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?

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

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

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.

We are happy to announce that NPC Interaction Expansion Project (IEP), a grand endeavour to uplift non-romancing relationships with Bioware NPCs to the high quality standards set by modern mods in regard of depth and complexity, has been expanded once again now adding Valygar to its fold.

 

An old La'Valygar project got revived, enhanced, edited and renamed by fluke13, Lava Del'Vortel and Jastey, turning into a full-fledged Valygar Friendship.

With this mod installed, you should be able to experience up to 12 dialogues in SoA and up to 5 dialogues in ToB. Note that the mod has changed greatly when compared to its previous incarnation. The most prominent changes from La'Valygar project are additional proofreading and editing, new talks, and improvements to the old ones.

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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.

We are happy to announce that the mod Test Your Mettle! is now available on SHS. This mod provides you with an adventure that has been tailor-made for the intrepid adventurer. You have the opportunity to meet exotic races, uncover a devious plot, or simply enjoy battle with an endless stream of monsters.

Mod authors and supporters: Argent77 (writer, coder), typo_tilly (proofreading) and Jastey (additional help).
The mod is available for BG2:EE and EET, patched to 2.0 or higher.

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EvilMax, you might find some useful info in this thread and this post in regard of ever-running scripts and what to do with these.

I've moved the discussion from BWP18 to here because it was getting all the more offtopic there.

Regarding starting your modding career it would still be offtopic both here and on BWP18 thread , so you might want to start a proper thread in IE Help subforum to increase exposure, but I won't split it further unless it blows off proportion here as well So, I don't know if my experience could be considered mainstream, but when I started modding I first figured what I want to do and then peeked at other's mods dabbling in the chosen genre learning how they did the same. Unless you're a programmer by trade you might want to stick with older mods at first because they used much simpler weidu back then, and when you are comfortable with the general concepts expand your study to modern things like LPF. That's what worked for me anyway. There are also places with tutorials on this and that (1, 2, 3 and 4 comes to mind), but even with these it's worth it to decide what do you want to do first

So I cannot figure how to create the setup-rr.exe file.

Setup-*.exe in every mod is the same WeiDU exe renamed to follow given mod's name. Thus all you need to do is to download ANY mod where setup-that_mods_name.exe is present and RENAME that .exe into setup-rr.exe.
Now of course there's different versions of WeiDU exe, like, v.1, v.2 and so on up to v.230 or whichever is the latest, so you should preferably get your donor .exe from the mod updated/release in this year, just in case (as Jarno said), but with RR being as old as it is you would do fine even with .exe version of 2015 or something.

I get the impression the Rouge Rebalancing v4.92 is missing the Setup-......exe file.  Any chance to find it with another site?

Just take any other setup-X.exe and rename it to setup-rr.exe, you are all set

Well it's clearly error on Sandrah part - that mod relies on the old and unsupported version of NTotSC - so it has nothing to do with NTotSC and should be reported on Sandrah's forum.

Today we welcome a new modder many of you may already know: Artemius_I - the author of companion mods, various tweaks, kits and many more. Many of those, who use Enhanced Edition games probably heard his name before. From now on you'll find his mods hosted here, at Spellhold Studios.


Joinable Companion Mods:

Sirene NPC for BGEE, SoD, BG2EE (forum│download)
A lawful good female tiefling paladin of Ilmater. Banters, friendship, romance for both genders and a custom-designed kit. Sirene exhibits many of the typical qualities expected of a paladin; she is kind, dutiful and faithful. However, beneath her calm exterior lies a hidden temper owing to the fell blood which flows in her veins.

Drake NPC for BGEE, SoD (forum│download)
A neutral good male human priest of Tyr with an irreverent and sarcastic attitude who serves the Order of the Radiant Heart, sent to investigate the iron crisis in the north. Banters, friendship and original voicing. BG2EE portion of the mod is under development.

Pai'Na NPC for BG2EE (forum│download)
A true neutral female half-drow hivemaster. An expansion of the original BG2 minor character with banters and friendship. Personality-wise, she can be moody, unsociable and temperamental, but she isnt that bad of a person if you get on her good side.

Aura NPC for BGEE, SoD (forum│download)
A lawful good gnome artificer thief. Banters, friendship, quest, new items and hints towards a romance with a female PC. Aura is kind and idealistic at heart. She can be rather shy and socially inept when interacting with strangers, but easily turns peppy and excitable when the topic strays into her fields of expertise. BG2EE portion of the mod is under development.

Most companions written by Artemius include crossmod banters between each other as well as with other companion mods like Fade (BG2), Verr'Sza (BGEE), Will (BG2EE), White (BG). Sirene also reacts to some quest mods, G3 Romantic Encounters and some more. You may expect even more crossmod content in the future.


