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BG2 Impoved GUI

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:01:16 +0000

BG2 Impoved GUI

Includes:

Loot panel
Colorize icon of not memorized scrolls
Hide "Write magic" button for already known spells and for opposition schools
Show HitPoints on NPC/Party when pressed TAB key
THAC0 and Damage info on Inventory screen
Dark portraits on party when dragging not allowed items
Total Roll info on Character creation screen
Journal with fold/unfold quests
Grayscale background on Pause
Unlimited Hand off slot
Show NPC's active effects on right mouse click
Extended messages about item/quest/worldmap events

Loot panel:
Add new buttons for pick up items from near corpses

Difference vs EE engine:
- Panel is not realy "panel", its extension of original container screen, it cannot be visible always on main screen, still need open any container around
- Panel has two modes:
1) Classic (like EE)
2) Grouping same items, one click to pickup some item type from all corpses

Configuration of loot panel: In file "TobEx_ini\TobExTweak.ini" you can change some options:

UI:Loot Panel Item Grouping=1, Enable grouping similar items to one button, or select same option in installer
UI:Loot Panel Sorting Unidentified First=1, Enable priority sorting, unidentified items will be always show first
UI:Loot Panel Sorting Order=33, 34, 5, 14, Set sorting order by priority numbers, numbers coded in file loot_groups_table.txt, for this example priority is Gold=>Gems=>Arrows=>Bullets=>All Other

Colorize icon:
Add green border for scroll ready to memorize, you can change icon effect by replacing file STORTIN3.BAM to yours

Show HitPoints on NPC/Party when pressed TAB key:

THAC0 and Damage info on Inventory screen +
Dark portraits on party when dragging not allowed items:

Total Roll info on Character creation screen:

Journal with fold/unfold quests:

Grayscale background on Pause:
Effect like TimeStop, but only background is greyed, same as on EE engine
Enable/disable with switch button on main screen

Unlimited Hand off slot: (EXPERIMENTAL, alpha state)
Allow fit weapon/shield in hand off slot even when item in main hand has restrictions to hand off.
You can drag to hand slots for example two hand sword and shield, but shield will be disabled.
Option usefull for switching between main hand' weapon slots, if selected item has no restrictions, hand off slot will be activated again. If you save game with incompatible items, you can't load it if will uninstall this compenent

Show NPC's active effects on right mouse click

Componet make game little easy in "mage battle", now you can get info about active effect/spells on enemy (or any NPC). No more need to search chat window back to see which mage what casted.
You can filter print of unwanted effect types, in file "TobEx_ini\TobExTweak.ini" edit line UI:Log Active Buffs Filter List= , add numbers from file icon_effects_table.txt. Don't need filter numbers starting with ";" symbol, they already internaly filtered.
Example: UI:Log Active Buffs Filter List=24, 25 - no info about "Protection from Acid" and "Protection from Cold"

Extended messages about items/quest/worldmap events:
- Quest messages splitted to:
   1. New Quest
   2. Updated quests
   3. Done quests
   4. Storyline

- Name of unhided/hided Worldmap Area
- Name of gained/lost/dropped Item

Requirements:
- BG2 ToB v2.5.26498
- Installed TobEx v26 or v28, installer will replace existing tobex.dll with custom version
- Compatible with Widescreen mod 3.07 and 1pp GUI additions , but Impoved GUI need install after

Compilation:
In folder "src" modified sources of TobEx v28, merge with original files

Credits:
Ascension64 for TobEx and briliant reverse engineering work !
Wisp/The Bigg/Westley Weimer for WeiDU Script&Resource processor

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SHS Suggestions and Problems Thread

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 17:51:44 +0000

I know there are a few people out there with some suggestions for SHS, and I'm sure every now and then there'll be a problem with the website or forums. If you experience a problem or are struck by a brilliant idea, please post here!

