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[Wardibald]

Hi,

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I'll try to be as specific as possible.

Mod combo: BiG_World_v8.2
custom choices made for installed mods
(weidu log attached)

Area: CM2680 - candlekeep dungeon area modded under Ulcaster

Creature: "helmho.cre"

Problem: bugger gives animation error (?) "An Assertion failed in ChVidImage3d.cpp at line number 899"

First helmed horror I encountered. The ctd comes after a second, seems it wants to grab something to attack me that goes wrong.
As such, I can fix this by Ctrl-Y the bugger before that happens. But since I'll meet these guys on a regular basis, a slightly more permanent solution might be cool

I've tried a lot in NI (changing sword, crossbow, script, appearance,..), but nothing seems to help. In fact nothing does anything, but that's probably bc changes get overwritten by savegamestuff/whatnot.
After a lot of searching (google; shs-search is problematic for me), I discovered the aurora shoes and boots mod (v3) does something with helmed horrors.

I'll let you guys at it now

[Hoppy]

It changes the animations which could very well CtD your game but items can also do that too.


EDIT: Low and behold mine crashes when switching weapons. If I can fix mine, I will help you fix yours


EDIT2: It's the flame blade weapon that crashes it. Maybe that slipped by testing because it crashes on equip or it just looked good on paper. What's worse is that other Helmed horrors are changed by Aurora mod tweaking them to have that sword so you will have more problems if you installed the mods that are changed. I recommend that you post the issue with AGFBLADE.ITM crashing the Helmed horrors in the Aurora mod's forum and include a link to this discussion. Sorry I couldn't be more help.


EDIT3: I took away the flaming sword property (FS) and it works fine. Must not be able to use flaming swords with the 1PP flaming sword component or something. Put this in your override and it should fix the problem.

Edited by Hoppy, 29 December 2009 - 02:57 PM.

[Wardibald]

Thanks. A lot.


Learned a few things with this one. Maybe I'll be able to fix this sort of thing myself next time

[Erephine]

My suggestion is that the files are simply missing.

BGII does not come with Baldur's Gate I style flame sword animations, which the doom guard animation would look for. See if placing the WP* .BAM files from here (in the folder 'Baldur's Gate I Character Animations') in your override fixes your problem.

[Hoppy]

My suggestion is that the files are simply missing.

BGII does not come with Baldur's Gate I style flame sword animations, which the doom guard animation would look for. See if placing the WP* .BAM files from here (in the folder 'Baldur's Gate I Character Animations') in your override fixes your problem.

Confirmed

[Miloch]

My suggestion is that the files are simply missing.

BGII does not come with Baldur's Gate I style flame sword animations, which the doom guard animation would look for. See if placing the WP* .BAM files from here (in the folder 'Baldur's Gate I Character Animations') in your override fixes your problem.

I like bug reports like this that just kind of work themselves out when I'm out of town .

I did test this stuff btw, but as I was pretty much the *only* person doing extensive testing on the team, some things were bound to slip through. So I guess I just need to copy those files at install time? I'd just kind of guessed they'd be included with 1PP's Flaming Swords component and not needed if that's not installed.

Another option might be to set helmed horrors to use "human" rather than "doom_guard" animations, which I believe is what battle horrors use. Because I'm pretty sure I tested the battle horrors (probably without 1PP though) and they were fine. There was some dodginess with swapping from crossbow to flaming sword, but I think I resolved that. Yet another option would be to use one of the IWD "animated plate" animations, but I'm not crazy about them because they're not really full sets of plate. So perhaps the doom_guard is the most appropriate, which from what I could tell is just a blank animations that takes overlays (armour and weapons). A helmed/battle horror (there's no major difference except in abilities) is basically just an animated suit of plate (somewhat glowing with purple light through the cracks, according to Monsters of Faerun, but I don't know if an effect would render that well).

Edit: oh, and I suppose someone should move this to the Aurora's Shoes forum, since it seems fairly clear it's the Aurora PnP Helmed/Battle Horror component.

Edited by Miloch, 01 January 2010 - 03:47 PM.