Item Frequencies/Container Types in Stages

[Kit Sovereign]

What exactly controls what type of items - and which of the three types of barrels/crates - appear on each stage? Is it part of the .pac file, or buried somewhere in the .rel? I'm guessing the .rel, but does anybody have any idea where?

Mostly I'm concerned with the barrel/crate types; a lot of custom stages wind up having the sci-fi style crates and barrels, even when it doesn't suit them. It might have something to do with lots of stages needing an FD-based .rel, but I dunno.

If it's possible to change this with codes, I'd love to know how... ideally it'd be nice to be able to individually tweak which stage has which container type, though I'd be happy to just replace them all with the default wooden type. I've tried searching for this stuff myself, but with such generic terms ("items"! "stages"!) I wind up finding basically every post anybody has ever made.

 

[Roo525]

I couldn't tell you. I'm guessing it has to do with something outside of the stage files, since you can regulate how often you want items to appear.

 

[Hozu]

If you want say... the wooden crates/barrels that show up in Temple, open the Temple .pac file in BrawlBox, export the ItemMeleeGen### thing, and import it into the stage you want.

 

[Kit Sovereign]

Thanks! So that also applies with, say, going to FD for the metal ones or going to Yoshi's Island for the presents? Does that section also affect item frequencies (like how Earthbound stages are more likely to have Franklin Badges and Mr. Saturns)?

 

[hotdogturtle]

Thanks! So that also applies with, say, going to FD for the metal ones or going to Yoshi's Island for the presents?

Yes, and that's why most stages have the metal ones.