Improved Cloak Visual & Sound Effects

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:03:47 +0000

File Name: Improved Cloak Visual & Sound Effects
File Submitter: ikonomov
File Submitted: 06 Jun 2015
File Category: Miscellaneous Released Mods

Cloak of Displacement, Cloak of Mirroring, Cloak of Reflection and Shield of Balduran are all useful items that unfortunately come with very annoying visual and sound effects. In this mod I have included the Cloak of Displacement and the Claw of Kazgaroth with the Blur effect removed. The magical absorption globe for the Cloak of Mirroring and the disc glow for the Cloak of Reflection and the Shield of Balduran are hard coded into the game and cannot be removed by themselves (as this will remove the visual effects for all spells that use the same graphic), so instead I have toned down the contrast and opacity so that it is much less distracting. There is also a constant humming sound associated with the globe that I've removed completely. These things should be available elsewhere in different flavors, especially in the 1PP mod, so this is more for people that like the original graphics. This mod works best when the game is run with 3D acceleration in order to see the increased transparencies rather than in darker colors, as the game's engine uses darker shades of these graphics for transparency values. In BG1 and TotSC there is only Cloak of Displacement, so I have uploaded a separate file clckVisuals_BG1_v1.3.rar to use there.

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Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Widescreen HD GUI in 1280 x 720

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 01:19:04 +0000

File Name: Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Widescreen HD GUI in 1280 x 720
File Submitter: ikonomov
File Submitted: 28 Jul 2016
File Category: Miscellaneous Released Mods

BG1:

Many of us prefer the look and feel of the original BG1, but find the resolution of 640x480 not ideal. The widescreen mod makes the game playable at higher resolutions, but the GUI conversion is handled a bit crudely. There exists a mod that somewhat rectifies the problem TWM_GUI (http://athkatla.cob-bg.pl/viewtopic.php?t=3257), but among its available resolutions it does not have a true 16:9 support and also has some added graphical elements which I think change the overall aesthetic of the game. Inspired by TWM, I decided to create this GUI mod to add a much needed 16:9 support and attempt to preserve the graphical elements of the game in their original form as much as possible.

This mod makes the following changes to the GUI:

1. All menus have been centered at their original 640x480 resolution for all game views except when at the play screen, where it is at 1280x720.

2. The bottom GUI elements in play view have been centralized and the widths of the text and message windows have been resized to 800 pixels for easier reading.

3. The new text and message windows (bottom GUI elements during play) use a custom font created using bam generator (http://www.shsforums.net/topic/41417-fonts-for-pt-pl/) and edited for correct spacing between lines. I tried to find a font that resembles the original font. Small height adjustments to the text fields that use the new font have been made to allow text to show correctly in all fields. Every other text element in the game is left untouched and uses the original fonts.

Known issues:

1. The loading and CD loading screens are not centered. Thanks to Zed Nocear (TWM) and pb1866 for the offset values, but there are more elements on those screens with unknown offsets.

2. The sliders in the options panel had to be moved to the left. Thanks again to Zed Nocear for the great solution which I replicated.

3. When moving more items between the inventory and a container (or the ground) the image of the last moved item sometimes flickers.

4. There is a white border on the right and bottom edge (outlining the 640x480 square) in the tavern at Nashkel (AR4809). Also in some of the transitional areas when being ambushed there is black on the right edge of the area, but the terrain is supposed to extend to the edge of the map in open areas.

5. Centering during dialogue is as per 640x480. This is again hard coded into the game's exe file and could be edited if the offset values are known.

Here is a possible install order since this mod requires certain things to be installed and also modifies BGMain2.exe.

1. BG1 + TotSC (custom install with all options checked)
     Skip step 2, 3 and installing no CD crack for GOG.com version as they are included.
If Setup.exe does not start:
1. go to Task Manager/details tab
2. right click on setup.exe and 'analyze wait chain'
3. close the program (end task) that is blocking the installation.

