Hey everyone, I’m wondering if I have things set up right for new items to drop. I have currently made 24 new items to go with my mod, and so far from several hours of playtesting I haven’t seen a single one drop. Now I’m aware it’s very possible that I simply have been unlucky or not been patient enough to yet see one appear, but I figured I might as well ask if I’m doing it right before I spend several more hours not finding anything 
. On that note, if someone could take a peek at my process I list here and tell me if I’m missing a step or doing something wrong that would be awesome.
Step 1: I made some new items. I did this by copying existing items (mainly to use the proper armor or weapon models that I like) and then editing them and giving them new names and tags.
Step 2: I stared at loot-tables for hours lol. It took me a while but from what I can gather, and please correct me if I’m wrong, the only tables that link to the actual items themselves are the ones labeled “tdyn” or the ones that are for specific unique items. I also gathered that epic items correlate to the letter “c” in names and legendary to the letter “d”.
Step 3: I copied all the relevant tdyn “c” and “d” files I could find for all the gear categories that were relevant to my new items, starting with ones from GDX2 (Forgotten Gods DLC) since I assume the latest dlc overwrites any of the base files, and then added them under the same paths in my mod.
Step 4: I linked my new items in the tdyn files I copied, similar to how the other items were already linked in there, and gave them a weight equal to the highest weight value I could see on the loot table. End result being something like this for each tdyn file:
In this case my new one is there at the bottom, the one with “bcr” in the name. With the mod built with the links in the tdyn files, my assumption would be that my new items are findable in-game? Just curious if anyone could let me know if this is correct or not?
On a sort-of related note, with Wayback’s guide I got new affixes to drop just fine for me when it comes to randomized loot, it’s just the unique epic and legendary items I want to add in that I’m unsure if I have implemented properly.
