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wellunhappy, on 01 December 2011 - 01:42 PM, said:

Aww, and you never told me. I recall you being a real cutie too, even in technicolor (never knew which hair color was the real one lol). Shame, I also recall you living on the far side of the Atlantic. (That's a long drive for a date.)

I haven't worked on BP or any of my other modding projects in a while, but I still peek in the forums when I can. Been working day & night away at my new job. I managed to successfully transform my 'obsessive hobby' into 'illustrious career'. I now work for Alan Miranda over at Ossian Studios, as both a line producer and asst. lead of level design. (For those around here not familiar, he was a producer on Throne of Bhaal and a couple of the NWN expansions before starting his own studio). We're hammering away at The Shadow Sun, our RPG for the iOS devices (link to site in my sig). It might shock those familiar with BP and my other work, that I haven't written a single script at Ossian. I'm helping make the areas look pretty instead. I spend most of my time in art editors these days, and in Unity 3D. I can't say much more than that of course (yet), but I've really poured my heart and soul into the areas you'll adventure through, quite proud of my work, and I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did helping create them.

(There you have it, my first public announcement of this. Told you I'd fill you guys in first, when I could. )

Glad you found the files you needed. I'd recommend for a smoother install, you check out the Big World Project. They took my old hammer & tong install madness and automated it. It also has links for all the mods, and downloads and installs them for you. These days it even lets you choose which components. Nice stuff!


Happy to hear all is going well! Keep in touch!

The googler is correct. I ran into this in the weekend, and that's how I solved it. You have the spot in the BWP interface where you already typed a few 'y' 'n' 'r' etc spots. Type the path to BG1 on your install and hit the Send Entered Text button. Things start happening right afterwards.

I took a quick look at the batch file code, and it looks like there's an external text file that's supposed to be called up to tell you about this (@89.<file>) but it definitely didn't spawn in my install run and it sounds like it isn't for others.

europe1, on 24 July 2011 - 04:02 PM, said:

No problems, occasionally I'm around to sweep up the mess. (In case anybody wonders why I'm so busy, click the link in my sig and find out where I'm spending my time). And don't let that Jarno scare you. He's been compelled to bring up the post count in the Mega Mod Help section, or Asmodeus will change him back into a larvae for 1001 years.

Cerest, on 23 June 2011 - 09:07 PM, said:

Actually, it would take something like a ToB Extender plugin to beat this, because the few other keys available have been hardcoded as off in the engine. I tested this by hunting down the universal symbol codes for each of the leftover keys ( , . / ; ' \ ` ), and trying the values in the IDS file. To no avail, I'm afraid. The 'Fixed-Unmappable' tooltip you see in the configuration tool for each of these is quite accurate.

Perhaps it could at least be noted as a mod compatability issue in BWP. Don't look for me to change mine; I'd have a dozen other functions on keys if they were available. The BP Series party AI keys are mainly for combat (i.e, life and death) whereas the NPC mods if I understand correct are for ease of bantering (not life and death). Perhaps NPC mod makers could find another way to trigger their talks?

the bigg, on 09 February 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

This brings back memories, of the original TeamBG tools; when NearInfinity was still a lad, and weidu was barely a sproutling. There was a lot of experimentation in those days, and on top of it the tools often did things you didn't intend them to. Large mods in particular were a big crap-shoot. For CtB, I remember Charles going through great efforts to learn weidu so he could code the mod up; I'm pretty certain a few non-intended oops'es came into being. Don't feel the slightest bit of intimidation, if cleaning these up. I truly doubt Max, Minto, or Charles Bisson would mind a bit, and would more likely thank you for it.