2. BGTalesUK5512.exe (or BGTalesIntl5512.exe) http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG/index_misc.php

3. BGTalesDX8Intl.exe http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/BG/index_misc.php
   Optional:
  No CD crack (infinitycracker_v1.1) http://gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_baldurs_gate.shtml
  BG1FixPack11.exe http://www.baldurdash.org/BG1/bg1fixes.html
If Baldurdash's site is down, an archive can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20190503160036/http://www.baldurdash.org/BG1/bg1fixes.html
  Other mods

4. Run the game once and exit.

5. widescreen-v3.07.exe http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/
     1280x720, disable multiple resolutions

6. BG1_GUI_720_v1.2.rar (this mod)

7. ddraw.zip (DDrawCompat v0.2.1) https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases
     This makes the game compatible on newer OS, including Win10. Place ddraw.dll in BG1 folder.

Some suggestions for configuring the game:

Cache Size 1024MB (max)
Path Search Nodes 400000 (max)
Mouse scroll speed (max)
Color depth 32-bit

BG2:

Widescreen-v3.07.exe (http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/) at 1280x720 is required prior to installation. This mod makes the following changes to the GUI:

1. The bottom GUI elements in play view have been centralized and the stretched text and message windows have been resized to the original width of 800 pixels for easier reading.

2. In BG2 regardless of resolution when in dialogue mode, if the text window is scrolled up, the right side of previously shown text is cut by 40 pixels sometimes hiding whole words. To fix this NPC portraits that might show during dialogue have been moved to the left, which allows the text area to have uniform width across all views.

3. The new text and message windows (bottom GUI elements during play) use a custom font created using bam generator (http://www.shsforums.net/topic/41417-fonts-for-pt-pl/) and edited for correct spacing between lines. I tried to find a font that resembles the original font. Small height adjustments to the text fields that use the new font have been made to allow text to show correctly in all fields. Every other text element in the game is left untouched and uses the original fonts.

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Attached Files

BG1_GUI_720_v1.2.rar 13.98MB 476 downloads
BG2_GUI_720_v1.5.rar 2.33MB 643 downloads

Creating custom paperdoll items

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:18:52 +0000

Well, Sir-Kill has asked me how to do this in a PM, so (as I had to write it anyway) there's no reason not to post it here

Before you read the stuff below, to prevent any misunderstandings... We?re talking about the items that appear on the paperdoll if you equip an item (for example, the shield/helmet/sword, etc. graphics)

Generally, a word of warning if you?re going to create extra paperdoll art. BG2 has only so-much paperdoll graphics for a reason. It is NOT wise to put in thousands of different paperdoll item graphics, and especially unique items should normally be avoided. However, if you?re completely sure you want to add it (and feel it?s necessary), heres what you?ll have to do:

You?ll need:

- An item that makes use of it (duh!)
- One set of game avatar animations (you can use one of the stock ones if you don?t care)
- Your paperdoll graphic (i.e. the thing you want to add to the game)

I. Your Item

When you open your item in NearInfinity, change to the Edit tab. There you?ll see a field called ?inventory icon?. Let?s presume you?d want to create a ?shield of the magical triangle? which looks like a triangle on the paperdoll if you equip it. You probably used a shield as a base for your item, so this should have a value of something like D4 or so. You will have to change this to a unique identifier name for your item. Make sure your designation is only TWO characters long, and is NOT used by any of the stock graphics. You could probably use something like PP (for example). Change that field to your identifier (i.e. PP in our example).

Your item should now successfully crash the game if you equip it in-game.

II. The in-game animations

An in-game avatar set in BG2 consists of several BAM files with the names:

WQ + Size + Identifier + animation part

For example shield graphics have the animation parts A1, A3, A5, G1, and SS. This will vary in different item categories though.

Theres three sizes of species in Baldurs Gate. S stands for small, M for medium and L for large. BG2 also has a fourth size called N, although one of BG2?s sizes is redundant and not used at all by the game. As I?ve forgotten which one that is (sue me ) you?ll better make sure to have all the four of them.

