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[tomkaz]

Hi All:

 

I am a novice at WeiDU and mod programming but have a background with other programming languages.  Now, I am starting to teach myself how mods are created.

 

I ran a Change-Log on  SPWI313.spl and am confused by one part of the result.  Here is the Change-Log result:

 

Mods affecting SPWI313.SPL:

00000: ~BG2FIXPACK/SETUP-BG2FIXPACK.TP2~ 0 0 // BG2 Fixpack - Core Fixes: v10 (BWP Fixed to v11 Alpha 1)

00001: ~SPELL_REV/SETUP-SPELL_REV.TP2~ 0 20 // Mirror Image Fix: v3.1 (Hotfix 03)

00002: ~IWDIFICATION/SETUP-IWDIFICATION.TP2~ 0 30 // IWD Arcane Spell Pack: Beta 2 BWP Fix

00003: ~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ 0 1000 // Initialise mod (all other components require this): v30 BWP Fix

00004: /* acted upon in an indetectable manner */~GENERALIZED_BIFFING/GENERALIZED_BIFFING.TP2~ 0 0 // Generalized Biffing: v2.2 BWP Fix

00005: /* acted upon in an indetectable manner */~GENERALIZED_BIFFING/GENERALIZED_BIFFING.TP2~ 0 0 // Generalized Biffing: v2.2 BWP Fix

 

With 00000:, 00001:, and 00003:, I can search the corresponding .TP2 files and find code that refers to either SPWI313 or Skull Trap.  So that I understand.

 

With 00002: the file  SETUP-IWDIFICATION.TP2 has no reference to either SPWI313 or Skull Trap.  Yet, the SPWI313.spl file can be found in the folder ...IWDIFICATION/Backup/30/.

 

Just wondering how the SPWI313.spl file is transfered to the backup folder if the SETUP-IWDIFICATION.TP2 file does not instruct WeiDU to do that.

 

Tom

[The Imp]

With 00002: the file  SETUP-IWDIFICATION.TP2 has no reference to either SPWI313 or Skull Trap.  Yet, the SPWI313.spl file can be found in the folder ...IWDIFICATION/Backup/30/.

That's because you failed to read the line 110:

INCLUDE ~iwdification/lib/common_spell.tpa~

That file is executed when the component is ran... so you have to open the file... and it refers to all the spell files in line 124:

      COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP GLOB ~^.+\.spl$~ ~override~
        READ_LONG  0x64 abil_off
... 

... in short the function adds an effect to nearly all the .spl files, so they can be detected by a script or something... if I read it correctly(I could be off by miles too).

Edited by The Imp, 25 February 2016 - 07:26 AM.