Jan's Armor

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:03 am

Is there a way to change Jan's armor so that it looks like a robe?
(Robes look great on him)

Galmar · Post by **Galmar** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:47 pm

shouldnt be too hard, just extract the armor with shadowkeeper so it goes into the override folder (if it says to overwrite say NO and go into the override file and copy the file onto desktop).

Then you just open it up in IEEP and fiddle armor with it, then place the file back into your override file, you might want to save a copy of the original first however.

If i had bg installed id do it for you now (ea technical support are screwing me around telling me to uninstall everything). I might install it later, if i do ill do it for you and attach the itm file to this thread.

Numinor · Post by **Numinor** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:13 pm

That's the way to go:

Run Shadowkeeper and search for the armor, then hit "Extract" and the file NPARM.itm will be created in your override folder.

Now run Infinity Engine Explorer and use the Item Maker to open NPARM.itm.
On the right side is a dropdown menu called "Paper Doll" which is currently set to "Leather Armor". Change that to Robe Type #1, #2 or #3 and save the file back to your override folder. That should do it, I'll test if it works when I have the time

Numinor · Post by **Numinor** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 2:25 pm

Ok, here's the modified armor. I had to use WinZip so I could use the the forum's upload function, so you'll have to unzip it into your override after you've downloaded it.
The appearance is currently set to Robe Type #3, if you don't like that you can change it the way I described above, or I can do it for you

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:22 pm

Thanks!!!!! (I'm not realy familiar with the Engine so I dont think i would have gotten it myself)

I'm gonna try it as soon as I get home (I have the good habbit of letting my parants do my laundry in the weekends (as well as suply me with a weekload of vitamins

))

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:43 am

I had no idea it was so simple to edit an item! Finally my Blackblood looks like a Club on the inventory screen instead of a Mace! And the Robe of Vecna has a hood, looking far cooler than before. Thanks!

About the Robes, I have found the place where to edit colors. However, which color is represented by which number? If, for example, I want to make a completely black robe, how to edit?

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:08 am

Originally posted by Astafas
About the Robes, I have found the place where to edit colors. However, which color is represented by which number? If, for example, I want to make a completely black robe, how to edit?

If you have IEEP, theres also a "Known Color Gradients for Baldur's Gate".

You can find it when you do the following:
Change Equiping Effects -> Set Item colours -> Click to Edit Parameters -> Colour gradient Scheme (at the top)

WARNING: It is in hexidecimal but just renumber it in decimal starting from 0.

Hope this helps

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:43 am

Thanks Sytze, I have now found the known colors! However, I have no clue how these hexidecimals work... How do I renumber them?

1Bh for example is silver, how do I come to that conclusion? (If this takes a matematician to understand, I can tell you right now that there is no need to explain...)

Fer'or · Post by **Fer'or** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:27 am

I can't find anything that even looks like Item Maker, a dropdown menu on the rightside, or something called "Paper Doll"

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:30 am

Originally posted by Fer'or
I can't find anything that even looks like Item Maker, a dropdown menu on the rightside, or something called "Paper Doll"

Have you downloaded and installed IEEP then?

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:48 am

Originally posted by Astafas
Thanks Sytze, I have now found the known colors! However, I have no clue how these hexidecimals work... How do I renumber them?

1Bh for example is silver, how do I come to that conclusion? (If this takes a matematician to understand, I can tell you right now that there is no need to explain...)

Did u print out the colour scheme??
Id advise you to do that.

And then just start from the beginning (so "Red Tinted Black"=0 "Dark Bronze"=1 "Dark Gold"=2 "Light Gold"=4, etc. So your 1Bh silver would be number 27 I think)

Just keep numbering till the end.

However, if you ask me how to get different colours of silver from the same number.....I really have no idea. Maybe you should check a suit of shiny

p) armor from the game, and check what kind of number(s) a certain colour has....

Fer'or · Post by **Fer'or** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:52 am

Originally posted by Astafas
Have you downloaded and installed IEEP then?

I have "Infinity Explorer v0.75" from the ScourceForge. Is that the correct one?

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:56 am

Originally posted by Fer'or
I have "Infinity Explorer v0.75" from the ScourceForge. Is that the correct one?

You can use that to extract items from the game.

To edit those extracted items you need:
Infinity Engine Editor Pro v1.0.9 Build 40 (its 2.27 MB)

This can be found here:
http://www.teambg.net/?page=tools/basiccustomizing

Fer'or · Post by **Fer'or** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:07 am

Thanks a lot!

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:43 am

Thanks Sytze!

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:55 am

Hey, np

I never edited an item before Sojourner made one for me and explained everything from A to Z. I really owe her one.
Making ure own item really takes time I discovered.

Galmar · Post by **Galmar** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 8:56 am

Alot of people prefer that DLTCEP that can be found over at http://www.team.bg (do a search on the forum) but i prefer IEEP any day, takes a little getting used to, but you get a better understanding of things.

