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[Leomar]

BiG World Project (BWP) v8.0

Entire installation instructions for the Baldur's Gate Megamod


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The BiG World Project aims to merge all games of the Baldur's Gate series and the additional contents created by its community in one massive adventure, including a modification of BG1 to run BG1 with the more modern engine of BG2, plus the added functionality of ToB expansion. Now all new functions which are introduced only with BG2 are also available for BG1. This signifies, BG1 uses just like BG2 the same graphic arts, the same character kits, the same magic and the same rules. Now even for those which know BG1 by heart this is a new play experience. Besides, it also includes an additional transition from BG1 to BG2. And all this can expanded with additional mods.

BiG World Project is constantly going through changes to acquire a more stable and bug free version with every new update.

For German gamers you can visit our German forum.

Here you get all what you need for a megamod installation (click me).
- BiG World PDF-Manual (in Englisch, German and Spanish)
- BiG World Setup (for an easy installation)
- BiG World Installpack (contains the installation commands)
- BiG World Fixpack (fixes bugs in mods)
- BiG World Textpack (for foreign languages (currently in German and in Spanish))



The current instructions are divided into the following versions:

BGT Minimal-version
This minimal installation is very easy and fast done. You don't need anything to know about the BG mods. Install this version to play BG1 with the BG2 game engine until the end of ToB. We recommend this version to gamers, who has not played BG, yet. Only the BiG World Setup will offer this version and it depends on the Standard-version. The following mods will be installed with this version:
BG2 Fixpack, Baldur's Gate Trilogy and Restored Textscreen Music with the Language Pack.

Recommend-version
The recommend mods depends on recommendations from gamers and modders from different BG game forums. This version is a small megamod and a solid basis. This version alone gives you much new game-experience and content and if you wish you can add some more of your lovely choosen mods to it. Only the BiG World Setup will offer this version and it depends on the Standard-version. The mods for this version are marked green in the Linklist and the BiG World Setup.

Standard-version
Herewith you can install all mods which have not an absurd degree of difficulty or known bugs. You can take all these Standard-mods or choose the ones, you like. The Install.bat installs only the mods you have extracted into the BG2 main directory. The mods for this version are marked green and blue in the Linklist and the BiG World Setup.

Tactic-version
With this installation you can add mods and components to the Standard-version that make above all the fights with the enemies more difficult and, therefore, are thought for experienced gamers. The mods for this version are marked orange in the Linklist and the BiG World Setup.

Expert-version
This version tries to fathom the feasible and includes all available mods of the Standard- and the Tactic-version and additional the mods, which are bugged at the moment. You have a 100% chance of running into bugs and/or CTDs (crash to desktop). The mods for this version are marked grey in the Linklist and the BiG World Setup.

With the "BiG World Setup" you can do a BG2 only installation with all these versions, too (except the BGT Minimal-Version).

This project is in development. Beginners should keep absolutely to the instructions, while experienced players with some efforts, tests and bugfixing can also create their own version of the BiG World.



Step by Step Instructions

BG1 installation
- Make a full installation of BG1 and Tales of the Sword Coast
- Should be installed in C:\Games\Baldur's Gate
- Patch it with BioWare?s official ToSC patch v5512
- Start BG1, make your settings, create a character and make a quicksave with Q in Candlekeep
- Quit the game

BG2 installation
- Make a full installation of BG2 and Throne of Bhaal
- Should be installed in C:\Games\BGII - SoA
- Patch it with BioWare?s official ToB patch v26498
- Start BG2 and ToB, make your settings, create a character and after the autosave quit the game

Important: Don't change the BG graphic-options or not more then the supportet 800x600 resolution of BG. You can get crashs to desktops (CTDs) if you take a higher resolution as 800x600. When you want to play in a higher resolution take the Widescreen Mod.



Begin the installation

• Download the BiG World Setup
  
• Start the "BiG World Setup" and follow the on-screen instructions (the Setup runs the "BiG World Install.bat" automatically)
  
• Play your megamod.

Note:
The BWP-Tools were created for Windows 2000 upward, so you can use them on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, only.

