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Title   PCNT - Persistent Containers Author   Knat Submitted / Updated   06-16-2003 / 11-22-2006 Category   Database Related Expansions   Works on all versions View Code   --- exploit fix ---- action-spam exploit which works like this: PC moves some meters away from the chest and starts left-clicking it in a rapid manner while the PC starts to move towards it. After the arrival, his action queue will spam the chest: OnUse/OnOpen/OnClose fire in a very rapid manner and the chest will get "stuck open" most of the time, not firing OnClose/OnOpen anymore. this will not only spork many scripts, it will also render this chest unusable. this can lead to bad stuff. i worked heavily on a fix and got something ready. it's not a clever one, it's a brute force one. but it works 100% of the time. one small hassle: your chest/placeable needs to be present on the palette. you have to create it beforehand with all scripts and stuff, then dropping it to your map. it won't work if you modified your chest after you dropped it to the map. changelog: v 1.1 - added dynamic watchdog to scan for "Stuck Open" chests (applied to pcnt_open) - added various exploit fixes (applied to pcnt_open, pcnt_close) - fixed two bugs (thanks for benton for the headsup): 1. DestroyInventory() did not delete cache 2. forgot to use correct database name in case cache was deactivated v 1.0 (first final) - added a floating text message "Please walk away to close container" while the player opens a persistent container. - fixed container "lock" mechanism. it should now correctly stop other players from opening an already busy container. v 0.6 - charged items get now handled properly thanks to GetItemCharges/SetItemCharges - increased item stack size to 5. you can now store any amount of gold. one small restriction: you can't move more then 50000 gold at once. but you can store any number of gold stacks. this takes container capacity into account. e.g. container with max capacity of 10 can hold 500.000 gold (10 stacks of 50.000) - added blocking block specifc items by item type or tag filter via PINV_BlockItemByType(),PINV_BlockItemByFilter() see PINV_open for usage example - added auto caching. container will only update to database if the inventory got manipulated. reading cache will only read the inventory one time at first usage of PINV_RetrieveInventory(). storing of additional items will not issue a new read, just a single db write + readcache update. this is much faster now... - added hashing IDs now get hashed. no more limits on area TAG length while using unique IDs this also grants additional security. - secure delimiter added IDs that contain a secure delimiter character will get rejected this should prevent any form of hijacking - container now retains his sorting order through the use of LIFO (last in first out) for inventory creation/storing. - a closed chest is ALWAYS completely empty. this preserves lots of RAM on large modules FAQ (under construction) When do i use TAG IDs ? (ReflexSafe = 0) if you have a moving container (like a creature) OR if you want to share the same inventory between different containers. When do i use unique IDs ? (ReflexSafe = 1) use this kind of ID if your container is stationary. you won't have any tag dependency this way. When do i use player IDs ? (ReflexSafe = 2) use this kind of ID if you want a player vault. a container with this setting will retrieve inventory based on the using player. this is the classical PC vault thingy... Select All Text | View Code in separate window Format   Module and Code Type   Type - Item Storage Includes   BioWare Standard Description PCNT - Persistent Container Scripts by Knat update to 1.1, fixed even more exploits and some bugs this code got developed during the database beta time... features: does only need one database call to read or write a complete inventory. easy to customize and flexible you can specify a container capacity limit just by changing the WillSafe property of your placeable you can specify how a container gets indexed by changing the ReflexSafe property: optional caching included (greatly reduces database usage to a minimum) you can block items based on TAG or base item type works with every itemtype now advanced anti-exploit mechanisms multiplayer compatible uses a hashed index to overcome the 32 char limit of sVarName modular code, easy to expand or change... see readme.txt and script headers for more info. check pcnt.mod for a quick demonstration Files Name Type Size Downloads pcnt.zippcnt.zip Submitted: 06-16-2003 / Last Updated: 06-27-2003 zip 28.59Kb 2347 --

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Comments (27): 1 2 3 Posted by _Knat at 2004-02-0805:42:00     i will soon release a major update to this script, which fixes a few dupe/exploit problems and some other quirks.. stay tuned... Posted by Silverti at on06/12/04 Well, I have been using this for a long time and now the bugs are really comming out. Right now, if I open a chest, anotehr player will click on it and get the "locked" status. So while he is keeping it open, I can then pick it and get into his stuff (actually it dup's). _________________________ Creater / Designer / Host Adventure Island 1: NWN Adventure Island 2: NWN2 Link Posted by mynzai at 2003-09-1719:11:00     Yeah, some of my items do not get stored. Looks like 'custom' ones. Not sure if they have a resref, but if it's custom it won't be in .2da, is that right? Is there anyway to get it to work with requiring resref strings? Such as storing the object? I know it's 'less' efficient, but i'd rather have it working. Any thoughts? otherwise great work Knat! m Posted by Knat at 2003-08-0404:11:00     @Vain: yes, works fine with custom items @howdie: items without a resref get rejected for obvious reasons (i convert items into strings and a resref is a critical part of those item informations i need. storing them as strings is a lot more efficient compared to storing them as complete objects). but you should not have a problem with items aquired after version 1.30 because bioware fixed most/all of the blank-resref problems. gold HAS a resref and gets stored properly (it_gold if i remember properly).. Posted by Vain at 2003-07-2911:01:00     Hmmm... is this supposed to work with custom items? Posted by HOWDIE at 2003-07-1308:01:00     edit: *** WITHOUT a resref WONT be stored Posted by Howdie at 2003-07-1307:23:00     i think you should warn people that items with a module res ref wont be stored .. eg GOLD :( 1 2 3 You must be Logged In to post comments in this section.

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