How to Make a New Entrance to Moo Moo Farm
Description: by Kingpin
Categories: Tutorials (1.09x)
Special thanks:
Joel (for teaching me how to use Paul’s win editor and how to change
LvlPrest.txt Dt1Mask, in fact you wouldn’t read this tutorial without
him)
Nefarius (for solving the last part to make this working, he discovered that I missed to set the entrance active)
Paul (for his great win editor and for the corrections he has made
about some parts in the tutorial concerning the use of his tool.)
You will need this tools and files to accomplish this tutorial.
Tools:
(If you don’t have these files you find them on the keep).
MPQExtractor
Paul’s win ds1 editor
Excel (D2excel/MS excel/staroffice to name a few spreadsheets)
Files to work with:
Levels.txt
LvlTypes.txt
LvlPrest.txt
bivouac.ds1
denent.ds1
Extract your files:
When you reading this tutorial I suppose that you already know how to extract your files from an mpq.
You found these files in patch_D2.mpq/d2exp.mpq or d2data.mpq (if you are only for classic modding).
Extract these files:
From patch_D2.mpq
data\global\excel\Levels.txt
data\global\excel\LvlTypes.txt
data\global\excel\LvlPrest.txt
From d2data_mpq
data\global\tiles\ACT1\OUTDOORS\bivouac.ds1
data\global\tiles\ACT1\CAVES\denent.ds1
You need to copy bivouac.ds1 and denent.ds1 to
your installed win ds1 editor directory. If you have worked with this
tool earlier this aren’t any problem for you. For the others I’m going
to explain what you need to do.
The first we are going to do is to create a new .ini file in win ds1 editor directory. We call this file Moo.ini.
In the file we are going to set up the ini file so the editor loads our
both ds1 files. There are two values and a ds1 file that needs to be
filled in.
ID, Def, ds1 that are in this order we are going to put the values in the file.
ID = you get the id from LvlTypes.txt. Since we are going to use
denent.ds1 on the first row we need to check what id it has. Denent.ds1
is an Act 1 - Wilderness type and we look in LvlTypes.txt and found out
that it has id 2.
Def = you get def from LvlPrest.txt. We are going to look after act 1 -
DOE Entrance since this is the name the entrance we are using from
denent.ds1. We will found that it has def 52.
Ds1 = this is the ds1 file we are going to load. Since we have been
talking about denent.ds1 that’s the file we are going to load on the
first row.
The file is going to look like this.
2 52 denent.ds1
2 50 bivouac.ds1
Take a look in LvlTypes.txt and LvlPrest.txt why we are using id=2 and def=50 for the bivouac.ds1 row.
Save this file and exit.
It’s now time to load Paul’s Win ds1 editor.
You can load the editor in two ways either from the command prompt or from a .bat file.
First way:
Open a command prompt (MS-Dos prompt). Write this to load win_ds1edit.exe.
Win_ds1edit.exe Moo.ini
Second way:
If you are not familiar with the command prompt instead create a new
.bat file. Open up a text editor and write the following
@echo off
win_ds1edit Moo.ini
pause
Save the file as Launch.bat and after saving it press the newly created bat file and it will run the editor.
After you have run the editor you will se on the first screen our
denent.ds1. What we are going to do in here is to copy the entrance.
With left button you’re selecting an area of tiles and to select
several tiles at once you can do this in two ways. Press left button
and drag the mouse over the tiles you want to select or hold down shift
and press the left button and select tile by tile.
There are some commands you need to be familiar with.
Ctrl+s = saves the file.
Number = switch to next ds1.
Ctrl+x = delete the current selection of Tiles, the current selection of Objects.
Tab = makes object screen visible, or run thru all editing modes.
Ctrl+u = undo last action and for tiles you can undo more than once.
Ctrl+c = copy a tile/object.
Scroll wheel = zoom in/out.
+/- = zoom in/out.
First we will make sure that we have room for the entrance. So we press
2 to switch to bivouac.ds1. In here we are going to move around some
objects. First we will have to move The Cowking to another location, to
do that we press Tab and after that we press the left button over the
diamond feet of the Cowking object, we have now the diamond feet and
label marked as green. Now we press alt or Alt Gr while clicking on the
object’s feet: you’ll move the object (you’ll see a shadow of the
object at the original position). Move him to the left corner cell
(24,62). You can found out the cell numbers by looking at left/bottom
of the screen.
