Ragexe, lua&lub doubts

[Zy0n7]

I was out of touch with Athena since early 2009 or so and I'm recently trying to run a test server to fool around, perhaps catch with the times and open a private server again.

 

Anyway, I found stuff doesn't work the way it used to be, and while I've been lurking around in the forums, I still have some doubts so I'll fire away:

 

Are the idnum2itemdesctable.txt etc files still being used? Or have all of those been replaced by the lub files in the System folder?I'm really confused about this, I've seen some lua to lub conversors around as well and since not all the info is up to date I find it pretty confusing.

 

Does it depend on the date of the Ragexe you're using? Say I want to use the latest one (currently 2013-07-17), can I just use it's diff file, diff it, and set packetver to 20130717 in mmo.h ; not sure about how it relates/how to set it in packet_db.txt in the rathena db folder.

 

Likewise I intend to add custom weapons and I'm concerned about the view id problem discussed here (http://rathena.org/board/topic/85081-item-dbtxt-needs-to-be-change-please-read/#entry210856)

 

 

Finally I'd like to know if I'm headed in the correct direction in my process of building a clean client folder, so far I got Alexandria's data v.04 (http://rathena.org/board/topic/66962-basic-complete-renewal-data-english-folder/)  and the latest ragexe and diffs from Shakto's topic (http://rathena.org/board/topic/82726-2013-ragexe-and-diff-up-to-date-2013-07-03/page-18)

 

Lots of questions I know    thanks in advance!

[Brynner]

if you are using RagexeRE it started to use iteminfo.lua or lub in your system folder for client 2012-04-10 above.

but if you are using Ragexe it start to use iteminfo.lua of lub in your system folder for client 2012-07-16.

 

below 2012-07-16 they still use the old one.

 

but if you are using 2013 client. it uses lua or lub now.