Ulgoth's Beard Artwork

kungfuhobbit

NI lists the very pretty ulgothst.mos

afaik surprisingly considering its beauty, this doesn't appear to be used in the game (can anyone else confirm please?)

To help me mod it into the game, does anyone know what I can copy as a template - I'm thinking a dream script or werewolf isle transition as they both trigger artwork screens (without chapter transitions), though I cant actually find the scripts.
Does anyone know where they are/how it's done please?

Any help would be really appreciated please

AleatoricAllieration

There is a short backstory that is shown in the dialogue box when first entering Ulgoth's Beard. I can only assume that this artwork was for that particular text. It was likely planned to be a little bit longer and have voice acting much like Balduran's Isle but was scrapped somewhere down the line.

I too love the artwork and would like to see it come back in some way or another.

Wisp

@kungfuhobbit
The werewolf isle transition is directed from islon.bcs (and menda2.dlg). More specifically, the artwork screens are produced with the TextSceen() script action.

Edit: also, I'm pretty sure this particular image is from BGEE itself, and not unused content from BG1.

meagloth

That's really cool picture. *hopes really hard That one day it will be voiced over and added*

kungfuhobbit

@Wisp Thanks That allowed me to come across Cuv's fantastic http://www.shsforums.net/topic/28109-chapter-text-screen-tutorial/

kungfuhobbit

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Fafnir

Whoa, that's beautiful. WHY isn't it there?

kungfuhobbit

Modding it into the game, the artwork is displaying really tiny for some reason.

It's frustrating, I thought I was so close!

Here's the code if you can help please (updated zips below)

for the ULGOTHST.TDA, I'm using:

2DA V1.0
ULGOTHST
0 1
SWITCH DEFAULT DEFAULT
DEFAULT 24105 24105


and for the first part of AR1000.bcs Im using:

IF
OnCreation()
Global("EnteredTheBeard","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
SetGlobal("EnteredTheBeard","GLOBAL",1)
StartCutSceneMode()
CutSceneId(Player1)
MultiPlayerSync()
TextScreen("ULGOTHST")
EndCutSceneMode()
END

(and the rest of the script unchanged)
Any help would be really appreciated please

kungfuhobbit

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kungfuhobbit

The 'tiny cropped textscreen' problem isn't unique to the ulgoths beard mos - after (sadly) many hours experimenting around Im finding it occurs however I invoke TextScreen() when transitioning to the Ulgoth's Beard area.
This is beyond my technical paygrade so any help would be greatly appreciated please.

The ulgothst.zip savegame attached demonstrates the problem in a single click when you transition to Ulgoth's Beard on the map (place the three files in override and the folder in the savegames directory)

The islon.zip shows in a single click what it should look like by swapping islon's arrive.mos for the ulgoth's beard mos
(put arrive.mos in override and the folder in savegames directory), then talk to mendas and set sail.

This is a frustrating problem no doubt with a simple solution that I'm just too inept to see!

kungfuhobbit

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