The second (under human) is wyvern_white_big, not a dragon.

It should show up on the tooltip if you hover your mouse over the picture in the readme for a bit.

You should ask Miloch who is working on the next version of I.A. As far as I know, it will include the remplacement of the animation codes in a way that should solve the subject of this topic. But ask him to be sure.

Oh, I'm counting on Miloch to eventually notice I invaded his forum and started hacking his mod. I know he's one busy half-orc these days. But if you're saying he's been working on the same problem already, maybe I should wait for his input before wasting more time on this.

As far as I know, the source code was never released. I just forcefully decompiled it, but it may not have recreated the syntax to 100% of original (see the"Tidy Error"s). It's a start anyway.

Thanks, this could come very useful later if the converted patch ever gets finalized.

- CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("P5Tst") - Should look like a Bovine Axe Thing. Drawn location will not match foot circle - this particular animation is not centered properly.
 

 
Strange. It should have been fixed a few months ago : http://www.shsforums...-thing-axe-bug/
 
 
 

I might have the old version archive, before it was updated (these files have been gathering dust on my hdd for a while).

Meanwhile, I think I got another ref slot to work. CHARACTER BGII WQM which used to be referenced by "¢_¢_" has been switched to "+_+_". Tested on MOINESSE_NINJA_MALE_HUMAN animation (¢A¢B --> +A+B).

I was wondering about the ia_reference_picker program that comes packaged with IA. Was its source code ever publicly shared anywhere, or was it only Erephine who had it? If I manage to get this .exe patch fully switched (that's a big IF for now), the app ideally should be updated to accept lists with new symbol references as input, as well as hand out ready-to-use slot ids when claiming new slots. Otherwise, the process of claiming a new slot could become complicated...

I could try, although exe patching is out of my usual area of expertise. But the devdoc file has some notes on offsets in the executable, and my initial attempts to decipher them have not been completely unsuccessful.

I've tinkered with 'µ' and 'Æ' refs and replaced them with '~' and '}'. The result appears to work, at least the animations show up. If a few people could check this and confirm it doesn't crash and burn on their end before I attempt the other slots, that'd be great.

Usage:
- unpack and install the test component
- start a new game or load existing save, shouldn't matter
- CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("P5Tst") - Should look like a Bovine Axe Thing. Drawn location will not match foot circle - this particular animation is not centered properly.
- CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("P5Tst2") - Should look like a Nabassu.
- CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("P5Tst3") - Should look like a Chimera.

I've modified Erephine's file renaming utility to automatically mass-rename files from the old scheme to new one (¢A¢E1A1.BAM --> +A+E1A1.BAM, etc.).
 
This means hopefully there will be no need to reupload those GB-sized content archives or worry about files previously installed by mods like Aurora's Shoes, it's enough to add a couple lines like this:
 

AT_NOW ~infinityanimations\batch\renamer.exe "infinityanimations\content\"~ 
AT_NOW ~infinityanimations\batch\renamer.exe "override\"~

 
to the TP2.

You still have to extract the files using the English code page while doing so... as that's where the thing goes boom. ... so it would be better to reupload the files.

Hmm. This should only be possible if the file extraction program was non-Unicode. Which would be strange, to say the least, in this day and age.

But suppose that's exactly what happens and non-Unicode software is used, when you say "goes boom" do you mean that the files extract with incorrect filenames (i.e. for instance Жaag11.bam instead of Æaag11.bam on code page 1251), or that they fail to extract at all? Because in the first case, the renamer utility actually should still work - it should rename both Æaag11.bam and Жaag11.bam into }aag11.bam, I accounted for that possibility.

The IwD young white dragon uses one of BGI MONSTER LONG 4 PART slots, not one of the dragon slots.

I'm not sure what you're asking is even possible - all "color-cloned" animations in the vanilla game which use different palettes for the same set of BAMs still occupy different slots for each variation. For example, each type of spider takes 1 entry in ANIMATE.IDS, even though they all use the same animation with different bmp palette:

0x7A00 SPIDER_GIANT
0x7A01 SPIDER_HUGE
0x7A02 SPIDER_PHASE
0x7A03 SPIDER_SWORD
0x7A04 SPIDER_WRAITH

It's the same for vanilla dragons (except black and silver).

The "paletted" bit in the slots descriptions refers to them using character colors (major/minor/hair/metal/etc colors in the CRE file), not to them being able to swap BMP palettes in some way while only taking 1 animation entry slot. At least that's my understanding so far.

