Arguments about Item Building Tutorial

[Zengez]

This is in regard to the tutorial (http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18926).

Played around with the item thing, trying to shift procs... which led me to ask that you didn't cover what the effectid would be for a proc, only if it's clicky, i'm assuming this means leave effectid blank for procs?

Real problem tho is i can't seem to get anything to save... got the thing clicked on overwrite... but i'm really tired and my brain doesn't work so well (hurray finals week) so i'm probably just doing something incredibly stupid, gonna check back in the morning

[thekeepers]

Atleast you got ur advisor brain :P anyway

Yes leave it at 0 for procs.

Press the commit changes button when you have finished making your changes. If you dont press this it wont save.

Also added this to the main tutorial.

[a_Guest03]

Brain coming soon :P

[Cisyouc]

THATS a brain? I thought it was a nut.

Lol sorry :P

[Muuss]

A very small brain, although :)

[Cisyouc]

Ack!! Only problem I have with this tutorial..

Download EQAdmin That program is WAYY outdated. It really is better to use MySQL or if you do not know how to use it, MySQL-Front or MySQL Control Center.

[thekeepers]

Yea it is outdated...and i can use MYSQL easy also but i find it alot faster to make items with EQAdmin

[watcher001]

I assume there is no updated item editor out there? I'm looking for info on changing the look of items like the cool warrior epic swords' glow effect and stuff. Anyone know?

[thekeepers]

This tutorial works fine with the current EQEMU release.

[watcher001]

are you saying that the current ver of eqadmin should work on the 6.0 db?

[Muuss]

It doesn't fully works, after you passed all the error messages, you can use the item editor.

[thekeepers]

I ONLY use this program for creating and editing items not anything else and it works fine for items.

[Cisyouc]

Still, its not really a good practice. It has many invalid and missing columns.

[thekeepers]

all colums are displayed....and it makes items fine. Alot easier then raw querys imo. You need todo some things manually but thats explained in the tutorial.

[Cisyouc]

The newer columns are not displayed in EQAdmin...

[thekeepers]

Have another look. Yes they are.

[mattmeck]

they wont be after we get current, SOE changed the items once again, so maby he is looking at the new items table. :shock:

[a_Guest03]

Hey hey!

What's this ruckus!? I drive to New York, and this goes down! Guys, simple solution - explain the pitfalls of eqadmin in detail (as your complaints have), and explain that it is ONLY TO BE USED TO EDIT ITEMS!!! !!! !!!

Make it a huge point at the top.

Revise, submit, enter as current until next eqemu comes out. When it comes out, we'll recheck the validity. Our main concern is that good advice is disseminated, and this tutorial is good advice.

Let's not scrap it.

[Zengez]

Dunno much of anything about EQAdmin and/or how it's coded and whatnot... but how much work would it be to update EQAdmin... from what i saw there were a whole lot of useful things on there and the interface was pretty user friendly... seems like it'd be worth having around /shrug

Suppose theres other programs now right? Mysql or SQLFront or something? (i'm just been runnin commands on the mysql cmd line on my server cause i'm wierd /shrug) I dunno just a thought but at a brief glance it looked worth updating if someone had the time

[Cisyouc]

(i'm just been runnin commands on the mysql cmd line on my server cause i'm wierd /shrug)You're not wierd. In fact, I find it easier :D