Old Blue Box variation

[Crysillion]

According to Google, the question of "How can I make my own Old Blue Box, like an Old White Box, or Old Black Box, etc.?" has been asked and answered several times. Even so, I seem to be having trouble with it.

Essentially, I'm trying to create an Old White Box. It's just a variation to the other Old Boxes, but whenever I use the Old White Box, nothing happens. The Old White Box is consumed but I do not receive an item.

Here's what I've put in item_db2:

getrandgroupitem(IG_WhiteBox),1;

Inside db/pre-re/ (we are using pre-re), I have an item_whitebox.txt, inside is the following:

// Old Violet Box Obtainable Items Database
//
// Structure of Database:
// GroupID,ItemID,Rate

IG_WhiteBox,2202,1    // Red Potion
IG_WhiteBox,501,14    // Red Potion
IG_WhiteBox,501,14    // Red Potion
IG_WhiteBox,502,14    // Orange Potion

Just for testing purposes.

 

The item is set as a consumable in the item_db2, that part works fine - it is definitely a consumable in-game. The issue is like I said - the item is consumed and nothing happens. I do not receive any items.

Finally, in db/const.txt there is a lot of entries, but towards the bottom of the first list, I have it like this:

 

IG_Blessing_Midgard_Lucky_Egg    448
IG_Chronosian_Lucky_Egg    449
IG_Sanctuary_Lucky_Egg    450
IG_Cyborg_Lucky_Egg    451
IG_Undine_Lucky_Egg    452
IG_WhiteBox    453

 

As you can see, IG_WhiteBox sits at the end of the IG_ list.

 

What am I doing incorrectly?

[Sryx]

Similar to this.

 

 

[Athan17]

edit itemdb.c

under:

function itemdb_read
add

sv_readdb(dbsubpath1, "item_whitebox.txt",    ',', 2, 10, -1, &itemdb_read_group, i);

OR

instead of making another .txt file, add them inside your item_misc.txt

[Omnipotent]

If you don't want to edit source just add it at the end of item_bluebox.txt

 

If it doesn't work edit MAX_ITEMGROUP_RANDGROUP in src/map/itemdb.h and recompile.

 

Damn, tried to post this like 5 times... had to delete the itemdb.c code part.

Edited November 23, 2016 by Omnipotent
What's up with this editor?! It deleted 50% of the post.