Argh !!!

I will need to use new dragons slots (5 Tarasques and maybe more than a dozen new dragons if I can deal with their palettes).

So what do you mean : are the "35 more dragon slots free to use" vanilla ones (inluded in IE) or the number of free slots available in I.A. ?

As far as I can see, there are a total of 44 dragon (XDR) slots in anims.list, from entry 0x1209 to 0x1234. None of them are officially taken yet, all are free to use, judging by the latest ref list posted in this forum. Sounds like you will be taking a good chunk of them, Gwendolyne. Are you sure you need all the different paletted types?

OK, a quick follow-up on this while we're waiting for Miloch.
 
It seems that the Reference Picker program actually does not need any updates whatsoever - all it does is read the contents of the anims.list file from the same folder, and looks for the first open slot of appropriate type in that list when claiming a new animation slot. I swapped all slot prefixes in that file with new symbols, and it worked like a charm after that. This is very good news, 'cause I was worried someone (read: me) would have to rewrite it from scratch to make this work. I'm attaching the modified .list file and the .txt with latest reference list converted to new symbols in case someone wants to try this.
 
Locally, all ref slots have been converted to use new symbols. No significant problems so far. The only thing I haven't figured out yet are several dragon slots - they appear to be using a few non-conventional characters that are not used anywhere else in the .exe patch plus I'm yet to locate their offsets in the executable:

0x122c    XDRµ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x122d    XDRР   EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x122e    XDRÞ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x122f    XDRØ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x1230    XDRÑ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x1231    XDRÆ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x1232    XDR    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x1233    XDRß    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted
0x1234    XDRÇ    EMPTY                                 HUGE   D Do  DRAGONS (XDR) unpaletted

Fortunately, there are 35 more dragon slots free to use apart from these, but still.
 
The next step will be thorough testing of all slots listed in anims.list to make sure I didn't miss any old symbol references, and didn't replace something I shouldn't have.
 
Current table of symbol swaps in reference names: 

 OLD:          NEW:
µ = 0xb5  ->    0x7e = ~
Æ = 0xc6  ->    0x7d = }
¢ = 0xa2   ->    0x2b = +
£ = 0xa3   ->    0x7b = {
¥ = 0xa5   ->    0x2c = ,
Ð = 0xd0   ->    0x26 = &
Þ = 0xde   ->    0x27 = '
Ø = 0xd8   ->    0x3d = =

If anyone has objections about the chosen replacements now's the time to speak out, before I start full testing of the changes.

I was referring to the adult version. The green ring should be the same as the normal dragons.

There's an adult version? The file you linked only has the young dragon, and there's no adult listed in current reference list... Yes, the foot circle used by the young animation is the same size (HUGE) as the XDR slots. The BGI MONSTER LONG 4 PART slot refspapce is split into 2 parts, entries in 0x1001 to 0x10ff range have LARGE foot circle, and 0x1101 through 0x11ff have HUGE foot circle size. The young white dragon uses the first entry (0x1101) in the second range.

Gwendolyne can just replace the palette on the creature file by the same means that ... no I actually don't know what it means... as Gwendolyne has done this, but... apparently there's problem !?!

So Gwendolyne just needs to append the animate.ids and name the files correctly... or ?

From that thread, looks like what he did was repalette a group of bam files using several different bmp palette files. Thus, he now has several sets of dragon and tarrasque BAMs, each of different "coloring". Each of them will require its own separate animation slot (entry in ANIMATE.IDS) to show up in the game, and will be treated as a standalone animation by the engine (the engine has no idea they are in any way similar, it just draws the contents of the BAM files as indicated by the animation id field in the CRE files). There's no problem, unless occupying 15-20 out of 44 available XDR slots for basically the same 2 recolored animations can be called such.

I assumed BG2EE, should've read more carefully. I didn't think it could be installed on anything except BG2[EE] or BG2+BGT.

I have BG2EE installed and I can confirm SW2H21.ITM is definitely there, so the problem is somewhere else. Which folder are you running the install .exe from? It should be the same folder which contains the game's CHITIN.KEY file.

Keep in mind WeiDU will auto-update itself if you run the old version .exe from same folder where you also have more recent versions.

Don't work, tavern music start on GNoll Stronghold and Bandit Camp, and Imoen have wrong soundset.

