Does Anybody Know About Talktable/Namehash?

[svartalfimposter]

My mod is coming up with a random line (could be text from the codex or dialogue) from the talktable because I changed the name of a hat recipe from;

[0001C385] Dwarven Helmet

to

The One Hat in the talktable editor in ModMaker. Here is the mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonageinquisition/mods/1967?tab=description

 

I tried importing this line as an XML file instead (I put 3 spaces at the end so it's the same length as "Dwarven Helmet"
<entry><id>0001C385</id><text>The One Hat </text></entry>

But this crashed ModMaker.

 

I couldn't understand how the hashname works, and didn't change it - I suspect this is the problem, so I need some information on it, I've literally got NOTHING to go on. Tirnoney's guide, which I have used for all my other information, says only that the game uses it to refer to the talktable, but I found no entries that say anything like NameHash : C32FE609. Even the format is different from the data I've examined.

 

I couldn't find anything on the internet about NameHash.

 

Is there anybody around who knows anything about such things please?

Edited December 15, 2017 by svartalfimposter

[svartalfimposter]

UPDATE:

 

I've had a go at using oldschool tools to do the same edit: I followed this guide,

 

but I get this crash at the click "Make MOD" stage (no file is created).

 

 

 

I still haven't found ANYTHING ANYWHERE about NameHash. It's as though it's some big secret that's been wiped off the internet ...

Edited December 15, 2017 by svartalfimposter

[svartalfimposter]

I'm still extremely interested in how NameHash and the Talkttable work, but for now I have gone back to the original name of the schematic.

 

"Dwarven Helmet" doesn't look half as cool as "The One Hat", but;

• it fixes my issues with the Talktable - the entirety of which was saved as part of the Daimod in the original version of the mod, making it a 2.5Mb download instead of it's now much more reasonable 67k,
• it means that any mod that edits Talktable entries doesn't get overwritten by my mod if placed above it in the load order,
• it fixes the issue with the suggested name being a random line from the talktable.