Name: Detailed Tooltips
Version: 1.6
Tested for DA:O Version: 1.02
Date: 12/9/2009
Author: Bibdy
Description
===========
Modifies existing ability, potion, trap, grenade and inspiration bonus tooltips to give more detailed information about what various effects are.
Details
=======
Modified entries in the core_en-us.tlk file for ability tooltips to display more detailed information, derived straight from the game's scripting. Information such as base damage and scaling factors, effect durations, attack/defense buffs/penalties etc. will be shown in ability tooltips.
Note: Some abilities will use 'SP' to denote Spellpower (equal to your magic attribute -10). The general format will be _base_damage_ + _scaling_factor_*SP, e.g. Cone of Cold deals 34 + 0.34*SP cold damage, meaning 34 base damage plus 34% of your spellpower attribute.
Difficulty levels affect abilities in certain ways, such as CC (crowd control) effects lasting a shorter duration, damage being reduced, healing reduced and such forth. These tooltip descriptions do NOT reflect these effects.
There may also be typos, or places where I just read the script code horribly wrong and made a mistake. Feel free to contact me with a description of the problem and I'll look into it.
Install
=======
Simply copy the core_en-us.tlk file to your override directory. This can be found in various places (depending on your OS, although I think there are multiple places you can put the file and it will still work):
_install_directory_\packages\core\override\
My Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\packages\core\override\
Uninstall
=========
Delete the core_en-us.tlk file you placed in the override folder.
Incompatibility
===============
This mod should be fully compatible with the base game, but may not be compatible with future patches if Bioware chooses to extend the core_en-us.tlk file.
It will also be incompatible with other mods which directly alter the core_en-us.tlk file.
It is 'compatible' with other languages, if you change the name of the file to the same language you use (e.g. core_fr.tlk). Look in the
Known Issues or Bugs
====================
None
To-Do List
==========
- I completely missed the 'Dread Howl' ability for Dog when scanning through all 69,000 entries TWICE, so this tooltip remains the same.
- The Shapeshifter spells and form ability tooltips remain unchanged.
- Still need to modify tooltips for poisons. Haven't got any accurate information on how they operate, yet.
- Move combo tooltips to the combo codex entries, so not to spoil things...if I can find them.
- Give more info in tooltips for 'increases monetary/experience gains/blood magic'.
Want to help?
=============
- I need to find detailed information on how poisons operate, and its quite a chore. Georg Zoeller helped point in the right direction here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/9/index/357780/4#390181, but I haven't had a chance to look into it, yet.
- I can modify the tooltips for Shale's abilities and the special abilities you get in the Warden's Keep DLC, but I can't get at the code to see exactly what they do. This could be a dead-end at the moment, unless someone does an absolutely absurd amount of testing on them.
History
=======
v1.6 (12/9/2009)
- Moved Storm of the Century and Shockwave detailed tooltips to the appropriate spell combo codex entries (haven't found the rest in the talktable yet, be patient).
- Added all poisons!
- Gave my 'best guess' for the damage of the Crushing Prison damage reduction in the 1.02 patch (they said 'about 15% reduction', to counteract the much shorter duration)
v1.5 (12/8/2009)
- Added changes for 1.02 patch (8s Cone of Cold duration on freeze/snare, 4s Blizzard freeze, 9s Crushing Prison duration and 18s Force Field duration).
- Added grenade/flask damage (except Acid Flask...missing the reference for that at the moment, but it does a flat 80 damage like the rest of them)
- Moved Improved Drain tooltip to the Spell Combo's codex entry (still need to find the others...)
v1.41 (12/6/2009
- Fixed a typo in the Haste tooltip: -3.0 mana regen penalty, not -10.0.
v1.4 (12/3/2009
- Cleaned up tooltips of Weapon & Shield abilities - less of a clusterfuck of info.
- Consistency in missile deflection (and removed %'s)
- Added cost reduction to Blood Magic
- Fixed Dog's abilities to follow the same format from 1.3.