The next we need to do is to move one of the walls. You need to press
tab twice times to get into normal mode again. The next we will do is
to move one of the wall parts. Before marking the walls we press shift
+ f5, by doing so the wall layer 1 is only visible. Now we will mark
the walls on the right side with cell position (7,5), (8,5), (9,5), now
you can click on the 1st cell, maintain the button pressed, go to the
3rd cell, an area of 3 cells is selected, then release the button. Now
we will copy this marked walls and do so by pressing ctrl+c. We are now
going to move the wall to cell position (8,1) and press left mouse
button to place the wall at this position.
After we have moved the wall delete the original wall by marking it and
press ctrl+x, to go back to view all layers again press backspace. You
will now have room for the entrance (remember also that you can make
this looking more good than the tutorial). Now switch back to
denent.ds1 by pressing 1. This time we are going to copy the entrance
by marking the following cells (1,5), (1,4),(1,3),( 2,5),
(2,4),(2,3),(2,2),(3,5), (3,4),(3,3),(3,2),(4,5),(4,4),(4,3),(4,2)
remember to hold shift when marking the blocks and copy it by pressing
ctrl+c. Now we have our cave marked and its time to go back to
bivouac.ds1 by pressing 2. We will place this cave at cell location
(7,6). The last we have left is to save the bivouac.ds1 do that by
pressing ctrl+s. We have now modified our bivouac.ds1.
The last thing to remember is what vis the cave is using. By looking in
cell (8,7) we see vis 5 remember this for later use. After this we exit
the program.
Modify the Cave in Cold Plains so it has a entrance to Moo Moo Farm
Now we have come to the part of the tutorial that is going to modify
levels.txt to have Cave Level1 has one of its entrance to Moo Moo
Farm.
Open levels.txt in your favorite spreadsheet.
Go to Act1 - Cave2 row (id 9) and go to the vis columns. In column AC change the value to 39 (Moo Moo Farm’s id).
Next thing to do is to go down to Act 1 - Moo Moo Farm row (id 39) and
go to vis columns. In column AD add the value 9 (this is Cave2 level1’s
id). We will also add a warp value. So go to column AL and add 0.
Now we have modified levels.txt complete so save and exit.
Make the Moo Moo Farm to use the entrance graphics
We have still some left before we could test our new entrance. We need
to tell the game to load the graphics for the entrance. Since the game
normally doesn’t have an entrance in Moo Moo Farm it doesn’t load it
either. What we need to do is to change the Dt1Mask value in
LvlPrest.txt. The tutorial is not going to explain why we are setting
the new Dt1Mask value (in fact I’m not good enough with this for
myself, once again a big than for Joel for helping with this).
Load LvlPrest.txt and go to the row Act 1 - Bivouac (id 50) look for the Dt1Mask column (W). Change the value to 42991873.
Make the new Entrance in Moo Moo Farm active.
We need to make Moo Moo Farm entrance active. We are once more time
going to LvlPrest.txt go to Act1 - Bivouac (id 50) look for the column
Scan (M) we need to set the value to 1 to make the entrance active
(once more time big thanks to Nefarius for helping me with that).
Save the file and exit.
Now we have only one thing left before testing this out.
Copy the modified files into your mod directory.
Copy to this location (from the directory that holds your modified files)
data\global\excel\Levels.txt
data\global\excel\LvlTypes.txt (you don’t need to copy this file since we haven’t modified this)
data\global\excel\LvlPrest.txt
data\global\tiles\ACT1\OUTDOORS\bivouac.ds1 (remember to copy this file from your win ds1 editor directory)
data\global\tiles\ACT1\CAVES\denent.ds1 (you don’t need to copy this file since we haven’t modified this)
One Last Thing
If you have followed this tutorial correct you will now have a working
entrance to Moo Moo Farm. You will also have the treasure level from
Cave2 free to do what you want with.
So, here is a little extra exercise of doing new Entrances. Create
another entrance in the Moo Moo Farm link the new entrance to your free
Cave Level2 (treasure level) and place the CowKing in the cave with
some of his Moo Moo friends.
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