28 replies to this topic

[White Agnus]

Is there any chance to add BG1EE support?

I tried it with adding bgee to GAME_IS, it worked great, the icons was brown, but this could be solved, if the ee.bam would be converted to bam/pvrz version 2 format I think.

[The Imp]

Hmm, the Near Infinity has a pvrz converter: It's time for more experiment. The pain will be passing. You should survive the process. ... interesting... anyone?

Edited by The Imp, 09 April 2015 - 03:37 PM.

[White Agnus]

Hmm, I tried the NI bam converter and it looks ok with bam v2/pvrz based files (see the attached screenshot)

 

There is only a little flickering when hovering over the icons, maybe a bam artist could have a look at it.

 

And I know I could use EET, but not everyone wants to use it until the graphical errors are fixed... (I have converted the pvrz based tis files one by one with NI to legacy tis and used tis2bg2...)

Attached Images

• 
• 

Attached Files

•  ee-pvrz-bam.7z   1.75MB   387 downloads

Edited by White Agnus, 09 April 2015 - 10:27 PM.

[White Agnus]

Hmm, there is a little border around some Icons, which flickers a bit and I don't know how to remove it...

Attached Images

• 

[The Imp]

If it's an oddly colored frame that causes the flickering in the animation, then you can just replace it with a previous frame in the sequence or something and not have it that noticeable any more. For each frame section.

Edited by The Imp, 10 April 2015 - 08:38 AM.

[Wisp]

Provide a BAM that works on BG: EE (bonus points if it also works on BGII: EE) and I'll enable support.

[White Agnus]

I found a solution to remove the flickering.

NI adds a black border to the pvrz files, I converted them to png, removed the black border with Photoshop  and converted them back to pvrz and it looks good....

 

Tried it on BG1EE and BG2EE, works fine.

 

@Wisp,

 

attached you can find the bam, pvrz and the png files(my workfiles), it would be nice if you could include this.

Attached Files

•  ee-worldmap-bam.7z   7.45MB   366 downloads

Edited by White Agnus, 11 April 2015 - 11:52 AM.

[Wisp]

My EEs crash with this BAM. (It's also quite significantly smaller than the old one.)

[White Agnus]

You have to copy the pvrz and the bam files to the override...

[The Imp]

And the "ee.bam" needs to be renamed as "mapicons.bam"... would be my guess.

[Wisp]

Oh, it's a BAM V2. Neat.

[White Agnus]

That's the trick...

 

I hope the numbering MOS1000-1007.pvrz is ok (and no other mod use these numbers, why we can't use Modder Prefixes for pvrz files  ...)

Edited by White Agnus, 12 April 2015 - 01:26 PM.

[Argent77]

WeiDU v238 added the functions UPDATE_PVRZ_INDICES and INSTALL_PVRZ which handle all the installation details for PVRZ-based BAM and MOS files. You can find examples how to use them in this post.

[White Agnus]

Wow, thanks, thats great    

[Wisp]

Apparently there is a remaining issue with BG1: EE? When they are resolved, please provide an updated file.

[Argent77]

It's just a barely visible black border around certain map icons. The flickering around animated icons will enhance the effect however. The BAM Converter of the latest Near Infinity snapshot should fix the "black border" issue completely.

 

Examples:

Spoiler

 

 

[White Agnus]

Sorry, haven't seen your post Wisp 

 

Try the attached bam instead... (thanks to Argent77 for fixing the black border bug   )

 

 

Attached Files

•  worldmap.zip   1.48MB   377 downloads

[Wisp]

Try the attached bam instead... (thanks to Argent77 for fixing the black border bug   )

These files seems to be missing the icons from BGII: EE. (The file ee.bam has always been used for both EE games.)

Edited by Wisp, 24 May 2015 - 06:41 AM.

[Wisp]

Poll: would you rather have invalid icons for the BG2EE areas added by Beamdog (the game defaults to some icon in the BAM; I forget what it looks like) or being back to Worldmap not being installable on BG1? It's one or the other at this point.

[K4thos]

why not separate bam files for both games? If I have to choose between one or another than obviously I vote for BG2:EE because EET is fully compatible with it.

Edited by K4thos, 24 July 2015 - 02:18 PM.