- Added tooltip info for all potions (health, lyrium, injury kits, resistance potions, weak resistance pots/crafting mats etc.)
- Added tooltip info for all traps (Choking powder, Sleeping gas, Lures, Caltrops, Claw, Grease, Explosive and Shrapnel)
- Added tooltip info to inspiration bonuses (+1/2/4/6 to stat)
v1.3 (12/3/2009)
- Fixed a few typos here and there.
- Added 'friendly fire possible' to Storm of the Century tooltips on Blizzard and Tempest.
- Added Storm of the Century description to Spell Might.
- Added 'up to XX physical damage' to Walking and Virulent Living Bomb spells.
- Fixed Entropic Death SP coefficient from 0.2 to 2.0.
- Specified that Wynne only receives Spellpower and Mana regen for as long as her special is active.
- Added details for Dual-Striking and Dual-Weapon Expert.
v1.2 (12/2/2009)
- Normalized most tooltips into a standard format for spellpower calculations.
- Added descriptions for spell combinations in the tooltips of relevant spells.
- Fixed tooltips for Shattering Blows and Destroyer only proccing on critical hits (thanks jivebeaver)
- Removed '%' from mental and physical resistances (thanks Matthew Young CT)
- Fixed tooltips for various spells like Spell Shield, Chain Lightning as well as more detailed info (thanks Toro Nero and Matthew Young CT)
v1.1 (12/2/2009)
- Added Rogue and Mage talents (were already done, but somehow omitted...).
- Fixed Holy Smite, Perfect Striking, Summon Wolf, Spell Shield, Master Archer
v1.0 (12/1/2009)
- Initial release.
Contact
=======
bibdy1@gmail.com or I'm usually roaming around this site.
Credits
=======
Credit to Bioware for being totally awesome.
Licensing/Legal
===============
Please do not upload this mod to any websites without my permission. Contact me and I'll be glad to give you permission.
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Name: Detailed Tooltips
Version: 1.6
Tested for DA:O Version: 1.02
Date: 12/9/2009
Author: Bibdy
Description
===========
Modifies existing ability, potion, trap, grenade and inspiration bonus tooltips to give more detailed information about what various effects are.
Details
=======
Modified entries in the core_en-us.tlk file for ability tooltips to display more detailed information, derived straight from the game's scripting. Information such as base damage and scaling factors, effect durations, attack/defense buffs/penalties etc. will be shown in ability tooltips.
Note: Some abilities will use 'SP' to denote Spellpower (equal to your magic attribute -10). The general format will be _base_damage_ + _scaling_factor_*SP, e.g. Cone of Cold deals 34 + 0.34*SP cold damage, meaning 34 base damage plus 34% of your spellpower attribute.
Difficulty levels affect abilities in certain ways, such as CC (crowd control) effects lasting a shorter duration, damage being reduced, healing reduced and such forth. These tooltip descriptions do NOT reflect these effects.
There may also be typos, or places where I just read the script code horribly wrong and made a mistake. Feel free to contact me with a description of the problem and I'll look into it.
Install
=======
Simply copy the core_en-us.tlk file to your override directory. This can be found in various places (depending on your OS, although I think there are multiple places you can put the file and it will still work):
_install_directory_\packages\core\override\
My Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age\packages\core\override\
Uninstall
=========
Delete the core_en-us.tlk file you placed in the override folder.
Incompatibility
===============
This mod should be fully compatible with the base game, but may not be compatible with future patches if Bioware chooses to extend the core_en-us.tlk file.
It will also be incompatible with other mods which directly alter the core_en-us.tlk file.
It is 'compatible' with other languages, if you change the name of the file to the same language you use (e.g. core_fr.tlk). Look in the
Known Issues or Bugs
====================
None
To-Do List
==========
- I completely missed the 'Dread Howl' ability for Dog when scanning through all 69,000 entries TWICE, so this tooltip remains the same.
