Talk:HakPaks
From NWN1 Custom Content Guide
"THIS IS IMPORTANT because the topmost hak on the list overrides the files of everything below it. Why is that? See the next section on... "
"NWN .BIF files first, override, the lowest level hak, then the highest level hak last."
hi,guys,i found this two places in this article has messed up,which one is right,thx
Ok, second has minor error, but both are correct in "order". Order is:
Top most hak
Lowest Hak
Override
.bif files
My english isn't the best thing in the world, so I'll let you work out how to write it up, the order if I recall corretly is as follows:
- Highest hakpak
- Next hightest Hakpak
- ... So on until bottom of hakpak list
- Module Resources
- Overrides
- BIF Files
- Built in game resources
Never realised that overrides came above BIF myself, not totally convinced, but hey I don't know a hell of a lot on the subject, so I'll go with the above info, anyone else know anymore on which comes where?
ps, can we remember to put in a ~~~~ at the end of chat edits, just so people know who's writing what :)
NoMercy 12:36, 3 Apr 2005 (GMT) update: NoMercy 12:18, 5 Apr 2005 (GMT)
Anything in the Override breaks patching because patches are now stored in appropriate .bif files in the bif directory, which is easily proved if you just, say, copy a modified spell file from your modules working directroy (/temp0 in the /modules directory) to the override, then open a new module, and check to see what version of the script is actually present by default - it loads the override version first. Also goes for new scripts too.
Scripts are just an example, but on that note, a hakpack based script can only ever be edited if it is first removed from the hakpack, edited, then put back in - if you just edit it from the module and save it, it won't change anything functionally until the original hakpack has the script replaced or removed, as the hakpack has the higher prioritory.
Jasperre 14:35, 3 Apr 2005 (GMT)
Tweaked my list, now I know about .bif files, it looks a bit more logical :)
NoMercy 12:18, 5 Apr 2005 (GMT)
