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[Andrea C.]

Thanks, Dakk I'm actually quite psyched about this, I can't wait to start! Although, as I said, university will keep me busy until my graduation so things will progress rather slowly until then.

[Sam.]

I have no idea what the "Bridge Day" is

This is Bridge Day.

Andrea C., if you have time and want to check out my program as-is (until I have a chance to work on it some more), drop me a PM and I'll send you the link.

[Miloch]

I think people just need the password to access the workroom - I will PM it. I won't be around much to help for the present, but feel free to carry on without me.

[Andrea C.]

I think people just need the password to access the workroom

Confirmed. I could access the workroom with the password you sent me. Thanks

[Gr3y]

I'm confused (because I'm new here)
Who is the target for this mod? Should I download it as a player, or is it only supposed to be a palette of animations for other modders?

Would it "fix" anything in a game of BGTutu f.ex?

[Miloch]

It is a mod both for players and modders. It adds animations both to BG2 and BG (Tutu/BGT etc.). The readme gives more detail - unfortunately, the forum's readmes are offline at the moment but the initial posts should still contain the gist of information regarding components etc.

[Creepin]

Ok, cheers. Erephine in fact fixed this already so it'll be in the next version, but it is taking me a while to update the code (it also involves switching everything over to ANSI so we don't need to switch codepages during installation).

Are we there yet? I mean codepage fixes

Edited by Creepin, 19 February 2012 - 02:50 PM.

[Miloch]

Are we there yet? I mean codepage fixes

No. I am still entrenched in academic work, and will be for some time, so my time is limited to things I can fix or release quickly and this isn't one of them.

I think there are some misunderstandings with code pages and non-English systems, and I should probably pin a topic for it or something (though people often don't read those either) since I have to keep responding to it in multiple topics.

You don't need an English system to install IA or mods based on it (Aurora, Pack Mule, Werebear, Vecna). You just need to change your non-Unicode code page to 1252 *temporarily* while extracting and installing the mod, and while playing the game. See the Megamod FAQ item 3.2 "Installing mods with non-ANSI compatible language systems" for more info on how to do that (also in the mod's readme). This won't affect any *Unicode* programs - just non-Unicode programs like old games (e.g. BG2). And if you have such programs you need in a different code page, you can always set it back after playing the game.

So this really is an issue you can work around if you do it properly; I know people with Russian/Chinese systems etc. have done so and played the mod.

[Miloch]

No, IA only works with games based on the Throne of Bhaal executable (BG2-ToB, BGT and Tutu-ToB). It would be great if it worked on other IE games, but the code is closely tied to the ToB code, thus it would be totally different for BG1, PST, IWD etc.

[William Imm]

I'm semi wondering if this should be used as part of the BGEE project - I mean, it has some awesome animations (love NWN Pit Fiend and Sucubus), but is it possible to do so?

[Miloch]

Since they seem to be using the ToB engine, they could do so in theory, modifying it as we have done to be able to slot more animations. It would make a lot of sense to do that anyway... not necessarily include all the animations from IWD, PST, NWN etc., but at least enable the engine so that extra animations *could* be added. Seems to have been just an oversight/unanticipated limitation in the original ToB engine. For that matter, I think a re-released game would be well-served by the modifications/corrections ToBEx has done.

[Miloch]

I don't think that has to do with IA, but rather a possible conflict between the avatar/armour components of 1PP and BG2 Tweaks. Might want to look at your WeiDU.log if you have either (or both) of those. Post it in SPOILER tags if you need more help (but would be better in the 1PP or BG2 Tweaks forum I think).

[taemex]

Hi,

 

I'm actually quite confused, even after reading all available documentation and posts here, on how to use this thing! I extracted and installed Infinity Animations in my BG2 folder before biffing as it said, then installed General Biffing, and finally Widescreen Mod. I then downloaded the optional components because I didn't realize this mod's components were actually *optional* instead of included until after doing a bit of research. I had to do a bit of digging to understand where these optional components were to be placed, but I figured it out and extracted them (without paths) directly into the BG2/Infinity Animations/Content folder. I then had no idea what to do, because I couldn't find any instructions for this step (although it's possible I'm just an idiot and misread them), so I clicked on "setup-infinityanimations.exe" in the BG2 folder because the first time I did this, IA asked me a bunch of questions about what I wanted installed and whatnot. Well the first question, do you want to ®e-install all components, or (s)kip this step, I'd always skip it because I don't want to reinstall components that are already installed. On the next step, do you want to install "new" components, I put (i)nstall, but instead of installing anything, it just gives me a list of components not currently installed... So the next time I run it, I (s)kip, (s)kip, and it uninstalls several, if not all the gfx, then reinstalls them, but I have no idea if this actually installed the *new* content or not because the next time I run IA and (s), (i), it seems the uninstalled component list has not changed at all... So here I am back at square one unsure if I used the program correctly or not, and unsure if any of the components installed correctly.

 

So my question is did I install the components correctly? And if not, is it also necessary to uninstall General Biffing before using IA to add components? Nothing I read stated it was necessary to remove General Biffing except for the install of IA itself, but not for the components.

 

Please help

[The Imp]

So my question is did I install the components correctly?

Well it depends on the out come, and you can check that from your weidu.log file, open it with Notepad...

The General Biffing, and finally Widescreen Mod should be after the IA mod components.... and if you can't get it strait, open the weidu.log file, look which mod is there last and run the setup-***.exe and uninstall that mod component and never install a component until you get to a point from where you can proceed to further install mod components and then install all the rest of the mods too.

Edited by The Imp, 23 September 2013 - 08:51 AM.

[taemex]

Got it. Yes, I did do it out of order then. Thank you. However the weidu.log shows this:

 

 

~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #0 // Infinity Animations: v5
~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #25 // Humanoid Animation Fixes: v5
// Recently Uninstalled: ~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #9000 // Fix Areas -> Creature References: v5
// Recently Uninstalled: ~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #9900 // Saved Game Animation Fixer -> Correct only LOW animations: v5
~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #9000 // Fix Areas -> Creature References: v5
~INFINITYANIMATIONS/SETUP-INFINITYANIMATIONS.TP2~ #0 #9900 // Saved Game Animation Fixer -> Correct only LOW animations: v5
~GENERALIZED_BIFFING/GENERALIZED_BIFFING.TP2~ #0 #0 // Generalized Biffing: v2.2
~WIDESCREEN/WIDESCREEN.TP2~ #0 #0 // Widescreen Mod -> for the original Infinity Engine (CHOOSE THIS!): Widescreen Mod v3.02

 

I did not apply the save game fixer until after installing the components because I kept getting an error message before and it would not let me fix the save game before. So does this mean that I should also reinstall all currently installed animations?

 

So for final clarification (please bare with me, I'm sure it's a plain as day to everyone, but I'm still learning how this works), I uninstall Widescreen and General Biffing, then start up Infinity Animations. Then when it says, "What should be done with all the components that are not yet installed?", I should install them? And when it says, "What should be done with all the components already installed?", I should reinstall them?

[taemex]

Yes, that was the correct method. Fixed my issues. One other thing not listed in faq, base anim needs to be extracted to base anim folder... guess that seems obvious, but it wasn't in faq at all, but I figured it out when installing new components and it still said I was missing base anim. Anyway, all good now. Thanks for the help.