Project X: Custom Currency

General Information

This article provides the required tools and steps to creating custom currency for the Project X WoW game engine recreation project.

Required Programs

• DBC Editor | WDBX, MyDBCEditor
• DB Editor | Heidi SQL, Mysql, Navicat

Required Files

• item.dbc
• CurrencyTypes.dbc
• CurrencyCategory.dbc

Links to all the required tools can be found on the Project X: Development Tools page.

Steps

1. Open CurrencyCategory.dbc and create a new row. (You can file the structure here)

Set the following fields

• Flags
• Name_Lang_enUS
• Name_lang_Mask (Keep as 16712190)

2. Open the Item.dbc file, scroll to the bottom and create a new row. (You can file the structure here)

Set the following fields

• ClassID to “10” (which is money)
• SubclassID to “1” (which refers to the Class ID)
• Sound_Override keep at “-1”
• Material to “4”
• DisplayInfoID to “(Item id that uses the Icon you want)“
• InventoryType to “1”

3. Open CurrencyTypes.dbc and create a new row

Set the following fields

• ItemID to the auto-generated ID from the item.dbc file
• CategoryID to the auto-generated ID from CurrencyCategory.dbc
• BitIndex (Kept the same as CategoryID)(Not really sure | Limited to 32*2 Bit)

4. Open The Database and add a new entry to Item_template

Set the following fields

• Set the Item ID to the ID that was auto-generated in the Item.dbc
• Class to “10”
• Subclass to “8”
• Soundoverridesubclass to “-1”
• Name to “Name of currency”
• Display ID to as the same value as the Item.dbc>DisplayInfoID
• Quality between “1-7” <Quality Types>
• AllowableClass & AllowableRace to “-1”
• Stackable to “2147483647”
• Description (w/e you want the item description to be)
• Bag Family to “8192”