If you want the same in-game graphics like the item had before, look for the files with the appropriate names and export them. In our example this would be

WQLD4A1.BAM
WQLD4A3.BAM
WQLD4A5.BAM
WQLD4G1.BAM
WQLD4SS.BAM
WQMD4A1.BAM
WQMD4A3.BAM
WQMD4A5.BAM
WQMD4G1.BAM
WQMD4SS.BAM
WQSD4A1.BAM
WQSD4A3.BAM
WQSD4A5.BAM
WQSD4G1.BAM
WQSD4SS.BAM
WQND4A1.BAM
WQND4A3.BAM
WQND4A5.BAM
WQND4G1.BAM
WQND4SS.BAM

Replace the identifier with your custom one and place them in your override folder (reason one why to keep this to a minimum, you?ll be flooded with thousands of files):

You?ll now have the following files in your override:

WQLPPA1.BAM
WQLPPA3.BAM
WQLPPA5.BAM
WQLPPG1.BAM
WQLPPSS.BAM
WQMPPA1.BAM
WQMPPA3.BAM
WQMPPA5.BAM
WQMPPG1.BAM
WQMPPSS.BAM
WQSPPA1.BAM
WQSPPA3.BAM
WQSPPA5.BAM
WQSPPG1.BAM
WQSPPSS.BAM
WQNPPA1.BAM
WQNPPA3.BAM
WQNPPA5.BAM
WQNPPG1.BAM
WQNPPSS.BAM

Your item should now no longer crash the game as it would have done before, but will have no visible paperdoll image.

III. The paperdoll graphic

The thing you initially wanted to add

First off, BG2 has a new format called PLT for inventory graphics. This format sucks though, and theres no good editor around for it. However, BG2 still has support for comfortable BAM files, so i?d recommend anyone to stick to those. I would like to point out there?s no way known to me to make PLT paperdoll items work properly, and even stock BG2 uses some of the paperdoll art in BAM form (namely weapons).

BG2 handles it?s inventory graphics still in the old BG1 naming convention system, which uses the prefix WP instead of BG2?s WQ:

WP + Size + Identifier + animation part

Search for the animation parts ?INV? with said naming convention, and extract it. In our case that would be:

WPLD4INV.BAM
WPMD4INV.BAM
WPND4INV.BAM
WPSD4INV.BAM

One-handed weapons have both INV and OIN files. The OIN file is for the second hand.

You?ll now create your own paperdoll graphics.

This is how they?re managed:

The paperdoll screen is split in an upper and a lower half. Any INV (or OIN) BAM will have two frames.

Frame 0 is for the upper half of the paperdoll. (i.e. hands-up)
Frame 1 is for the lower half of the paperdoll (below the hands)

Note that Frame 0 will ONLY be visible in the upper half, and Frame 1 ONLY in the lower half. If it reaches into the other half that part will be invisible.

An inventory graphic has one sequence with:

Frame 0
Frame 0
Frame 1
Frame 1

You?ll have to make sure everything stays in the appropriate half of the image. For example, shields will have to be ?split up? in the middle, as half of them is above, and half below the hands. This is absolute rubbish for the OIN graphics, as the second hand usually is lower than the left one, making you have to split the weapon graphic at odd points. Still, you?ll have to do this. My suggestion, however, is to use the full graphic for both frames, and then adjusting them (with the BAM placement values) so they match up. The redundant parts will be invisible anyway, and not slow you down. The advantage is, your sanity will be kept intact

As for the graphic itself. You will HAVE to use the exact palette from one of the INV files (just pick one). You?ll note the palette has different ?spectres? of colours, each representing a colour index that can later be set in your item file with ?Set Item Colour?. For example, the inner part of a shield uses the first purple scale, the rim uses the first blue scale (also used for sword blades). The wooden handles on weapons use the first red scale. Theres more, but that?s just to give you an idea. So, you?ll have to draw your item in ?false-colour? using the different colour ranges for the different parts of your object. You will then be able to use the item ability ?Set Item Colour? to set the colours to your desired colourisation. You?ll have to make sure you hit the right ?locations?. I suggest NearInfinity to set everything up.