 

Are you trying this on an existing save, by any chance? The changed TP2 from above won't affect areas already visited in your saved game. Imoen is not touched by BGTMusic at all, but messed up soundsets and strrefs are a common problem after loading a save made with a different mod setup/install order than the current one.

I think the easiest solution would be to make the .exe from the archive read-only. Right-click the .exe, set the read-only file attribute, click OK. It should fail to auto-update then. EDIT: Scratch that - testing shows WeiDU has no respect for that flag whatsoever, and updates anyway.

 

And I don't think this requires any other drastic action such as changing WeiDU ADD_MUSIC behavior - the change in v233 was logical and is actually useful, making it easier for "normal" mods to add their music into the game without creating duplicate entries in the .2da if the mus file already exists (i.e. added by another mod). Some other existing mods, or mods currently in development may rely on that behavior, and changing it could break more than just BGTMusic.

 

It is not a normal situation for a mod to add duplicate entries for the same MUS file to the songlist, in fact it's a very strange solution, I guess it was just chosen as a convenient shortcut. The ARE files should have been changed to refer to the same existing 2da entry instead.

Nope, I've tried it exactly as you said and I still get the tavern music on the gnoll and bandit maps. Like I said though, as long as you pick the just BG1 option the music will work fine. Except there's no music on the very first Candlekeep map but tbh I don't remember if there ever was. Candlekeep in Chapter 6 has the right music though.

And you updated the WeiDU .exe of setup-bgtmusic to v236 before installing it? You can check this in .DEBUG file - it should say "WeiDU v 23600 Log" at the top.

EE only uses new formats for GUI files (+worldmap mos I think) though. And it will work fine with v1 bam and mos files too. So unless you intend to modify the new gui, there really is no reason to wait. Unless I'm missing something.

 

The following TP2 code will copy all V2 files in the game into "BAMBATCH/V2" subfolder if you want to check out a complete list of what's "uneditable":

COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP GLOB ~.*\.bam~ ~override~
	READ_ASCII 0x4 ~version~ (2)
	PATCH_IF ~%version%~ STRING_EQUAL_CASE ~V2~ BEGIN
		INNER_ACTION BEGIN		
		COPY_EXISTING ~%SOURCE_FILE%~ ~bambatch/v2~
		END
	END
BUT_ONLY

COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP GLOB ~.*\.mos~ ~override~
	READ_ASCII 0x4 ~version~ (2)
	PATCH_IF ~%version%~ STRING_EQUAL_CASE ~V2~ BEGIN
		INNER_ACTION BEGIN
		COPY_EXISTING ~%SOURCE_FILE%~ ~bambatch/v2~
		END
	END
BUT_ONLY

Area Tilesets use the PVR format (which is uneditable ATM) as well. BGII:EE also introduced 32-bit bitmap files which is a new format to the Infinity Engine and which NearInfinity can't handle yet (although DLTCEP might can).

 

Yes, but old TIS tilesets are still accepted and will work just as well (so there's no need to wait for new tools to create a new area for your modding needs). New tilesets can currently be loaded in latest DLTCEP (use "Load MOS..." option) and exported as bitmaps/TIS, although not without problems (resulting images/tilesets have visible graphical glitches aka "tears" at tile borders).

 

Item description images is the only serious problem I've hit in modding BG2EE - old BAMs aren't displayed at the moment, but as I understand this is going to be fixed in a future patch.

nope. I cannot open the new audio files in ANY way.

 

They're simple OGG files. Extract them from biffs with weidu (weidu.exe --biff-get whatever.wav), change extension to .ogg and play with any decent music player (foobar2000, winamp, windows media player, etc.) to see what's in them.

 

DLTCEP menu option Sound -> WAVC to WAV will also correctly extract and convert them to old-fashioned WAVs which will be recognized by non-EE games.

so where one would find updated tools?

http://sourceforge.n...es/DLTCEP 7.6g/

 

Not a modding suite per se, but a game files editor (which is enough to do almost anything you'd want, including a total conversion of the whole game). Yes, it should be compatible with both EEs.

Enhanced Editions have renewed interest in the Baldur's Gate series and attracted a host of new players who've never had a chance to try it before. Who knows how long that'll last, but I'd say now is the perfect time to get your mod out until such wide interest wanes again.

Even without EEs though, I think you underestimate how many people still play this game. Just browse the downloads section on this site and keep an eye on the downloads count of the mods listed there.

