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[dabus]

After reading this page so far to sum things up that are doable, I guess my suggestion to stop testing and ask another guy did sound way too harsh.
I do want to apologize for that.

You cannot know it (if you did not read the code) but the whole application uses an array that uses the number of the control in the selection screen.
So if you click somewhere, you know that this is mod X, item, 0, uses this and that, has some kind of connection with array-item N and so on.
This array is used to make the selection (sure), read dependencies and conflicts during test of the download- / extraction- / and installation-part.
AutoIt3 does not support tristate treeview-items so I had write my own logic to be able to click somewhere and return the expected value. That was a huge chunk of work and since I think I'm coding slow and test a lot, it cost me a lot of time. So I will not rewrite things that will break that array.
If you could hide things in a treeview, changing the GUI would be much easier, but I cannot find something like that.

I will have a look at the following parts:

• Add code to use German DSotSC-fix
  
• Add code to fix German BoneHill-translation
  
• Adjust descriptions for Click-properties, when downloads failed, IA-extractions
  
• Delete BG1NPCSoA Backup-file and create a folder.
  
• Show output of wget for a download and check if the tool hung up (like not changing it's size for 60 seconds or something)
  
• I'm not sure about the use VBS-info. I thought I added that somewhere.
  
• Add a cleaned version of Leonardos pre-selections in case you want to stick with the defaults with less conflicts to boot.
  
• Look at the extractions-tests (which should halt the BWS and behave similar to the download -> ask you if you want to extract a file with your default tool)
  
• Fix ReadDebug so it does not crash the BWS (e.g. BPv180, Lost Crossroads Spell Pack for BG2)
  
• I don't know about reading TRAs because I didn't have a look into autotra-options...
  
• Add a option to create a list of download-URLs / run a program with them as a parameter before. So you can run that and skip the download-part.
  
• Add a save/reload after you switch from install-view to theme-view in the selection.
  
• igi's ProjectileRetrieval opens a few instances...

Things I'm not so sure about:

• Add a checksum to known downloads.
  
• Disable FastShare und Mediafire by default.
  
• Sort conflicts/dependencies by mod and not by case.
  
• Open a readme for igis mods and level1npcs.
  
• Either remove the comment about using Cleanup or replacing the text.

May take some time to get it all done since I don't spent much time to code during the week and I've been busy in my garden/doing chores and so on.

@Casper: It seems like the translations for Ascalons Breagar and questpack need some proof-reading and polishing. Some things look like they are from machine-translations and do sound awkward.

Edited by dabus, 28 April 2012 - 08:48 AM.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

- Finch NPC (which is included in the new recommended package) is acting weird already at the beginning of the game in Candlekeep. She is supposed to "bump into you" I think, by herself, but she is stuck and says things like "my spell was interrupted" etc totally out of the blue and on her own. If talked too, all seems normal, and she dissapears (one meets her later in Beregost i think) but I didnt test this any more. She is easy to miss in Candlekeep when she is stuck, and if this leads to her not appearing later in the game, it would mean it was a waste to install her not good when she is the entire second half of the new recommended packs BG1 NPCs.

that's odd. even in the setup where I ticked everything off and sorted thru the discrepancies etc... Finch had the correct dialog. She doesn't actually bump into your character. That's just written text. I don't know anything about "my spell was interrupted" tho. She's supposed to just stand there and wait for the PC to talk to her. If she's ignored in Candlekeep, she'll still be available in Beregost.

If you want, run a change-log on her files and let me know what's going on. I've been meaning to take a look at her files and 'fix her up' since I've known about several errors for a long time (reported on her forum at PPG). She was designed for Tutu and so it is totally possible that a BG2 mod affects her somehow...

[Wisp]

3. One cannot install Edwin Romance without installing "Edwin Romance Flirt pack". They go together, or none at all. I don't see a reason for this. What makes this a bother is that a quick look on the support forums of this (not maintained) mod, it seems (at a glance) that the flirt pack add on is causing lots of problems/bugs to the mod.

The flirt pack has one (serious) confirmed bug in it, but it only affects the filrts themselves. You can go through the full romance without being inconvenienced by having installed the flirts.

[William Imm]

5. The component "Gorf the Squisher Fix, by Gebhard Blucher" from UB for BG2 is not installed. It's skipped, despite no conflicts reported in the BWS. Intended behavior?

That's because it's included in the BG2 Fixpack already.

[dabus]

@Casper
1)
I added these values since Leonardo does the same as you can see in the BiG World Installpack\Ini_Settings.bat, which is translated to this:

Spoiler

IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Path Search Nodes', 400000)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Volume Movie', 150)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Volume Music', 150)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Volume Voice', 150)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Volume Ambients', 150)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Volume SFX', 150)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Program Options', 'Display Subtitles', 1)

IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'Mid Level Brighten', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'High Level Brighten', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'Tiles Precache Percent', 100)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'Use 3d Animations', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'Footsteps', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Game Options', 'Pausing Map', 1)

IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Config', 'General', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Config', 'Graphics', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Config', 'Sound', 1)
IniWrite($g_BG2Dir & '\baldur.ini', 'Config', 'CacheSize', 1000)

Thought the values were used because they'd make sense. If not, I can remove them.

2) The BiG World Installpack\English\strings.txt but says:

@337BG2_Tweaks 2210 was skipped because TDD or BP component 14 Level-50 Ruleset
@337already exists.

3) Don't know about that. I think Leomar suggested we install all those components together. I can leave the flits out if they are not needed and just keep EDWINROMANCE and TOB.

