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[Leonardo Watson]

I just released BWP v16:

The whole installation process is thoroughly reconditioned.
I made a first try to make NeEJ3 compatibile with BWP. Note: This ist not extensively tested yet, so reckon with problems.
BWP Fixpack and Textpacks are now corrected.

I made several different installations - the whole instllation procedure runs without any errors!

 

As already mentioned several times I can not update the Fixpack here in the forum for some reasons.
Please get the most recent version here:  https://kerzenburg.b...oads.php?cat=10

Please post your comments and suggestions for further versions here. At least I plan two more major releases. Unfortunately I have rarely time to work on BWP. So it may last a few weeks until a new update will be released.
 

[The Imp]

Please get the most recent version here...

Gives me:

"Der Server ist zurzeit ausgelastet." Erhm, I cannot read the language... but I bet your server is down or I cannot receive the data without signing in.

 

The BWS is maintaining it's own Fixpack here... I would hate to see the two efforts to diverge, as then you both have to do the same thing twice.

[agb1]

At first glance, the BWP v16 Fixpack package appears to be missing the following fixes from the GitHub branch:

1. BP Ascension -- dialog patching for ILLASERA.DLG, YAGA01.DLG, GROMNIR.DLG
2. Dace - micbaldur's typo fix for AR4000 (ToB starting area)
3. CoM encounters - micbaldur's fixed spawning points to prevent premature Solaufein trigger
4. CtB - Nightfarer's ZILFGT01 creature patching
5. Fading Promises - fixed mace targeting and dialog fixes
6. Frennedan NPC - Imrae interjection fix
7. Gloran/Raziel/KimNPC - micbaldur's Copper Coronet leave-party positioning fix
8. Thrown Hammers - tooltip.2da indexing error
9. karatur - fixed BACKUP folder and removed KTStore invalid offsets
10. Revised Battles - don't spawn Lug in BG1

Conversely, it has fixes for the following mods that aren't on the GitHub branch:

1. Tweaks Anthology (cdtweaks) -- outdated (was for beta 4 of the mod) item reindexing patch for item files with effects before abilities (newer beta 5 includes this fix)
2. gMinion - different version (2 vs. V2) and no LANGUAGE block (BWP textpack English doesn't add the block either, so I'm not sure what's going on here)
3. CoM Encounters - adds usability restriction info to item descriptions, no LANGUAGE block (again, not handled by BWP textpack english?) .. different version (v1.10 vs. v1.10_charsets)?
4. Tortured Souls / NeJ - changed file deletion lists (+ 3/5 bams, - 1 mos)
5. Uldar - patch instead of overwrite
6. Innershade - worldmap
7. Divine Remix v8 - new patch added, disables some WRITE_BYTE 0x247 when copying creature files (offset is part of kit definition)
8. Almateria's Restoration Project - worldmap
9. Unique Artifacts - resource file name typo fix
10. Baldurdash - swapped Dead("aran") and Dead("aran02") in two different blocks in nAR0239.baf
11. Divine Remix v7 - disabled some WRITE_BYTE 0x247 on cre copies, replaced an itm
12. TOD patches (removed from GitHub Fixpack recently because I incorporated them into a new release of TOD now available on GitHub)
13. new compatibility patches for NeJ, NeJ2/CtB, NeJ3, BoM/Sovereign, CtB/Baldurdash, Baldurdash/BG2Fixpack, Keldorn Romance, TDD/Ninde
14. added bp-bgt-worldmap map icons for Fields of the Dead, Rukrakia, Innershade

It also adds a new _EE section with patches for EE Tactics, Helarine, DarkHorizonsBGEE.

Working on merging...

[Creepin]

Holy crap, can't believe I'll be able to spent my New Year holidays playing BG with a whole lot of a new fixes! You people are the best, many thanks for all involved!

[agb1]

If you go here, click Source on the left side bar, click the BiG World Setup folder, then click Config and then Global, you'll see the latest ini files that include download links and mod descriptions. The ini files are in the form mod-setup-name.ini so for example NMT.ini.