Now, in our shield example, we would probably be using a BG1 shield inventory graphic as a base (as PLT sucks and cannot be used in any way) and thus be using the same colours for the parts of our new and shiny shield paperdoll image. On BG1 shields these locations are:

Unknown (034) ? inner part of the shield (PURPLE PART)
Unknown (037) ? shield knob (GREY PART)
Unknown (032) ? outer part of the shield (BLUE PART)

Place the inventory files in your override dir. You?ll have to adjust the BAM positioning so they appear on the correct part of the paperdoll (you don?t want a sword floating left of your hand, do you? ), you will have to repeat this step for each character size (S, M/N, L).

If you?ve done all that, and didn?t make a mistake along the road, your item should now show up correctly in-game.

Congratulations, you?ve made your own (and working!) inventory paperdoll graphics!

Reminder: Keep in mind that BG2?s PLT files use a whole different system for colouring, and that you can NOT use them as a reference or copy from them. They?re completely useless, and screw up if you use BAMs for ANY of the other inventory graphics (for example my paperdoll fix). Do not waste your time with PLT. Take my advice and stick to BAM, and you will be happy.

BGT v1.21: Issues, Solutions and Suggestions

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:13:49 +0000

BGT now has an official GitHub repository.

Changes in v1.21

* Fixed line endings in compiled AI scripts (thanks to chuft):
Compiled scripts (BS, BCS) require LF line endings. The AI scripts Standard Attack (AGEN.bs) and Passive (APASS.bs) used CR LF, which the game engine failed to read. (more info)

* Restored a patrolling Watcher in Candlekeep:
A missing StartTimer (ID: 3) in Candlekeep area script (AR0015.bcs) prevented a patrolling Watcher (WATCH3.cre) from spawning.

* Fixed closing the barracks door by the patrolling Watcher in Candlekeep:
MoveToPoint coordinates in the patrolling Watcher's class script (WATCH3.bcs) had to be slightly adjusted to get CloseDoor to work properly.

* Restored the original BG1TotSC spawns:

BGT used a spawn group system which erroneously spawned all the creatures from the given spawn point slots together at the same time. That often resulted in strange combinations of a fixed number of monsters, rather than same-type creatures in scaling numbers. (more info)

* Corrected the "waylaid by enemies" random encounters (thanks to chuft):
The spawns in these encounters were based on the area actor schedule, i.e., different creatures spawned depending on the in-game time of the day. An engine bug caused two separate groups of creatures to be spawned in the waylaid encounters: first using the time of the day when the player exited the previous area and second accounting for the time it took to travel to the ambush area. (more info)

* Restored Beregost extended main day ambient (thanks to lynx):
Beregost main day ambient audio files had been misnamed in the original BG1TotSC release, which resulted in the shorter edit (AMB_M14N.wav) replacing the proper extended version (AMB_M14.wav). (more info)

* Restored Ragefast's colors and greeting line (thanks to Salk):
The existing BG2ToB creature file (RAGEFA.cre) had different palette colors and the original greeting line (INITIAL_MEETING) was missing.

