If spellbooks work as intended (not borked during installation) they should be learnable by spellcaster in the same way as scrolls in vanilla. Try r-clicking one with your mage, there should be button for learning spells from that book.

There's a working link to v16 in the very same post where Kish announced its release

Tomkaz, about The Old Gold v0.1 - you are safe to upgrade it to v0.2. I am testing it right now installed on top of readied BWS game and all seems fine, as far as BG1 part goes at least. I especially recommend that if you are using 1PP as I fixed some misalignment in mod's graphics with 1PP's paperdolls.

IWD Item Pack got downloaded, extracted and launched fine for me. Same goes for IWD Item Fix. Have you tried those in the first and the last posts of this thread, respectively?

 

Thrown Hammers - I have 6.02 and can share if you need it. On the side note - this is the evils of that darn "master" releases of github, where each new version overwrites and pushes to oblivion previous version.

 

aTweaks v4.53 - can you clarify "not worked"? Failed to install, failed to even launch? By the way, if a mod package misses its exe (it happens, rarely) you could create it by making a copy of setup-smth_else.exe and renaming it into Setup-atweaks.exe for example. This is essentially the same file with different names.

Well well, if it Mr. Trigger-happy-with-his-delete button.

Hey man, I hope they are paying you well for offering to be a security guard and monitor this forum 24/7

Tell me temnix, is that hard to be an asshole AND a coward at the same time? Logging off each time you want to insult someone and then logging back each time you want to ask someone for help? Not too tiresome hopefully.

I am not going to post any proofs publically to not give the buggers any ideas. However, any forum member in a good standing is welcome to ask me in PM for that proofs.
 

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My my, and here I was thinking only Roxanne has the habit of talking with her alts. Or IS it Roxanne as well?
 

Now I will only say two things: that, if this trend continues, you can all expect dozens of "my" accounts, and probably everyone else's, posting in all sorts of topics, and that if Creepin was wrong about me, he might very well have been wrong about Roxanne.

It's fascinating to watch people show their true colours: one crook "bargains" to deprive us of her "invaluable" bugfixes if she won't be allowed to keep lying to us, and another threating to overrun the forum with spam if he will receive due repercussion for his cheating, useless, swinish actions. Meh.

Enough is enough.

temnix has been banned for repeatedly breaking the rules by trolling, personal attacks and being rude to other forum members. He has been repeatedly warned about unacceptability of such behaviour, and after he received a final warning that his next personal attack against other forum member will result in his ban he chose to continue his attacks by posting under alt, first as a guest, and then as a registered account. Of course, the alt is banned as well.
 
As a tribute to the old days where such action has any meaning, I am also banning the IP address that temnix used to post from under as temnix, as -me- guest and as me. registered account.

By now guest posts in this thread has already played their part: proving that guest posting doesn't benefit community. From this moment on I will remove any guest posts, as well as any posts done by accounts created later than 20th Apr. 2018. Exceptions may be done for posts that are mature, useful and well substantiated. Other than that - don't waste your breath, the discussion is for members of the community, not some cheating alts or anonyms abusing their status to be assholes.

I second the thread not being locked. Actually, this one could be merged with the Roxanne one.

Merged. And unlocked. Let's see if we'll have sudden influx of civility and coherence now that guest posting is gone.

LOL

you really have NO clue what you're talking about. I'm not temnix. And I'm not Roxanne. They both have nothing to do with me. Don't do anything stupid like punish them for what I say/do.

Ciao.

If you would care to read OP carefully you would have noticed I wouldn't throw accusation like that without having a rock-solid proof.
 

I can't believe temnix decided to use an invisible minion irl

Call it occupational hazard. You know: if you stare long enough into an invisible minion...

After I read page 5 of this enlightening topic ( now deleted ) I really think it is time to lock it down.

Thank you, I somehow overlooked the idea myself. I guess anyone having an opinion on the issue has plenty of time to voice it by now. So, much as I liked the final twist, thread is locked until any further development.

It seemed indeed rather obvious, but I hope this public pillory won't drive a much-needed active member from a shrinking community... Whatever floats their boat, I guess?

