Parameter 3 is located at offset 0x60 (EFF v2 only).

And it is also honestly marked as such in NI. Shame on me I checked embedded EFF (EFF v1), saw none of it, and decided it's a mystery to solve

If it is a EFF v1 : parameter is 0x4 after opcode field, and parameter 2 0x8.
If it is a EFf v2 : parameter 1 is 0x1c after signature, and parameter2 0x20.

Sadly, NI doesn't allow me to see raw data of effects, so I can't count 0x4 or any other within NI. I'm sure it will come handy in WeiDU though, so thanks for letting me know!

In fact : opcode, target, power, parameter1 (whatever the name used in NI), parameter2...

Aha, that's cool. Simply saying I should in any case use 4th field for parameter1 and 5th field for parameter2? As in, in case of the attached, I should put 1 in "value" field and 0 in "Unused" field event though it is, well, unused?

Ah, I wasn't aware of that, great to know, and thanks for the explanation

I have noticed that NI sometimes give me "G" in bcs files instead of "Global" and "GGT" instead of "GlobalGT" (weirdly, not in the each block of the same bcs). Is that intentional or some weird quirk?

Whenever I try to put bam into resource field of #215 opcode (Graphics: Play 3D Effect), if there's vvc with the same name NI changes resource from bam to that vvc upon saving. Either a bug or intended behaviour which I disagree with

It bug me for a long time that there's different names of fields for effects in NearInfinity and IESDP. In most cases I was able to draw a correlation by a guesswork, however his time I stuck.

So, # 22 Luck. IESDP says following:

#22 (0x16) Stat: Cumulative Luck Bonus
Parameter #1: Statistic Modifier
Parameter #2: Type

continuing with explanation of parameters.

IESDP on the other hand has fields like "target", "power", "value" and so on, the usual. Let's say I want to put 1 in Parameter #1 and 0 in Parameter #2, which fields in NI should I use? Or, better yet, how in general I could figure out on my own which fields should I use?

Great tutorial, thanks for the link!

No. As far as I remember at some point BWS will ask you to provide manually mods it can not download. At this moment for each mod you'll had to manually point BWS to a downloaded version, and upon BWS noticing that size/version/filename doesn't match you'll have the option to tell BWS "yeah whatever, install this one".

The result would be questionable though in case mod components composition was changed since last BWS update.

Then why post about that?

I can confirm that the download link is unfortunately down.

For me it asks to provide a google login to be able to download a file: surely it should not be anyone's effing business for something as trivial as file download, so if anyone have this mod stored and could upload to a more convenient place that would be really nice

Not arguing with your personal experience I want to notice for the greater picture that I was able to finish the mod several times: apart for a nagging feeling there should been some other way to finish part 2 than by slaughtering all of duchess palace the mod was doable with the help of walkthrough.

Hard to say anything without seeing your scripts.

 

Also, it's not precisely clear from your description does your NPC starts walking even when he is outside of the visual range of the party?

That is weird. Your cre doesn't have effect #293 attached, so at this point I can't really say why does it function off screen. Unless you are making your NPC for EE and EE changed all scripts to run in the background by default (wild guess, I have no idea how EE works). BTW I find it most convenient to check stuff like this with Near Infinity, though Infinity Explorer would handle that too. Not so sure about ShadowKeeper, haven't used that for like 10 years. Still, whatever the reason for that offscreen behaviour, you could curb it by putting See(Player1) among the triggers of your dialogue initiation script snippet. Wouldn't hurt to refine his targeting as well so that he wouldn't try to chat with Viconia. Something like that:

IF
   See(Player1)
THEN
   RESPONSE #100
      StartDialogueNoSet(LastSeenBy())
END

Unfortunately your script afslay.bcs can't be checked unless you attach that too so this is just a general idea.

Regarding scripts: can you also attach your NPC's scripts, all of them? Your area script looks just fine.

 

Regarding walking offscreen - there's effect #293, it might be called "Enable Offscreen AI" or "Set Persistent AI" or something along these lines depending on what utility you use to check your .cre file. Do check if you accidentally had this effect attached to your .cre?

Tho my issue with bard spells predates this failed Song/Silence installation. Any advice in that regard?

Contrary to your second post here you still haven't attached your WeiDU log. Note that it's not enough to just browse to needed file when composing a post, after that you had to click "attach this file" button.

We are happy to announce that we do not only release Haer'Dalis Romance updade (v2.2), but we're also happy to welcome a brand new NPC IEP mod: Haer'Dalis Friendship!

Haer'Dalis Friendship, as other NPC IEP mods, adds many new lines to the existing companions. This time it's for the famous bard, wielder of Chaos and Entropy. There are a total of 20 new dialogues added by the mod, 15 in SoA and 5 in ToB. Some of these do have particular circumstances in which they occur. The mod was brought to you by Aeryn (writer), with some help from Rhaella (coding and release preparation) and Lava (coding).

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If you are interested in more intimate relationship with the tiefling bard, try Haer'Dalis Romance. Version 2.2 includes: improved BG2EE and EET compatibility, the SoA romance track will now turn off properly if the romance is ended, ToB banters will no longer fire repeatedly. The update was provided by Rhaella.

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Jarno, I don't understand: are you saying that having the first block of the script like that
 

IF
    OnCreation()
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        blah
        Continue()
END

will prevent second block like that

IF
    OnCreation()
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        yada
END

from happening? Because if not, there's no reason to not to use two OnCreation's in the adjacent blocks.

Heya, congrats on the update! I always held ARP as a must have mod even on a minimally modded game, so I'm glad it's still being updated.

So basically any mod is free to EXTEND_TOP a block that is OnCreation() as long as it ends with a Continue() and any amount of such blocks should work fine? I don't see what's all the fuzz is about then   

The most worrying thing is that whenever an enemy casts Web or Entangle, the computer slows to a crawl and the spell effects refuse to end

Had that once, long ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the cause, but I think it was Galactygon's SpellPack. Do you have it installed?

Hello Miriamel, this subforum is fine as far as asking this on SHS is concerned, but you might want to also ask that on EET forum here.

Oh. Gosh.  Well, we don't need to see the dirty laundry.

What the hell are you talking about?

Any idea when G3 is going to be back up?  I thought SHS and G3 were on the same servers.

Not anymore. You can read more details here.

Yep

Starting from its latest version G3Fixpack started handling basilisk's petrifying effect, so I need to rewrite my code for it to work with both not fixpacked & fixpacked games. To do so I need to be able to adjust saving throw bonus of all effects of a given spell, like this:

COPY_EXISTING crspl005.spl override
	LPF ALTER_SPELL_EFFECT
		INT_VAR
			match_opcode = -1
			savebonus = savebonus+2
		STR_VAR
	END

No doubt you have noticed a line that would not work . I'll try to study tomorrow myself on how should I change this code for it to work (I feel there will be a healthy dose of dreaded "read_byte" which I understood once, about 10 years ago, and forgot completely by now ), but if someone would lend me a hand with that it would be ever so cool!

 

Bonus question: if I accidentally alter save bonus for an effect having no saving throw at all, I won't screw anything, right, this save bonus simply will be ignored by the engine?