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Started by minotaur_in_maze, Oct 16 2004 02:48 PM

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#1 minotaur_in_maze

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Posted 16 October 2004 - 02:48 PM

Hi all.

Just thinking.

With the gracious help of Reapper99, Shed, SConrad, Awake and others here I am about 80% done with my first NPC mod...though I have a ways to go yet, I am mildly amazed at how long it is taking me.

(Having read Ghreyfan's "One day NPC" tuto)

So, I am wondering... for those who mod often and frequently and know what they are doing (Now): What was it like for you, learning and such, when doing your Very First Mod?

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Posted 16 October 2004 - 04:24 PM

So, I am wondering... for those who mod often and frequently and know what they are doing (Now): What was it like for you, learning and such, when doing your Very First Mod?

Addictive. ^_^

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 01:56 AM

Fucking terrible. I gave up for a good few months having struggled with IDU and ICM for a ridiculous amount of time. You people should be glad you have decent tools to work with. :)

And I should probably add that my first attempt at modding was fixing up the dialogues for Planar Sphere Expansion. My first released work was the SoA stripdown, and the first actual mod I started work on was DLTC.

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 02:33 AM

So, I am wondering... for those who mod often and frequently and know what they are doing (Now): What was it like for you, learning and such, when doing your Very First Mod?

Addictive. ^_^

What was your first mod?

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 02:56 AM

Fucking terrible. I gave up for a good few months having struggled with IDU and ICM for a ridiculous amount of time. You people should be glad you have decent tools to work with. :)

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My first mod was The One Ring. It was so poor it was intimidating. Hlid called it a "shotgun blast to the override folder", as I will probably always remember ;). It took me a few weeks, and it absolutely didn't win TBG's first ever contest.

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 04:34 AM

I started small. My first mod was Cloakwood Squares. It was easy enough to do, but it made me really hate the story as I had to watch it a zillion times to get the timing of the lines down.

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 10:00 AM

So, I am wondering... for those who mod often and frequently and know what they are doing (Now): What was it like for you, learning and such, when doing your Very First Mod?

Addictive. ^_^

What was your first mod?

It was an easteregg I made as a joke, that never got released. It was supposed to get incorperated into Grog's "Dark Awakenings" mod for BG1 but that one died. Beware "The Curse of Noober"! :rolleyes:


*Ponders resurrecting that little thing at some point.*

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 10:19 AM

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Posted 17 October 2004 - 02:09 PM

Interesting.

It amazes me. I read about One Day NPC's, yet it takes me frickin' MONTHS to get mine even NEAR together (WITH A LOT OF HELP FROM: Reapper99, Shed, SConrad, Awake and others) and now I hear others had a bit of trouble breaking in too, as it were.

This gives me hope, oddly.

Thanks to what I have learned from those above, and others, I THINK I may get this NPC of mine done, and I THINK I may someday be able to make another - ALL ON MY OWN... though scripting might be always a little beyond me.

I also have the idea I might have to HIRE a codechecker/correcter long term. My problem is that I don't know code well enough to know IF something is screwy or WHERE the screwy section is.

I AM learning however. :)

Happy thus far. :)

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 03:42 AM

So, I am wondering... for those who mod often and frequently and know what they are doing (Now): What was it like for you, learning and such, when doing your Very First Mod?

Addictive. ^_^

What was your first mod?

It was an easteregg I made as a joke, that never got released. It was supposed to get incorperated into Grog's "Dark Awakenings" mod for BG1 but that one died. Beware "The Curse of Noober"! :rolleyes:


*Ponders resurrecting that little thing at some point.*

Don't the remains of Dark Awakenings live on in Dark Horizons, hosted over at the Chosen of Mystra?

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 07:25 AM

Making my first mod, the Tsujatha Melalor Romance, was difficult, to say the least. I had a difficult time learning how to code; I knew NOTHING before I began, not how to code a banter, not how to use CHAIN or multi-say, or even how to import a .cre. I knew NOTHING. It was quite an experience. Six months it took me to release the SOA romance. Six months. I did not have a modding partner, but a few people took pity on my ignorance (Twinblades2 from CoM especially) and helped me learn how to script and make .cres. I will never forget when Kismet taught me about multi-say. It was a big deal for me. :rolleyes:

I am making my second mod now that the TOB portion of Tsujatha has been released. I have a modding partner for this one, and it has a projected release date of Halloween. The Yasraena Mod was begun at the end of September. So we've learned how to go a bit faster with this one! ;)

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 08:09 AM

I did not make my first mod 3 years ago when I joined the community. 'Twas Kivan's romance.

Instead I wrote for TS and after failing to convince Vlad to code Kivan's romance, I joined BG1NPC team a couple of years ago. To write Kivan's dialogues.

I am still working for BG1NPC, the first mod I consider 'mine' by spirit...

And I still feel the same way I felt when not making my first mod.

Obsessed.

With Kivan.

I think it was for the best that I have not done my first mod. It would have been a horrible thing and I probably would have never become involved with much more interesting mods :)

Edited by domi, 18 October 2004 - 08:15 AM.

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 09:07 AM

Don't the remains of Dark Awakenings live on in Dark Horizons, hosted over at the Chosen of Mystra?

Nope. Dark Awakenings died during one of those vicious "HD Crashes" and Grog moved on to work on IWD mods. It was going to be partially resurrected in the Black Tidings mod, conjoining to be the Dark Tidings Mod. That died during another "HD Crash" that Mordan Dragon Slayer endured.
Not wanting to suffer a HD crash myself, I never attempted to resurrect any part of it either. <_<

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 12:41 PM

Don't the remains of Dark Awakenings live on in Dark Horizons, hosted over at the Chosen of Mystra?

Nope. Dark Awakenings died during one of those vicious "HD Crashes" and Grog moved on to work on IWD mods. It was going to be partially resurrected in the Black Tidings mod, conjoining to be the Dark Tidings Mod. That died during another "HD Crash" that Mordan Dragon Slayer endured.
Not wanting to suffer a HD crash myself, I never attempted to resurrect any part of it either. <_<

LOL! Sounds like the mod is cursed. ;)

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Posted 18 October 2004 - 05:07 PM

Project Auril for IWD was my first mod. It was fun and challenging. The only thing I really knew how to do before that was just make items. During the making of PA I learned dialogues, scripts and everything else about modding. PA has now  been combined with the other IWD mod at that time Winter's Bane to create Aurils Bane.
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Posted 19 October 2004 - 05:56 AM

Don't the remains of Dark Awakenings live on in Dark Horizons, hosted over at the Chosen of Mystra?

Nope. Dark Awakenings died during one of those vicious "HD Crashes" and Grog moved on to work on IWD mods. It was going to be partially resurrected in the Black Tidings mod, conjoining to be the Dark Tidings Mod. That died during another "HD Crash" that Mordan Dragon Slayer endured.
Not wanting to suffer a HD crash myself, I never attempted to resurrect any part of it either. <_<

I got the two confused then, I must have missed the demise of Black Tidings. What happened to DA is a shame, I had been looking forward to it for very long. :(
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