[Question] NamesReserved.dbc Edit

[Cypher]

Hey all.

Managed to get in-memory DBC editing working and I'm having no trouble changing fields in-game. eg I got creature edits, item edits, etc working.

The problem I'm having is with NamesReserved.dbc.

I decided I wanted to see if it was possible to create a char with a name that is on that list, so I overwrote all the instances of "arthas" with "charmander" (this is inside memory, at runtime, so I'm not using a model edit fix). I confirmed the changes had been made by printing the values into my console after changing them and the new values were in fact in place. The problem was that when I tried to make a character, not only were reserved names blocked, ALL names were blocked. That is, I couldn't create a character no matter what I set the name to.

I logged WoWs packets and confirmed the denial was in-fact client side (just like the denial of names on the list to begin with). So I was wondering, is there some kind of integity check on that file? Could someone who possibly knows more about DBC files than I do test using a 'conventional' method and let me know the results.

Thank you for your time.

[schlumpf]

I do not know what you did wrong exactely, but I had been able to change the list (just delete everything but one entry) once and then create my "gamemaster"s. Did you try just removing all entries?

I know that some things still had been blocked. I don't know which ones exactely.

[Cypher]

Interesting. Unfortunately you can't physically "remove" entries in-memory, you can null out their values though. I shall try that.

Gotta quickly work out a way to dump all the row numbers and then write a script to loop through the list and null out all the strings.

Bbs.

[Cypher]

Ah. Got it working.

I'm now getting a server-side deinal. Thank you for the help.

Btw. It seems its no longer possible to create chars with names such as "Gamemaster".

[schlumpf]

Yarp. Some names had a serverside check. Still there should be some who are possible now.