Sorry for the late reply.

Tried the AM2201.wav file (thank you jastey), but now it misses AM2202.wav.

Is there a way to extract the according BIF file separately to have the content in one go?

Otherwise I will restart installation from scratch.

Greetings

Azaghal

@ jastey: Do you by chance have the AM2201.wav file? Because that's the missing one according to the debug-log.

Thank you

Azaghal

Okay, that's unpleasant. The BIF-files are all where they ought to be. But the mod can't read them.

The AM2201.wav file is not present, so I assume it has not been properly unpacked from the BIF? Will try to find one an d drop it to the override in a last attempt to save the install.

Azaghal

Don't laugh at me if I'm totally wrong, but isn't the BIF-file an archive that should (probably) contain the missing files?

Can't try my luck before Monday, when I'm back at my office laptop.

Have a nice weekend!

Azaghal

I had hoped it would be solved that easily. But when I do as you suggested, the installation keeps failing, this time missing the file AM2201.wav.

Debug-log attached. Should I try and drop that file to the override folder as well?  Or ist the problem more elemental?

Thanks for your efforts.

Azaghal

Well, another Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 plus ToB merger via BGT I assume?

Here's my WeiDu-log in case it helps.

Azaghal

Hello everybody,

while setting up a parallel installation I'm encountering an unexpected error when trying to install the above mentioned mod.

Have installed and played it many times before without any trouble. But now it stops installation because it is missing the AREA2200.bif (Ust Natha). At least that's what the attached error log tells me.

Can you help?

Thanks in advance

Azgahal

It's me again...

Playing the mod mentioned above for the first time. First minor problem encountered when supposed to meet with a contact in Delosar's Inn. Uncle Billy (IIRC) will only give his proper dialogue if you talk to him with Jan. With any other character he will only give his first line and then has nothing more to say, no matter who he's talking to. Workaround: Reload and choose Jan and only Jan to talk to him.

But the more severe problem appears a bit later: When you have entered the first floor in the house of Jan's hated rival Vaelag, he will greet you with the line "What have we got here? Guards to me!" But no guards appear and nothing happens. When talking to him, he will repeat the sentence, but no change. No continuation.

I looked into the dialogue (E_JVAELA.dlg) and the state 5 says:

Response: What have we got here? Guards to me! ,First response index: 6,# responses: 1,Trigger index: 1

They could as well have put it in Marsian or Paleo-Hebrew, as it says nothing to me (which is of course my shortcoming).

But I'm pretty sure you guys have an idea what to do about it.

Thanks for looking into it.

Azaghal

EDIT: Okay, just restarted the game, loaded the save made after the incident with the monosyllabic Vaelag and talked to him once more. This time the dialogue continued with Jan answering. The two started a duel of insults and then came to blows. So the storyline continues. Sorry for bothering you.

No, that's just me being unprecise in that post. I enter "weidu --change-log D9ELARGG.CRE" to be exact. But to no avail....

Azaghal

According to the Area script, after the greeting by the problematic (but now locally fixed) skeleton archer D9ELARGG a couple of other skeleton types (archers, warriors, priests,mages) will spawn, all added by the BuTcHeRy mod. They all bear the prefix D9 but only two more have the problematic combination of 2h weapons and shield. Eliminating the shield helped (used a save where they weren't spawned yet, so changing the external CRE file sufficed). Fight is over now. No crash.

Only two more questions for the record:

- is the engine generally not able to handle this combination? Store away the shield in the inventory to free both hands? Or is it sloppy scripting on the modder's side?

- how do you do a changelog on a CRE file? Started WEiDu, entered the argument weidu -- change-log D9ELARGG.Cre and the darn thing just left the DOS-window. Nada! Niente!!

Anyhow - one more warm thank you for your assistance

Azaghal

I followed your instructions, eliminated the shield, so the CRE won't be able to try and use it together with a 2h-weapon. Went down to the tomb, faced the skeleton. No crash! Then other skeletons spawned in and obviously they suffer from the same problem. Next CTD due to assertion failure. Will look into their CRE files tomorrow.

Good night and thanks so far!

Azaghal

T'is quite embarrassing. I don't really know how I got there, but I found the CRE file in the ARE0802 stored in the save BALDUR.GAM. But how do I rob him of his halberd with NI? I can only view/edit the weapon but not erase it.

Sorry for this noob question, but more help is needed.

Ashamed greetings

Azaghal

Oh. I thought saving the altered CRE-file to the override folder was enough. Will try to change it in the ARE-file now and report if it works.

