Is it possible to change description keys from xpath?

[mjrice]

In a nutshell, I can easily change what recipes are unlocked at different levels of a given perk like the example below, where I make leather armor available under Hammer & Forge level 1 instead of level 2:

<set xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group/passive_effect[@level='1,5']/@tags">forge,toolAnvil,armorLeatherBoots,armorLeatherGloves,armorLeatherHood,armorLeatherChest,armorLeatherPants</set>
<set xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group/passive_effect[@level='1,5']/@tags">meleeToolFireaxeIron,meleeToolPickaxeIron,meleeToolHoeIron,meleeToolShovelIron,meleeToolClawHammer,meleeToolSledgehammer,meleeToolHuntingKnife</set>

But I can't change the description shown in the UI for those levels, because they are not stored in xml but rather in a csv file called localization.txt.

I tried to do something like this in case it would take a "desc" value in addition to "desk_key" but it didn't work:

<remove xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group/effect_description[@level='1']"/>

<append xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group">
		<effect_description level="1" description="You can craft a forge and make leather armor"/>
</append>

Is it not possible to alter the text resources? This seems like a big hindrance to modding A17 if so.

 

[stasis78]

There is an sdx work around but nothing you can do with vanilla mods right now.

 

[mjrice]

It turns out you can get it to do it, you just have to remove the desc_id key and add a desc_base string like so:

<remove xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group/effect_description[@level='1']"/>

<append xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group">
<effect_description level="1" desc_base="You can craft a forge and make leather armor"/>
</append>

 

[stasis78]

It turns out you can get it to do it, you just have to remove the desc_id key and add a desc_base string like so:

<remove xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group/effect_description[@level='1']"/>

<append xpath="/progression/perks/perk[@name='perkHammerForge']/effect_group">
<effect_description level="1" desc_base="You can craft a forge and make leather armor"/>
</append>

Nice find. Sadly it won’t be localized

 

[mjrice]

Nice find. Sadly it won’t be localized

Yeah, they should really put all that in localization.xml and make it accessible properly.

This same trick does not work for the pop-up help on perk progression unfortunately. So the text that you get when you hover over a locked perk seems to be inaccessible from xpath.