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[King Diamond]

AR9800.ARE

ar9800.are

There was an error in one of the spawn points.

[King Diamond]

AR3401.ARE

ar3401.are

Its spawns were not updated.

[King Diamond]

*** Updated since the 1st upload ************

Eldoth_Skie_Shart.rar

1) Eldoth - Sharteel fight fixed (ELDOTH.BCS and SHARTEEL.BCS)
SHARTEEL.BAF in case of TDD detection should be appended to the existing one (TDD has almost empty script that ruins the possible fight with Eldoth).

2) Eldoth and Skie party dialogues optimized and fixed. There were major bugs.
+ Eldoth says something valuable about the money in some period of time now

3) Eldoth cutscene start fixed - now it checks proper area location and doesn't start when initiating party dialogue.

4) Coran script. Should be updated like this:

COPY_EXISTING ~CORAN.BCS~ ~override~
  EXTEND_BOTTOM ~CORAN.BCS~ ~BGT/Modify/BAF/aCORAN.BAF~

He starts a conversation when party is in a halfway to complete his quest.

Edited by King Diamond, 26 April 2005 - 09:22 AM.

[King Diamond]

1) Strref 11725. Has EDWIN43.WAV reference that should be BEDWIN43.WAV in BGT. Is in use only by few BGT CREs.

2) RUNENEMY.BAF should be removed from the package because it overwrites existing (and much more solid) BG2 script.
+ it uses invalid EDWIN43.WAV reference too that produces an effect of "ghost" Edwin presence.... (damn, finally I've tracked it down - that Edwin's voice was everywhere!!)

Edited by King Diamond, 27 April 2005 - 02:40 AM.

[King Diamond]

1) YESLIC and YESLIC5.CRE
All old-style proficiency stats (non-effects) must be set to 0.

2) All other NPCs - spells system checked once again and extra memorized/memorizable spell slots removed.
Some fighters and thieves had 1 Priest memorizable spell slot available too so it's removed.

NPCs_spells.rar

[EDIT]
KAGAIN.BAF and YESLIC.BAF - their fight fix.
ELDOTH.BAF - small update since the previous post (DialogInterrupt(TRUE) was in wrong place there)

P.S> I doubt if KAGAIN, ELDOTH.BCS should be patched in an old way (with COPY_EXISTING) now 'coz there're much more than 50% of existing biffed script modified. The way they were composed simply doesn't work in BG2.

Edited by King Diamond, 27 April 2005 - 06:02 AM.

[King Diamond]

Finalizing the update of all figths between NPCs launched from their banter speeches...

banter_fights.rar

Plz notice that (as posted in the previous post) some already biffed in BG2 scripts should be overwritten 'coz they don't work.

Edited by King Diamond, 27 April 2005 - 07:17 AM.

[King Diamond]

Fixes for scripts that use area specific LOCALs.

COPY_EXISTING ~DAVAEORN.BCS~ ~override~
  DECOMPILE_BCS_TO_BAF
  REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~AR1803~ ~AR8603~
  COMPILE_BAF_TO_BCS

COPY_EXISTING ~ANDRIS.BCS~ ~override~
  DECOMPILE_BCS_TO_BAF
  REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~AR1009~ ~ARU009~
  COMPILE_BAF_TO_BCS

+ AR7216.BAF -> AR0116 should be changed to AR7216.

A reason. As far as those variables are area-based the engine searches if mentioned area exists. For DAVAEORN and AR7216 such areas (Ar1803 and AR0116) don't exist in the game at all. So those scripts are simply not working.
For ANDRIS AR1009 exists but to make it more clear it should be corrected too...

[King Diamond]

1) MINEC2.D

There should be a check for MISC83 item, not MISC83B as it is right now (Key to River Plug).

And MISC83B.ITM is not needed anymore.


2)

COPY ~BGMODCRE/NARRAT.CRE~ ~override~
  WRITE_LONG 0x8 0xffffffff
  WRITE_LONG 0xc 0xffffffff
COPY ~BGMODCRE/NARRAT2.CRE~ ~override~
  WRITE_LONG 0x8 0xffffffff
  WRITE_LONG 0xc 0xffffffff

and those CREs should be moved to BGMODCRE during the preparation stage.
These are creatures-narrators. 1st one appears when you'd been teleported on a surface after flooding the cloakwood mines and says just one sentence. By default it has a name Dradeel and it looks strange that someone invisible named Dradeel is telling you something in the middle of the forest. So those strrefs should be set to -1.

Edited by King Diamond, 28 April 2005 - 05:32 AM.

[Ascension64]

KD, can you can keep those files on your site for a while? I won't be doing any modding over the next couple of weeks because of musical, uni, choir, and other ol' fashion RL. Keep up the bugspray. :thumb: :thumb:

[King Diamond]

AR6801.BCS
2 last triggers with a check of "KJ_Party_Once" have no sense. It could be some other mod's obsolete part. They should be removed from there.