- The Shapeshifter spells and form ability tooltips remain unchanged.
- Still need to modify tooltips for poisons. Haven't got any accurate information on how they operate, yet.
- Move combo tooltips to the combo codex entries, so not to spoil things...if I can find them.
- Give more info in tooltips for 'increases monetary/experience gains/blood magic'.
Want to help?
=============
- I need to find detailed information on how poisons operate, and its quite a chore. Georg Zoeller helped point in the right direction here: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/9/index/357780/4#390181, but I haven't had a chance to look into it, yet.
- I can modify the tooltips for Shale's abilities and the special abilities you get in the Warden's Keep DLC, but I can't get at the code to see exactly what they do. This could be a dead-end at the moment, unless someone does an absolutely absurd amount of testing on them.
History
=======
v1.6 (12/9/2009)
- Moved Storm of the Century and Shockwave detailed tooltips to the appropriate spell combo codex entries (haven't found the rest in the talktable yet, be patient).
- Added all poisons!
- Gave my 'best guess' for the damage of the Crushing Prison damage reduction in the 1.02 patch (they said 'about 15% reduction', to counteract the much shorter duration)
v1.5 (12/8/2009)
- Added changes for 1.02 patch (8s Cone of Cold duration on freeze/snare, 4s Blizzard freeze, 9s Crushing Prison duration and 18s Force Field duration).
- Added grenade/flask damage (except Acid Flask...missing the reference for that at the moment, but it does a flat 80 damage like the rest of them)
- Moved Improved Drain tooltip to the Spell Combo's codex entry (still need to find the others...)
v1.41 (12/6/2009
- Fixed a typo in the Haste tooltip: -3.0 mana regen penalty, not -10.0.
v1.4 (12/3/2009
- Cleaned up tooltips of Weapon & Shield abilities - less of a clusterfuck of info.
- Consistency in missile deflection (and removed %'s)
- Added cost reduction to Blood Magic
- Fixed Dog's abilities to follow the same format from 1.3.
- Added tooltip info for all potions (health, lyrium, injury kits, resistance potions, weak resistance pots/crafting mats etc.)
- Added tooltip info for all traps (Choking powder, Sleeping gas, Lures, Caltrops, Claw, Grease, Explosive and Shrapnel)
- Added tooltip info to inspiration bonuses (+1/2/4/6 to stat)
v1.3 (12/3/2009)
- Fixed a few typos here and there.
- Added 'friendly fire possible' to Storm of the Century tooltips on Blizzard and Tempest.
- Added Storm of the Century description to Spell Might.
- Added 'up to XX physical damage' to Walking and Virulent Living Bomb spells.
- Fixed Entropic Death SP coefficient from 0.2 to 2.0.
- Specified that Wynne only receives Spellpower and Mana regen for as long as her special is active.
- Added details for Dual-Striking and Dual-Weapon Expert.
v1.2 (12/2/2009)
- Normalized most tooltips into a standard format for spellpower calculations.
- Added descriptions for spell combinations in the tooltips of relevant spells.
- Fixed tooltips for Shattering Blows and Destroyer only proccing on critical hits (thanks jivebeaver)
- Removed '%' from mental and physical resistances (thanks Matthew Young CT)
- Fixed tooltips for various spells like Spell Shield, Chain Lightning as well as more detailed info (thanks Toro Nero and Matthew Young CT)
v1.1 (12/2/2009)
- Added Rogue and Mage talents (were already done, but somehow omitted...).
- Fixed Holy Smite, Perfect Striking, Summon Wolf, Spell Shield, Master Archer
v1.0 (12/1/2009)
- Initial release.
Contact
=======
bibdy1@gmail.com or I'm usually roaming around this site.
Credits
=======
Credit to Bioware for being totally awesome.
Licensing/Legal
===============
Please do not upload this mod to any websites without my permission. Contact me and I'll be glad to give you permission.
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