What if precisely that is intended?

 

A modder who promotes EET and new BWS and large mods must be a thorn in the side of Beamdog. With the big game installations she.enables, players can spend months and months exploring the Baldurs Gate world.

 

This keeps them away from purchasing additional products about to be released.

 

The ones that come under false disguise are those that call themselves modders in a community forum or moderators while their names appear in the end credits of industry games. Their company's interest is to sell more games and not to have people to stick to a single large modded game.

 

That's what I call obvious.

My, my, Roxanne, pretending to be a voice of the people in the attempt to sway public opinion in the very thread explaining why is that bad? Have you really no shred of decency? At the very least you should have thought how dumb your accusation would sound in the thread made by one who hate EE, as you're perfectly aware.

Well, damn, one of her alts suggested she was fired from Beamdog and the other denied this right away. This is ridiculous, really.

 
Yeah, and again here... http://www.shsforums...-15#entry600450

 

I see you've found my favourite part! Have you seen that place where she talk with herself 14 posts straight (with 1 post from real person caught in the crossfire)? Or where one of her alts quotes another? It is almost like she holds SHS for her personal stage and all of us for grateful audience who come here only to admire her escapades, good thing we haven't been asked to pay for the tickets yet!

No, it's deadly serious. Think about it: half of the people we have all come to trust and cherish here turn out to be Roxanne.

Of that, you should not worry. Roxanne only started her clumsy subterfuge few months ago, clearly not enough time to start to cherish someone, especially a guest. However with time, if not uncovered, it could indeed have led to a good members starting to doubt each other, that is exactly why I referred to that as "poisonous to community".

 

As for the rest of your post I scarcely got it's meaning, but I'll be generous and blame that on my dubious knowledge of English.

It has come to my attention few weeks ago, thanks to the tip of neighbor forum friendly administration, that a check on Roxanne posting might yield some interesting results. I have spent some time to run this check, and the results were indeed... surprising, to put it mildly. Turns out there's quite a number of posts she made under pretence of being other persons, posting, at least, under the names of PaulaHillm, PaulaM, Rasmon, stewart, verlaine (all posting as guests), Blackblade and a number of nameless "guests".

It is my personal belief that doing so was cowardly, dishonourable fraud, both highly poisonous for honest, open and meaningful interaction between fellow members of the community, and extremely rude and disgraceful towards actual members in the good standing who perceived, considered and even replied to this drivel while been intentionally mislead to believe they are dealing with real persons. Your appraisal of the issue might vary, but one thing is certain: people who has been fooled by Roxanne has all the right to know about it, and since almost none of Roxanne's alts was registered I had to provide full list of established fake posts in case anyone wondering whether he was talking to a real person or a puppet. You will find this list at the bottom of this post. The list will be expanded upon new findings.
 
The investigation is not closed. Right now, the main candidate to add to the list of Roxanne's alts is another guest poster going under the name of Sogdiane, who seems to break all records by having 84% of her posts either directly aimed to or answered by Roxanne. Also, this versus this surely enough to warrant raised eyebrows.

With that said, I'll keep a close watch for any further developments and would welcome any expertise on that community might have to root out any possible Roxannes alts I could have missed. Until then, a discretion is advised when reading any posts aimed towards her or her mods made by both guests and recently registered accounts.

I am sorry it has come to this.

P.S. You can read other angles to this story on neighbouring sites:
Gibberlings 3 thread
Beamdog thread

How do you determine something like this? IP + timestamp comparison?

Sorry for not going into details on that - sadly I might need those in the future - but rest assured that I've listed only those alts which I have absolutely no doubt about.
 

Am I Roxanne?

Was going for a witty comeback but then I remembered this is not a joke-worthy issue.

I was afraid of that. Guess I'll have to learn that old trickery once again Thank you Gwendolyne!

That's a generous offer I wouldn't miss for no hurry in the world I'll drop you details in PM shortly.

