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[The Imp]

Well, you can open any file with Notepad and copy paste a content to any other file ..

But usually that won't help, in most case. Yes, you can even copy entire picture's hex code to another and it kinda works... But usually that won't help.

 

ALL weidu mods use backup folders, as when you open the setup-*modname*.tp2, it starts from saying the backup folders location, with: BACKUP ~foldername~ into which it will make folders when installing the mod, and moves overwritten original files. The subfolders name is the component number featured in your weidu.log file's log.

Now, if the file has not been modified by other mods, it won't be found in the override folder ... meaning that when the backup is made, it won't be at the backup either, as the game actually packages the original game files in the large .bif files that the game can read faster than data that's in the override folder.

 

To get the original file from the .bif's to be the one the game uses, you just need to delete any file that the game has in the <gameinstall folder>/override/ -folder. I don't know what xp file you mean, I assume it's the one that features the bonus xp you get from disabling traps and unlocking door etc, it's called "xpbonus.2da". There's also the xpcap.2da and xplevel.2da files.

There, by the by, is no "XP fixer" mod, it's called something else, as you can't fix what isn't broken. And there are multiple xp tweak mod, but that's not what you mentioned in the first post.

[The Imp]

Here's the original, it's that exact same one... yes, indeed the traps and locks is actually reversed in the game. And you normally start the BG2 at level 7, leading you to get 1750 from unlocking a chest, and 400 from removing a trap, but you'll quickly level up and for idiocity's sake, get more XP, not less.. which is why there's so many different tweaks mods of it.

For example, here's mine.

2DA V1.0
0
                1        2      3       4       5       6       7       8       9       10      11      12     13      14      15        16      17      18       19     20      21      22      23      24      25      26      27      28      29     30     31      32        33      34      35       36     37      38      39      40      41      42      43      44      45      46     47      48      49   50 
PICK_LOCK       1000     980    960     940     920     900     880     860     840     820     800     780    760     740     720       700     680     660      640    620     600     580     560     540     520     500     480     460     440    420     400     380       360     340     320      300    280     260     240     220     200     180     160     140     120     100    80      60      40   20 
DISARM_TRAP     1000     980    960     940     920     900     880     860     840     820     800     780    760     740     720       700     680     660      640    620     600     580     560     540     520     500     480     460     440    420     400     380       360     340     320      300    280     260     240     220     200     180     160     140     120     100    80      60      40   20 
LEARN_SPELL     250      500    750     1000    1250    1500    1750    2000    2500    0       0       0      0       0       0         0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0        0       0       0        0      0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      0       0       0    0 

The bg1 didn't give any xp rewards from unlocking or disarming, nor from learning arcane spells.

The likely reason why the file is in the documents is that your OS places it these, because the OS doesn't like you, nor you replacing original files ... so it mirrors them into your profile folder. Whether it uses them is up to the OS and the particular config you have made. I myself, play the games in Windows 10, install the games to the only place it allows me to modify the files at, aka C:\Users\<username>\Pelit(aka Games)\<gamename>\

Edited by The Imp, 18 October 2017 - 05:15 PM.

[The Imp]

Well, if you have the game installed, say here: C:\Users\<username>\Games\BG2 - SoA\

Then all you need to do is move the file(xpbonus.2da) into the C:\Users\<username>\Games\BG2 - SoA\override\ -folder and it will work from there.

 

Now, depending on which generation of megamod you did, you either did a BWP or BWS install, the later is more simple, as you just run the .vbs file that comes with the package ... or made the whole setup yourself and ran the BiG World Install.bat that comes with that package(+the few other packs), if it was the former.

Or you could have even been one of the "early" independents that didn't have any of that cheese and just installed the mods via extracting them to the game folder and ran the setup-modname.exe's...

Edited by The Imp, 19 October 2017 - 03:45 AM.