Hero Editor Fails to open files

[R2DII]

I am using D2-LOD 1.10 with Hero Editor 0.82 and all my characters are updated. When I try to open a character file, I get an error message saying it can't open character files and to make sure they are under 32K. They are all around 2K.

What da dillio?!?!? :confused:

[R2DII]

Ok, so I got home and removed Diablo II and reinstalled everything again. It STILL won't work! Somebody HAS to have some kind of info about this?

[Clifor]

hmmm, do you have all your .dll files downloaded and installed in the right folder?

[R2DII]

Is there any extra files I'm supposed to have downloaded other than the editor????

[Nubli]

make sure you still have all the original hero editor v0.80 files. they are necessary to run v0.82

[R2DII]

Yup I've done that too. This is what it says when I try to open a character file...

"This editor supports only Diablo II NOX and LOD version 1.09 and 1.10. Please update your version of Diablo II ( just login to Blizzard site). Then open and save your "old" characters."

All of my characters were created in LOD 1.10. Nothing I try is working.

[Nubli]

maybe your characters are equipped with 09 or lower items.

or go to options and change the level of warning measures.

[Gaz_321]

turn off the warnings and it should be ok

[A|fzZz]

I can bet turning off warnings shud do..

[R2DII]

Warning messages are disabled already. I still get the above error message. Like I said, all my characters were created under LOD with 1.10 so the weapons should all be ok. It's the wierdest thing!!!

[Nubli]

Try making a new character (like right now) and opening it with the editor. Since you re-installed d2 it should work.

[R2DII]

I'll have to try that when I get home. I did create a new Barb two days ago and it won't open either.

[R2DII]

Ok. I tried creating a new Barb as a test with no items at all. I could open it. So why can't I open all the others that I have??? How can I fix this?

I figured it out! I had a thinker. I went into Diablo II and took off all of the items I was wearing and THEN I could open the character!

Oooops. Don't know why the above message parsed together.

[Nubli]

TOLD YOU!!! LoL, your old characters were somehow equipped with 09 or lower version items, which cause problems for hero editor v0.8-v0.82

[FarvaRules]

Nice...i love creating my own sets with heroeditor.

[creaver_l]

one of these days ill get on and download that editor just to play around with open again...maybe ill get into some mod-making also for giggles... closed gets a lil boring at times

[ZonFire99]

Hero Editor will only open V1.09D, V1.10s beta, and V1.10 final patch character files.

If you have a character file from a patch prior to V1.09D, then you must update your character files to a newer patch before you can edit them in Hero Editor. To do this, do the following:

1) Make sure your D2 game is updated. (Login to Battle.Net and your D2 game will automatically get updated.)

2) Make sure that all of your character files are updated. (Start a D2 Single Player game, and load then exit/save each of your character files. This will update your character files and items.)

3) Then you should be able to edit your character files in Hero Editor.

Enjoy.

[Nubli]

If you can load 1.09D characters why can't you load 1.09 items???

[ZonFire99]

If you open a V1.09D character file, then you can import V1.09D items (but not V1.10 items).

If you open a V1.10 character file, then you can import V1.10 items (but not V1.09D items).

There are a few exceptions, but generally, you can not mix items from different D2 game patches. In fact, I highly recommend that you keep your V1.09D items in a different directory from your V1.10 items.

[R2DII]

And further more to my found solution, the actual items that appear to be causing the issues are the uniques. If I take them off, I can open their files.