(BG1) No shortage of Kolvar

Wisp

Kolvar is a person who appears in Baldur's Gate in chapter 7. After talking with the player (Monty and/or Xzar required), he will EscapeArea and immediately reappear at his original location. This is due to an ill-designed spawn block in the area script. It can be fixed by having the area script set a variable when it creates him, in order to make sure it only happens once (it is the conventional way of doing it).

COPY_EXISTING ar1200.bcs override
  DECOMPILE_AND_PATCH BEGIN
    REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~\(!Dead("Kolvar")\)~ ~\1 Global("KolvarSpawn","GLOBAL",0)~
    REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~\(CreateCreature("KOLVAR",\[1215\.625\],0)\)~ ~\1 SetGlobal("KolvarSpawn","GLOBAL",1)~
  END

Avenger_teambg

You can probably use area variable for this, so it grows only the .are file not the .gam file

COPY_EXISTING ar1200.bcs override
DECOMPILE_AND_PATCH BEGIN
REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~\(!Dead("Kolvar")\)~ ~\1 Global("KolvarSpawn","AR1200",0)~
REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~\(CreateCreature("KOLVAR",\[1215\.625\],0)\)~ ~\1 SetGlobal("KolvarSpawn","AR1200",1)~
END

Wisp

Every other variable used like this (roughly 65 of them) is in the global scope, but sure. it is one less this way.

CamDawg

Added locally.

Avenger_teambg

@SethDavis this looping spawn could be fixed easily (fix provided by Wisp)

SethDavis

Potentially fixed - @Wisp's fix has been applied

Avenger_teambg

Confirmed fixed.