We are glad about every suggestion and every criticism which serves to improve the BiG World Project.
The BiG World Project Team is available for you at any time in the forums.



Greetings Leonardo Watson and Leomar

Edited by Leomar, 19 October 2009 - 11:45 PM.

[Leomar]

New in v8.0

Updated guides

• Now the guide is available in Spanish, too
  
• New chapter ?Translate mods?
  
• Added Asian and Korean mods
  
• "Drizzt Saga" moved from the Expert-version to the Standard-version
  
• "Sylmar Battlefield" moved from the Expert-version to the Standard-version
  
• "Frennedan NPC" moved from the Expert-version to the Standard-version
  
• "Romantic Encounters" moved to the end of chapter 21
  
• "Haiass el Lobo" moved to the end of chapter 21
  
• "Authentic Mischiefous Fairy Dragon" moved after "Spell Revisions"
  
• With the "Songlist Patch" of Taimon the songlist.2da were expanded to 500 entries
  
• No changes to do after the BG1 to BG2 transition anymore
  
• New BWP Tool to traify mods

Updated "BiG World Installpack v8.0"

• Now, the installpack is for a Spanish installation, too
  
• Now, the Install.bat does the update of the setup-mod.exe?s with the recent WeiDU.exe
  
• You can choose if you want to install the new Asian mods too
  
• Updated ?BiG World Clean-Up.bat?
  
• New: "Traify.bat?

Updated "BiG World Fixpack v8.0"

• The texts of the fixpack are in Spanish, too
  
• Area-Fixes for "Sylmar Battlefield" by White Agnus
  
• Included are the current hotfixes of "Spell Revisions" from 11. May 2009
  
• Included erik?s level1npcs.tp2 fixes (eib9)
  
• Included is the songlist.2da patch of Taimon
  
• Some small mod fixes

Updated "BiG World Textpack v8.0"

