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#21 Nuuskamuikkunen

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 12:43 PM

Works nicely in my BGT game, thanks :) Been a fan of 1pp for a while already (I considered it a great discovery when I first found it, hadn't heard about it at that time).

#22 Lord Psion

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Posted 21 June 2008 - 12:57 PM

Hi,

I think that this is a great mod for BG. Although, I like to know something...

The string files will be modified?

I say this to translate them (quarterstaffs and short swords it's the only case) and are enough short to translate them... (spanish)

Is it a good idea?

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#23 Erephine

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 12:41 AM

It's easy enough to include, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.

The strings concern only modded items because if I just copied them they would get messed up. It's not changing as much as resetting them. It's a bit messy but hey, it works until a proper installer is written (perhaps, someday). If it ever does happen, it'll patch the items instead of overwriting, so I don't think it would be necessary anymore.

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#24 Miloch

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 02:14 AM

If it ever does happen, it'll patch the items instead of overwriting, so I don't think it would be necessary anymore.

No, it won't be necessary unless you're fixing something in the description too (and even if you're doing that, you can update them with pseudocode instead of copying descriptions). If you just want to patch items to get new animations, etc., that's pretty easy. I can write it if you want, since I'm already doing something pretty similar for Thrown Hammers.

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#25 Lord Psion

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 03:33 AM

It's easy enough to include, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.

The strings concern only modded items because if I just copied them they would get messed up. It's not changing as much as resetting them. It's a bit messy but hey, it works until a proper installer is written (perhaps, someday). If it ever does happen, it'll patch the items instead of overwriting, so I don't think it would be necessary anymore.

Well...

Then I am assuming that a new release would be out some day that update only the animations without changing the strings... is it correct? So no translation is needed. Although some modifications were made to original in-game english strings, this may not affect to other languages because of the descriptions are well written... but, if some STATISTICS change, it may be necessary, isn't it?

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#26 Erephine

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 08:18 AM

If you just want to patch items to get new animations, etc., that's pretty easy.


It isn't that simple.

For every item I'd also have to check for existing item abilities (set_item_colour, location, etc.), delete or modify them if present, reset them and create them if necessary. I've looked at the installers of mods which do this, and honestly, it's all greek to me.

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#27 Miloch

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Posted 22 June 2008 - 10:02 AM

For every item I'd also have to check for existing item abilities (set_item_colour, location, etc.), delete or modify them if present, reset them and create them if necessary. I've looked at the installers of mods which do this, and honestly, it's all greek to me.

I have some macros for that too. You can make them do all the work and just pass (for example) the colour and location to add an effect to an item, something like this. Same goes for deleting or changing existing effects. That's a spell, but items are pretty much the same.

From looking at the items it appears, roughly, like you want to check if existing Set Colour effects are present for weapon grip (20), quillions (16), blade (21), and location 17 (not sure what that is), and set any that are absent?

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#28 SergIS

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Posted 25 February 2009 - 05:12 AM

2 Erephine

I always play with your wonderful stuff and I can't even imagine my playthrough without it. I must thank you for your hard work :). None of them bring me any problems. But someday I discovered that Colourable QS somehow break BG2 Staff of the Magi - its SpellTrap ability stop working. If I uninstall that mod, everything works as it should...
Can you please check this? :)

#29 Erephine

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Posted 03 May 2009 - 02:49 PM

I didn't forget your request (I read it here the first time, sorry about that :blush: ), I just wanted to fix it properly and it took me longer than I thought.

But. The files are now updated with a proper installer that doesn't touch anything it doesn't need to change, which should fix problems like these. :)

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#30 SergIS

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Posted 04 May 2009 - 01:33 AM

Yep!!! Now it works as it should! :) Thanks a lot!

BTW, the link at the begining of this thread still refers to the wrong version...

#31 Erephine

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Posted 04 May 2009 - 04:01 AM

fixed. :)

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