in case there is a problem).

v Quit the toolset and restart.

v HOTU users should download the "2da patch" available in a separate link on the same download page as this hak!

Now that the new items will be available for use:

v You may now import a base set that I pre-made for you (no magic properties have been added) by going up to FILE – IMPORT and choosing LisasHoldHotU.erf . Everything will be on your Custom Items Pallet under the SPECIAL-CUSTOM 1 branch. You may edit their properties, descriptions all you want.

v OR use the ITEM CREATION WIZARD to create the items (mace, mage staff, torch as needed) as you wish them to be in your module. I will assume you know how to select appearance and properties for yourself J. The Table below will aid you see column 1 for toolset appearance names.

Notes:

· If items still don’t show up – try shortening the hak file name. This one worked fine for me(in fact I had a hak with a 50 character long name and it worked) but older builds of NWN required shorter names.

· Some items were made using textures from within the game, most have my custom textures. If you are pulling individual items, open the ‘mdl’ file in notepad, search for all BITMAP lines and these will tell you what the custom texture names are that go with any given item. I used my custom textures sometimes for multiple objects. All my textures are in tga format; animated textures have corresponding ‘txi’ files. Also all of the info is in the tables below.

· All torches and weapons have two main files besides their textures, the ‘mdl’ file and corresponding inventory icon ‘tga’ file.

· Whips are new mace ‘top’ pieces only – you can use any mace middle or bottom pieces.

· Weapon Staves are new staff middles only but you must use the included ‘null’ top and bottom models.

This Hak Contains all Holdables out of these Haks:

Lisa's Little Hak for Mages
Lisa's Improved Mage & Druid Staves
Lisa's Cleric or Paladin Holy Symbols
Lisa's Cat-o-Nine Tails Stylized Whips
Lisa's Celtic Crosses – (only the holdable one)
Lisa's Standards ( or Army Flags) – (only the holdable ones)
Plus 2 previously un-released holy symbols and one holdable crystal ball (mage staff)

3b. Tables of all items with Appearance and Model names and Tons of Info.

TORCH BASED ITEMS

NOTES:

· All items labeled ‘torch’ or ‘torch wield’ are not set-up as weapons!

· All items imported with the ERF file are set up to have no properties but you may wish to add some spells and such! Directions for customizing the flags are in part 4. below. Flags and holy symbols are not weapons either. Torches can be converted to weapons by altering the proper 2da file but those directions are NOT in this file.

· When laying on the ground some of these items will appear angled or partially below ground due to the rotation to make the wield style vertical.

· Items will only be raised into proper vertical wield in the game (not in the toolset!)

· Sorry but the sound is hardcoded.

· No Changes to torch items for the HotU update

Description and Item type	Model Name with extension ‘mdl’	Inventory Texture Name with extension ‘tga’	Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’
White & Gold Mage Staff Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_006	iit_torch_006	None (uses game texture)
Tinkerbell Wand Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_007	iit_torch_007	None (uses game texture)
Red Dragon Claw holding Amethyst Crystal Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_008	iit_torch_008	w_violet_tex
Druid Tree Branch Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_009	iit_torch_009	None (uses game texture)
Cross with Yellow Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_010	iit_torch_010	w_gold_tex
Cross (no Holy Fire) Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_011	iit_torch_011	w_gold_tex
Ankh with Green Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_012	iit_torch_012	w_gold_tex
Ankh with Gold Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_013	iit_torch_013	w_gold_tex
Stone Ankh (no Holy Fire) Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_014	iit_torch_014	None (uses game texture)
Celtic Cross with Blue Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_015	iit_torch_015	celticholy
Black Power Orb with Red Energy Burst Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_016	iit_torch_016	w_dark_tex holy
Skull with Red Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_017	iit_torch_017	w_gold_tex
Balance with Cyan Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_018	iit_torch_018	w_gold_tex
Pentagram with Blue Holy Fire Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_019	iit_torch_019	w_gold_tex w_black_tex
Lightening Bolt with Lightening Effect Holy Symbol Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_020	iit_torch_020	w_black_tex
Standard (Flag) Dragon Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_030	iit_torch_030	Flag30
Standard (Flag) Snake Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_031	iit_torch_031	Flag31
Standard (Flag) Tiger Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_032	iit_torch_032	Flag32
Standard (Flag) Horse Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_033	iit_torch_033	Flag33
Standard (Flag) Rooster Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_034	iit_torch_034	Flag34
Standard (Flag) Ox Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_035	iit_torch_035	Flag35
Standard (Flag) Dog Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_036	iit_torch_036	Flag36
Standard (Flag) Monkey Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_037	iit_torch_037	Flag37
Heraldry Trumpet with Fleur de lis-a J banner. Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_040	iit_torch_040	Flag40
Violin – posed for female stances, F on icon Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_041	iit_torch_041	violin
Violin – posed for male stances M on icon, Non-Weapon (torch)	it_torch_042	iit_torch_042	violin

