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[Bruno]

Hello modders. May I ask you a question about the improved Illych in tactics mod?

I'm not really interested in having an impossible battle with him , but the other contents of the mod (goblins replaced by thieves , thieves interrupting your rest) are nice.
Wich files of the improved illych folder should I place in my override folder to have its features , but not the tougher fight against Illy?

[SConrad]

I wouldn't do that. Either use the full component or don't use it.

The installationprocess of Improved Ilyich is, as most WeiDU-installs, quite complicated. WeiDU does, among other things, an action called WRITE. This action updates the current file in various different ways.

Say for example that WeiDU copies a .cre-file to the override folder, which is the exact same thing as if you'd done it yourself. But if WeiDU also does the WRITE-part, it also updates the .cre-file. If that action doesn't happen, i.e. you copy it yourself, the file might not work propertly.

I've read the .tp2-file for Tactics, and there's a lot of WRITE-action in the Improved Ilyich-component.

So if you don't want the battle, I suggest you either choose not to install the component at all, or edit the .tp2-file (which means that you've got to know EXACTLY what you're doing, and besides, I'm not even sure you can do that due to Copyright-reasons), but I don't recommend that.

Fight the battle (which isn't completely impossible), or don't install Improved Ilyich.

Edited by SConrad, 01 July 2004 - 09:18 AM.

[Bruno]

Thank you for you answer.
It's not that I'm afraid of battling a tougher Illych , I was just worried because I intend to proceed straight from BG1 without ToSC , wich means I'd have him with 7th level characters . Do you think a bunch of characters with 89.000xp can deal with them?

[the bigg]

That's what we do every time. (Or, at least, what I do...)
Newly generated Player1 has 89000 XP and not the benefits of the 8 tomes.

Anyway, you need to open bg2\setup-tactics.tp2 and replace

 COPY_EXISTING ~ar0602.are~      ~override/ar0602.are~
    REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~rdgob~ ~ilyth~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xb2c   ~ily1
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xc3c   ~ily2
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xd4c   ~ily3
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xe5c   ~ily4
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0x129c  ~ily5
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0x13ac  ~ily6
~
END ELSE BEGIN
  COPY_EXISTING ~ar0602.are~      ~override/ar0602.are~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xb2c   ~ily1
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xc3c   ~ily2
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xd4c   ~ily3
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0xe5c   ~ily4
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0x129c  ~ily5
~
    WRITE_ASCII   0x13ac  ~ily6
~

with

 COPY_EXISTING ~ar0602.are~      ~override/ar0602.are~
    REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~rdgob~ ~ilyth~
END ELSE BEGIN
  COPY_EXISTING ~ar0602.are~      ~override/ar0602.are~

Edited by the bigg, 02 July 2004 - 09:06 AM.

[Bruno]

Many thanks to you!