• Updated Textpack
  
• German translation for ?Silver Star? of Xicloing
  
• German translation for ?The Undying? of Steffen
  
• The Spanish people get their own Textpack

Updated mods

• WeiDU v211
  
• Beregost Crash Fixer v1.7b
  
• BGT NPC-Sound v3
  
• BGT NEJ2 Compatibility Modification v1.1
  
• BGT NEJ2 v1.1
  
• Drizzt Saga v2.0
  
• The Stone of Askavar v1.5
  
• Herbs and Potions Addin v1.0.2
  
• Thalantyr Item Upgrade v3.6
  
• Ascalons Breagar v4.41
  
• Huple NPC v1.2
  
• Tales of Anegh v1.1
  
• Expanded Thief Stronghold v2.18
  
• Ajoc?s Minimod v1.6.2
  
• Tortured Soul Quest v5
  
• Every Mod and Dog v4
  
• Adalon?s Blood - Silberdrachenblut v8
  
• Fading Promises v2
  
• Deeper Shadows of Amn v2.2.4
  
• Bag Bonus v1.0.3
  
• Freedom?s Reign / Reign of Virtue v6
  
• Herbs and Potions Addin for BG2 v1.0.4
  
• Improved Volcano! Pack v1.9
  
• MunchMod v2.7
  
• Ruad Ro?fhessa Item Upgrade v22
  
• Magnificient Magic Shop v5
  
• Underrepresented Items v6
  
• Enhanced BG2 v1.1
  
• Food and Herbal v1.02
  
• Stuff of the Magi v4
  
• Konalan?s Tweaks v2.1
  
• Nanstein v1.1
  
• Vendedor DLAN v6.1
  
• Tsujatha NPC v12
  
• Les Chroniques de Severian v0.1E
  
• Sir Ajantis NPC for SoA (Beta) v0.2.19
  
• Neh?taniel v2.75
  
• Yasraena NPC v10
  
• Kim NPC v1.62b
  
• Lester NPC v0.8
  
• Saerileth NPC v14
  
• Alassa One-Day NPC v2
  
• Anishai One-Day NPC v1.4
  
• Cassius One-Day NPC v1.04
  
• Willie Bruce NPC v3
  
• Moddie the Vixen NPC v1.2
  
• Vildra One-Day NPC v1.1
  
• Cloakwood Squares v3
  
• Banter Packs v10
  
• Goo the Disembodied Floating Eyeball v4
  
• Horace NPC (Beta) v1.71
  
• Malthis NPC v2
  
• Frennedan NPC v1.03
  
• Uldar NPC v0.76
  
• Adventures in Papperland v5
  
• Turnip Golem Encounter v2
  
• Mordan?s Christmas Minimod v1.0.2
  
• Slithering Menace v3.4
  
• Au service d?Oghma v1.1
  
• Shards of Ice v5
  
• NPC Tweak v4
  
• Victor?s Improvements Pack v2.0
  
• Wild Mage Additions v1.7
  
• Teleport Spell v13
  
• Sword Coast Stratagems v13
  
• Tactics v25
  
• Solaufein NPC v1.04
  
• Sheena, a Half Dragon Tale - NPC v1.7
  
• Getting Rid of Anomen v2
  
• Kiara-Zaiya NPCs (with translations) v1.6
  
• Crossmod Banter Pack v9
  
• Haiass el Lobo v2.1
  
• Song and Silence v4
  
• Sword and Fist v4
  
• Rogue Rebalancing v4.21
  
• Sword Coast Stratagems II v9
  
• Cursed Items Revision v3
  
• aTweaks v2.61
  
• One Pixel Productions v2.70
  
• One Pixel Productions v3: Avatar Fixes v2
  
• Unique Containers v1
  
• BGT NPC Portraits v1.7
  
• Celestiales v1.2
  
• Widescreen Mod v2.2
  
• Generalized Biffing v1

Added new mods

• BG1 Missing Files v2 (for Spanish installation only)
  
• Traducción mejorada BG1 y TOTSC v5 (for Spanish installation only)
  
• BG+TOTSC - Sonidos en castellano v1 (for Spanish installation only)
  
• Traducción mejorada BG2 y TOB v3 (for Spanish installation only)
  
• Restored Textscreen Music v7 (Spanish Language Pack)
  
• Dark Horizons v2.00
  
• D?s Odd Quest v1
  
• Mersetek le Joaillier v1
  
• Mystigan v1.1
  
• LavaIt! (Beta) v1.1
  
• All seven Brendan Bellina Mods
  
• Old Mods Pack v1
  
• Revised Forgotten Wars Item Pack v1.0
  
• Houyi v1.0
  
• YLItems v1.0
  
• Dragon Summon v1
  
• Unholy Gate Opening Ritual Book v5
  
• Avi Maya Project v5.3
  
• Rukrakia NPC v0.7
  
• Skie NPC v5
  
• Alcool v8
  
• Rose NPC for BGT (Beta) v0.02
  
• Larsha NPC v0.3
  
• Ceberus v0.99
  
• Improved Summons v2.01
  
• Bard Song Switching v1.3
  
• Relationship v1.5
  
• Macholy?s Teammates Fight Scripts v2.5
  
• D?s Enemy Upgrade v1.1
  
• Store Prices (Beta) v3
  
• One Pixel Productions v3: Female Dwarves (6/10)
  
• One Pixel Productions v3: Thieves Galore v1
  
• Replacement Lightmaps v1.1

Deprecated Mods

• "BG1 Adventure Pack" and "BG1 CoM Forge/Item Upgrade", because both mods are included in ?Dark Horizons?

Greetings Leonardo Watson and Leomar

Edited by Leomar, 09 September 2009 - 11:29 PM.

[Leomar]

In the next days we?ll update the linklist and the "BiG World Setup" for the v8.0 and after that you can start with the BWP v8.0 installation.

Note: Do not use the "BiG World Setup v7.0" anymore. This version is not compatible with the new "BiG World Project v8.0" and you can?t do a new installation with it. Please wait until the new "BiG World Setup v8.0" is relesead in the next days.

The "BiG World Setup v8.0" is released, now.

Greetings Leomar

Edited by Leomar, 04 September 2009 - 01:10 AM.

[Fouinto]

Thank you for all this work

[Jarno Mikkola]

[Ranadiel]

Great to see version 8 out. I would immediatly upgrade and start playing, but unfortunatly law school is just about to start. Hopefully I can get around to playing this soon though.

