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I already made an item (a sword) and got it successfully into the game, which means into the starting inventory of my player. For this version I seemed to made the script file correctly. Now I would like to learn the 'next step'. Which kind of script should be a good issue for me as a beginner in scripting to improve my skills?

The problem (empty palette) is solved! Many thanks to all helpers, especially to YaraC! Maybe some other people (with VISTA) are interested in. So, here's what I did: - installing SQL Server 2005 service paket 2 (Express version) - installing SQL Server 2005 service paket 3 (Express version) - changing the authorization into the SQL Server Configuration (to finally authorizise my own admintrator acces of my pc) [EDIT: into the SQL Server SURFACE configuration; thanks to Yara for this important correction!!] - changing the setting into the SQL Server Studio concerning the language (from German to English) Et voilà. The resources appear into the Toolset (opened as administrator). Hurrah!

Thanks to Phaphyntr for all the effort! I guess it's a very ambitious project and I love that idea. Actually I think about something like this since I started to play this game. But I am afraid, due to the fact that I am an ugly little perfectionist, that I won't realise ever that plan - unlike Phaphyntr. Kudos! Well, concerning the order of the scenes, especially all these flashbacks, I am a little bit confused. I suppose there must be a kind of system, but I cannot find out. It looks like random. Furthermore with the trailers for every part it's more like a serial, less like a movie. And here comes a further impertinence of mine: I would like to have a placeable main character, which means to see my own warden instead of the shown one, just like during any mod... Good luck for Phaphyntr for the further project! rosvita

I started a manual in German here on Nexus (WIP). s. http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/4427/? Until now, I wrote some step-by-step instructions (really very detailed and with lots of images) about the following topics: - How to change an NPC's hairstyle - How to get German names and descriptions in game for modded (new) items, which had got English names and descriptions (depending on the mod) in game before - How to get the wedding crown for the Cousland Princess and how to see it during the wedding scene (including lots of pictures of the Toolset, folders etc.) - How to get Alistair's crown and how to see it during the wedding scene (including lots of pictures of the Toolset, folders etc.) -- now including the file of Alistair's crown itself (my retextured all golden version of Risibisi's original bicoloured version - with kind permission of Risibisi) - How to unable the console (including lots of pictures of folders, paths etc.) - How to retexture an item/ DA model (40 pages, including more than 100 images) - How to make a mod translation, especially concerning the .dlg file (including more than 40 images) - How to bring the areas of AWAKENING into the TOOLSET and to take them there for own cutscenes (39 pages, including more than 100 images) Maybe some people are interested in. Best regards rosvita

@Thandal: Forgive me! I shouldn’t displease my favourite moderator, I really shouldn’t. :D First of all concerning Mrs. Merkel I want to stress that I agree with you. Your are right a hundred per cent. Three times she took an oath to protect my people (yes, even our constitution contains this kind of oath to protect the German people, not the inhabitants of our state, and much less foreign peoples). Maybe she forgot? I guess, if she swears next time the bible will jump out of her hand... Actually, there’s no danger of that happening again, because we won’t have any elections again. And if we have, we won’t elect her and even her new pets will found their own parties.

Well, I choose Harrowmont. He seems to be honourable and I believe, that the earlier king designated him. (The fact, that later on Harrowmont's politics will fail, as it is said in the final slide show, cannot be part of my decision, because I don't know this detail at that point of the plot.) On the other hand we've got an murderer and ursurper of the throne, infamous and unscrupulous - not the kind of men, that I like to see on any throne. Furthermore I cordially dislike Bhelen. By the way, when I started to play as his royal sister and found the suspicion affirmed, I was yet more pleased about my previous decision. And @ Thandal: I am afraid, that we don't need to go back in history as far as you did or even at all. Pragmatic politics in the name of national interests is usual practice until today, by all means in some countries. (Maybe less in Germany, because we have got an uneasy relationship to everything concerning "national"... At least not official, not in blunt words.)

