KotOR and KotOR2 Savegame Editor (KSE) - Current Version: 3.3.3 - Page 12

svösh · 03-10-2005, 12:01 PM

Man another great release, I can hardly keep up

As always TK a huge Thanks for all the work you put in to KSE and all your great tools, and taking the time to code for a bunch of insane

gamers and moders.

TK

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svösh

*tk102* · 03-10-2005, 12:27 PM

@winzgro: Do you have a custom spells.2da in your override?

@Tianhou_Zhong & keebster: I'm still investigating these influence/goodevil interactions. Your feedback is important as are any experimental data you produce.

@svösh:

popnole · 03-10-2005, 06:41 PM

Love the editor, but I would like to know if there is a way to allow the editor to grab custom items from sub-folders of the override folder.

*tk102* · 03-10-2005, 06:45 PM

No. Subfolders are currently a can of worms to me. Shall I scour subfolders looking for custom .2da files as well? What if I find more than one with the same name? Can I be sure that I am finding the same one that Obsidian is detecting?

I don't think it is too much to ask players to simply move .uti and .2da files into their Override root folder, perform KSE edits, and then move back. Otherwise I'm just setting myself up for bug reports that I'm innocent of.

popnole · 03-10-2005, 07:00 PM

That makes sense. I'm new to modding and just found out about the use of sub-folders, sorry about the newbie question.

*tk102* · 03-10-2005, 07:08 PM

v3.2.6 released

Evidently 3.2.5 didn't completely cause TSL to recognize the name change -- upon start up a character with a new name was still grouped in with the old savegames that had a different name. And the portrait shown would say the old name. The problem was described in this thread.

I do believe v3.2.6 should fix that problem.
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@popnole: Oops I'm sorry I didn't mean for that to come off as blunt as I now see it. What I meant to say is Welcome to the Forums

keebster · 03-10-2005, 07:49 PM

This is my first time to really use a save editor so i dont know too much about this. what is did befor this was change the .ini file around but that gets old and dont have that many things that you can do in it. if i can help in anyway just tell me something to go after and i can tear the files up and look for some stuff i dont mind to mess up the files now sence i am about to reinstall kotor2 anyway ive got sooo many gliches with it anyway. heh i cant even play for more than like 45 min. with out the thing frezzing, crashing, or rebooting my systeme so anything i can do just tell me.

Midgetman · 03-11-2005, 12:02 PM

I'm having a problem with the editor.

I want to change my influence. Whenever I expand my save and then click NPC it gives me this weird error.

Error msg: Can't locate utf8.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pdk-Owner-320\C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\KotOR Save Game Editor) at PerlApp/Bioware/ERF.pm line 181. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

Then I click ok and another one comes up!!!

Tk::Widget::Callback at /PerlApp/Tk/Widget.pm line 1079
Tk::Tree::IndicatorCMD at /PerlApp/Tk/Tree.pm line 77
Tk::Widget::Callback at /PerlApp/Tk/Widget.pm line 1080
Tk::HList::ButtonRelease1 at /PerlApp/Tk?HList.pm line 282
Tk::HList::ButtonRelease_1 at /PerlApp/Tk?HList.pm line 98

I click Ok again and it goes back to the screen and NPC is shown as expanded but there's nothing under it. Please Help!!!

*tk102* · 03-11-2005, 01:01 PM

@midgetman: (Using PM)

@keebster: You might want to try posting the problems you're having in the Work Bench Forum since it sounds like general problems you're having, not KSE-related ones.

WLHopkins · 03-11-2005, 02:18 PM

TK, I am experiencing the exact same error message as Midgetman. Is there something I need to do? Is this because I originally used ver. 3.06?

I also notice it doesn't do this with a new game, but with a game already in progress, it is useless, in terms of editing or accessing the NPC's selection without that error message. Thanks though for the great tool, everything else is AWESOME!!!

Hive · 03-11-2005, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by WLHopkins
TK, I am experiencing the exact same error message as Midgetman.

So am I...