* Restored NPCs' soundset lines:
- Restored morale lines: Aldeth (ALDETH.cre), Davaeorn (DAVAEO.cre), Greywolf (GREYWO.cre), Husam (HUSAM.cre, HUSAM2.cre), Krystin (KRYSTI.cre), Mulahey (MULAHE.cre), Nimbul (NIMBUL.cre), Slythe (SLYTHE.cre), Volo (VOLO.cre)
- Restored rare selection lines: Cadderly (CADDER.cre), Irlentree (IRLENT.cre), Silke (SILKE.cre), Watcher (WATCH.cre, WATCH2.cre)
- Restored damage and dying sounds: Gellana (GELLAN.cre), Hurgan (HURGAN.cre), Surgeon (SURGEO.cre)
- Cleaned up invalid string references: Gorion (GORION.cre, GORION3.cre), Nikolai (NIKOLA.cre)

* Fixed Cadderly's dying sound (thanks to Sam.):
Cadderly's dying audio file (CADER09.wav) was corrupted and would not play properly. (more info)

* Amplified Tranzig's voice:
Tranzig's voice (TRANZ01.wav, TRANZ02.wav, TRANZ03.wav, TRANZ04.wav) had been mastered much quieter than most other soundset audio files.

* Restored Sarevok's death dialogue box message:
Previous BGT versions arbitrarily changed the original final dialogue box message after Sarevok's death (SARDEAD.dlg), "Sarevok has fallen! The battle is won!", to a monologue, "What... is this!? No! How can this be? HOW CAN THIS BE?".

* Restored Semaj's final battle behavior (thanks to chuft):
The existing BG2ToB script (SEMAJ.bcs) allowed Semaj to cast Death Spell and Flesh to Stone during the final battle in the Temple of Bhaal. These spells had been disabled in the original BG1TotSC script, most likely out of difficulty concerns. Additionally, the initial Dimension Door block which made Semaj teleport to the middle of the temple was missing in the BG2ToB version. (more info)

* Added missing x86-64 binaries (thanks to Dunedan_):

The missing setup files (tis2bg2.exe, tisunpack.exe, mosunpack.exe) prevented installation using the 64-bit version of WeiDU. (more info)

Bugs, engine limitations and arbitrary changes addressed by other mods

This section is mostly for players who use BGT as a BG1 engine update rather than a megamod staple and feel it strays too far from the classic BG1 aesthetics. Consult the respective documentation for further information.

TobEx

* Blindness as spell description (-4 THAC0 and -4 AC instead of the hardcoded -10 THAC0)

* Disable XP boost (110% of the amount actually coded into creatures and party XP)
* Allow talking to charmed creatures

* Restore level one proficiency restrictions (max two pips)

* Dialogue greeting subtitles

Known issues:

* Excessive saving throw / magic resistance messages in the dialogue box (cosmetic)

* The greeting string is displayed after the first line of dialogue rather than before

* Disable Force Inventory Pause may be incompatible with some NPC mods and cause problems with the inventory management (BWP readme)

BGT Tweak Pack
* Item BG1-ification (restore item prices, stack sizes, lore requirements, scroll casting level, and other properties)

* Disable hostile reaction after charm

Restored BG1 Textscreen Music

* Music during the prologue narration and dreams

BP-BGT Worldmap

* Update the BGT worldmap to a newer version with translation support

Sword Coast Map Labels

* Revise BG1 area map labels

The Tweaks Anthology
* Restore BG1 weapon proficiency system

* Restore BG1 item ground icons

* Remove the summoning cap

BG1 Unfinished Business

* Restore a short dialogue between Angelo and Shar-teel

* Correct Coran's introducing himself again if previously refused

* Restore the original Albert and Rufie reward

* Restore Entar Silvershield at his estate

* Restore NPCs and their quests (Quoningar, Shilo Chen, Edie, Nim Furlwing, Svlast, Mal-Kalen)

* Alignment, gender, script, dialogue, death variable, class, and inventory corrections

* Restore minor atmosphere creatures, their names, dialogues and soundsets

* Restore and correct items and their properties

* Restore Halfling Enforcers and some Durlag's Tower traps

* Make important corpses permanent

* Restore Duke Eltan at the Harbor Master's place

* Restore Elfsong Tavern movie

Endless BG1

* Correct references to Sarevok after the final battle

Replacement lightmaps for Baldur's Gate city

* Correct indoor and outdoor night lightmaps based on the perceived ambient lighting for the area