Oh btw, any new english NPCs added? I took a quick look through the guide and the list of new mods, but I didn't notice any.

[dabus]

Installing mods after after you started a game will not work in most cases.
You will mess up the order, files may not be found if you did the biffing and some mods need to be started with a fresh game, there may be worldmap-issues and so on.

At last, it just depends on what you are installing...

[Jarno Mikkola]

This might sound like a dumb question, but if I install this on an ongoing game session will the mods and quests then activate or do I need to restart the game entirely to reap the benefits of the new mods in the Standard version?

That's not a bad question, but to be totally honest, you would just ¤%&# up your game, as all the written content(strings) of all the mods already installed in the saves will probably be reference to wrong place in the dialog file, so your items can have dialog strings, dialogs item descriptions etc. bad things, so yes, you'll need to restart the game.

[Lollorian]

Ahhhhh And we have liftoff Time for a new playthrough ...

[Jarno Mikkola]

In the next days we?ll update the linklist and the "BiG World Setup" for the v8.0 and after that you can start with the BWP v8.0 installation.

That means that if people want to download the mods and unpack them manual..ly, they can already make a BWP game, just with a manual setup...

[ScuD]

I'd recommend adding this to the BWP Fixpack. Area TT0307 from TS, the containers "Pot 6" and "Pot 7" have their positions switched. I wonder why nobody reported the issue before...
Attaching the fixed ARE file.

Attached Files

•  tt0307.are   15.5K   436 downloads

[Lollorian]

Must ... excercise ... restraint I'll wait for the BWSv8 before I start (never had the chance to try it in v7 ) And maybe wait till SpellRev and itemRev v3 are also out

And speaking of fixes, there's a small error in Setup-RotBArmorSet.tp2 (from the Realm of Bhaalspawn Armor Set Mod)

COPY ~RotBArmorSet\Items\rbplat02.itm~ ~override\rbplat02.itm~
SAY NAME1 ~Blessed of the Triad~

should've been

COPY ~RotBArmorSet\Items\rbplat02.itm~ ~override\rbplat02.itm~
SAY NAME2 ~Blessed of the Triad~

And the note in the BWP pdf about the SoS kit, Fence (which causes CtDs) could be removed by changing the line in Setup-SoS.tp2:

~ K_T_D K_T_E K_T_G K_T_H K_T_HE K_T_HL K_T_HO ~

to just

~~

Cheers,
Lol

[Nugrud]

[*] With the "Songlist Patch" of Taimon the songlist.2da were expanded to 500 entries

But does BWPv8 fully takes advantage of it? After the installation songlist.2da has entries from all installed mods? I wonder how big it grows then

[@vGur]

THIS is SOOOOOOOO GREAT!! CONGRATULATIONS



p.s. very interesting question about songlist. (I'm trying manual install, will fixpack disable music from mods?)

Edited by @vGur, 23 August 2009 - 11:05 AM.

[mqm]

It's SO COOL!! And I hope there will be no more problem that troubles me

Edited by mqm, 23 August 2009 - 11:26 AM.

[dreamer2007]

AWESOME WORK ! I am very happy to see the new version and with so many, many wonderful changes . Again, Thank you very much for your hard work Leonardo Watson, Leomar and the rest of the BWP Team in improving this great game with this Amazing Project . Me and my friends don't even call Baldur's Gate like that when we talk with each other, we call it simply BWP , I say this just to realize the extent of the impact in our perception of the game . Thank you and of course a BIG Thank you for all the mod authors that created and updated all these brilliant and fun mods!

Edited by dreamer2007, 23 August 2009 - 12:06 PM.

[Hoppy]

Congrats BWP crew,

Here is a new update for the CtB 1.11 with updated French translations and nice bug fixes.

http://www.shsforums...&...st&p=459986

Sorry it didn't come sooner as I was built for comfort and not speed.

Better late than never?



EDIT: added nice bug fixes

Edited by Hoppy, 23 August 2009 - 05:58 PM.

[neutrowave]

Truly amazing news with a new release of BWP that i've waited this hole summer

Congratulations to all BWP leaders , modders , members and fans !