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picking up items from ground, looting corpses

Discussion in 'The Temple of Elemental Evil' started by Bombur, Mar 12, 2006.

  1. Bombur

    Bombur I'm always last and I don't like it

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    [​IMG] Why is it so hard to pick up items from the ground and to loot corpses. I have yet to successfully loot a corpse. Only after it fully deteriorates can I see the loot, and then it takes darn near forever to try to find the right pixel to click on to pick it up. What's the deal? Is there a script somewhere that can automate looting to circumvent this annoyance?
     
    Bombur, Mar 12, 2006
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    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    The game is quite picky about where you click to pick items, but if you religiously use the Tab key it should make things far easier. Tab works the same way it did in ToB and will highlight all corpses and items on the ground (it will not highlight containers though, so you'll have to look for these yourself)

    My only problem with the looting is when several (half a dozen and more) corpses end up piling on exactly the same spot. You can loot only one of them, and lose anything the others may have.
     
    Ziad, Mar 13, 2006
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  3. General Ghoul Gems: 8/31
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    There is also a known bug that restricts looting, make sure you are well patched, I also suggest the Co8 patch/mods as well.
     
    General Ghoul, Mar 13, 2006
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    The looting bug is specifically a DirectX 9.0c issue, and if I understand things correctly it will prevent looting entirely. IIRC both the Co8 patch and the official patch 3 fix it. I got around it simply by installing DirectX 9.0b instead, which is the version that ships on the game CD anyway.

    I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that Bombur was simply referring to the game's pickiness when it comes to which pixel you click on. I don't think any patches (official or otherwise) change that.
     
    Ziad, Mar 13, 2006
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  5. Bombur

    Bombur I'm always last and I don't like it

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    Yes, that was it. I have the official patch 2 as well as the Co8 stuff (Co8 recommends NOT using the official patch 3). Oddly, I am able to loot during combat, but not after my enemies have all died. Once they're dead, I have to wait until they decompose.
     
    Bombur, Mar 13, 2006
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    @Bombur, It sound's to me that the "Co8 stuff" your refering to, hasn't been installed correctly if your still struggling to loot, could you answer these questions below, so I can tell you what you need to do to fix it?

    1) did you install the frontend componant of the 4.0.0 mod?
    2) if you did, do you also have Microsoft.NET (1.1 or 2.0 - but not the beta versions)?
    3) are you using the ToEEFE (frontend) to launch the game?
    4) did you select the Co8-4.0.0 module from the modules window in the frontend?
     
    allyx, Mar 13, 2006
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  7. Bombur

    Bombur I'm always last and I don't like it

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    @allyx

    I tried reinstalling the Co8 stuff and it seems to work now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
     
    Bombur, Mar 17, 2006
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