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Iecerint

Member Since 01 Aug 2010
Offline Last Active Aug 13 2010 08:45 AM

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Odd Dependencies

03 August 2010 - 06:49 PM

I'm trying a BWS that incorporates Divine Remix rather than Spell Revisions, so I'm trying to include some SCS2 content that normally conflicts with SRs.  Oddly, BWS claims that all these SCS2 components conflict with one another:

1. Allow Spellstrike to penetrate PfM scrolls.
2. Antimagic penetrates invisibility
3. Iron Skins behaves like Stoneskin.
4. Blade Barrier et al only affect hostiles.
5. Make Power Word: Blind single-target
6. Slightly increase power of Mantle et al.

Also, BP-Balancer's "Item and XP Balancing for DSotSC" conflicts with "dependency removed due to translation," which seems like a glitch I can ignore.

I'm going to install it as-is and hope nothing explodes.  Let me know if these are known glitches and/or legit ones.

Side-question -- certain spells have looked really bizarre in my recent installs, but I never had this problem before (e.g. with Tutu).  For example, the Missile component of Magic Missile appears as red squares, there's a generalized stutter when the screen is moved, water looks a little odd, the Fog of War is odd, the chanting phase of magic casting is a black-and-white haze.  Do these symptoms sound familiar?  Someone on G3 suggested it might be my graphics card, but I have ATI Radeon 3xxx, which doesn't appear to be one that's historically problematic.

Thanks for any help.  I'll let you know if the (erroneous?) conflicts appear to introduce new problems.

Edit: Something funky already -- I needed to manually install a handful of quest mods this time around, and read all the readmes. O_O'

Edit2: The LR-Warning indicated in this thread (http://www.shsforums...ugs-in-the-bwp/) appears.

Edit3: The game runs fine.  All the graphical weirdness is solved, too, except for Magic Missile, which still looks like funny squares.  :(

Edit4: I just needed to mess with the configuration a bit.  You forget the simple things... <_<

AT LONG LAST, MY BWS INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE!

Now to actually play the game~! ^^

Thanks for putting up with me over the past few days.

Results of Odd Installation 4

02 August 2010 - 02:16 PM

So, the fight where Gorion uses Magic Missile still results in him spitting perfect red squares (edit: maybe they're black?) at his targets rather than the more attractive animation I'm used to.  Is this an intended side-effect of one of the mods (e.g. one that "fixes" BG2 spell animations), or something pathological?  I'm doing a more or less straight Tactics setup.

Also, there's a graphical stutter whenever I move the screen with the arrow keys.

I thought the above might be due to one of the IA packages not being installed properly (that happened during install attempt 3), but I did the error'd ones manually this time, so.

These are both observed while using ToBExtender, so if it can cause glitchy behavior, that might be it.

Also, there's a weird special ability for the main character where he can use actions like "Insight Into Relationship," which leads to odd Engrish-y responses like "He have nothing that he want" from the console.  If it's known what mod creates this curious feature, please let me know.

Check The Bodies

01 August 2010 - 08:15 PM

I've noticed that BWS looks for version 1.2 of this mod whereas the current version is 1.9.  Is there a reason for this discrepancy?  Assuming not, how can I use the updated version (on the assumption that it will be less glitchy, etc)?

If I want to add a mod to the utility...

01 August 2010 - 06:46 PM

...Do I just need to edit the Mod.ini file, or is there more to it? I dun wanna make anything explode.