Custom Items with Extended Cost

[Nephilim]

I want to create some medals that GMs will give to players that win certain events.
I want to create some custom items and a vendor with them.
I also want that those items will be purchasable with the medals.
I know it is something related to extendedcost of the items. That is the field that bounds items to tokens.

The problem is that i don`t know what the numbers in extendedcost field mean. Can someone tell me what they mean or give me some ideea about them?

I am using Mangos but Idon`t care about the kind of emulation server becouse I know SQL very good and I can implement this stuff . Just don`t know how ExtendedCost works.

Any help would be apreciated. Thanks.

[Daxo]

Ok here... Go into your Database, Open the table called "Items" once it is open go to the last page and if you scroll all the way to the right you will see a row called "ItemExtendCost" change ALL of them to 0...


Now if you want an item to have a extended cost just add the item id in the row called "ItemExtendCost" and it should work...

If you do not understand, just add me to aim "Kaygee123456789"

[joeschmoe]

Well your ideas are great, hope you can do it successfully

[Illidan1]

I will see what i can do, and find out
I think that adding the Item's Id to the ExtendedItemcost
Wouldn't work. because I have been looking at Tier 6 and
tier 5 with there Tokens and so far i .additem (ID) if what the number was in
ExtendedItemcost for Tier 6 Rogue Should and it did not give me the
Token it gave me Something Random so, i think it is all in the DBC's
ItemExtendedCost which gets upload on server start up
Meaning if you cold modify or add a line in ItemExtendedCost in DBC's maybe the
Server will upload it making the item work for your item you wont

[Nephilim]

I also noticed that the number in the extended cost is not an item id from the database...it would be too simple then.

[Illidan1]

Yes, i now it ain't it

[Nephilim]

Ok, I found out what is that ItemExtendedCost and how it works.
I will take an item as example and explain.

We have Warbringer Shoulderguards, item ID:29016
In the database in the item_template table at the ExtendedCost filed we have 1244.
THIS IS NOT AN ITEM ID!. This is an entry in the ItemExtendedCost.dbc file. We can open DBC files with an application called DBCtool.
The format of the ItemExtendedCost file can be found here

In column 1 we search for 1244, the ID in the ExtendedCost field. After we find it we consult the DBC file format and see that Colum4 holds the token ID needed to purchase our Warbringer Shoulderguards and Column9 is how many tokens we need.

We see that we need one piece of an item with ID 29764. This is Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender

This means that if we want to purchase Warbringer Shoulderguards we need one Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender and this is damn right.

This way we can create custom tokens(the medals I was talking about) and make items that can be purchased with them. The key is that DBC file.

EDIT: I am searching now for a tool that can insert new records inside the DBC file. I will come back if i fond any.

[Fyrus]

Yess... I've been looking for stuff like this for weeks now :S


Edit: I've heard of a tool called DBC Converter... I dunno if that can add new records in the DBC file tho.. but its probably worth a look. But i have never tryed it myself just heard of it... so i dont know what it can do actually... But it has DBC in its name so maybe it works.. :P

[Nephilim]

There is a tool that converts DBC into CSV. You can then edit/add info with programs such Microsoft Excel and convert it back with another tool into a DBC. I just don`t have time to try this. Work kills me )

[knaur]

I made an easy sollution.

* find a Token, like Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender
* rename it to what you want, (i made it to "Event Coin")
* change displayid to a coin (you can find txt files with displayids on google)
* set unique to 1 (So they only can have 1 event coin a time. that way i make them do more events)
* keep same ItemID as before. (if some want the original bliz rew for this, just give him a event coin and he still can exchange in a original part)
* go to the original reward (this case Warbringer Shoulderguards item that token are for)
* got the itemextendcost code (this case 1244)
* go to all your items you want extend cost on
* fill inn 1244 in itemextendcost field on all items you want it on
* save
* reload item database in wow

and voila, you have a new extended cost on your items.


i made a event reward vendor in shop mall
and a event coin vendor at goal of my custommade event areas.
was very popular on my server

[Nephilim]

Yes, this is a solution too. But at my server you can buy different items for different amounts of medals and editing the DBC was the only solution.
The only problem is that in the vendor interface, when you buy custom items doesn`t show up the medals required for the item. You can still buy Items for the amount of medals needed but you don`t know how many medals you actualy need. This is becaouse the client side don`t has the custom edited DBC. But I think this is not a big problem.

[Fyrus]

Im playing on knaur's server. It owns.