Don't know much about NWN modding or how active its community is these days.

I don't own a Mac, so I can't give verified instructions. But I see Kaeloree included sox in the package and TP2 uses HANDLE_AUDIO to process audio, so in theory this should install on a Mac with a proper OS X version of WeiDU binary.

 

Try this:

1. Download OS X version of latest WeiDU from weidu.org.

2. Extract the WeiDU binary from the downloaded archive (it's in the "bin" subfolder), put it into your main BG2EE game folder (it should be the one containing the CHITIN.KEY file) and rename it into "setup-arath".

3. Download the .command file attached in a zip archive to this post and unpack it into the same folder. Double-click it to (hopefully) start the installation.

 

I'd like to know if this works too - I've recently added similar install instructions on Mac OS X and Linux to the readme of a mod I'm working on, but without having a Mac I can't verify they are actually correct.

Drizzt Saga mod is currently undergoing an update for BGEE compatibility, as well as repairing various existing problems, bugs and compatibility issues along the way.

 

This topic is a request for information on existing fixes and known problems for the current versions of this mod in a generic mega-mod / BWS setup.

 

I'm aware of these files currently hosted at SHS:

- Drizzt Saga WM (7 or later) patch (changes: area location coordinates on worldmap)

- Drizzt Saga for BGT/Tutu v2 (changes: Drizzt joins after Durlag's Tower is completed)

 

I'm planning to include these changes in the upcoming v3, so these files will no longer be necessary (v2 adaptation will be included as an optional component).

 

If there are any other existing fixes applied to Drizzt Saga in the current BWS / BWP setup, please let me know here so I can include them in the new version as well. Any outstanding issues and bug reports can be posted here too. A fair amount of problems I have already found and fixed, but if it's something new I'll investigate. Note that I can't change the mod's quest and dialog content since I'm not the original author (props to flysoup for creating it), I'm just upkeeping the technical side.

 

Cheers.

The One Drizzt is very unlikely to be compatible unless the author updates it, not much I can do about that - there are simply too many changes.

 

Also in v1.41 tp2 file of this mod, there is an error:

 

COPY ~THEONEDRIZZT/F_CATTIB.CRE~ ~override~
  SAY NAME1 @28
  SAY NAME2 @28
  SAY INITIAL_MEETING @29
  SAY BATTLE_CRY1 @30
  SAY DAMAGE @31
  SAY DYING @32
  SAY SELECT_COMMON1 @33
  SAY SELECT_COMMON2 @29
  SAY DIALOG_HOSTILE @34
  SAY BIO @35
  WRITE_ASCII 0x260 ~_TASIGHT~ #8
  WRITE_ASCII 0x268 ~_DPLAYER~ #8
  WRITE_ASCII 0x4a4 ~_CHAN07~ #8
  WRITE_ASCII 0x4b8 ~_BRAC04~ #8
  WRITE_ASCII 0x508 ~_POTN08~ #8

 

Those are Tutu item and script references, though the One Drizzt mod as far as I understand is BGT only (otherwise how it can make Drizzt continuous through RoT). Looks like the author copied these lines from Drizzt Saga Tutu install branch, not realizing there were two branches for BGT and Tutu.

 

Also I would request that you would make the biff-ing made in the "Areas.bat" file optional, so the BWInstall pack doesn't need to overwrite it. You should be able to ask Lollorian the exact details on that.

 

More details would be good, so far I can't find any place in BW installpack's bat files that overwrites area biffing in Drizzt Saga - only a small patch made to Sounds.bat to remove pausing the installation. Or are you referring to the fact that biffs created from .bat files cannot be later uninstalled with weidu and have to be deinstalled manually?

 

 

There's a folder with fixes included with the BWP Fixpack,
And the Russian Textpack includes a translation.

 

Thanks, I'll take a look at those.

Looking for translations for 17 new lines in BGEE-compatible Drizzt Saga version in French, Italian, Polish and Spanish languages.

 

- 4 lines are component names for WEIDU.LOG (try to use only latin symbols for these)

- 4 lines are setup feedback lines (try to use only latin symbols for these)

- 9 lines are dialog and journal entries for a new Delayed Start component (can use any national symbols here)

 

The short TRA file for translation with comments is attached to this post. Please attach the translated version of the same file, rather than simply posting translated text in a response post (I'd rather not worry about losing any special characters while copy-pasting and saving).