[Chevalier]

Thank You Leonardo Watson for all your hard work!

 

I am still playing through an older version, but when it is finished I am very likely starting a new one.

[agb1]

The _utils\patch.exe included with BWP Fixpack v16 is smaller than the exe in earlier releases. It does not print anything when I type 'patch.exe --version' or 'patch.exe --help' in a command prompt. The GitHub Fixpack has patch.exe GNU version 2.7.5.

Why was this changed in v16 and what is the new version?

[Leonardo Watson]

It is the same patch.exe as ever. Version is 2.5. To get the info I used a small batch-file with the lines:

 

patch.exe --help
pause

patch.exe -v
pause

[agb1]

In the copy of BiG World Fixpack-v16.7z I downloaded yesterday, the patch.exe is 64kb. The patch.exe on GitHub is 160kb. When I try using your commands above in a .bat file with the 64kb version, it doesn't display anything:

Spoiler

Downloads>patch.exe --help

Downloads>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Downloads>patch.exe -v

Downloads>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Is my copy of the Fixpack 7z the correct size? 15.2 MB (15,988,022 bytes)

[agb1]

Unrelated question. Fixpack v16 adds Devin\_copy\Items\Yeti\PxYeti.cre but it was already in _copy\Anim\Yeti\PxYeti.cre and as far as I can see, the Anim path is the only one that actually gets copied to the override folder by setup-devin.tp2.

Should the new PxYeti.cre replace the previous one in the Anim folder?

[Nightfarer]

Items path should be wrong.

The path is Anim\Yeti\PxYeti.cre

The issue with the mod is that PxYeti.cre included is IWD format.
The creature overwring the mod included is the same creature but BG format

[agb1]

Checked ... the files are identical.  I'll delete the one in Items path.

[agb1]

BiG World Fixpack on GitHub has been updated:

Spoiler

1 - Revised .gitattributes so that SourceTree will not suppress the internal diff view when comparing .patch files

2 - Added a new CreatePatches.tp2 script (with detailed comments and usage information inside the file) and a new 'diffgawk' folder in _utils to use with it

3 - Merged BWP v16 Trimpack into this Fixpack (users should not run the BiG World Trimpack before running this version of the BiG World Fixpack!) - affected mods are AzenMOD, Bonehillv275, CtB, DarkHorizons, NTotSC, NTotSCv171, planarspheremod, RevisedBattles, RoTerror, SOS and TDD

4 - Selectively merged updates from BWP v16 Fixpack (modified existing patches for Alora, CoM Encounters, Foundling, gMinion, ImoenRomance, IWDification, LaViconia, NeJ, NeJ2, Uldar, questpack, Saerileth, Star, TS, Tsujatha; added new patches for arestorationp, Bdash, BoM Item Pack, bp-bgt-worldmap, CoM Encounters, DarkHorizonsBGEE, Divine_Remix_v7, Divine_Remix_v8, eetact2, JklHel, karatur, KeldornR, NeJ3, ninde, rukrakia, , stivan, TDD, Uldar, uniqueartifacts)

5 - Revised patch for Bonehillv275 -- replaced Windows batch files with HANDLE_AUDIO and HANDLE_TILESETS so theoretically could install on Linux now, and OSX (except tisunpack for OSX is not included so would have to be added manually)

BWP v16 Trimpack contains an outdated patch for TOA (not applicable to latest version), which was not merged.

BWP v16 Fixpack contains outdated patches for several other mods, which were not merged: cdtweaks (reindexing patch has been incorporated in Beta 5 release on GitHub), Frennedan NPC (interjection fix), Innershade (map icon position), Rukrakia (map icon positions) and TOD (all patches have been incorporated in latest release on GitHub)

[new(Mike)]

thank Leonardo for you great work

[Azazello]

Leonardo, you da man! er, team!

 

Thanks for all your wonderful contributions.