BG2 Impoved GUI
Includes:
- Loot panel
- Colorize icon of not memorized scrolls
- Hide "Write magic" button for already known spells and for opposition schools
- Show HitPoints on NPC/Party when pressed TAB key
- THAC0 and Damage info on Inventory screen
- Dark portraits on party when dragging not allowed items
- Total Roll info on Character creation screen
- Journal with fold/unfold quests
- Grayscale background on Pause
- Unlimited Hand off slot
- Show NPC's active effects on right mouse click
- Extended messages about item/quest/worldmap events
Loot panel:
Add new buttons for pick up items from near corpses
Difference vs EE engine:
- Panel is not realy "panel", its extension of original container screen, it cannot be visible always on main screen, still need open any container around
- Panel has two modes:
1) Classic (like EE)
2) Grouping same items, one click to pickup some item type from all corpses
Configuration of loot panel: In file "TobEx_ini\TobExTweak.ini" you can change some options:
- UI:Loot Panel Item Grouping=1, Enable grouping similar items to one button, or select same option in installer
- UI:Loot Panel Sorting Unidentified First=1, Enable priority sorting, unidentified items will be always show first
- UI:Loot Panel Sorting Order=33, 34, 5, 14, Set sorting order by priority numbers, numbers coded in file loot_groups_table.txt, for this example priority is Gold=>Gems=>Arrows=>Bullets=>All Other
Colorize icon:
Add green border for scroll ready to memorize, you can change icon effect by replacing file STORTIN3.BAM to yours
Show HitPoints on NPC/Party when pressed TAB key:
THAC0 and Damage info on Inventory screen +
Dark portraits on party when dragging not allowed items:
Total Roll info on Character creation screen:
Journal with fold/unfold quests:
Grayscale background on Pause:
Effect like TimeStop, but only background is greyed, same as on EE engine
Enable/disable with switch button on main screen
Unlimited Hand off slot: (EXPERIMENTAL, alpha state)
Allow fit weapon/shield in hand off slot even when item in main hand has restrictions to hand off.
You can drag to hand slots for example two hand sword and shield, but shield will be disabled.
Option usefull for switching between main hand' weapon slots, if selected item has no restrictions, hand off slot will be activated again. If you save game with incompatible items, you can't load it if will uninstall this compenent
Show NPC's active effects on right mouse click
Componet make game little easy in "mage battle", now you can get info about active effect/spells on enemy (or any NPC). No more need to search chat window back to see which mage what casted.
You can filter print of unwanted effect types, in file "TobEx_ini\TobExTweak.ini" edit line UI:Log Active Buffs Filter List= , add numbers from file icon_effects_table.txt. Don't need filter numbers starting with ";" symbol, they already internaly filtered.
Example: UI:Log Active Buffs Filter List=24, 25 - no info about "Protection from Acid" and "Protection from Cold"
Extended messages about items/quest/worldmap events:
- Quest messages splitted to:
1. New Quest
2. Updated quests
3. Done quests
4. Storyline
- Name of unhided/hided Worldmap Area
- Name of gained/lost/dropped Item
Requirements:
- BG2 ToB v2.5.26498
- Installed TobEx v26 or v28, installer will replace existing tobex.dll with custom version
- Compatible with Widescreen mod 3.07 and 1pp GUI additions , but Impoved GUI need install after
Compilation:
In folder "src" modified sources of TobEx v28, merge with original files
Credits:
Ascension64 for TobEx and briliant reverse engineering work !
Wisp/The Bigg/Westley Weimer for WeiDU Script&Resource processor
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Edited by Insomniator, 17 February 2021 - 12:24 PM.