LadeJarl's BG1 Stone GUI

(+ fixes)

Color Balanced Portraits

* Tweak brightness and tone balance of BG1 and BG2 portraits to create a happy medium

Infinity Animations (WIP)
* Restore BG1 character animations

1PP (WIP)
* Restore BG1 paperdolls

* Restore BG1 inventory icons

Infinity Sounds (WIP)
* Restore BG1 sound effects

* Resolve BG1 soundset issues (more info #1, specific #2)

* Restore BG1 creature missing morale break, damage, dying, selection, rare and existance sounds

* Restore BG1 creature existance sound delay (more info)

* Restore BG1 rare right-click selection sounds (more info)

BGT Spawn Tweak

* Normalize and configure the area spawn points

BGT Finishing Touch (WIP)
* Restore the classic BG1 font and golden headers

* Bigger BG1 font (from TotSC CD)

* Restore BG1 creature palette colors (bears, dogs, wolves, spiders, skeletons)

* Restore BG1 summoned skeleton colors

* Restore BG1 Fireball animation

* Restore BG1 Dimension Door animation and sound effect

* Restore BG1 summoned skeletons, monsters and animals

* Restore BG1 helmet colors

* Normalize High Hedge and Bassilus' skeletons' resistances

* Tweak the bonus XP for traps, locks and scrolls

* Restore the "waylaid by enemies" low-reputation encounters

* Tweak the low-reputation ambushes

* Restore a secret entrance to the Duchal Palace

New developer resources

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:48:58 +0000

Apparently someone downloaded the files and bothered to rate them, so it was about time I updated these really. In making mods we primarily learn by frustration until enlightenment is reached Unless we meet someone who has run into the same frustration before and feels generous enough to spare you from it.

Hopefully this will help.

� Download dev tools �

CONTAINS:

THE 1PP PALETTE GENERATOR

So I finally got this one to a state I feel comfortable assaulting you with It is a script to generate .pal files from BG II gradients.

When editing item or paperdoll colours, you won't have to start up the game to see if it looks horrible -- just put in your colours and load the resulting palette in BAMWorkshop (2).

It has a GUI for previewing and saving and everything. It even has a snazzy icon!

TEXT RESOURCES

� A Guide To The Tools

A look at BAMWorkshop I and BAMWorkshop II and how to cope with their numerous bugs and quirks.

� Animation Guide

Everything you want to know (and don't want to know) about working with character animations.

� Colour Guide

A look at Infinity Engine standard palettes.

� PLT BAM File Format Guide

Comparison between the PLT and BAM file formats and their benefits and disadvantages.

OTHER RESOURCES

� Modified standard palette with unique palette entries
^{(includes both .act and .pal)}

� Fourteen colour table templates and a matching dropper template, to test and edit
^{(includes both .act and .pal)}

� Colour tables for converting RGB to standard palette
^{(.act only)}

� Readmes with usage notes for the different files

� A simple BAM template to grab palettes from the game (obsolete)

Enjoy.

[Release] Valen Mod For Enhanced Edition

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:16:22 +0000

Hi everybody!

I know this project is inactive but I just wanted to share a port of the Valen Mod to the enhanced edition I just released. It also includes, rebalancing, rewritting and additional content.

Happy to take feedbacks/ ideas /complaints / thoughts on what the perfect Valen Mod should be. Everything is on github (https://github.com/hellmouse/valen_ee) and I also made an annoncement on the IE/Modding forum with more infos http://www.shsforums.net/topic/61013-release-valen-enhanced-edition-mod/.

Also, I know Thorium Dragon is not very active, but if anyone has heard from him, or knows a way to contact him I could try to integrate his work to the new mod myself.

Thanks!