4) There are 3 versions of Neverending journey lingering around and the 6.8 is listed as recommended in the batch; chaosknight is also recommended in the batch.

IF NOT EXIST Setup-NeJ2v691.exe Call "BiG World Installpack\Install.bat" NeJ2v68 "0 1 3 5 6 7 8 10"
Call "BiG World Installpack\Install.bat" ChaosKnight "0"

Fell free to discuss which mod should be in which version if you don't think that's fitting...

6) You selected a the Batch-install-view. So you get it like it's sorted / bundled / called in the BWP Installpack.
If you select the BWS-install-view, you see it as a BG1 NPC-related-mod. Also had it listed as BG2 because of that for some time.

7) Patching fails e.g. when mods get updated and the text that the patch searches for isn't any more. Maybe some sort of that was the cause for BPv180 not installing correctly (new mod + old patch -> possible new errors). If you want him to update his patches, ask him. I have not been involved in patches nor do I have more sources/ways than anyone in this forum to contact him.

Edited by dabus, 30 April 2012 - 08:35 AM.

[William Imm]

6. The mod, Garricks Infatuation (for BG1, I think), is installed suspiciously alike if someone thought it was a BG2 mod. First, it is installed (order-wise) along the other BG2 npc mods, instead of along the other BG1 npc mods. And second, it is mentioned in the latest Big World Project.pdf in the notes for BG1NPCSSoA (spelling?) (the mod that adds lots of BG1 npcs to BG2) that Garricks Infatuation would be incompatible with it, which kind of makes no sense if it is a mod for BG1

It's a BG1 mod. Someone screwed up when categorizing the mods.

Edited by William Imm, 30 April 2012 - 08:13 AM.

[Wisp]

3) Don't know about that. I think Leomar suggested we install all those components together. I can leave the flits out if they are not needed and just keep EDWINROMANCE and TOB.

As a heads up, Edwin Romance will receive an update sometime soon-ish that will render the stand-alone ToB and flirts parts obsolete.

[prowler]

William Imm
We (russian translation team) have made a special patch. It will corrects some critical errors in last Russian Textpack.
Patch is simple - it need to be extracted into Russian Textpack folder and overwrite files.
Is it possible to include our patch into BWS? Can I post it here?

[William Imm]

Yes - please post here.

As for my BWS revival - I think I'm going to be shifting focus to making it the ultimate mod compatibility tool - still going to be the same functionally, but it won't be attached to the BiG World Project, meaning, I get more control over what I want to do with this, and what I consider a recommended mod selection.

Edited by William Imm, 01 May 2012 - 01:41 PM.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

@Sasha
Oh really? Finch is supposed to stand still? O_O I could have sworn she has walked up to me before (similar to Imoen) and said her lines about not watching where she was going. Oh well. It was so long ago. I'll believe you. And about the fact that she "speaks out of the blue" in her place, it seems to me that her party ai combat script is firing. She is trying to hide in shadows and such. Sure i'll changelog her later when I have more time

I've been looking at her tutu version. She uses a check for STATE_SLEEPING instead of the custom state CD_NOT_VALID that most other NPCs these days use to help indicate when is a good time to talk. Therefore she very well could be doing some of her banters, while her combat counter is 0 and other party member's combat counters are active.

Gavin is an example of an NPC who can on occasion have a talk when he isn't in range of the enemy but the other party members are. Yes it can be annoying.

[dabus]

@Casper:

1 Ok, these new changes to the baldur.ini are listed as optional, so I can remove them as well.
The BWP-batch just does include them, so I thought about adding them as well.

2 The BWP-batch tells you this text if the mods are found and you want to install the other one.
So I took the report from the batch and included it into the BWS.

4 The batch was changed since it can install it's own recommended version now. Before that, you just left out mods that were considered as standard. Maybe that was a reason to change some mods version.

6 I don't know if the mod should be placed at the beginning of the install. I just kept it as it is.
You could also argue that some other mods don't fit the declaration of the "chapter" or step they are installed in.

Edited by dabus, 02 May 2012 - 11:11 AM.

[prowler]

Special patch for BWP Textpack Russian. It will corrects some critical errors in a last version of Russian Textpack.
Before running Russian Textpack - extract this patch into Russian Textpack folder and overwrite files. Then run Russian Textpack.

Attached Files

•  BiG World Russian Textpack - patch v1.7z   192.68K   219 downloads

[nimrod yanai]

Emm...
This might sound a little newbie of me, but can someone please put a link for the latest download?
I pressed several and I keep getting a messege that the download is unavailable or that the page could not be found... I can't test it and give you my finding if I can't download it

[Sasha Al'Therin]

This is the only link I know.
http://dabus.bplaced.net/BWP/bws.php

It works for me, tho I understand some people due to regions/countries or something like that have trouble.

[nimrod yanai]

Works like a charm
Thanx a lot! Will post if I find anything need fixing and stuff.

[farmerjohn]

I just used this. The Auden mod didn't work because his Mediafire account has been suspended. A handful of other media fire mods seemed to not auto download, but I got them manually: Randomizer, Volcanic, Kariv, wikaede, item revisions. I will test later and let you know how it works.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

I just used this. The Auden mod didn't work because his Mediafire account has been suspended. A handful of other media fire mods seemed to not auto download, but I got them manually: Randomizer, Volcanic, Kariv, wikaede, item revisions. I will test later and let you know how it works.

yeah that's a known issue. dabus wasn't able to set Mediafire to auto-download due to some setup on Mediafire's end. hence it should stop and give you the chance to try to download it manually.