Midgetman · 03-11-2005, 03:15 PM

Ok I got it to work. I used KSEA instead.

Hive · 03-11-2005, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Midgetman
Ok I got it to work. I used KSEA instead.

Ah yes, that helped.

Is it possible to use custom soundfiles? I added some to the StreamSounds folder, but I cannot seem to assign them to my NPC...

*tk102* · 03-11-2005, 06:06 PM

v3.2.6 is withdrawn until I can recompile it at home.

*tk102* · 03-11-2005, 11:08 PM

Done. KSE v3.2.6 is functional once again and the download link has been reinstated.

Hybris · 03-12-2005, 12:31 AM

The man with many guns is back for now at least.

Sorry that I have been gone for awhile but I have working my but off tring to get my computer upgraded in time for Kotor2 and geting the money needed to get the game in the first place.

now back to the subject

tk it's nice to see that somethings will stay (other than our troops in irag) the way they were ment to be. In other words the editor sounds great and I will give feed back as soon as possible.

P.S. it's also nice to see that kittiy is back.

Zer0DazE · 03-12-2005, 12:49 PM

possible bug i didnt see listed in the readme.
with the new release, when i edit NPC stats i get a bad save error on the xbox.

*tk102* · 03-12-2005, 01:12 PM

@zerodaze:
My ability to troubleshoot xbox problems is very limited since I don't have one myself. I assume you followed all the instructions correctly, so the next thing to do is to make a file called kse.log in the same directory as KSE. Then try to perform the exact same edits. Send the log file and the results of whether the xbox rejected the savegame to the email address in the readme.txt.

@Hybris: Haven't seen Kitty Kitty in about 6 months.

Zer0DazE · 03-12-2005, 03:05 PM

yep, followed the ish to a T.

tried a bunch of stuff, and the only time it would crap out is when changing the attributes (and force powers, but thats listed as a bug)

anywho, i will email that file off to you tonight.

if you need someone to test xbox stuff for you, i have no problem helping out.
(catch me on aim its in my profile)

keebster · 03-12-2005, 11:00 PM

k ill try over there all my save's are now bad messed up so i started over.

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beancounter · 03-13-2005, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tk102
Done. KSE v3.2.6 is functional once again and the download link has been reinstated.

Nice work TK! I just used this for the first time with TSL and I like it a lot. I am also glad you include your source Perl file. Even though I do not use Perl, it really makes you appreciate how much work went into the program.

Hive · 03-13-2005, 05:14 AM

Hmmm.... how come you can't add/remove NPCs, but only change how the present ones look?

*tk102* · 03-13-2005, 11:36 AM

@Hive: Maybe someday I'll add that functionality. I suspect it would cause more problems than it solves however.

@beancounter:

The code distributed is about 1/3 of the code... What you see does not include the modules that to be written to read/write GFF, ERF, 2DA, TLK, and BIF/KEY files.

Lorden Darkblade · 03-13-2005, 08:23 PM

Tk today I decided to organize my Override folder.
I putted all MODs in their folders except the .2da files.
i have a question tho, is the KSE supposed to NOT look into the folder for additional items?
Cuz it didnt, I have the 3.6.2 version.

*tk102* · 03-13-2005, 08:46 PM

@Uchiha Itachi: (you mean the 3.2.6 version). KSE will not read subfolders in the Override folder. Here is the excerpt from kse-readme.txt that I recently added:

Quote:

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Override Folder: Subdirectories NOT supported
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Although TSL supports subdirectories in the Override folder, KSE does not. Too often,
there are two or more files that are named the same and KSE would have to make some arbritrary decision as to which one to use. Inevitably this will generate bug reports because the end-user expected the other file to be used by KSE. So to save us both that grief, if you wish to add custom items to your inventory or use some custom 2da file, you will need to make sure that you copy those custom files into your override root folder, perform your KSE edits, then remove them. (Note that KotOR also does not recognize subdirectories.)

