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Daggerless

Member Since 10 Sep 2003
Offline Last Active Apr 15 2009 12:48 PM

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Item Descriptions

22 July 2004 - 02:48 PM

Q: How much more can we expect of One Pixel Productions?
A: Currently, theres one last thing in progress (hint: having to do with inventory graphics), then i'll be pretty much finished. There will probably be some minor fixes and improvements, but that should've been the main thing. If you have a specific issue with BGII though (something that always annoyed you) you can simply post about it, and hey, if I like the idea I might always come up with something


One thing that always bothered me was the item descriptions in BG2 didn't always match the ones in BG1. I also liked the way they were written in BG better. It would be nice if the descriptions we're uniform, especially playing BG1tutu.

For example:
Item type, Enchantment value: "unique name"
Description
STATISTICS:
Special Abilities
Basic Stats

Weimer used this format with his item upgrade mod and made it feel more uniform with BG1 items. In BG2 some items were written differently, having simply the unique name as a title or having the special abilites under the base statistics like IWD. It really doesn't matter where the special abilities go, as long as they are written in the same format as all other items.

We all know how bad ToB items where bad, not only in apperance but in descrition also. I know that UB adds a few of these back, but it would be nice to not only give them a uniform format (as above) but also re-instate their original descriptions for the upgraded items by Cespanar. The Carsomyr for example, was an item that lost its original description when it was upgraded witht the Eye of Tyr. That annoyed me.

I know how to change these for my own games, but would this be in the scope of your mod?