MACE BASED ITEMS:

NOTES:

· Whip is purely for style and made long before whips were added to the game as actual weapons – I am removing all but one variation (the plain one) and it will go once someone makes a real Cat'O Nine Tails for the whips :)

· You may use any middle or bottom from the mace selections for the handles.

· Erf file imports are set-up with no magic properties.

Description and Item type

Model Name with extension ‘mdl’

Inventory Texture Name with extension ‘tga’

Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’

Cat o’Nine Tales Stylized Whip

done as Mace top.

wblml_t_014

iwblml_t_014

w_black_tex

Staff Based Items: This table lists normal mage staff items I have added a new class of weapons that are the game thinks are mage staffs. I did not edit files that could not be contained in a hak – so when using the toolset item wizard, the regular staffs are the first “mage staff” choice and my addon one appears second as another “mage staff” choice.

NOTES:

· Because of stance differences between female and males there are two versions of the staves. However, female halforcs and dwarves have male stances.

· Erf file imported versions have no magic properties but I suggest you add a few.

· The Staves are meant to be weapons.

· The musical instruments & crystal ball are not meant to be used as weapons (lthough technically they are) but to be held upright I needed to make them staves.

· All of these are MIDDLE section only models which must be paired with the true NULL model top and bottom sections for staves.

· When laying on the ground some of these items will appear angled or partially below ground due to the rotation to make the wield style vertical.

· Items will only be raised into proper vertical wield in the game (not in the toolset!)

Description and Item type	Model Name with extension ‘mdl’	Inventory Texture Name with extension ‘tga’	Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’ (sometimes ‘txi’ as noted)
Red Dragon Claw holding Amethyst Crystal Mage Staff – Weapon Angled to suit female poses	wmgst_m_071	iwmgst_m_071	w_violet_tex
Red Dragon Claw holding Gold Crystal Mage Staff – Weapon Angled to suit male poses	wmgst_m_072	iwmgst_m_072	w_gold_tex
Druid Branch Mage Staff – Weapon Angled to suit female poses	wmgst_m_081	iwmgst_m_081	None (uses game texture)
Druid Branch Mage Staff – Weapon Angled to suit female poses	wmgst_m_082	iwmgst_m_082	None (uses game texture)
Null Top MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wmgst_t_014	iwmgst_t_014	NONE
Null Bottom MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wmgst_b_014	iwmgst_b_014	NONE

Accessories as Secondary “Lisa” Staff Based Items:

This table lists my new addon mage staff items - I have added a new class of weapons that are the game thinks are mage staffs – but your weapon specializations and feats do not apply to these. I did not edit files that could not be contained in a hak – so when using the toolset item wizard, the regular staffs are the first “mage staff” choice and my addon one appears second as another “mage staff” choice. Please note that I padded the baseitems.2da for compliance with BioWare future addons. I added a line at 211 for these to function. I may move some of my other non-staff staffs here at a later time.

v Note: items will not be held correctly in the toolset, only in the game!

Description and Item type	Model Name with extension ‘mdl’	Inventory Texture Name with extension ‘tga’	Custom Textures Used with extension ‘tga’ (sometimes ‘txi’ as noted)
Holdable Swaddled Baby	wLisa_m_011	iwLisa_m_014	babyblanket
Held Gold Crystal Ball Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_017	iwLisa_m_017	Gold (both tga and txi)
Tambourine with ribbons Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_021	iwLisa_m_021	Tamb
Lyre Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_022	iwLisa_m_022	lyre
Lute Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_023	iwLisa_m_023	lute
Pan Pipes Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_024	iwLisa_m_024	pipes
Guitar Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_025	iwLisa_m_025	guitar
Violin Bow Mage Staff – Weapon	wLisa_m_026	iwLisa_m_026	violin
Null Top MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wLisa_t_011	iwLisa_t_014	NONE
Null Bottom MUST be used with all Mage Staffs Above	wLisa_b_014	iwLisa_b_014	NONE

3c. 2da documentation and general combining with other haks info.

