Modding help for Deus Ex

[millerr88]

I just beat the game without any cheats and wanted to go through it again and play around with all of the items and augs I didn’t get to use last time. I figured the best way to do this would be change the storage space for items, essentially giving me more inventory room. I went into the DeusEx/systems folder and found the file "DeusExitems" which is listed as a U File. Well, I looked online and cracked the file using an unreal engine modifier called WOTgreal. It is a freeware editing tool. I used the Advanced Exporter tool to break the U File into many smaller UC files which I could then edit the parameters of. However, I'm not sure how to recompress all of the UC files back into a single U File.

Does anyone know how to do this? It does not even need to be with the same program I was using though that would be convenient. I figure most of the hard programming work is done but I cannot make the last step go through. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[PolaricEntropy]

Hi!

Using WOTGreal for exporting is bad, it doesn't handle enums properly in defaultproperties.

I'd recommend installing the Editing Pack instead: http://www.offtopicproductions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=10464

It will contain UnrealEditor 1 that can be used to decompile the .u files correctly. Simply open the editor and press "Export all" when the Code view is selected.

Along in the editing pack is a tool called ucc.exe that is in the DeusEx\System directory, it can be used to rebuild packages.

Some modding tutorials: http://www.dx-revision.com/website/tutorials/

DeusExItems though only contains the 3D assets of the items, not the code that actually controls and makes stuff an item. Look in DeusEx.u for that.

[millerr88]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I am going to try the editing tool you mentioned. However, I wanted to let you know that most of the links for the download are no longer usable. I managed to get it from the depositfiles.com site, but both veronica-and-nm.ru and rapidshare mirrors have error messages stating the file cannot be found. The torrent link allows one to grab the torrent file but when I tried to actually get the editor no sources or peers could be found. I figure most of the issues are due to age, but I thought it would be good to share that information.

I'll post again on how successful my efforts are in playing around with the U files.

[PolaricEntropy]

Ah, I should seed some then, and host a version on our dx-revision.com site.