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:47 pm

I'm having problems with editing colors to (jsut started to try some editing myself)

I want to change to color of the robe of vecna to either red or blue instead of that brightgreen.

How do i do this exactly?

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:55 pm

Originally posted by Stilgar
I'm having problems with editing colors to (jsut started to try some editing myself)

I want to change to color of the robe of vecna to either red or blue instead of that brightgreen.

How do i do this exactly?

what i did was to look in near infinity for the color schemes of the robe of neutral arch magi...then copy them down, and editied the color value of the robe of vecna...

its a slider, so once you have the 3 sets of numbers written down, its easy to make the robe of vecna look like the robe of archmagi...

the best part of doing it this way is that by simply changing the color scheme of the paper doll for your character, the robe will look different, with the grey trim of the robe of neutral archmagi, or the gold trim of the robe of good archmagi, or the red trim of the robe of evil archmagi...

Galmar · Post by **Galmar** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:23 pm

Could check this link How to Use the Color Gradient.But the easist way is to look in the IEEP folder in the start menu, and you should have a file under help files named ColorGradients.mht.

It looks like this (but it has GIF examples).

00 Red Tinted Black
01 Dark Bronze
02 Dark Gold
03 Light Gold
04 Auburn
05 Light Silver
06 Dark Silver
07 Light Metallic Green
08 Dark Muddish Brown
09 Light Muddish Brown
0A Light Pure Gold
0B Light Rose Red
0C Light Carnation Pink
0D Light Pure Silver
0E Dark Pure Silver
0F Easter Green
10 Silverish Gold
11 Light Blue
12 Dark Blue
13 Dark Rose Red
14 Dark Moldy Green
15 Dark Iron Grey
16 Dark Brown
17 Light Copper
18 Dark Gold
19 Dark Pure Gold
1A Wood
1B Silver
1C Dark Ghostly Greyish Silver
1D Red Tinted Black
1E Light Iron Grey
1F Light Sea Blue
20 Dark Sea Green
21 Dark Metallic Purple
22 Ghostly Green
23 Dark Ghostly Pink
24 Light Dirty Yellow
25 Dark Dirty Yellow
26 Light Dirtish Brown
27 Dark Dirtish Brown
28 Dark Dirty Copper
29 Dark Brown
2A Light Blurry Grey
2B Dark Blurry Grey
2C Light Purple
2D Dark Purple
2E Light Red
2F Dark Red
30 Light Bronze
31 Dark Broze
32 Dark Yellow
33 Dark Olive Green
34 Light Green
35 Dark Green
36 Darker Green
37 Light Sea Blue
38 Dark Sea Blue
39 Light Blue
3A Dark Blue
3B Light Purple
3C Dark Purple
3D Light Flowery Purple
3E Dark Flowery Purple
3F Light Grey
40 Dark Grey
41 Another Dark Grey
42 Faded Black(Char. Color)
43 Golden Mac And Cheese
44 Light Metallic Blue
45 Light Minty Green
46 Light Metallic Red
47 Frost Blue
48 Steel Grey
49 Christmas Green
4A Pure White
4B Pure Black
4C Pure Red
4D Pure Green (Invisible for Icon)
4E Pure Blue
4F Light Silver
50 Dark Bronze
51 Faded Gold
52 Dark Metallic Blue
53 Dark Adamantite Grey
54 Peachy
55 21 Carat Gold
56 Chrome Green
57 Dark Poopy Brown
58 Chrome Pink
59 Metallic Pink
5A Moldy Gold
5B Dark Chocolate
5C Light Chocolate
5D Dark Cement Grey
5E Rhubarb
5F Light Dirtish Brown
60 Chrome Blue
61 Light Minty Blue
62 Leaf Green
63 Dark Gold
64 Dark Iron Grey
65 Light Metallic Red
66 Sea Blue
67 Forest Green
68 Dark Chrome Purple
69 White
6A Pale Pink
6B Khaki
6C Pinkish Gray
6D Terra Cotta
6E Ash
6F Burnt Sienna
70 Seafoam
71 Fog
72 Yet Another Brown
73 Sunkissed
74 Solid Gray
75 Solid Gray
76 Solid Gray
77 Solid Gray

You take the number you want... lets say Pure Black (4B) open windows calculator, switch it over to scientific mode and then click "hex", then click 4B then click "Decimal", as you can see 4B in hex = 75 Decimal, thus equalling black.

Course.. i may have screwed up there. I dont use any color that isnt allready on an item (basicly i open it up, look at the part number and the color value and remember the number, copy it into mine) simply because i was told that some colors will crash the game.

EDIT:
Oh one last thing, if you open the set item color thing it will tell you the location part numbers in its own little mini explanation, i cant recall what these are off of the top of my head, but if you import an example of the item you want you should be able to figure out what does what.