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[Ascension64]

Place your requests here. I won't guarantee that any of the requests will be fulfilled, but it at least will serve as a discussion of engine limitations and perhaps turn into a mod support thread...

Oh, and there will never be a party of > 6 characters enabled by TobEx.

[Salk]

Oh, and there will never be a party of > 6 characters enabled by TobEx.

[EDITED] Sorry. Read wrong.

Edited by Salk, 02 January 2011 - 11:17 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Oh, and there will never be a party of > 6 characters enabled by TobEx.

I had always read that it was impossible to do that. How are you going around the scripts' limitations?

Didn't he just say that he won't be able to do that ...

1) Enable us to add in a custom selectable classes.

[Lava Del'Vortel]

I think that my wish isn't a wish, but a proof of my daydreaming, however is it possible to make subraces in BG2? I mean in character creation, not via dialogue in game or something.

[Lollorian]

Ummm I don't even know what I'm talking about myself but ... would it be possible to get even better understandable Assertion Errors?

For Eg: Assertion 696969: OMGWTFBBQ.CRE has a 2-handed sword equipped in the shield slot

Rather than: Assertion 012345: I am a teapot, short and stout! (not a real assertion but there's been "I'm on 2 lists and blah blah something" and the one on Turambar's sig )

On a side note, a list of all possible assertion errors would be great for the lolz

[the bigg]

From the other thread:

• having a way to check for barbarian and/or wild mage kit (as Miloch said here).
  
• giving penalties to thieving skills even when the unusability doesn't exactly match the Assassin / Bounty Hunter ones. Current behavior (I don't know how the code actually is, but this is the end effect):
  
  points = 25;
  if (cre.unusability == KIT_ASSASSIN) points = 20;
  if (cre.unusability == KIT_BOUNTY_HUNTER) points = 15;
  
  Desired behavior:
  
  points = 25;
  if (cre.unusability & KIT_ASSASSIN) points = 20;
  if (cre.unusability & KIT_BOUNTY_HUNTER) points = 15;
  
  
• Forcing a full window redraw every tick, to avoid problems with external overlays (E.G. Steam Community). Currently, only the game area is redrawn, along with area under the mouse and/or otherwise animated (buttons etc.).

[Picollo]

Could It be possible to add "hidden" proficiences to game (Meele, Arquebuses, and something else)? They are mentioned in dialog.tlk, but we can't choose them. I don't know whether they were implemented and just blocked, or not but it could be nice to be able to add additional proficiences.

Edited by Picollo, 03 January 2011 - 11:07 AM.

[Era]

Just curious, but how hard would it be to add an Order system similar to what Icewind Dale II has? Something like <Ranger/Paladin/Monk/Cleric> of <chosen deity>? Ah, but then that would conflict with some kits... Hm. Nevermind, forget it.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Also, 2 weapon wielding in iwd2(d&d 3e) works much better than in bg2, engine can read additional bit in itm file to determine light or medium type of weapon, and accordingly give bonus to thac0 or not, so basically you get -6 with main hand/-10 with off hand & -4/-8 if light weapon used). But it needs prof tweaking too, coz in that case only 2 stars needed, 1st - +4 to offhand thac0, 2nd - +2 to thac0, but You can change that numbers if you want

That's already done in the Item Revision... the item just needs a special feature that sets the thac0 according to what is liked... and because the heavy and light weapons wary according to opinion, it's a global tweak, not a .exe hack, as that's not even required.

There is mod that adds arquebuse (with new animation!), so additional prof for it will be just perfect.

That mod is the Infinity Animations... probably.
But that also requires a mod that allows you to acquire that animation.

Just curious, but how hard would it be to add an Order system similar to what Icewind Dale II has? Something like <Ranger/Paladin/Monk/Cleric> of <chosen deity>? Ah, but then that would conflict with some kits... Hm. Nevermind, forget it.

Extremely hard, not only because the .exe hacking, but also that the content would be somewhat usable... there's cleaner ways to do that too, like this: using items that set the deity and then using kits that base on them.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 04 January 2011 - 03:31 AM.

[Igneous]

How about a tweak for swapping Cleric/Thieves' Turn Undead and Thieving menu buttons? Turn Undead is relatively seldom-used, but as it stands now, if ever you want to pick a lock or disarm a trap, you've got to click the Special Abilities button. Every... single... time. 'Tis most disturbing.

[Milamber]

Would it be possible to implement more bag-friendly HasItem()/PartyHasItem() etc. triggers?

I'm not 100% certain, but I believe the game checks all containers every time regardless of searched item couldn't be placed in a given container (Such as an armor in a scroll-case).

Alternative would it be possible to implement such triggers that don't check bags at all?

[Sam.]

How about being able to remove armor in combat. I see no reason why a mage\thief throwing darts far from the front lines couldn't slip out of her chain mail to cast a few spells...

[CamDawg]

A couple of BG features would suit purists playing the various BG and IWD conversions, such as disabling pause on the inventory screen and disabling the tab key.

I much preferred the random sleeping encounter in BG... in BG2, if monsters interrupt your sleep it happens instantly. In BG, you rest for 0-7 hours before monsters attack.

[Kalindor]

An effect to grant a percentage increase to all damage dealt of a selected type would be nice. Ex: Aqua Mortis and the like from IWD2.