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Imprisonment deletes character names...

Started by -Guest- , Jan 08 2014 12:13 AM

Imprisonment Name

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#1 -Guest-

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Posted 08 January 2014 - 12:13 AM

What's in a name? Apparently a great deal...

Despite the myriad of customization mods I'm using, I still seem to have a problem with Imprisonment. Or perhaps *because* of them.

My Jaheira and Edwin got imprisoned and released again. Afterwards, their names disappeared.

Globals seem to be unaffected, because Jaheira's dialogue still triggers.

I thought it was a minor problem, and that I could simply edit it in Shadowkeeper. THe displayed name string was changed to "00000000", but there was another string number with the old name, so I simply copied that string. I changed it to 00002523 (I think) for Edwin, and his display name popped back *in ShadowKeeper*. I changed Jaheira's string back to 00002506 and her display name also reappeared. Easy edit, right?

But when I load this altered gamefile in the game, Charname appears DOA and I get the Game Over screen. Going back, it appears the save had Charname with 0 HP, so I subsequently edited that. But when reloading, still DOA and straight to Game Over.

Does this ring a bell to anyone? I'd rather not have to go through the game without names; I can't see who takes/deals damage in the info bar now...

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#2 Miloch

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Posted 08 January 2014 - 06:39 PM

That... is incredibly odd. Might want to post the contents of your WeiDU.log file in SPOILER tags to see if it's a mod issue.

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#3 coineineagh

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Posted 08 January 2014 - 09:34 PM

Apologies for posting this topic anonymous - I didn't see I was logged out before.

I'll do it one better, and change-log SPWI910. It also happens to answer my question...

Spoiler

Improved Anvil. OK, my own stupid fault, I guess. But replacing the backup will not undo the damage caused to my characters...

I uploaded the SPWI910.SPL from my override (not the backup) in case anyone wants to help me further. I also noticed a curious file called SPWI910CRE there, too. It stands to reason that this will be related to my problem, and I doubt I have the know-how to undo the damage. I wanted to upload it, but I got the message "Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file". NearInfinity also lists it as Unsupported File Format... the best I can do, is paste the contents into a spoiler. The file doesn't even specify what type it is... creepy.

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Edited by coineineagh, 08 January 2014 - 09:38 PM.

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#4 Miloch

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Posted 09 January 2014 - 12:46 PM

Improved Anvil. OK, my own stupid fault, I guess.

Heh. Well. Last I heard, Improved Anvil was not compatible with the Fixpack. It *might* be compatible with the Baldurdash fixpack as used e.g. in the Big World Project but I have no idea.

I'm guessing SPWI910CRE is a mod typo (likely not the Fixpack) - should probably be spwi910.cre (i.e. a creature file that is used by the spell or something).

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#5 micbaldur

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Posted 09 January 2014 - 01:18 PM

Actually i had (probably has in this BWP too) same problem that character names get erased after imprisonment. But i managed to fix those with Shadowkeeper without any problems.

I also have CTD when CHARNAME gets imprisoned.

I had discussion about issue with Hoppy here couple years ago before Hoppy disappeared. He said that imprisonment CTD is caused by Refinements mod. But i can't say anything for sure (i'm only a simple hardcore player not modder) if it also cause of erased character names or CTD.

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#6 coineineagh

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Posted 09 January 2014 - 06:28 PM

@Miloch, you're probably right about the typo.

@micbaldur: I had a few CTDs around liches that were probably caused by mazing Charname; I solved them creatively by use of multiple timestops. Charname was imprisoned without CTD once (Kangaxx), but I reloaded because I saw his name has disappeared. Thanks for the link; maybe those files will give me more clues as to what's going on in NI, but my odds of restoring the names still seem slim.

If anyone has any more insight, I'd be grateful.

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#7 Bloodtitan

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Posted 24 April 2020 - 09:55 AM

I have the same problem that imprisonment cleared the long name and short name on two of my characters. The problem is that I'm playing a Multiplayer Game and the characters are not NPCs.

Shadowkeeper is unable to find any string for their old names.

How can I restore the names, step by step please?