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Color Balanced Portraits

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:33:37 +0000

File Name: Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Color Balanced Portraits
File Submitter: ikonomov
File Submitted: 24 Oct 2019
File Category: Miscellaneous Released Mods

Playing recently the original BG1 I decided to import the portraits from BG2 so I can use them for my characters. While exporting the portrait images I noticed that the BG1 portraits used in BG2 have been significantly brightened. The new BG2 portraits are brighter overall than the BG1 portraits, which is probably why they decided to change the old portraits in order to "blend in" better with the new ones. Upon comparing the images I decided that I was not quite happy with both the darker images from BG1 and the brighter images from BG2. With some editing I was able to slightly change the brightness and tone balance for both sets of images and create a happy medium. The changes are as follows:

BG1: the original images have been slightly brightened, while toning down some of the red and overall saturation; the edited BG2 images will be installed into the portraits folder, so they can be used for custom portraits

BG2: the yellow tones have been slightly altered; BG1 portraits will be replaced with the edited original BG1 images

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Beregost Crashes Solved!

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:26:14 +0000

After painstaking reversing of the executable, I have solved the problem of random Beregost crashes and corruption of saved games. Funnily enough, the error is actually in the ARE file! (AR3300.ARE for BG1, FW3300.ARE for BG1Tutu, AR6700.ARE for BGT).

In a nutshell, the problem is bad search map coordinates for DOOR3304 impeded points when door is open. The search map is 320 x 320, yet there are points where y > 320. This causes a buffer overflow problem, resulting in heap corruption. The heap corruption causes the symptoms we all see with Beregost crashes.

A fix will be incorporated into a new version of BGT-WeiDU. The coded fix below can be used for BG1 and BG1Tutu, editing the COPY_EXISTING ~filename~ as necessary.

Note that while this should solve the random Beregost crashing, it may not cover all types of Beregost crashes. The most obvious of this case would be mods causing problems with objects/creatures in the area, or mod incompatibility (as we saw with BG2Fixpack: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/24121-release-beregost-crash-fixer/page__view__findpost__p__478775).

Fix will only work on new games or saved games where you have not visited Beregost yet, since the area is saved into the BALDUR.SAV file once you have visited it.

BACKUP ~BeregostFix~

AUTHOR ~Asc64~

BEGIN ~BeregostFix~

//AR3300, FW3300, AR6700 (BG1, BGTutu, BGT)
COPY_EXISTING ~AR6700.ARE~ ~override~
  READ_LONG 0xA4 nDoors
  READ_LONG 0xA8 offDoors
  READ_LONG 0x7C offPoints
  READ_LONG 0x80 nPoints

  SET i = 0

  FOR (i = 0; i < nDoors; i += 1) BEGIN
    READ_ASCII ( %offDoors% + %i% * 0xC8 + 0x20 ) DoorId
    PATCH_IF ( "%DoorId%" STRING_EQUAL "DOOR3304" ) BEGIN
      READ_LONG ( %offDoors% + %i% * 0xC8 + 0x48 ) idxPointsImpededOpen
      READ_SHORT ( %offDoors% + %i% * 0xC8 + 0x4C ) nPointsImpededOpen

      SET j = 0
      FOR (j = %idxPointsImpededOpen%; j < %idxPointsImpededOpen% + %nPointsImpededOpen%; j += 1) BEGIN
        READ_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4) x
        READ_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4 + 0x2) y

        PATCH_IF ( x = 243 && y = 326 ) BEGIN
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4) 233
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4 + 0x2) 302
        END

        PATCH_IF ( x = 243 && y = 327 ) BEGIN
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4) 233
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4 + 0x2) 304
        END

        PATCH_IF ( x = 242 && y = 325 ) BEGIN
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4) 232
          WRITE_SHORT ( %offPoints% + %j% * 0x4 + 0x2) 304
        END

        PATCH_IF ( x = 233 && y = 303 ) BEGIN
        END

      END
    END
  END