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[agb1]

Thanks for all feedback.

 

* Rule:  Warning if installing Sandrah NPC with EET Tweaks #0 (teleport spell for EET)

* Rule:  Might & Guile #200 (revised stats) conflicts with Victor's Improvements Pack #0

* Rule:  Ding0's Tweaks #17 (sensible lore table) conflicts with Victor's Improvements Pack #1

* Rule:  EET Tweaks #7, 8 preferred over Ding0 Experience Fixer

* Rule:  "Choose one" BG Graphics Overhaul variant (BGT now has choice of old or new version)

* Rule:  NPC Strongholds (still not Recommended) preferred over all other Strongholds tweaks

* Rule:  BG2 Tweaks #3080,3090,3100,3110 (unlimited stacking) preferred over Difficulty and Tweak mod

* Rule:  "Choose one fix for imprisonment breaking romances" - Spell Revisions or The Bigg's Tweaks #150 vs. Victor's Improvements Pack #6

* Rule:  Bard song changes conflict - RR #4 or Bard Song Switching (Icewind Mode) vs. Victor's Improvements Pack #10

 

* Updated:  Teleport mod description, Sandrah mod description (moved note about teleport spells to Sandrah mod)

* Updated:  Item Randomiser component 510 description now has reminder to edit percentage chance below

* Updated:  Item Randomiser component 510 default percentage chance to NOT randomize changed from 10% to 90%

* Updated:  Ascension component 104, 105 descriptions (clarified that they apply to Bioware and Beamdog NPCs)

 

* Selection:  EET Tweaks #11 (FPS increase without audio skipping) disabled by default for all pre-selections

* Selection:  EET Tweaks #14 (protagonist can die) disabled by default for all pre-selections (was Tactical)

* Selection:  BG2 Tweaks #3080,3090,3100,3110 (unlimited item stacking) enabled by default for all pre-selections

* Selection:  Difficulty and Tweak tactical components marked as such for BG:EE (consistent with other game types)

 

* Added:  Baldur's Gate Graphics Overhaul for EET and BGT (updated by White Agnus)

 

* Removed:  Mur'Neth German String Fixer (HANDLE_CHARSETS is BWPFixpack'd for Mur'Neth NPC, so fix is not needed)

 

* Level1NPCs individual NPC components moved from Kits to BG1 / BG2 NPC-Related

* FinnJO's Subrace Mod moved from Kits to Tweaks

* Faiths and Powers moved from Kits to Tweaks

 

* Recommended -> Stable:

1. Ding0's Experience Fixer (EET Tweaks patches additional file types)

 

* Stable -> Recommended:

1. Almateria's Restoration Project for BG2EE/EET (already Recommended for BG2/BGT)

2. EET Tweaks (XP tweaks and disable hostile charm reaction)

3. Keto NPC

4. Nephele NPC

5. Thalantyr Item Upgrade for BG:EE/EET (already Recommended for BGT)

6. Valerie NPC (BGT transition issue BWPFixpack'd)

 

* Expert -> Stable:

1. Victor's Improvements Pack (some components are still Tactical/Expert)

2. DungeonBeGone for BG2EE/EET

[subtledoctor]

Re stacking: hmm, I actually don't like/use unlimited stacking, so if BG2Tweaks only has an 'unlimited' option, then that's not the mid I was thinking of. So, what mod *do* I use that allows higher ammo stacks?? (80, as I said.) I can't even remember. Weird.

Re conflicts: I've never even *heard* of "Victor's Improvements." How is that possible?? [runs to google]

EDIT - I can't find a website or forum for it or anything. What is this mod??

EDIT - found it, very interesting. Carry on.

Edited by subtledoctor, 20 January 2016 - 01:05 PM.

[Roxanne]

Edit - added:

 

Candidates for Recommended status:

 

- NPC Strongholds

 

- Keto NPC

- Valerie NPC

- Nephele NPC

- Varshoon NPC

- Petsy Chattertone NPC

 

- Almateria's Restoration Project

- Lol's RezMod (http://www.shsforums...92-lols-rezmod/)

- Infinity Sounds

 

- Difficulty and Tweak mod (https://forums.beamd...tweak-mod-ver-7) -- just the item stacking tweaks, not the harder enemies

- EET Tweaks #6 - adjust XP rewards for traps, spells, lockpicking -> vanilla progressive table, starts at BG1 values, grows to BG2 values

- EET Tweaks #7 - adjust XP for quests and for killing creatures (same as Ding0's Experience Fixer but more comprehensive implementation (patches additional file types)

- EET Tweaks #11 - increase FPS to 45 and fix audio skipping in cutscenes

- Trap Revisions

- Wild Mage Additions

- Item Randomiser

 

- A Mod for the Orderly (keyring for sale from Mira at Waukeen's Promenade)

- igi's Key Names

 

- Pack Mule

 

- Eilistraae's Song

From the revised list I can recommend Varshoon and Eilistraae.

