meyou123 on 18/5/2014 at 14:56
OK I was given instructions on how to change the starting loot requirement to an amount I wanted, but I am not sure how to save it permenantly? You see I changed it in dromed, by following these instructions from ricebug
If You Haven't Begun the Mission
1. Open the mission. (Typically, something like miss20.mis.)
2. Go to Editors/Mission Quest Data.
3. Double-click the particular loot you want to change.
4. Change the number in the Value field and press Enter.
5. Save the mission.
If You've Already Begun the Mission (And don't feel like starting over)
1. Do a quick-save, exit the game, and open it in Dromed.
2. Click in the larger empty black square in the lower right and type edit_load_game saves\quick.sav
3. Repeat steps 2 - 4 above.
4. Click once again in the empty black square and now type edit_save_game saves\quick.sav
5. When you fire up Thief, you'll see From Editor at the bottom, which is your modified quick save. Click on it and away you go!
But..... I cannot seem to be able to save and zip it up... and then load another FM then go BACK and install this FM and have it back at 10 because even though I save miss20.miss as 10 in dromed for my loot objective for example in lady lisas harbor...it still goes BACK to the original loot objective. Which is 10,000. Is there anyway to make that number I picked permenant? I save miss.20.miss in dromed and when I make changes to weapons for example I simply copy over that mission I just saved and every other file that originally went with it and re-zip and it works if I have picked out new weapons for example. Whatever I changed in dromed like weapons, etc. seem to stay that way if I keep the files I edited for that particular FM. But it does not seem to do that for the original loot objective?
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
ZylonBane on 18/5/2014 at 15:26
It certainly wouldn't hurt if you used the correct file extension.
meyou123 on 18/5/2014 at 23:03
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
It certainly wouldn't hurt if you used the correct file extension.
Explain what you mean? I don't understand.
Do you mean the miss20.miss? Is that better? Great now how about giving me a REAL hand and help me understand what I am doing wrong? I just typed that miss.20.miss myself....hopefully everyone else except YOU understood what I was saying!
Talk about picky.
Yandros on 19/5/2014 at 03:53
It should be saved as miss20.mis, not .miss, is what he was referring to.
Ricebug on 20/5/2014 at 11:59
If you're wanting to permanently change a loot requirement, option 1 is the one to pick. Just drag your changed/saved mission into the zip package, where it will overwrite the old one. Done. In 5 years, when you replay that mission, your new loot requirement will be there. You also may want to consider altering the text in the goals.str, if there is any.
Pay no attention to ZB. He's never made a Thief mission and he carries this sharp little knife around with him, liking to stick it in at every opportunity.
fibanocci on 20/5/2014 at 12:20
Ricebug, you didn't understand. The spelling is wrong, ZB's right at this point.
Quote:
... and then load another FM then go BACK and install this FM and have it back at 10 because even though I save miss20.miss as 10 in dromed
Whatever that means, it's wrong. You can't save the original miss20.mis as "10" or something. Save it as miss20.mis. miss20 has a Dark Mission Description as "miss20" (mission number: 20, mission pathname: miss20). You'll need to change ths, too, if you want DromEd to load miss 10 (or whatever).
Ricebug on 20/5/2014 at 15:43
Read the original post. The writer spelled it right the first time but not later. Looks like a spelling spoof to me.
I think '10' is referring to the "new" loot requirement, not the filename.
ZylonBane on 20/5/2014 at 17:00
Quote Posted by Ricebug
Read the original post. The writer spelled it right the first time but not later. Looks like a spelling spoof to me.
He's referred to miss20's full filename five times-- as "miss20.mis" when talking about the original file, then twice as "miss20.miss" when referring to what he's saving it as, and as "miss20.miss" twice more in his next post. Given some of the head-slapping ways we've seen people screw up missions over the last decade, and this guy's propensity for typos, it is not in the least improbable that his changes are seeming to disappear because he's saving the mission under the wrong name. Not that there aren't a dozen other things that could be going wrong either.
So, off the high horse with you.
