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#1 Creepin

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Posted 17 April 2015 - 02:17 PM

The title says it all actually.
 
I did nice, clean, by-the-book install of BWS, with all dependencies fixed, all mods downloaded successfully, all archives unpacked succesfully, all mods (*) installed successfully, as far as debug says. All seems to be nice, yet some textual content is screwed. Not much, about 1% or so, but enough to ruin the game.

Here's what I stumbled upon playing as little as through Candlekeep and a bit beyond (clickable). Yes, Finch got it worst, I never saw before name, tooltip and text lines switched to the same line. 
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Now, there's no point in using changelog on dialog.tlk I believe, but I need to know what to change/tweak/get rid of in my install order before I'll reinstall. Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated! :)

* The following ending lines of a debug file shows that not literally everything was installed ok, especially with that thing called "Make quick-logged WeiDU-entries visible" successfully installed and then uninstalled back, could it be the reason of dialog.tlk desyncing?

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I'm attaching weidu.log just in case it might be of use.

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Edited by Creepin, 17 April 2015 - 02:27 PM.

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#2 Miloch

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Posted 25 April 2015 - 10:26 PM

I don't know why "Make quick-logged WeiDU-entries visible" was installed then uninstalled, that is a bit weird. Also how only some of your dialog.tlk strings are hosed but others are fine. Maybe it would be worth looking at the Finch conversion, or the mod that did the quick-log install/uninstall.


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#3 The Imp

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Posted 25 April 2015 - 11:46 PM

I don't know why "Make quick-logged WeiDU-entries visible" was installed then uninstalled, that is a bit weird. Also how only some of your dialog.tlk strings are hosed but others are fine. Maybe it would be worth looking at the Finch conversion, or the mod that did the quick-log install/uninstall.
It's there as a signal the method of install and that the install has finished. If it's the
"// Recently Uninstalled: ~SETUP-BWS_FINAL.TP2~ #0 #0 // Make quick-logged WeiDU-entries visible"
... I won't redownload the weidu.log just to check that out... The component itself does nothing. I ones pleaded that it should contain the .ids fixes as the other should, but it never made into them. As yes, it could be in every single one of them with the APPEND ... UNLESS ... approach.

Edited by The Imp, 25 April 2015 - 11:57 PM.

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