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Circumventing the word limit for tooltips: ideas?

11-30-2003, 06:21 AM#1
psychicpuff
I need ideas in which to circumvent the word limit for the current tft world editor. This is extremely aggravating for spells that have a high number of levels. Any ideas?
11-30-2003, 06:28 AM#2
Pheonix-IV
yeah, in the tooltip say the base stats and then how much the stats go up or down per level.
11-30-2003, 07:10 AM#3
FerretDruid
Is there no way to override the WE limit? I've been wondering this myself... Some of the default spells tooltips DO extend past the space the world editor allows (I think Thunderclap is one, off the top of my head). The above method works good in most cases but occasionally you have a spell with multiple effects and you don't have enough room to explain it in the tooltip...
11-30-2003, 01:12 PM#4
psychicpuff
Just a thought. My programming sux, so I can't do much on this without help.

Stuff like <AUfa,DataB1> references to the AbilityData.slk file. So is it possible to type in the entire description in another area and reference it in the tooltip, so everything comes out?
11-30-2003, 05:51 PM#5
PitzerMike
custom tooltips are stored in the wts-file in the map.
You can edit this wts file with notepad and you can go above the limit this way.
Make sure you delete the (attributes) file from the map if you do this
11-30-2003, 07:09 PM#6
linkmaster23
Attributes? is that in the MPQ of the map? I never thought of going into the wts file. I knew what it was but i never thought...Course with 1.13 coming out (i smell 1.10 all over again) hopefully they will have fixed that issue. Then again, there will always be one person who puts like 18 pages of words into it. Im just wondering who it will be.
12-01-2003, 06:34 AM#7
PitzerMike
the (attributes) file is in the map mpq and saves a checksum of all the other files in the map or something similar.
If you don't remove it when changing other files it will say that the map is corrupted