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[Kulyok]

It's a cool utility indeed. Now that I've tried it for myself, I've got a few questions here, if I may:

So, I decided to check creatures in my mods by installing crefixer version 2 after Coran NPC and Xan NPC.

 

1) Coran's .cre files weren't modified by crefixer - does it mean that they're okay?

2) Xan's O#Xan09 and O#Xan25.cre were modified by crefixer, although I used the .cre files you gave me in January. Does it mean something is still wrong with the files? Or that crefixer didn't like me patching O#Xan09.cre's soundset in tp2?

3) I noticed that some of my other files (O#Khalid.cre, O#Merc.cre and so on) got patched by crefixer, too. If I want them to be okay, should I take the patched files from the override and copy them to my Xan/Characters folder, to include them into the distribution?

[shadowlich]

If this can help people, I could try to add these consistencies checks and fixes in my tool in progress, InfinityCore.

 

Let me know if someone thinks it's worth it.

[Miloch]

@Kulyok - this utility mainly fixes slot issues, whereas what I did with Xan had to do with enforcing standard .cre file order, so that if another mod patches those CREs it won't screw them up. I used DLTCEP for that, but WeiDU's (Nythrun's) fj_cre_reindex function will also do the same thing. If in doubt, use both this to fix slot issues and DLTCEP/WeiDU to fix .cre ordering issues.

 

@shadowlich - feel free to include it if you like. Slot issues can crash the game, so it would be handy to have such a checker in a tool (DLTCEP too I think).

[Kulyok]

Thank you very much for your reply! And, better later than never: if someone is reading it, has the same questions and feels like an idiot, too is wondering how to use fj_cre_reindex, I finally(don't ask) figured it out and I'd like to offer a working solution + bit of code stolen from level1npcs:

 

1) I placed my .cre files to BG2 override folder. I used O#XanF9.cre from an older version(=faulty) and my IWD NPC .cre files I wanted to check.

2) I created a Setup-testmod.exe in BG2 folder using the latest(v231) stable Weidu + a setup-testmod.tp2 file.

3) I downloaded level1npcs v1.9 and stole its code blatantly used some of its code for my needs. After some editing, my setup-testmod.tp2 looked like this:

 

BACKUP ~backup~
AUTHOR ~author~
NO_IF_EVAL_BUG
 
BEGIN ~Use fj_cre_reindex, I mean fj_cre_validity~
 
// down and dirty "fix" for any remaining potentially botched NPCs
ACTION_FOR_EACH t-cre IN ~O#Holvir~ ~O#HolviU~ ~O#Korin~ ~O#KorinA~ ~O#KorinB~ ~O#KorinS~ ~O#Nella~ ~O#NellaB~ ~O#NellaC~ ~O#NellaD~ ~O#NellaK~ ~O#NellaM~ ~O#NellaW~ ~O#SeverB~ ~O#SeverF~ ~O#SeverJ~ ~O#SeverM~ ~O#SeveSo~ ~O#SeveSK~ ~O#Severn~ ~O#SeverW~ ~O#TeriA~ ~O#TeriB~ ~O#TeriS~ ~O#Teri~  ~O#TeriFM~ ~O#TeriT~  ~O#TeriTM~ ~O#XanF9~ BEGIN
  ACTION_IF FILE_EXISTS_IN_GAME ~%t-cre%.cre~ BEGIN
    COPY_EXISTING ~%t-cre%.cre~ ~override~
      LAUNCH_PATCH_FUNCTION ~FJ_CRE_VALIDITY~
        INT_VAR do_message = 1
      END
    BUT_ONLY
  END
END

 

4) I ran the mod. O#XanF9.cre changed, other files didn't - which probably means I can breathe out: my IWD NPC-for-IWD-in-BG2 .cre files are working.

Edited by Kulyok, 08 April 2013 - 05:29 AM.

[Miloch]

The Xan .cre files I sent you were already reindexed using DLTCEP, which should functionally do the same thing as fj_cre_reindex. That usage is correct - fj_cre_validity will call fj_cre_reindex etc. if necessary (more details in the WeiDU doc).