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Tables
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If you have launched OpenMW CS already and played around with it for a bit, you
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will have noticed that the interface is made entirely of tables. This does not
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mean it works just like a spreadsheet application though, it would be more
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accurate to think of databases instead. Due to the vast amounts of information
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involved with Morrowind tables made the most sense. You have to be able to spot
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information quickly and be able to change them on the fly.
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Used Terms
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Record
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An entry in OpenMW CS representing an item, location, sound, NPC or anything
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else.
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Instance, Object
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When an item is placed in the world, it does not create a whole new record
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each time, but an *instance* of the *object*.
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For example, the game world might contain a lot of exquisite belts on
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different NPCs and in many crates, but they all refer to one specific
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instance: the Exquisite Belt record. In this case, all those belts in crates
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and on NPCs are instances. The central Exquisite Belt instance is called an
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*object*. This allows modders to make changes to all items of the same type
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in one place.
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If you wanted all exquisite belts to have 4000 enchantment points rather
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than 400, you would only need to change the object Exquisite Belt rather
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than all exquisite belt instances individually.
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Some columns are recurring throughout OpenMW CS, they show up in (nearly) every
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table.
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ID
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Each item, location, sound, etc. gets the same unique identifier in both
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OpenMW CS and Morrowind. This is usually a very self-explanatory name. For
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example, the ID for the (unique) black pants of Caius Cosades is
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``Caius_pants``. This allows players to manipulate the game in many ways.
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For example, they could add these pants to their inventory by opening the
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console and entering: ``player- >addItem Caius_pants``. In both Morrowind
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and OpenMW CS the ID is the primary way to identify all these different
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parts of the game.
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Modified
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This column shows what has happened (if anything) to this record. There are
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four possible states in which it can exist:
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Base
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The record is unmodified and from a content file other than the one
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currently being edited.
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Added
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This record has been added in the currently content file.
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Modified
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Similar to *base*, but has been changed in some way.
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Deleted
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Similar to *base*, but has been removed as an entry. This does not mean,
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however, that the occurrences in the game itself have been removed! For
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example, if you were to remove the ``CharGen_Bed`` entry from
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``morrowind.esm``, it does not mean the bedroll in the basement of the
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Census and Excise Office in Seyda Neen will be gone. You will have to
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delete that instance yourself or make sure that that object is replaced
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by something that still exists otherwise the player will get crashes in
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the worst case scenario.
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