 

I still wonder how the Victor Improvements could leave expert with issues like

*This component overwrites PALIN.CRE, a Tales of the Sword Coast file* Palin is the fisherman on the werewolf island giving you a quest - there is nothing wrong with it, why should anyone overwrite it????

*By concurrently installation with ROT this component may cause a crash.* ????

[The Imp]

So, what mod *do* I use that allows higher ammo stacks?? (80, as I said.) I can't even remember.

Double SoA stacking. There's a mod components in the mod DiffTweaks. Aka the Difficulty and tweaks mod v6, it was the "mix mod" previously. Just read the BiG World Project's .pdf

Edited by The Imp, 20 January 2016 - 01:22 PM.

[agb1]

The component of Victor's Improvement Pack that overwrites PALIN.CRE is #12, and that is still marked Expert.

Roxanne, was the crash-with-ROT from a different component?

Edited by agb1, 20 January 2016 - 02:30 PM.

[Greenhorn]

The component of Victor's Improvement Pack that overwrites PALIN.CRE is #12, and that is still marked Expert.

Roxanne, was the crash-with-ROT from a different component?

Yes, this was  component 11- Improved Irenicus Dungeon

 

Install Component 11 [Improved Irenicus Dungeon]? [N]ot Install

This component is for those, which the original dungeon is too boringly, but the "Improved

lIych" from Tactics is to suicidal. The concurrent installation together with "Improved lIIych" is not recommendable because

it could be that you lack some pieces of equipment which you need to defeat the big boss from "Improved

lIych".

By concurrently installation with ROT this component may cause a crash. The crash can be avoided if the group after

the Djinn does not go at the bottom edge of the corridor, but the group members individually go along the upper edge

of the corridor to the sewage golem.

Do not install it together with the component Improved Dungeon from Revised Battles.

Roxane's remarks and this quote are from BWP guide 15.6. 

P.S Initiator of Granpa's shield quest is the little boy named Palin, hence incompatibility with BGT, obviously autor never played it or ToSC...

Edited by Greenhorn, 20 January 2016 - 03:08 PM.

[agb1]

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I noticed that component #11 also heavily overwrites files so I left it as Expert too.

[agb1]

* Stable -> Recommended:  Convenient Ammunition, Eilistraee's Song

* BG:EE:  Removed Gerri's BGT NPC Portraits #1490 and 1600 from selection (not for BG1)

* EET:  Added Gerri's BGT NPC Portraits #0 to selection (BWPFixpack'd BGT check -> BGT or EET check)

* BG:EE / BG2:EE - Gerri's BGT NPC Portraits marked Expert because EE portraits are larger and the smaller portraits added by this mod look out of place

Edited by agb1, 20 January 2016 - 09:26 PM.

[Quiet]

Just a quick question.  I was running a "tactics" install yesterday and there were several instances where it prompted me to skip or install a component because another mod already included a similar component.  One example I remember involved monk fists and the mods Baldurdash, Sword & Fist?, and another one I can't recall.  I skipped the first option but then it didn't install Tortured Souls because Baldurdash was missing.  I think a tactics install has similar prompts with the AI mods like SCS.

This might not be the only reason ... As the BDash fixpack got a new name, it also renamed the .tp2 file, and as such, the NEJ's requirement for the BDash .tp2 name might not be the correct one, so the component that is required is not in the weidu.log cause it's simply wrongly named. This was previously fixed by the BWP Fixpack, but if the .tp2 name was changed, it's not likely applied anymore...

NEJ v691/v694 tp2 files do not reference BDToBv168 tp2.  v691 checks for Baldurdash indirectly by checking for an area BCS file.  v694 (which is a patch on top of v691) doesn't add any additional checks.  I also did a case-insensitive search in the BiG World Fixpack for BDToBv168 and found no matches except the BWP patches for Baldurdash itself.

"didn't install Tortured Souls" and it has request for Setup-BDToBv168.exe (If my memory serves me).

