NWNX modification of CopyItemAndModify?

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Haven't found it yet if there is one, but if not...

Could someone make a small NWNX plugin (Windows) that replaces or modifies the hardcoded CopyItemAndModify script function to allow the color value for 3-part items (such as weapons) to stretch from 0-9 (instead of the built in 1-4)?

Currently, the function changes any value under 1 to 1, and any value over 4 to 4. This makes it impossible to script changes to weapon models that use extra appearances ("colors" 0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). The changes can be made directly in the toolset, but not via scripting.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Don't know if this will help or not, but Lightfoot8 posted some locations for a value for this. I'm not a programmer, so it does me no good personally.

From the BSN forums:

[Terra_777]

This might be what you're looking for: http://terrahnet.no-ip.org/nwnx/memory%20editor%20plugin/nwnx_mem_func.nss

All files needed can be found here

Above is pure memory editing and was more intended for development purposes so use with caution as its purely memory editing and could proper screw over stuff if done wrong.

I believe that nwnx_funcs has something similar aswell but I'm unsure how to use it, find it here: http://www.nwnx.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1535 it should be the safer out of the two though.

If you do go for the nwnx alternative which alters the memory you can force the item appearance to update by first setting their numbers with the memory altering functions and then copy the item with nwn standard function. Which would emulate what you're trying to do only that you can do more then one edit on the item before copying it.
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[The Amethyst Dragon]

Thanks for the response, Terra_777.

Unfortunately, neither memory editor nor nwnx_funcs has what I'm looking for. The memory editor one could possibly work for armor (followed by a CopyItem run), but doesn't have a function for altering parts of weapons or other 3-part items. nwnx_funcs can change some things like stack sizes and values, but nothing for changing item parts.

[Terra_777]

Well its only one byte you want changed so here you go:

http://terrahnet.no-ip.org/terra/nwnx_minipatch.rar

Just dump the dll in your nwn folder and its done. It changes your 04 byte to FF instead which should set the cap to 255 instead but I couldn't test it so be careful.
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[The Amethyst Dragon]

Thanks! I'll test it out sometime today and let you know if it works out.

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Copied the nwnx_minipatch.dll over to my server's NWN directory and restarted NWNX2 and the server software.

Nothing changed in-game. Checked the logs, found this in the nwnx.txt log....

[Terra_777]

mini patch is compiled using nwnx v 2.7-b4 which is the newest one which includes the GetObject hook.

If that doesnt do it then you might need the newest C++ runtimes as the plugin was compiled in vs2012.
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[The Amethyst Dragon]

Using that version of NWNX. Downloaded and installed C++ runtimes (2012, x86 version for XP).

Same result.

[Terra_777]

I'm not entirely sure what you're missing then since I wasn't able to replicate it myself.

Did the plugin create a logfile? Not writing anything to it so it should be empty.
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[The Amethyst Dragon]

No log file for nwnx_minipatch.

Can anybody else test this and see if they can get it to work? Maybe I'm just missing some minor thing I need to do to get it to load up like all the other plugins.

[Terra_777]

Did you update all the dlls from the package? Only thing I could think off is that something is out of date. Could possibly try to compile it yourself or get someone to help you with it using an older compiler then vs2012.
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[Terra_777]

Try this: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Other.Detail&id=1543

Recompiled it with different settings.
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[The Amethyst Dragon]

Thanks! I'll test it tonight or tomorrow.

[The Amethyst Dragon]

Unfortunately, I got the same result in the nwnx.txt log as before, and the plugin doesn't load for me on my Windows XP server.

I get the same result and error message trying to get your nwnx_cool plugin to work.