**RELEASED V2** FNVedit script to Change AR to DT

[Blisst]

Edit- V2 Released here: http://taleoftwowastelands.com/comment/18266#comment-18266

After going through the basic conversion process, if you change an .esp's version in the header to 1.34 (step might not even be necessary) and load it up in GECK, open any armor record and save the plugin, reopning it in FNVedit will have "Zeroed" entries for DT.

Is anyone able to write a script that will check the current AR value, store it in a variable, set the AR to 0, then apply the value to the DT and clear the variable then move on to the next armor record until all have been processed?

I don't know how many hours a script like this would have saved me already just this week. I can imagine that the community as a whole would really benefit from it if someone who knows how to make this happen.

Thank you in advance!

[delta534]

I'm not on a machine that I can do FNVedit script development with at this moment, but this is easy if I had an image of FVNEdit with the DT information visible. I just need the paths for AR and DT.

[Blisst]

ARMO DNAM AR

ARMO DNAM DT

 

I think that's what you're asking for if the screenshot flails.

[rickerhk]

The thing is, DT and AR are different things - using the same numbers will probably not be balanced.

[Blisst]

Understood... but it's a base that I can work from.

I can muddle my way through hitting the variable with a % if I've got a simple base script through use of regexp.. but I'm not familiar enough with the data structures to write a script from scratch, and I've no idea what language ***edit scripts are written in.

Although if the script could contain the additional step of "Multiply variable by 100%" before it gets written to DT so end users can just tweak the % to their liking in their script.

 

[TJ]

[quote=rickerhk]The thing is, DT and AR are different things - using the same numbers will probably not be balanced.[/quote]

Not balanced at all. The best you could do is go through several (optimally all) of the armors that appear in both games get the and come up with a formula to convert using the average difference.

[Blisst]

I'd thought about that longer term.. but in the immediate sense my brain is melting from doing it manually.

[Blisst]

Updated spreadsheet. I had a couple of invalid comparisons.

Based on the update, DT values are ~52.66% of AR values on comparable items. 

[Blisst]

Made a Spreadsheet with side by side comparisons of armor values from F3 to NV.. if it interests anyone based on data ripped blatantly from the fallout wiki.

 

-edit removed attached spreadsheet. corrections made. reposted corrected version in next post.

[delta534]

This should work but it has not been tested.  If an error occurs, don't save the file on exit and please report the error. This script is not a straight Dr to DT copy, it does reduce the value. it also should work without having to save the plug-in in the geck first.

Usage instructions,

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  extract the zip to edit scripts


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  start fnvedit and load the plugin


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  Once FnvEdit has loaded, go the armor portion of the plugin and run the script DR to DT on that selection.