The command line syntax is shown below:
tes2 [-diIlpPQrRxX] slot# [field1 value1 ...]
or
tes2 -g[dfkmtu] slot#
or
tes2 -q slot# [item#1=item#2]
where slot# is a number between 0 and 5, corresponding to one of the six saved game slots.
When no switches are supplied, the character sheet for the player is displayed.
-d specifies the maximal detail setting, larger than can be given in the Daggerfall control panel. Use this switch cautiously. If you don't like the result, you'll have to find a way to undo this change on your own. Making a trial save in a spare save slot is one way to test whether or not you like the results.
-gd revokes the character's affiliation with the Dark Brotherhood.
-gf revokes the character's affiliation with the Fighter's guild.
-gk revokes the character's affiliation with the Knightly order.
-gm revokes the character's affiliation with the Mage's guild.
-gt revokes the character's affiliation with the temple.
-gu revokes the character's affiliation with the Thief's guild.
-i specifies the display of the items in the player's inventory, cart, and ship.
-I specifies the display of all the items in the save game, including corpses and unslain foes.
-l (ell) specifies the display of the player record, including guild affiliations and rank, as well as any open quests. This is the default if no switches are supplied.
-p specifies that changes to the player character record follow the save game slot number on the command line. Modifiable fields are listed in the tables below. Changes to advantange or disadvantage attributes are automatically carried over to the difficulty dagger field.
If the new field value is unsigned, that value replaces the present contents of the field in the player record. However, if the value is signed (+/-) then the present value in the field is increased (or decreased) by the specified amount.
For the non-numeric attributes, use Yes/No (or fewer letters) or 1/0. Note that spell points times Int is a little special. Turning one off reverts the character to 0.5 x Int.
With -p, changes can be read from a file where the field-value pairs have been previously stored by including @aFileName on the command line. Comments may be included in that file by writing a hyphen (-) in column one. E.g. if the file myChar contains the following
- Increase the hit points per level
hpPerLevel +10
- Rename the player
name Gwahla_the_Buffed
- Fend off nasty Ancient foos
immuneMagic y
it can be processed by
tes2 -p 0 @myChar
Field-value pairs can surround the file on the command line as well.
tes2 -p 0 merchants +2 @myChar gold +100
changes the repute base with merchants and adds 100 gold along with the changes in myChar.
Any number of @files may be included on the command line.
-P specifies changes to the character record in the same way as -p, with the following difference. When -p changes disadvantages and advantages, it automatically updates the difficulty dagger setting to correspond to the new features. Use -P to suppress the automatic update of the difficulty dagger. The difficulty dagger may be set manually with the difficultyDagger field in case you need to control them seperately.
-q by itself displays a list of all the quest items from all the open quests in the specified save game.
In its second form, an existing, non-quest item in the player's inventory (item#1) can be sacrificed to create (or counterfeit) the specified quest item (item#2). Use the first form of -q without any arguments to obtain the possible values for item#2. Use the -i form to obtain the possible values for item#1.
-Q extracts all the open quests in the specified save game into a pseudo-qbn format in the file player.qbn. The seperate tool, saveqbn can be used to extract individual quests for display with the seperate qbn tool.
-r specifies to repair all the used items in the player's inventory, cart, and ship.
-R specifies to reset all the Daedra prince quest-completed flags in savevars.dat. Now, resummoning a Daedra prince will no longer spurn the player, but will instead, reoffer an artifact quest.
-x dumps selected chunk records as a stream of hexadecimal digits. The chunk record numbers to display follow the save game slot number on the command line.
-X documents all the chunk records in the save game, as well as all the item records found with -I.
When the environment symbol TES2 is defined, it is used to locate the installation directory of the Daggerfall game. Otherwise, the tool expects to run out of the installed game directory.
Numerical player settings that can be changed using the -p switch:
| alteration | archery | axe |
| backStab | baseHealth | blunt |
| centaur | climb | commoners |
| criticalHit | currentAgility | currentEndurance |
| currentHealth | currentIntelligence | currentLuck |
| currentMana | currentPersonality | currentSpeed |
| currentStrength | currentWill | deadric |
| destruction | dodging | dragon |
| etiquette | gender | giant |
| gold | handToHand | harpy |
| illusion | impish | jump |
| level | lockPick | longBlade |
| maxAgility | maxEndurance | maxHealth |
| maxIntelligence | maxLuck | maxMana |
| maxPersonality | maxSpeed | maxStrength |
| maxWill | medical | merchant[1] |
| merchants[2] | mysticism | name |
| nobility | nymph | orc |
| pickpocket | portrait | race |
| restoration | running | scholars |
| shortBlade | spriggan | startingAgility |
| startingEndurance | startingIntelligence | startingLuck |
| startingPersonality | startingSpeed | startingSkill |
| startingStrength | startingWill | stealth |
| street | swim | thaumaturgy |
| underworld |
[1]Merchant refers to the player's merchant skill.
[2]Merchants refers to the player's repute with the merchant class.
Modifying the startingXXX isn't notably helpful once the character generation is completed. Changing the currentXXX or maxXXX while stat-enhancing trinkets are equipped isn't really recommended, as the game refigures those when the save game is reloaded, usually with unexpected, and unwanted, side-effects.