Klar! Gerne! Viele Grüße rosvita

Maybe my step-by-step instruction concerning the crown for Alistair could be useful for you, because the crown is made as a special hairstyle. It's made by Risibisi. s. http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/4311/?tab=4&&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fdragonage%2Fajax%2Fcomments%2F%3Fmod_id%3D4311%26page%3D1%26sort%3DDESC%26pid%3D0%26thread_id%3D2636424&pUp=1 There is even a photo made by Yuanmonos of the gff editor.

Hi Thandal, thank you very much for your kind hint! Now I looked for it and in addition I found "supertitle", but that seems to mean some translated texts over the stage, too. Thank you for your kind advice for the french root, too! (If I may add something: "supra" and "super" come from Latin.) Regards rosvita Concerning the proper problem: there has to be something to configurate. I guess, Yara made mention of it.

I made a translation of a mod. Everything works fine - except a little detail. There are these - well, I said subtitles, but they are above the screen and I don't know the fitting expression, I am sorry. a) If you play the game in English, you get the hearable lines in English and the "subtitles" above, too, of course. b) If you play the game in German (as I do), you normally get the hearable lines in German and the "subtitles" above, too. So far, so good. c) If you use an English mod in game, you will get (at least) this part of the game in English, even if you play the game in German. For this reason I make my little translations. Now I made this translation for me (by the way 'Fergus Introduction' by Kajana, who gave me her kind permission for this translation). - After editing the fergus epi .dlg file I got all the hearable lines in German. (Hurrah!) - But concerning the "subtitles" above, there is a single one, which is still in English (not like the others, which are now after editing nice for me in German as I want them to be). (By the way, sometimes in game - even the vanilla version without any mod - something appaers in English, especially some text on the visual screen during the phase to load a save game.) The problem is, this line of all lines isn't even part of the mod! (I only changed the fergus epi .dlg file of this mod, but this line is not in it at all.) Then I checked the fergus main .dlg file and found the concerned line (hearable and "subtitle" above). In the file, they have been both already in German in my vanilla version without editing them. (Astonishingly there are some other lines in the main dlg in English(!), but even these ones work for me in German in game (Cousland Castle)). So I put the fergus main dlg file into the override, but that didn't change anything. Any ideas for me?

“It is the Assembly who makes a king, and a king who nominates his successor. None of it is carried in the blood.” "No one is born with rights to the throne. The sitting king may recommend a successor, but the Assembly ultimately decides who will rule." s. http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Pyral_Harrowmont It seems to be a system very similar to the elder german system with our prince-electors who chose our king, which could be the designated one (by the earlier king) but should be the best man for the job... (In still ancient times all of the estates chose, but the higher ones first with factual backing the lower ones their decision for concord/ unanimity)

Äh - how do you set Alistair back in camp? I only know how to add Loghain. Edit: I just found on my own the order to open the select party window.

Hi Yara, thank you so much for your help! However I am very afraid about the registry... There had been some files with the "toolset" in their names. But I am not sure about the others. I don't want to break the whole pc. Regards rosvita

The size was to big. This is a test. Maybe to small to read? This IS to small. Sigh.

1. I don't know "OS". Is that something with apple? 2. I checked it. I really haven't got the Dragon Age Toolset in the "Systemsteuerung" (= Control Panel). Just in case I took a photo: see attachement, please! (Letters -"Dra..."-) 3. Do I have to uninstall the program "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client", too? (It is in the "Systemsteuerung".) 4. By the way, how do you insert some photos directly here in text? Some moderator's privilege? 5. I am afraid of this registry. I took some photos of the list in the CCleaner. Would you mind having a look at it, please? (Next Posting)

Oh, yes. I see. Colour me impressed! :smile: I am glad, when someone's interested in my beautiful mother tongue... :thumbsup: So I will 1. uninstall into the "Systemsteuerung" (= control panel) the two components of the MS SQL Server you've marked. 2. manually delete the DAO Toolset .exe file into the folder "Tools". Correct? 3. Do I have to delete manually any other files into the folder "Tools"? I made two pictures (top and bottom of the folder "Tools"). Would you mind looking at it, please?