Lorden Darkblade · 03-13-2005, 09:11 PM

I'm not much of a readme reader LOL

Sorry, I was just checking to see if it was not a bug.

KyleMAD · 03-14-2005, 03:58 AM

Hey all! This is a really great effort.

I encountered a problem in my game of kotor 2... I accidentally sided with the wrong faction on Onderon and only realised after completing Nar Shaddar... is there any way to rectify this problem?

I checked out the savegame editor (great work man) but im not sure if there's any option for changing the status of quests - the commands look really intimidating. So if anyone could chime in, help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

KyleMAD · 03-14-2005, 04:10 AM

YAY! I found the numeric value I needed to change! Thx anyway.

Oxygen81 · 03-14-2005, 07:47 PM

Maybe I’m blind..or just plain stupid. But when I use the Ksea I can’t find a way to enable/disable (force) powers. I just get the “feat powers” list up in ksea (even when I mark the box “show all feat/powers”). Help anyone?

KyleMAD · 03-14-2005, 08:27 PM

Hey man, it's under 'Classes'. Then enter your class and there'll be a 'Force Powers' tree.

Oxygen81 · 03-15-2005, 10:59 AM

thanx dude =)

Darkkender · 03-15-2005, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tk102
@Hive: Maybe someday I'll add that functionality. I suspect it would cause more problems than it solves however.

I suspect that this would have to be relatively complex for KSE anyways due to the fact that the NPC's are added to your party via scripting with the internal scripting program which are firing during the game. Also changing before and after global and numeric booleans don't add the party members so this would make it much more difficult I suspect.

However TK I could send you a compilation of save files if it would help you to check file variables to compare to.

*tk102* · 03-15-2005, 12:19 PM

The way I envisioned it, would be to read in the p_*.utc file of the NPC to recruit from templates.bif and then modify it as necessary to make a AVAILNPC*.utc file that would be tucked into the savegame. Then modify the partytable.res to make sure that NPC is marked as available and selectable.

Darkkender · 03-15-2005, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tk102
The way I envisioned it, would be to read in the p_*.utc file of the NPC to recruit from templates.bif and then modify it as necessary to make a AVAILNPC*.utc file that would be tucked into the savegame. Then modify the partytable.res to make sure that NPC is marked as available and selectable.

Oh, wait I get it.

I guess this is what I get for piping up eh.

*tk102* · 03-15-2005, 12:25 PM

There are probably quite a few globals to deal with too... but I always leave those to the end-user.

KyleMAD · 03-15-2005, 09:59 PM

heya all, I was wondering if you guys could lend aid here...

I've finished all the planets, and managed to get Atton, Bao-Dur and Mira to become jedi.

However, the Handmaiden is stubborn as a donkey... keeps saying 'Why are you here?' and all the conversation choices lead to 'stay with her then'...

I used the savegame editor to up my influence over her to 100 and adjusted the global numerics 'Hand_angry' & 'Hand_final' to zero.

This managed to get me back to the 'Why are you here part'.... but as far as i know, there is no way to backtrack even more in the game...

Is there any way that the savegame editor can change some values to get her to be amicable again?

Please help.

*tk102* · 03-16-2005, 01:51 AM

@KyleMAD: Please see this thread, and post your questions there.

KyleMAD · 03-16-2005, 02:13 AM

hey man, thx alot! I'm eternally grateful!

hus · 03-16-2005, 05:16 PM

hello,
is it possible to make a light weigth version of this tool for xbox users who doesnt have 2da.bif and other required files? maybe able to change things that posibbly wouldnt need bif files like name, ability points, money, xp, etc?

it looks like a great tool, but i don't have access to those required files since my xbox is not modded.
thanks in advance.

Lakario · 03-18-2005, 06:29 AM

I was wondering if there was a method by which I could copy-paste directives from one save to another? I lost some important data well tooling around (i.e. an NPC) and I'd rather like him back. The HK-47 has disappeared entirely off my ship and he is no longer in "NPCs" but I do have a copy of him in a very old, corrupted save.

Cheers.