Tweaks, Rule Changes and Additions:

Shadow Magic for BGEE, SoD, BG2EE (forum│download)
Adds a new school of magic to the game. Play as a Shadow Adept with a selection of 100+ exclusive Shadow Weave spells, some with similarities with Weave magic while others are completely original. Shadow Magic is more powerful than regular magic but also dangerous as it drains the user's life force. Includes new kits with exclusive spells, items and familiars.

Artemius' Tweaks (forum│download)
Assorted personalized tweaks that might interest many players. You'll find here components like: Expanded Racial Enemies, Expanded Shapeshifting, Expanded Racial Bonuses, Cloak of Dragomir only decreases stats in daylight, new kits and many more.


We're also happy to welcome some new kit mods written by Artemius:

The Artisan's Kitpack (thread│download)
This mod adds a collection of custom-made kits and reworks of existing kits for various classes.

Bardic Wonders (thread│download)
This mod adds new bard kits with specialized bard songs to the game, as well as a new merchant to Baldur's Gate II who carries new bardic items.

Warlock Mod (thread│download)
This mod adds a version of the Warlock as a kit/pseudo-unique class.

As you can see, many new mods joined SHS today. We encourage you to check them out! Enjoy!

P.S. Spellhold has opened a new subforum dedicated for kit mods. It's a communal subforum where kit mods of various authors could be hosted, so any kits of a good quality are welcome.

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?

Almateria's Restoration Project has been well known and gathered popularity for years now. It started as a restoration of unused sounds, but then it become much more than that. Today it includes many components that bring back items, characters, encounters, dialogues and many many other things! It is a great option for those who are fishing for unfinished business-kind of content as well those who enjoy seeing new bits here and there. Note that the mod affects both Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal content. It should also work fine on BG2EE.
 
ARP has just been updated, and we are happy to use this opportunity to give a recognition long due: to welcome that mod among all the other SHS projects, and welcome the author, Almateria, among SHS modders.

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Wilson Chronicles is now officially a Spellhold Studios mod. The mod includes party dialogues and some encounters to make sure those groups who will decide to travel with the BG2EE hidden bear companion won't suffer from a lack of interesting events. The added dialogue maintains the style of the original game: bears have their own language, after all, and we should all respect that.

So if you want Wilson to turn into a full NPC, install the expansion and enjoy the beary adventures!

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Giuseppe, I think I have fixed it, please check now.

I think OP was referring to that [D/L] button right under forum name: it was broken indeed, so I fixed it. Thank you for the report SkeleTony!

We are happy to announce that halls of our dear Spellhold is now also a home of Argent77 and many of his mods. His works were available for quite some time both here and on Beamdog forum and became both renowned and praised, and are now getting well deserved personal subforums for easier access and discussions, while Argent77 himself is joining the ranks of official Spellhold modders.
 
So check out his chambers, and enjoy what he has prepared for all BG, IWD and PST fans. Here is the list of his projects now officially hosted on Spellhold:

Afaaq, the Djinni Companion: forum, download, info
A djinni and faithful traveling companion throughout BG2, BG2:EE or IWD:EE.

Golem Construction for Spellcasters (EE): forum, download, info
Allow spellcasters to build their own golems.

PS:T Unfinished Business - Reloaded: topic, download
A continuation of Qwinn's PS:T Unfinished Business that restores content cut from the game!

PS:T Varieties: forum, download
This will be a home for smaller mods from various authors, but Argent77 is the first to settle there.

Reveal Hidden Gameplay Options (EE): forum, download, info
Reveals hidden gameplay options within EE games.

Skip Chateau Irenicus: forum, download, info
Provides a sensible shortcut to quickly escape from Irenicus' Dungeon.

This is not, by any means, complete list of Argent77’s mods, both released and being developed, so stay tuned for more!

ScuD, please check now. I think I've fixed that.

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   

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.

I am happy to announce that new mod series is now available at Spellhold Studios. Athkatlan Grounds has a very specific aim - to make Athkatla, our well-konwn BG2 city more interesting by introducing new places, quests and encounters. Mods that are already released:

Southern Edge - this mod has already been available for a while. It introduces a brand new district with its own quest and characters, like Mairo Mudclapper: a halfling arcanist in need of some help in trackig down dangerous parasite hiding somewhere in the district.

Ooze's Lounge - that brand new mod adds a new part of sewers. It can be entered through the grate next to Jansen house... but you must first find the key lost somewhere in Athkatla. The mod adds new areas, mini-quests and some new, quite unusual merchants.

Both mods are available for both old BG2 and BG2EE, even though they were made with EE in mind.

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And it has glowing mushrooms too! Ahem... I meant, congrats on that release Lava

I am receiving email notifications about PM replies. These often come in bundles and with huge delay but I rather blame my Outlook than SHS.