[King Diamond]

KD, can you can keep those files on your site for a while?  I won't be doing any modding over the next couple of weeks because of musical, uni, choir, and other ol' fashion RL.  Keep up the bugspray.  :thumb:  :thumb:

Sure

[King Diamond]

AJANTIS spells update.

ajantis.rar

As paladin his innate spells are based on CLABPA01.2DA - not on a set of memorized spells. To avoid spells duplication all memorized and known spells should be removed from CRE.

[King Diamond]

1) AR7900.ARE

AR7900.ARE

Fix for bridge signs - were incorrect strrefs (11675 "Inn" instead of 11765 "Wyrm's Crossing")

2) QUAYLE

quayle.rar

That guy is somehow incomplete or originally screwed by developers.
He has LONGSWORD proficiency (even in BG1) but clerics can't use longswords at all. So this is the 1st BS. I changed it to Cubs proficiency that is more suitable.
2nd - he has a proficiency in flails/morningstars. But the lowest Strength to use them - 10. He's got only 8 though. I left this untouched - he could use some STR bonuses or magic boosts... But that's strange anyway....

Edited by King Diamond, 28 April 2005 - 08:50 AM.

[King Diamond]

Assorted updates.

variuos.rar

1)

COPY ~BGMODCRE/CHIMP5.CRE~ ~override~
  SAY 0xa4 #4985
  SAY 0x1b8 #4985

Prior to that CHIMP5.CRE should be moved to BGMODCRE (pre-installation bat).
That is a Flaming Fist Mercenary but he has town crier sounds.

RAR contents:
2) Several AREs songs fix.

3) GHORAK.D fix.

4) Another TIAX fix. Like QUAYLE he has proficiencies in maces and flails but STR=9 only that denies him from using either of them. Now STR set to 10.

5) A small Tiax/Quayle fight fix that prevents them from being unselectable after they lost their morale in the fight.

[King Diamond]

1) Area songs fix for a previous post updated a little (added 3 more AREs).

2) TP2:

COPY ~BGT/Modify/ARE/AR7600.ARE~ ~override~
  SAY 0x7118 @602

It must be in that way - old patch is invalid (was a wrong address).

3) Plz notice that INNKE3.D contains wrong texts. But I think DLG import will fix that issue automatically.

Edited by King Diamond, 02 May 2005 - 09:00 AM.

[King Diamond]

Some fixes added to the above Various.rar.

1) 1 more song fix for 1 ARE

2) VARCI.D - area check added,
MAREK.D - added an extra action for STATE_CHARMED statement.

3) RAMAZI, ABELA dialogues fixes. Now they behave properly during the different stages of conversations and quest itself.

4)

COPY ~BGT/Modify/ARE/AR7600.ARE~ ~override~
  SAY 0x46f4 @602
  SAY 0x7118 @602
  
COPY ~BGT/Modify/ARE/AR7300.ARE~ ~override~
  SAY 0x8924 @600

COPY ~BGT/Modify/ARE/AR7400.ARE~ ~override~
  SAY 0x6a58 @601

That fixes incorrect signs and map notes assignments that are taking place during the mod installation.

Edited by King Diamond, 03 May 2005 - 09:38 AM.

[King Diamond]

I've noticed one issue about dialogs.

It is better to avoid to use in dialogs empty actions like "DO ~~". WeiDU compiled such dialogs not in a better way adding some weird 'unused' extra data as well as empty actions themself. I don't know what troubles that may cause but I have a feeling that without them compiled code will run much more smoothier.... and it will be more compact as well.

[King Diamond]

Areas_2.rar

1) Several areas songs fix.

2) AR6526.ARE signs fix.

3) PHEIRK.D.
1st trigger should look like this (MAGE_THIEF was forgotten):

IF WEIGHT #0 ~Global("StartedPheirkasQuest","GLOBAL",0)
!InParty([0.0.0.THIEF])
!InParty([0.0.0.FIGHTER_THIEF])
!InParty([0.0.0.FIGHTER_MAGE_THIEF])
!InParty([0.0.0.MAGE_THIEF])
!InParty([0.0.0.CLERIC_THIEF])~ THEN BEGIN 0 // from:
  SAY ~Hmm, I prefer not to work with amateurs.~ /* #99241 */
  IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

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*** Edited (see below) ***

Edited by King Diamond, 07 May 2005 - 04:00 AM.

[King Diamond]

COPY ~BGMODCRE/BANDITCY.CRE~ ~override~
  WRITE_ASCII 0x248 "None"               //shout.bcs to None
  WRITE_BYTE  0x248+4 0

That CRE should be moved to /BGMODCRE/ during the pre-installation stage.

If there will SHOUT.BCS be left those guys will make hostile everybody in sight that is not correct IMO.

Edited by King Diamond, 07 May 2005 - 02:14 AM.