Announcing Torchlight 2 Rapid Respec

[Chthon]

[EDIT: Last Update 11/15/2012, version 1.05]

I am pleased to announce:



Torchlight 2 Rapid Respec is an unofficial, fan-made respec editor for Torchlight 2.

Main Features:

• Free, unlimited respec of attributes, skills, and spells.
• Faster (and more forgiving of mistakes) than the in-game interface with a respec mod, especially for high-level characters.
• Optional character legitimacy controls to restrict build possibilities to only those that could have been produced through normal gameplay. (If you use these, your character will not be labeled as a cheater.)
• Guild-Wars-style load and save builds with a single click. (A customizable scaling and breakpointing algorithm adapts builds across different character and fame levels.)
• Guilds-Wars-style build codes for sharing builds over forums or in-game chat.
• Aesthetic controls -- change your character's name, sex, face, hairstyle, hair color, bandana color (Outlander), pet name, and pet type.
• Cheats -- give your character more gold, clone your character, change single-player difficulty level, change NG cycle, resurrect dead hardcore characters, promote a softcore character to hardcore, and (resurrect and) demote a hardcore character to softcore. (Your character will not be labeled as a cheater.)
• Remove the "cheater flag" caused by console use.

Screenshots:



Usage:
For detailed usage information, please refer to the complete help file online.

Download Current Version: 1.05
The current version is compatible with .svb save files from TL2 patches 1.12.X.7 through 1.17.x.14. It will remain compatible for all future versions retaining .svb version number 0x42, and quite possibly beyond that.

DOWNLOAD: LINK

Change Log:

• Version 1.05: Added support for new Badger and Owl pets.
• Version 1.04:
  
  • New feature: Added cheat option to change death count.
  • Another bugfix for "Parse Error: Never found huge pre-pet FF block" for some high-level characters. Bug should be really, completely dead this time.
  • Fixed bug that caused brown bulldog and brown ferret to be detected as "unknown pet."
• Version 1.03:
  
  • Fixed bug that caused "Parse Error: Never found huge pre-pet FF block" for some high-level characters.
  • Added new EXPERIMENTAL spell respec feature. In v1.03 spell respec only works for players (not pets) and can only add spells if you have blank slots.
  • Build codes have been further compressed from 76 characters down to 72 characters. There is backwards compatibility for old build codes.
  • Fixed bug with file selector for saved build codes initially pointing to the wrong directory.
  • Minor UI improvments such as tab order fixes and typo correction.
• Version 1.02:
  
  • Support for extra-long names. Rather than disallowing any name longer than Torchlight 2's name length limit (15 characters), name change/clone features will now warn that a name exceeds the limit and let you choose whether to proceed. (Use extra-long names at your own risk)
  • Fixed bug with name change/clone sometimes not working if new name was not the same length as old name.
  • Fixed bug with pet name sometimes being incorrectly detected as "yyyyyyyyyy."
  • Improved parser's ability to detect when a parse error has occured. (Leads to more error messages, but fewer corrupted save files.)
• Version 1.01: Fixed bug with female ->male sex change.
• Version 1.00b: Fixed bug where manual update check incorrectly thought it was v0.99.
• Version 1.00:
  
  • New features:
    
    • Added cheat option to remove "cheater flag" for console use.
    • Added cheat option to change newgame cycle.
    • Added persistent default save directory choice to the options menu.
    • Options menu now pops the very first time the program is run so user can make choices about default save directory and automatic update checks.
  • Bug Fixes:
    
    • Fixed major crash bug. (This should fix ALL instances of "the program crashes when I try to do X.")
    • Fixed bug with softcore/hardcore change not working properly with NG+ characters.
    • Fixed sex-change file corruption bug. Face and hairstyle are now both set to type 0 when changing sex.
    • User is now outright prevented from attempting to change pet type when pet is transformed.
    • Expanded character set for name change features to include ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) - = _ + [ ] { } \ | ; : ' " , . < > / ?
    • Fixed bug with Outlander hair/bandana colors.
• Version 0.99: Initial release

Known Issues:

• Spell/tome respec is still experimental. It may improve in future versions.
• Level-based skill caps don't always match the game. This is because the skill caps for certain skills are buggy in the game. There's nothing I can do about this.
• Name change/clone sometimes results in a corrupted save file if the new name is not the same length as the old name. This appears to be connected with save files that were originally created prior to patch 1.12.X.7.
• After changing pet type, your pet's model may be scaled larger or smaller than normal. This effect can be corrected by using a temporary fish transformation.
• After changing sex, the icon in the character selection screen may show the old sex. The icon will be corrected after the first time you load the character into the game.

Special Thanks:
Special thanks to LordNightmare for figuring out the descrambling algorithm, and to Shatter for the checksum alogrithm!

[Chthon]

Please post bugs, support issues, and feature requests in this thread.

FYI: I will be away for the next 4-5 days with dubious possibility of internet access. Do not panic when you don't get responses from me right away. I will see to this thread when I return.

Also, I suggest reading the help file if you have questions. It's very thorough; it might answer them.

[ogboot]

Curious about fame points.

[Loutrezilla]

This is a huge release !

Many thanks.

[Vesper]

Gonna try this out; look great!

[UncleJim]

Right on dude you have been working on this sense the beta. Congrats.

[Zidders]

This is pretty tight, Cthon. Slick.

[Corpsecrank]

This is pretty awesome. Not sure I will use it myself but regardless this is really cool.

[TothTheAtlant3an]

That is a really nice tool, will DL for sure.

[qian]

thank you Chthon, LordNightmare, Shatter, and whoever else

no respec mod can beat "Free, unlimited respec of attributes, skills, and spells."
I also like the "clone your character" feature

will definitely try this mod out once I have time

[imolate]

very very interesting.. so it can respec attributes? thats kool.

[Elazul2k]

Nice! I have been waiting for something I can respec my Embermage's stats on since I completely messed up along the way and don't want to level up another character from scratch! Many thanks I will give it a try!

[TothTheAtlant3an]

Wow! After reading the online help file I think this tool is uber mega super cool!
I'm going to change my bandana color to red.

[Azeal]

Downloading to fix my first chars' attributes. And because this is just so handy looking. Very nice.

[undertaker79]

Thanks a lot for all the hard work you guys put in making this. I have been waiting for this ever since you mentioned it after beta, will give it a try and update with any findings.

[imolate]

does this give cheater flag?

[Shawnyall]

You're a beautiful person. I love you.

[BrianW]

Cool project! Really awesome to see people put a lot of work into their modding efforts.

[Carbon]

For most of the time when I try to change something like a Name or gold amount or anything like that, the program crashes for me

[Shawnyall]

For most of the time when I try to change something like a Name or gold amount or anything like that, the program crashes for me

It still changes it. The crash just happens. :/