Non-numerical attributes that can be changed with the -p switch:
| 0.5xInt | 1.0xInt | 1.5xInt | |
| 1.75xInt | 2.0xInt | 3.0xInt | |
| acuteHearing | adrenaline | athleticism | |
| bonusAnimals | bonusDaedra | bonusHumans | |
| bonusUndead | criticalDisease | criticalFire | |
| criticalFrost | criticalMagic | criticalParalysis | |
| criticalPosion | criticalShock | darkAbsorb | |
| darkHealing | darkRegen | dreadAnimals | |
| dreadDaedra | dreadHumans | dreadUndead | |
| expertAxe | expertH2H | expertLongBlade | |
| expertShortBlade | forbidAdamantium | forbidDaedric | |
| forbidDwarven | forbidEbony | forbidElven | |
| forbidIron | forbidMithril | forbidOrcish | |
| forbidSilver | forbidSteel | generalAbsorb | |
| generalHealing | generalRegen | holyDamage | |
| immuneDisease | immuneFire | immuneFrost | |
| immuneMagic | immuneParalysis | immunePosion | |
| immuneShock | lessDarkMana | lessLightMana | |
| lightAbsorb | lightHealing | lightRegen | |
| lowDisease | lowFire | lowFrost | |
| lowMagic | lowParalysis | lowPosion | |
| lowShock | noDarkMana | noLightMana | |
| noManaRegen | resistDisease | resistFire | |
| resistFrost | resistMagic | resistParalysis | |
| resistPosion | resistShock | sunlightDamage | |
| waterRegen |
In the player skill section, skill settings are reported in two columns. The first, is the skill level, as seen from the character sheet within the game. The second is, I think, the number of uses of the skill accruing to a skill level increase, and is merely a field from the character record that I'm tracking at the moment.
Also note, if you run FIXSAVE and then immediately run TES2 on the fixed save game, it will be unable to find any items in the inventory. FIXSAVE reformats the item records in such a way as to hide them from TES2 and its item detection. Once the game has rewritten that saved game, TES2 will once again be able to report the inventory contents.
C> set tes2=g:\game\dag C> tes2 -l 5produces the following report
-- Using slot 5 `g:\game\dag\save5\savetree.dat' for input.
-- Savetree is 158783 bytes.
Gwahla, the Dark Elf Acrobat
Strength 75/75 Gender Female
Intelligence 50/50 Will 50/50
Starting skill 161 Agility 100/80
Base health 99 Endurance 68/68
Current health 105/105 Personality 55/55
Portrait 00 Speed 85/85
Level 9 Luck 97/66
Gold 500 Current mana 25/25
Reputation
Merchants -2 Commoners 0 Scholars -2
Nobility 2 Underworld 2
Player skill levels
Medical 17/30 Etiquette 11/2 Street 6/0
Jump 22/12 Orc 11/33 Harpy 3/0
Giant 8/7 Dragon 3/0 Nymph 5/0
Deadric 6/5 Spriggan 3/0 Centaur 6/0
Impsh 5/3 LockPick 15/2 Merchant 31/137
Pickpocket 18/7 Stealth 53/22 Swim 22/2
Climb 41/11 BackStab 25/7 Dodging 39/44
Running 48/670 Destruction 6/0 Restoration 3/0
Illusion 3/0 Alteration 5/0 Thaumaturgy 28/0
Mysticism 28/0 Short Blade 51/0 Long Blade 44/2
Hand-to-hand 48/13 Axe 3/0 Blunt 6/0
Archery 42/0 Critical Hit 45/45
Low Critical
Resistances Immunities Tolerances Weaknesses
Paralysis No No No No
Magic No No No No
Poison No No No No
Fire No No No No
Frost No No No No
Shock No No No No
Disease No No No No
Other attributes
Acute hearing No Athleticism Yes
Adrenaline rush Yes Damage from sunlight No
Damage in holy places No No mana regeneration Yes
No mana in darkness No Reduced mana in darkness No
Reduced mana in light No No mana in light No
Mana 0.5x Yes
Light Dark General In water
Rapid healing No No Yes
Regen health No No No No
Spell absorption No No No
Undead Daedra Humans Animals
Bonus to hit No No No No
Dread of No No No No
Forbid iron No Forbid steel No Forbid silver No
Forbid elven No Forbid dwarven No Forbid mithril No
Forbid adamantium No Forbid ebony No Forbid orcish No
Forbid daedric No
Short blade Long blade Hand-to-hand Axe Blunt Missile
Expert at No No No No No No
Forbid No No No Yes No No
Forbid leather armor Yes Forbid chain mail Yes Forbid plate mail Yes
Forbid buckler Yes Forbid round shield Yes Forbid kite shield No
Forbid tower shield Yes
Primary skills
Running Hand-to-hand Short Blade
Major skills
Climb Archery Dodging
Minor skills
Swim Long Blade Pickpocket
BackStab Critical Hit Jump
Starting stats
Base strength 40 Base intelligence 40
Base will 45 Base agility 65
Base endurance 50 Base personality 45
Base speed 65 Base luck 50
Hit points/level 12
Affiliations
The Fighters Guild (Apprentice)
The Dark Brotherhood (Journeyman)
Arkay (Acolyte)
The Thieves Guild (Apprentice)
Active Quests
(3) s0000999 (1) Q0C4XY04
(2) s0000977
Bank balances
Dwynnen: 11657871 Wrothgarian Mountains: 2691419
Phrygia: 11672158 Urvaius: 5924299
Ilessen Hills: 5766305
Difficulty dagger in use: 0.51
Calculated difficulty dagger: 0.51
Next level (10) after 8 skill increases.
-- Done.
You can, of course, use standard file redirection to send the report to your printer, or catch the output in a file to include or attach to an e-mail.