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New Horizons Adding Readable Books

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Adding Readable Books
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To add a readable book:
Go to items_init and add a book with a line like this (search where the other books are then the line will make sense):

Code:

n = InitItem(n,"book16", "", 13, 12, 0.10, 3, 1306, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);// New Book

Also add a line for the groupID

Code:

case "book16": genitm.groupID = BOOK_ITEM_TYPE; genitm.text = "book16"; break; // New readable book

Make sure you select BOOK_ITEM_TYPE as type.
And make sure the text attribute is set to the name of the file with the content. If this is not set it will try to use the id of the item, so in this case it would still work.

Go to C:\POTC\RESOURCE\INI\TEXTS\ENGLISH\ItemsDescribe.ini
and add the following lines:

Code:

itmname_book16 {Foo Book} itmdescr_book16 { Bar Page }

Change the "book1" into your bookid (so in this case book16) and change the descriptions.

This is what you had to do before already to add a book (except an other Item Type) Now if you want to add text go to:
C:\POTC\RESOURCE\INI\TEXTS\ENGLISH\BOOKS
And add a textfile named after the book id, so in this case book16
inside there use the following code

Code:

TEXT { Here you can tell your story }

Easier then this I couldn't make it.

If you want to have dynamic text in your book you can add it the same way as with questtext.
Say you want to have and islandname in the text somewhere you can add it like this:

Code:

#sisland#

The game will now look for a attribute set to the book which is called island and display this as a string (hence the s in front).
So at the iteminit you need to add the folowing line to make it work:

Code:

genitm.island = "Monkey Island";

Now the #sisland# will be replaced with Monkey Island in the book.

If you want the book to be a skillbook then the only thing you have to add at iteminit is the following piece of code:

Code:

genitm.UnlockedPerk = "PerkName";

If you want the book to trigger a certain questcase after readed then add this attribute:

Code:

genitm.QuestName = "Foobar the Foobar";

If you wanna test it use the following console code to get the book:

Code:

GiveItem2Character(pchar,"book16");

New Horizons Adding Readable Books

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