I'm looking for some way to mark an event or change during a game that would be detectable from a prior save - or from a different later playthrough. Something like a global, but globals (not to put bad news in anybody's mouth) are kept in the GAM file and updated with it; loading a saved game before a global is set resets it to zero, or rather to nothing, and the same for starting a new game. Clean slates, from what I understand. I'm interested in driving a stake that would be visible from earlier games and later - maybe something outside the GAM or something in it that persists. One idea I had was to do it with MakeGlobal() of special creatures, which could then be spawned, but I think the absence-presence of those records would still be concurrent with the state of the GAM. I have the whole of BALDUR to write into at my disposal and all of the scripts of the engine creature, I can use any action and custom spell anywhere, but does anybody know a way to make them time-independent?
Looking for a retroactive marker
#1
Posted 23 December 2017 - 08:56 AM
#2
Posted 24 December 2017 - 11:45 PM
There's no persistent saved data in IE.
Retired from modding.
#3
Posted 25 December 2017 - 01:03 AM
There are some bits, but none you could read. An example, that you could write easily with effects or actions is, the played movie.
Theoretically, you can make dozens of empty movies. Playing a movie for the first time, they will be written up in baldur.lua in the [movies] section.
All the other options i can think of, are even more difficult to handle.
#4
Posted 25 December 2017 - 04:11 AM
That's interesting. But how would I check for a played movie?
#5
Posted 25 December 2017 - 06:18 AM
That's interesting. But how would I check for a played movie?You read the .lua file from the games profile.
Yep, Jarno Mikkola. my Mega Mod FAQ. Use of the BWS, and how to use it(scroll down that post a bit).
OK, desert dweller, welcome to the sanity, you are free to search for the limit, it's out there, we drew it in the sand. Ouh, actually it was still snow then.. but anyways.
#6
Posted 25 December 2017 - 01:20 PM
In the game, silly!
#7
Posted 25 December 2017 - 04:06 PM
Yep, Jarno Mikkola. my Mega Mod FAQ. Use of the BWS, and how to use it(scroll down that post a bit).
OK, desert dweller, welcome to the sanity, you are free to search for the limit, it's out there, we drew it in the sand. Ouh, actually it was still snow then.. but anyways.
#8
Posted 25 December 2017 - 04:23 PM
Don't mess with the game data, or it will mess with you.
Retired from modding.
#9
Posted 26 December 2017 - 03:16 PM
Can't read that link, there's inappropriate information. Better stay away.