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[Dextrik]

soooory...forgot to login first

added weidu.log and setup-bgtdos.debug files

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[Altomar]

Better ask this question at BGT forum, but i don't think there is any problem.
Don't forget to use this patch for BGT1.05b
http://www.shsforums...mp;#entry369621

[Ascension64]

greetings,

i have run into a problem during the installation. i followed the guide...

installed:
bg1:original saga
bg2+tob+patch
bg2 fixpack
scriptable spells
The darkest day
shadows over soubar
check the bodies
tortured souls

after that i ran BGT installation, which seems to be completed sucesfully but i noticed several "The system cannot find the file specified." messages in the last part of the installation - "Compressing game files...".

The setup-bgt.debug file has no error messages, but setup-bgtdos.debug has the ones i described above.

Should i continue with the installation or start a new one? i tried it twice from backup just before bgt install with same result

Don't worry about them.

[Dextrik]

ok...thx for help....both of u

[jcompton]

The project is a great idea. Just go with authorized mirrors. Hell, write up the darned XHTML to pop up a pre-addressed browser box. Or set the .bat installer to do it. Or, find another place to discuss this stuff, if you folks are all intent on taking other folk's work without permission and creating your own megamod. If you are going to do that, just grab the first tp2 and start combining. Then find a new site, because I don't think people are ging to be very happy about it, regardless of hosting site. Myself included.

If you were serious about this, then I would say it's time to drop the hammer. Kovarex continues to ignore our requests.

http://www.shsforums...&...st&p=372243

[cmorgan]

Noted -

will advise soonest.

EDIT: Timestamp, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
An SHS staffer has recieved a direct request for Administrative evaluation and action on threads and posts which discuss and link to a tool which uses unauthorized mirrors of PPG hosted mods.
The related threads, posts, and discussions will be reevaluated by SHS staff and responded to as quickly as possible.

Edited by cmorgan, 19 January 2008 - 10:51 AM.

[kovarex]

Guys,
There was a problem with BP-Balancer 0.27.
When I corrected some macros within the mod making it work for WeiDu 202, I just produced a repeating typo. Veeeery anyoing. But it's gone now

New Version 0.28 here:
http://bgtproject.me...ancer-v0.28.rar

DON'T USE any version below, you would have more than one corrupt area.

Sorry for that, I appologize


Manduran

Thx for this, I will test the new version soon.

[cmorgan]

Taks your time, John, and poke around - there are answers to all this in a good read of the forums

(For reference, on Nvidia8800 series cards using newer drivers, the bigg has posted a set of settings that work - there is a section on Vista - poke about a bit or search the site, and you will be pleasantly suprised)

[Hoppy]

BG I has an anyoing graphical bug that fucks up the graphics pretty often and every time i kill an enemy, is there anything one can do about this, cus trying the graphic menus in the game hasn't helped.

That sounds like the igi Iron Modder entry that Marvin had a character going red on the kill in his install. That's what the mod does, if that is the issue. It changes the color of the character that got the actual kill. Not permanently, just like a red glow. Does that mirror your graphic oddity, John?

Edited by Hoppy, 20 January 2008 - 03:29 PM.

[Altomar]

Greetings denizens of SHS

I decided to replay through BG1 and BG2 again, and recently discovered BiG world. I'm keen on starting to install it, but I've read the instlalation .pdf and have a few questions, mainly because it's a bit unclear and has a somewhat bad case of Engrish.

What do I do with and where do I place the downloaded mods> The .pdf says put them into a folder, but I don't see how I can point the installer to a generic folder that sits anywhere on my hard drive. Do I have to place the mods in my BGII installation?

I beg forgiveness if I overlooked anything.

The PDF is the v4 version.

Thanks

Just extract them into main bg2 directory and then follow the guide for the proper installation order.

Edited by Altomar, 21 January 2008 - 08:32 AM.

[boospawn_the_return]

Noted -

will advise soonest.

EDIT: Timestamp, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
An SHS staffer has recieved a direct request for Administrative evaluation and action on threads and posts which discuss and link to a tool which uses unauthorized mirrors of PPG hosted mods.
The related threads, posts, and discussions will be reevaluated by SHS staff and responded to as quickly as possible.

This is an open plea to the SHS moderators. PLEASE do not close this thread. I think this is one of the better forums and projects to come alone in a long while.

The issues that people have can be worked out. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't delete this thread.

[cmorgan]

The folks in question are working out what to do: the only materials in contention are direct links to tools and unauthorized mirrors (which is fancy-speak for "PPG, SHS, and G3 are not happy campers about a specific set of links and usage of unauthorized mirrors, but all three modding communities are interested in supporting players and encouraging folks to do the right thing for both modders and players.")

Another way of saying it is "links to unauthorized mirrors and tools which utilize that tech are in contention. Posts and threads of information supporting players and modders are not."

Or,

"Don't worry - all three communities are watching player's backs as well as modder's backs".

Or ,

"Don't worry - be happy"

Edited by cmorgan, 21 January 2008 - 11:33 AM.

[Leonardo Watson]

Hey folks!

I have opened this thread to discuss here problems and mistakes with the BiG World Project, not about unauthorized mirrors. Please keep this thread clean. If you want to continue your discussions about mirrors use this thread instead: http://www.shsforums...showtopic=30560

I'm glad to see that there arouse a great deal of interest about my project.
In the meantime it inspired some other fans to start their own projects. I said it once and I say it again: I have nothing to do with them. I wasn't involved at any time with any of these projects. BiG World Project is my baby, the inspired projects are theirs.

When someone else installed a mirror with packages of all used mods, I found this was a very good idea and I created a tool to unpack the files full automated. This would have done getting the mods very easily. In about two and a half hours all the mods were downloaded and unpacked on your HD ready to use.

A few modders however don't think players should get the mods in such an easy way. They want you waste your time searching all the mods yourself. This was already discussed detailed in the thread above. I cannot understand these modders, but I respected their wish. So my ready to use unpacker tool was never published, no one never got this tool. Some coders are working on a new solution for weeks, which uses the links to the mods on the authorized mirrors. I don't know, whether this would ever work.

So please, you players, don't complain to me, that there is no easy way to download the mods, it's the modders wish that you have big troubles to get them.

And please, you staff members, don't punish me for things I have not done.

[Altomar]

Leonardo Spellpack has been updated to beta 4 but has many issues during installation.
There is a modified version of Setup-SpellPackB4.tp2 that solves these issues in case you want to include it in BWProject fixed files until a new version is out.

http://forums.blackw...?...ost&p=28494

[jcompton]

There's been a lot of "woe is us, boo to the mean modders" hair-tugging lately. Frankly, I suspect you all understand this full well but are stinging over not getting away with it, but I'll play along.

However clever and noble your efforts to help people install The Darkest Day and Shadows Over Soubar are, they don't give you the right to intermediate yourself between mod creators and players. Beyond the straightforward "it's our IP and we will distribute it how we see fit, and only how we see fit" argument, which you seem not to understand every time we make it, there is a reason sites like PPG, G3, and Studios exist.

We wish to meet our players, to invite them to participate on our forums, to explore our sites and discover other mods, to read our modding tutorials and our Alassa fanfics and so forth. I accept that it's only a minority of players who wish to do all of these things, but most will do at least one of them. Your end-run around our chosen distribution method potentially robs us of that chance, and I for one don't appreciate that one bit.