Thanks

Azaghal

Well, here's another one:

When entering the plundered tomb under the graveyard in Athkathla (AR0802, the corner for Korgan's companion quest) there is a skeleton archer greeting me with something like "you never should have made it this far" (obviously from a mod, since in vanilla there's mummies IIRC) and then the game crashes with the above error. I guess the guy is from the BuTcHeRy mod and his CRE file is D9ELARGG. He's equipped with axe, halberd, shield and arrows (no bow). Tried to take away his halberd and shield to avoid impossible usage together, but he's still crashing. Searching for his bow?

How can I fix it?

Greetings

Azaghal

EDIT: Attached WeiDu.log of my BGT install, just in case...

Actually Minsc is present. Hope this doesn't add to the confusion....

So, HTaM it is (as already stated above ). That's indeed a new mod to my install list.

Let's see what the author makes of this.

Thanks again

Azaghal

Ok. Attached the result of the search for ANMyrain in the DLG files. 6 hits. About rain. What mod is this from? I can't remember any conversation about rain from my many, many modded BGT playthroughs.

Soakenwet greetings

Azaghal

The quickfix helped. No more stuttering and no smalltalk about rain either, romantic or not .

 The ShadowWork global is =1.

Thank you, ever helpful jastey!

Azaghal

I have HTaM installed so that's possible.

There was no hit searching the DLG.

I will try your quickfix. Conversations about rain don't sound overly important.

Azaghal

I'm not in ToB, but in Athkathla.

Was looking into the dlg files with NI, but there's no such thing as AnMyrain (ANMOD.dlg is followed by ANNO1.dlg in the list).

Is it possible to set the variable to 3 to proceed with the script?

Azaghal

Installed the stutter debug tool, started the game with the latest save and it showed "block 4 of JAHEIRA.BCS" as looping script.

Then I looked into JAHEIRA.BCS with NI and this is what I found in line 4 (highlighted in red):

IF
    Global("AranLove","GLOBAL",12)
    Global("AranJaheiraTalk1","GLOBAL",0)
    See(Player1)
    InParty(Myself)
    !InParty("Anomen")  // Anomen
    !InParty("Rasaad")
    !StateCheck(Myself,CD_STATE_NOTVALID)
    CombatCounter(0)
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        DisplayStringHead(Myself,1067608)  // Running block 1 of JAHEIRA.BCS
        ActionOverride(Myself,StartDialogueNoSet(Player1))
END

Since I have neither met Aran yet nor have I Anomen or Rasaad (from BGEE I guess?) in my group this is odd. So I assume I did understand it wrong and block might mean paragraph/section (sorry, English is not my first language) - not line.

Then block 4 contains this:

IF
    Global("ANMyrain","GLOBAL",2)
    See(Player1)
    InParty(Myself)
    !Dead("Jaheira")  // Jaheira
    CombatCounter(0)
    AreaType(OUTDOOR)
    AreaType(CITY)
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        DisplayStringHead(Myself,1067611)  // Running block 4 of JAHEIRA.BCS
        StartDialog("JAHEIRAJ",Player1)
        Weather(RAIN)
END

Looks more fitting.

But I need your help to explain what to do about the loop.

Thank you

Azaghal

Hello everybody,

in my current BGT-Megamod installation I have a problem with Jaheira in SoA (Atkathla, quite early in the game). She stops constantly and my SC turns to her as if to start conversation, but nothing happens. Giving new movement orders to both works, but situation repeats shortly afterward. Also often get the message that I cannot save in dialogue mode (while I'm not talking to anybody actually).

I understand that probably one of Jaheira's variables has to be changed manually to proceed. But which one?

Looked into her CRE-file in the latest save with the help of NI. There's currently 13 effects named "Set Local Variable 187" active with differing values (most of them =1).

What am I to do?

Thanks for your help

Azaghal

Thanks Sergio.

Found it. Talking to the fortune teller in the midst of Baldurs Gate helped a lot. He gave precise directions. Just like you!

Good night!

Azaghal

Might someone point me to the right direction of the vault? Have regained the book, talked to a certain ghost, smith and priest. But the last one gave me a hint I can't decipher for the death of me. Walked my heels off up and down the Sword Coast but have no clue.

Thanks in advance

Azaghal

Well, I tried skellytz' proposal first, uninstalled GB (received a handful of warnings) and reinstalled it with WeiDU v246. Improved stability a lot. I'm further in the game now than before and experienced only one unspecific CTD so far. So I will stick to this solution unless number of problems rises.

Have a nice weekend and thank you!

Azaghal

Thanks for your advice, skellytz and Argent.

Will try both ways, but must admit to my utter shame that I don't know how to

put this code into a batch file and run it to save some time:

If you would try to explain for someone who has never wrote a batch file?

Thanks again.

Azghal