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[Kitanna]

I need someone who is familiar with the program, and willing, to help me fix a problem with a mod I am working on. It isn't installing properly and the first non game area crashes the game when the area loads. I didn't do the coding for the tisunpack and have no idea how so, I can't fix it. The person who did do the coding is no longer available so, if anyone is willing to help me, please let know. I would greatly appreciate it.

[Rabain]

Does the area work if you CLUA to it ingame before you tiz it for distribution?

Or are you sure tisunpack is not working because there is no tis file in the override. If there is a tis file in the override after install then it is not a tispack issue. More likely there is something wrong in/with the area file itself.

[Kitanna]

Does the area work if you CLUA to it ingame before you tiz it for distribution?

Or are you sure tisunpack is not working because there is no tis file in the override. If there is a tis file in the override after install then it is not a tispack issue. More likely there is something wrong in/with the area file itself.

No tis file in the override. Haven't tried to CLUA it in to game. And I keep getting this error

'....' is not reconized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This is the unpack.bat

@echo off
Echo Copying TIZ files to override
copy Neh'taniel\tiz\*.* override\*.*
cd override
Echo Uncompressing TIZ files
tisunpack -f sk5201.tiz
tisunpack -f sk5401.tiz
tisunpack -f sk6400.tiz
...
...
Echo Delete the TIZ files
del sk5201.tiz
del sk5401.tiz
del sk6400.tiz
...
...
del tisunpack.exe

[Azazello]

In either other BAT files or the TP2 is "tisunpack.EXE" copied to the game folder?

[Kitanna]

In either other BAT files or the TP2 is "tisunpack.EXE" copied to the game folder?

the tisunpack.exe is in the areas folder and the TP2 copies the entire folder to the override

COPY ~Neh'taniel/Areas~ ~override~

[Azazello]

'unpack.bat' is supposedly in the top-level game folder?

Have you manually tried the commands in 'unpack.bat'? From the top-level, which is where 'unpack.bat' should be, try these lines, one at a time:

copy Neh'taniel\tiz\*.* override\*.*
cd override
tisunpack -f sk5201.tiz

[Kitanna]

'unpack.bat' is supposedly in the top-level game folder?

Have you manually tried the commands in 'unpack.bat'? From the top-level, which is where 'unpack.bat' should be, try these lines, one at a time:

copy Neh'taniel\tiz\*.* override\*.*
cd override
tisunpack -f sk5201.tiz

Yes, it's in the top level of the folder but, forgive my ignorance, how do I go about manually trying the commands?

[Rabain]

According to your bat all the contect of the folder Neh'taniel\tiz\ should end up in the override...is any of this happening?

Is there a line in your tp2 that copies unpack.bat into the main BG2 directory?

And following that copy is there a line in your tp2 that runs unpack.bat ?

[Kitanna]

According to your bat all the contect of the folder Neh'taniel\tiz\ should end up in the override...is any of this happening?

Is there a line in your tp2 that copies unpack.bat into the main BG2 directory?

And following that copy is there a line in your tp2 that runs unpack.bat ?

In the TP2, this is the only line that refers to the unpack.bat

AT_INTERACTIVE_EXIT ~SK#unpac.bat~

None of the tiz files end up in the override.

[Rabain]

So where is the unpack.bat file installed to when you install the mod?

For example if the mod is zipped there should be instructions to place the unpack.bat directly in the BG2 folder...not inside the Neh'taniel folder. However that is not the standard approach. The standard is to add a line to the tp2:

COPY ~Neh'taniel/SK#unpac.bat~ ~SK#unpac.bat~

Which would copy the unpack.bat file from inside the neh'taniel folder to the BG2 directory where it needs to be in order to run properly.

Again: the bat file needs to be inside the BG2 folder, not inside the Neh'taniel folder inside the BG2 folder.

Place the COPY before the AT_INTERACTIVE_EXIT obviously.

[Kitanna]

So where is the unpack.bat file installed to when you install the mod?

For example if the mod is zipped there should be instructions to place the unpack.bat directly in the BG2 folder...not inside the Neh'taniel folder. However that is not the standard approach. The standard is to add a line to the tp2:

COPY ~Neh'taniel/SK#unpac.bat~ ~SK#unpac.bat~

Which would copy the unpack.bat file from inside the neh'taniel folder to the BG2 directory where it needs to be in order to run properly.

Again: the bat file needs to be inside the BG2 folder, not inside the Neh'taniel folder inside the BG2 folder.

Place the COPY before the AT_INTERACTIVE_EXIT obviously.

[Kitanna]

So where is the unpack.bat file installed to when you install the mod?

For example if the mod is zipped there should be instructions to place the unpack.bat directly in the BG2 folder...not inside the Neh'taniel folder. However that is not the standard approach. The standard is to add a line to the tp2:

COPY ~Neh'taniel/SK#unpac.bat~ ~SK#unpac.bat~

Which would copy the unpack.bat file from inside the neh'taniel folder to the BG2 directory where it needs to be in order to run properly.

Again: the bat file needs to be inside the BG2 folder, not inside the Neh'taniel folder inside the BG2 folder.

Place the COPY before the AT_INTERACTIVE_EXIT obviously.

All of that is as it should be and the tiz files are in the override. So, there is something else causing the area to crash after it loads. Thanks for the help. Going to have find a bug squasher to fix this.

[Miloch]

You could try running the G3 Debuggerer on it. As for entering commands manually, do that from a command prompt. Go to Start > Run and enter 'cmd' in the field, then 'cd c:\games\bg2' or wherever your game is installed.

[Kitanna]

You could try running the G3 Debuggerer on it. As for entering commands manually, do that from a command prompt. Go to Start > Run and enter 'cmd' in the field, then 'cd c:\games\bg2' or wherever your game is installed.

Thank you Miloch! I'll try that