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VyllaVylla Member Posts: 11
edited February 2013 in General Modding
Hithere! Im sorry for posting this in the wrong category, but I couldnt find the proper one, so I took the one "closest" to what I was looking for. This is not a bug-thingie.

I am interrested in modding in BG1-EE. More specific, Id like to try to change Yeslick's name. I cant stand the guy named Yes-lick -.-' But Im very interrested in exploring the modding possibilities. Any tips?

/Em

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  • CuvCuv Member, Developer Posts: 2,535
    Moving this to the forum of the same name:)
  • VyllaVylla Member Posts: 11
    Thnx alot!
  • CaloNordCaloNord Member Posts: 1,809
    edited June 2014
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/eekeeper/
    @Vylla This program will allow you to change it. Although I've never tested changing character names with it before. I can walk you through it if you need. :) It will also allow a lot of other tinkering to your save games :) Can be very handy!
  • VyllaVylla Member Posts: 11
    Thanx alot! I will try it out and give you a tell if I get stuck hehe :)
  • AstroBryGuyAstroBryGuy Member Posts: 3,437
    @Vylia - EEKeeper won't change the names of the NPCs, as those are stored as references to strings in the dialog.tlk file.

    OK - technically, you can change them, but only to another string in the dialog.tlk file. So, you can rename Yeslick to Kagain or Jaheira or Portalbendarwinden, but not Gimli. ;-)

    @Erg has created a mod for this purpose, however. Check it out here:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/17310/weidu-mod-npc-renamer
  • ErgErg Member Posts: 1,756
    edited June 2014
    AstroBryGuy said:

    @Vylia - EEKeeper won't change the names of the NPCs, as those are stored as references to strings in the dialog.tlk file.

    OK - technically, you can change them, but only to another string in the dialog.tlk file. So, you can rename Yeslick to Kagain or Jaheira or Portalbendarwinden, but not Gimli. ;-)

    @Erg has created a mod for this purpose, however. Check it out here:

    http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/17310/weidu-mod-npc-renamer

    @Vylla, a limitation in my previous mod, i.e. the one linked by @AstroBryGuy, is that it only changes the NPC name in the Record Screen and in the Tooltip. Dialogues, Journal, etc. are not affected. So, I made a new WeiDU mod, just for Yeslick, that will replace everywhere his name with the one provided by the user during installation. You can download this new mod from the link below.

    Edit: Uploaded version 2 of Never Say Yeslick!. Now same results with half the code and twice the speed :)

    Edit2: Uploaded version 3 of Never Say Yeslick!. Fixed new name not being in all caps in the biography.
    Post edited by Erg on
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