Keldon

I have a question for the general community. First however, some background.
My son is a HUGE dragon fan, always has been.
He is very excited that you can have a (pseudo)dragon familiar in BGII but is disappointed in that it stays small. He has asked me to find a way to have it grow up to be an adult dragon at the least, but he would also like to be able to have his character ride the adult dragon.

I have been turning it over in my mind and was thinking that perhaps a natural progression could be
familiar --> baby wyvern --> adult wyvern --> adult dragon
The problem is that I don't know how to begin coding this or even if it can be coded to do this. Does anyone know if this is possible?
As far as being able to ride the dragon, I'm thinking that if I could "lift" this from another game and import it in, then whenever the PC clicked the option to mount the dragon, the picture would change from an adult dragon to the imported picture.
Once again, however, I have no clue if this would actually work, or how to code it.

If you are able to offer any suggestions or help on this issue we would certainly appreciate it!
Heh, wouldn't it be fun to be able to watch your familiar mature and then be able to ride it?
I just wanted to be clear for those who may now be screaming about the balance of the game etc, that this is something intended for my son and not necessarily something to be released as a mod.

Peace
Keldon

Hello,

If you could come to SpellHold Studios home page and see a new evil female NPC......what class would you MOST want her to be?

Post your choice!

Hi everyone!

I have a question that I hope will be quite easy to answer. I have coded my NPC so that, on two different occasions, she can go hostile and attack the PC.
Now, I have tried it with each entry going to their perspective attk1 and attk2, and both of them going to just attk2.
The reason for this is that in the first case, the NPC goes hostile but then just stands there, won't even attack back if the PC attacks her.
In the second case, everything goes exactly as I want it to, she goes hostile and attacks the PC.
Since there is no difference in the coding, how come she won't attack the first time but she will the second?
Does anyone know the answer to this?

Thank you
Keldon

I have a question that I am hoping one of you more experienced modders can answer.
At some point, I want my NPC to speak to a merchant and, in dialogue, have him upgrade her dagger to another that will actually be useful in ToB.
I know that when the characters come out of the underdark and their drow items get changed to adamintine dust the coding goes like this
IF
Global("DROWITEMCHECKDONE","GLOBAL",0)
HasItem("DWCHAN01",Player1)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
TakeItemReplace("DWDUST","DWCHAN01",Player1)
................ (more actions)
END

How do I change this into what I need for my NPC and in which file do I put it?

Thank you
Keldon

I am having a bit of a problem on my end that I don't quite know how to fix and am hoping you will.

I installed BGII to a file on my desktop, then deleted all the files (including the uninstall files etc) from the start menu. I then installed BGII ToB to this same file on my desktop, and deleted it's entries from my start menu.
I was editing some .ITM files for karina, then realized that what I was doing was not going to work. I wanted to go back to the original file, but umm, well...forgot what was in it. =(
So, instead I decided to uninstall BGII & ToB then just do a fresh reinstall.
And herein I encountered my problem.
The thing seemed to be working right, it showed the correct messages etc. When I went to reinstall, I got the message "since this is your first time playing BGII, please set the configurations" instead of the expected install message.
I went to my desktop file and found that all of the BGII files were still there except for the config, exe, and the other BGII head symbol.
So, in my "Infinite" wisdom, I went to control panel "Add / remove programs" and tried to delete it there. Once again it gave the right deleting message. But when it was done, the files were still there and control panel still showed it as installed.
I then went and manually deleted every entry of BGII I could find anywhere on the computer hoping this would solve the problem.
When I went to reinstall the game, I didnt get that option. I got "Play", "Configure", etc.
SO, you know, being such a smart? guy I messed around more in an attempt to get the game to uninstall or reinstall (at this point I wasn't being very picky, any kind of change would be nice).
So, where I am sitting right now is....the computer still thinks the game is installed and uninstalled at the same time. Therefore it won't let me delete it anty further or reinstall it.
I can't actually play it because all I get is the message to set configurations. It doesnt even take me to the configuration screen, it just stops running all together when I hit "OK"
Can you tell me what I need to do to correct this situation? I am afraid that I have tried everything I can think of and have come up with nothing. Any help you might have will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Keldon