Trying to work with IEEP and DLTCEP Options

[Sir_Carnifex]

I'm trying to familiarize myself with item making, so I downloaded both IEEP and DLTCEP.

The problem is that IEEP refuses to run. I checked out TeamBG to see if anyone else had the problem and sure enough, I found the exact same thing (IEEP refuses to run).

Ok, so the advice in that forum was to use DLTCEP instead. This program will load up but I do get the error "Can't load MORALEAI.ids!" Other than this, it seems to be working fine once I found out where the "read-only" check was.

Now it's time to ask some questions.

1. Can DLTCEP do everything that IEEP does?

2. If not, does anyone know a solution to getting IEEP to run (I'd like to use this as there's a tutorial for item creation with IEEP and I don't see one for DLTCEP).

3. What does the failure to load MORALEAI.ids mean?

4. When I make an item, DLTCEP updates my dialog.tlk. Is it putting in strings? If I save the ITM somewhere else and then load it into a game with the original dialog.tlk, will the item not work?

Thanks!

Carnifex

[Baronius]

Since he intends to gain advanced WeiDU skills, getting used to DLTCEP sooner or later should be considered natural (as WeiDU is much more complicated than DLTCEP which is a GUI program).

IEEP knows less indeed, and has some problems as well. However, it's OK to make a few items at the beginning, if he prefers it. DLTCEP makes consistency checks, so if a file created with IEEP has a problem, DLTCEP should indicate it.