[dady977]

So, I just got this error during my latest BWS installation, although I have BG2: Enhanced Edition:

 

SKIPPING: [Item Revisions by Demivrgvs]

This component may only be installed on BG2, and it requires ToB be installed.

 

D:\Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition>

 

This component may only be installed on BG2, and it requires ToB be installed.

Item Revisions by Demivrgvs (Main Component) - Installs all items (Item Revisions v4 (pre-release)) was skipped.

[The Imp]

Never mind...

Edited by The Imp, 21 January 2016 - 03:44 PM.

[agb1]

IR v4 can be installed by BWS, they just asked that we use the pre-release version not the master branch.  So we do.  But, I recently changed the link so maybe it somehow picked up the v3 instead of v4.  Dady, can you upload the BiG World Download.txt from your BiG World Setup\Logs folder?

[agb1]

Hm, I see the problem.  The link I used actually pulled the v3 version because it is 1 day newer than the pre-release version.  Dady, you will have to download the v4 versions manually and extract them into your game folder.  Pause BWS (or exit it), delete the item_rev and spell_rev folders (if you're using both), and then download the beta versions using these links:

 

http://lynxlynx.info...visions

http://lynxlynx.info...visions

 

Extract the contents into your game folder, then start up BWS again and let it continue the installation from where you left off (it should re-try Item Revisions and succeed this time).

 

BWS is now updated to correct this for future installs (but re-downloading BWS won't help you with your current install because you're already at the installation phase and would have to start over):

 

* EE:  Switched Item Revisions v4 and Spell Revisions v4 download links to download latest pre-release only to avoid pulling v3 releases

Edited by agb1, 21 January 2016 - 03:49 PM.

[dady977]

Yeah, of course I'll upload it, agb1, here you go.

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[dady977]

Hm, I see the problem.  The link I used actually pulled the v3 version because it is 1 day newer than the pre-release version.  Dady, you will have to download the v4 versions manually and extract them into your game folder.  Pause BWS (or exit it), delete the item_rev and spell_rev folders (if you're using both), and then download the beta versions using these links:

 

http://lynxlynx.info...visions

http://lynxlynx.info...visions

 

Extract the contents into your game folder, then start up BWS again and let it continue the installation from where you left off (it should re-try Item Revisions and succeed this time).

Oh thanks, I would totally be lost without your help.

[The Imp]

...I would totally be lost without your help.

... lots of us actually would be without agb1.

[agb1]

Sorry for the inconvenience!

[dady977]

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Oh it's okay.

[agb1]

* BG:EE/BG2:EE:  Re-categorized Neera Expansion #6,7 and all NPC_EE components as NPC-Related

* Added Tome and Blood 0.5 to BG:EE, BG2:EE selection (still marked Expert, and not advisable to use except for testing - there are known problems and a new version is in the works)

* Scales of Balance #600 marked Expert because problems have been reported (https://forums.beamd...-and-tweaks/p34)

* Divine Remix #600 and #610 (assign kits to Branwen and Viconia) marked Expert for BG2:EE (http://gibberlings3....=26824&p=232340)

Edited by agb1, 22 January 2016 - 10:20 PM.

[Roxanne]

I had to revise SandrahNPC due to some *copyright infringement* and while at it, I have simplified the installation.

SandrahNPC is now one single component (since components were not optional anyway). So all dependencies can now go to the one component. Same for RtF, with RtF being dependent on SandrahNPC to be installed.

BWS probably needs to take that into account.

There is now only one single manual confirmation required

Spoiler

PRINT @896

OUTER_SPRINT ~CtBskip~ ~ placeholder_value ~
OUTER_WHILE (!(IS_AN_INT ~CtBskip~) OR (~CtBskip~ > 0x2) OR (~CtBskip~ < 0x1)) BEGIN
PRINT ~Choose 1 or 2~
ACTION_READLN ~CtBskip~
END

ACTION_IF ("CtBskip" = 1) THEN BEGIN
EXTEND_TOP
~ar0602.bcs~ ~SandrahNPC/Areas/Sanar0602.baf~
END

ACTION_IF ("CtBskip" = 2) THEN BEGIN
EXTEND_TOP
~ar0602.bcs~ ~SandrahNPC/Areas/Ar0602NoCtB.baf~
END

Where 1 = the CtB Candlekeep chores trigger after BG1 to BG2 transition

Where 2 = The transition is not interrupted

 

Finally

Sandrah Item Revision shall be removed from BWS (it was an interim solution)

Edited by Roxanne, 23 January 2016 - 08:39 AM.