I have an effect for which I chose sphlysmt.bam as its graphical representation. Upon testing I noticed weird thing: it plays only in about 60% of times when the effect is used. I'm sure the effect itself happens as the second bam launches each time. The way I understand either the bam is broken and shouldn't play at all or it's fine and will play each time, thus I'm baffled by this random faultiness of sphlysmt.bam and would welcome any ideas on how it's possible at all?

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?

Thanks Miloch but I don't think there was any bashing going on
 

I don't know exactly what he's trying to achieve either.

This post has an explanation, with a nice picture as well, on what I am trying to achieve

I believe--and I'm sure I'll be corrected if this isn't accurate--that the engine rolls for saves on an item/spell once and at the time of the attack.

Thank you for an explanation! There goes down the drain my shield of +2 to save vs. petrifying gaze. And to think I've already made paperdoll and icon for it

Have you tried to delay the effect a second for the save throw to get reduced ? -got ninja'ed-

Nope. Will certainly try it out, thanks!

Edit: hmm, what field should I put delay amount to? "Special" (in terms of NI)? Or perhaps I should externalize it into Eff v.2 and use parameter 3?

Well, you don't technically, but you subject the victim to another delayed effect. So you first cast the spell with the save throw penalty, preferebly without being able to resist it, and another effect that using the opcode #177 with delayed effect. The then reffered .eff file containing the damage and save etc.

Ok, I don't see yet how is that better than delaying damaging effect directly, but I'll check that out. Still, even within #177, where do I put delay amount?

Ok folks, this one is really hard, and I'm certain I will need help from some of you WeiDU ninjas because the thing is way beyond my understanding of WeiDU.
 
I need to implement the following logic:

for each creature having inside its name letters "basilisk", "Basilisk", "medusa" or "Medusa" (no matter if in the beginning or in the middle)
	for each its weapon having projectile = "gaze" inside weapons item ability AND save type = "paralyze" inside such item abilities current effect 0
		add to such item ability two effects that must become effect 0 and effect 1, in that exact order, shifting all previous effects down by 2
BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

I believe I might figure out how to do so if I'll spend a month or two learning WeiDU, but I would be really happy to have help from someone for whom this is a matter of a 10 minutes to write

 

P.S. Hooray for my 1000th post in the last 14 years... damn how the time flies

I am trying to make weapon attack modify target's saving throw before applying core effect of that attack.

 

My testing rig is a dart doing 1 damage upon target failing save versus death. Target have save vs. death 10, so under normal circumstances dart hits 10 times out of 20 attacks. Then I am adding prior (slot 0) effect #33 adding 6 to target's save. If that would work in theory hit to fired ratio should fall down to about 4 per 20 attacks, but testing gives same 10 of 20, so my #33 obviously not working.

I have filed it with target 2 (preset target), value 6, modifier 0 (increment), timing 0 (instant/limited), dispel 3 (dispel/bypass resistance), duration 0 and probability 100. Which of these is wrong?

 

I am attaching the item in question just in case.

Thank you, this is an elegant idea but alas, not only I do lack #326, I'm also reluctant to touch main engine of basilisk gaze attack item: it is not a spell but embedded effects in vanilla, which at some point changes into .spl in Big World, so I will had to dynamically read and wrap said engine into my custom .spl - a feat I wouldn't dare even with the help of the community...

 

wait... ok it's 2AM so I might be wrong but...

 

subtledoctor, that is in fact brilliant! What if I insert, as a first effect, toned down by -2 version of the main gaze engine AND block original not toned down attack? That could actually work perfectly "on the old & busted engine" Now I wonder what will happen if I will give immunity to the gaze projectile from the middle of the stack of effects in this very same projectile

1. Is there any difference, regarding protections, resistances, saving throws and most importantly limited/exhaustable protections, between applying several effects directly from within weapon attack or applying 100% probable non-saveable non-resistable spell within weapon attack, which in turn contains exact same effects?

 

2. Which is the better setting to ensure utility spell, which is merely a container to certain effects, always deliver these effects: "natural/nonmagical" or "not dispell/bypass resistance"?

2.1 Am I getting this right that if a target has 50% chance to ignore the effect, this chance will still be applied even if the effect is delivered to the target not directly as the attack effect but wrapped in such utility spell?