The 2da files in this zip were made to fit HotU 1.61

Most likely you will need to adjust them to your own uses if you combine with other haks.

Biggest problem with these items is they don’t use ‘reserved line’ padded 2da’s which means that if Expansion Packs and Combo Packs include new torches, new staves, or new maces, you will have to rename the models and redo the other property containing 2da’s. This means you will have to remake the whole pack not just the 2da files.

To explain:

Torches can have any number and need not be in any particular order. Right now Bioware only has one torch item – their torch!

I numbered non-weapon mage staffs in this pack as Torch 6 to 9.

I numbered holy symbols in this pack as Torch 10 to 20.

I numbered flags in this pack as torch 30-37.

Weapons are even messier. These must be consecutive ordered or they will not show up and there is currently no way to reserve slots for weapons that don’t exist that BioWare might make. GOOD NEWS – with the newer versions of NWN this consecutive numbering is no longer manditory!

I have placed my whip on mace heads, but other mace altering haks or expansion paks could conflict.

I have placed new weapon mage staves on mage stave middles to be used with a null top and bottom. I have numbered them to not conflict with any of my other mage staff based items (Parasols, fans, and crystal ball) However, other staff altering haks or expansion paks could interfere (Although, I put Parasols and fans in my Clothes Hak and they will not interfere.)

Here are some tips/directions when updating or combining:

o Pull the 2da files from this hak. Suggest put in a folder marked ‘old’

o Pull the matching 2da files from your combo hak or new patch/expansion.

o Make the changes below using notepad, save and replace into the hak overwrite the old versions in the hak.

I. Changes for Baseitems.2da:

Replace the lines 44,45, and 46 with the lines from my hak. If you have new columns you will have to adjust for that too.

Padded to line 210 (Bioware requests padding to 200 for their future projects)

Added line 211 for my custom mage staff held items – feats and weapon specializations do not apply even though the game lists these as a second category of mage staff in the toolset item wizard.

SUMMARY OF WHAT MY CHANGES DO:

Changes in line 45 allow staffs to have fewer than 3 properties.

Changes in line 44 and 46 allow you to equip if you like, rods and wands (whose models are just BioWares and were already in the game just not made equipable.)

Line 211 is for holdable items using the staff wield that are not really intended to be weapons (such as holdable baby.)

II. Changes for iprp_spells.2da:

Go nearly all the way to the right and find the WandUse column.

Go down the column: Change 0 to 1 for spells you want to put on wands. I don't change lines containing **** or any ‘0’ lines that have no spell listed in the column to the right.

Note: can't just copy and paste in a column in notepad.

SUMMARY OF WHAT MY CHANGES DO:

Allow you to make wands containing any spells rather than only limited ones.

III. Changes for itemprops.2da:

Go over to column 20_Torch, go down the column and make it match the

column to its right, 21_gloves.

SUMMARY OF WHAT MY CHANGES DO:

Allows you to add magical properties to ‘torch’ based items otherwise you could only make them have ‘light’.

4. How to change the Logo on the flags (Placeable and Holdable)

Note:

Requires you to be able to use a paint program that does 32bit uncompressed TGA images.

I. Making the actual Banner LOGO:

1. Make a square tga with your logo centered, the entire square will be the flag image.

2. Size it to 128 by 128 pixels exactly.

3. Save this as Flag30.tga

4. Replace the Flag30.tga that came with the hak with yours.

II. Making a new inventory icon:

1. Open the flag image you just made and resize to 25 by 68 pixels exactly.

2. Open MY current image iit_torch_030.tga

3. Copy your 26x68 flag image and paste it over the old flag part of the image

in iit_torch_030.tga

4. Save the new inventory picture as iit_torch_030.tga

III. Repeat for flags 31 to 37 if desired.

IV. Now make a new hak with your new tga files

either replacing the original ones or making it a new hak with higher priority than either of mine and the banners will have your personalized logo instead.