Shall I (1) Uninstall the SQL Server compenents first, and the SQL management Studio afterwards? or (2) Uninstall the SQL management Studio first, and the SQL Server components afterwards? or (3) Uninstall only the SQL Server components, without uninstalling the SQL management Studio at all? (Seems to be that way, because you wrote something about unticking.)

Concerning 2.: Unfortunately I have got parts of the game at two places (Because - C: - is already very overstuffed): a. C:\Users\SR\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age (There are as subfolders "AddIns", "Characters" etc.) b. E:\Spiele\Sims3\Dragon Age (There are as subfolders "_Installer", "addins", "bin_ship" ... "tools" (with the Toolset in it)) Concerning 3.: Well, you're right. Excuse me, please! I feel like a lemon. I just looked for "SQL Server" under "-S-", not under "-M-" for "Microsoft SQL Server". I have got the two files as shown in your picture (very helpful by the way, many thanks!) So, what shall I do? Delete the two SQL files you have marked in the picture?

1. Good to know, that the Toolset isn't installed at all... 2. I don't find/ have got the path C:\Program Files(86)\ Common Files\ Bioware. By the way, I have got Vista, 32, not 64. 3. I didn't install the SQL Server at all. Must be an automatis install by opening the toolset.exe. 4. I am sorry, I even can't find a sql uninstall server in the panel. Help! Edit: I just tried to restore the database: (Yara meant, it would be a problem of database, when I didn't get some resources into the Toolset. If true, I don't need to "uninstall" it...) s. http://social.bioware.com/wiki/datoolset/index.php/Manual_database_installation#Creating_bw_dragonage_content but I got an error message: something like no access to the database

Thank you for your kind answer! - I have got this program, the SQL Server 2005. - Well, I would like to know, what would be "every trace" of the Toolset. I suppose something in the folder "Tools", isn't it? - I have got the CCleaner. The Toolset doesn't appear in its list of programs to uninstall. But I guess, you already knew that. Sigh.

My Toolset hasn't got all resources and after trying several methods with help of kind other members to get these missing resources I decided to uninstall my old Toolset. So far, so good. But, I don't accomplish even to uninstall the Toolset. a) There is NO uninstall.exe file. b) There is NO file to delete in the list of a control panel as described to be there: s. http://pcuninstalltool.com/articles/How-Do-I-Uninstall/Remove-Dragon+Age+Origins+Toolset-Completely-Off-Your-PC_26_8857.html c) In addition I tried just to delete the .exe "manual", but it didn't work. I mean, when I put the next .exe into the folder "tools" I got my old modules inside and the resources are still missing. d) Simply overwriting seems not to work neither: s. http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Origins/Dragon-age-tool-set-uninstall/td-p/3141234 What shall I do?

Thank you for the information! Maybe I will try it on my own, when or to be excact if I will get the needed skills to do it. I would give the bowmen bows and the spiders only poison and the wolves only skin...

I still think, Loghain has to die for his atrocities. The best way would be during the dual. The classic ordeal by battle is a life and death fight and not a fight to first blood like some exhibition figth during the Tornei. By the way, when Loghain wins the dual at the Landsmeet he for his part doesn't hesitate not a moment to kill his enemy and nobody interrupts him.

Thank you for the suggestion!

I played the thief/ rogue and during my first two playthroughs without any mod or cheat I stole everything I could and I picked every loot up and I cracked every chest. When I sold all this I got no prosperities. The avail had been downright ridiculous! Actually I think, concerning this point the game is underpowered. But this is not the point. I am interested in such a mod. I don't share the opinion of the overpowering effect. But even, if I would, I would still look for such a mod. Seems not to exist. Nevertheless, thank you for your efforts.