HP Display

recklessheart

Hi there - I just started up BG2EE for the first time since the patch came out. I noticed upon reloading old games the rather interruptive and ugly HP display on character portraits upon the right-hand pane of the interface, and could not find an option to disable it in the 'Options - Graphics' or 'Options - Gameplay' screens.

What do I do to get rid of it? Thanks in advance for responses.

dockaboomski

There's an option in the baldur.ini. @elminster probably knows where it is.

Musigny

In the baldur.ini file:
'Game Options', 'Show Character HP', '0',

There is also another option showing the HP (over the "sprites") if set to 1
'Game Options', 'HP Over Head', '0',

NamelessOne13

Musigny said:

There is also another option showing the HP (over the "sprites") if set to 1
'Game Options', 'HP Over Head', '0',

Hi, I tried setting this one to 0, but still the HP show over the "sprites", just below the character names.

Is the option broken?

Grond0

For the EE the baldur.ini file no longer controls configuration settings - adjust the baldur.LUA file instead.

NamelessOne13

Grond0 said:

For the EE the baldur.ini file no longer controls configuration settings - adjust the baldur.LUA file instead.

Yes, that's the one I adjusted "Baldur.lua". Did not work.

Grond0

It works in my installation. Did you perhaps have the game open when you adjusted the file? In that case the game would reset back to the previous position ...

NamelessOne13

Grond0 said:

It works in my installation. Did you perhaps have the game open when you adjusted the file? In that case the game would reset back to the previous position ...

Nope. Closed the game, edited Baldur.lua, re-started the game. HP still shows over their "sprites".

Grond0

My LUA shows:
SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','HP Over Head','0')
Is that exactly the same as you have?

NamelessOne13

Exactly that.
Here is the line (copy pasted):
SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','HP Over Head','0')

Grond0

I assume you are changing the correct LUA file. The standard locations are:
Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition
for BGEE and SoD
Documents\Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition
for BG2EE
Other than that I'm out of ideas. Perhaps @Gate70 can help.

Gate70

Hi
At a guess based on character names also showing, I would say you have the Reveal Details icon active.

With that disabled, you should see these behaviours depending on LUA setting and use of TAB key.

NamelessOne13

Thanks to both, but the problem persist.

Yes, I am editing the correct file.

Please take a look:



I disable the "Reveal Details" button, then I press TAB.

But I get both the names and the HP over their heads.

I was expecting to only get their names.

This is not working for me :-(

Grond0

Could you do a screenshot of what the information looks like in the game?

NamelessOne13

Grond0 said:

Could you do a screenshot of what the information looks like in the game?

Sure. Take a look.

Grond0

After looking at this again I'm afraid the game doesn't do what you want.
- the 'show character HPs' setting in the LUA file is associated with whether HPs show on the character portraits on the right hand side of the main screen, not the overhead information (you can also set this within the game from the graphics settings).
- the 'HP over head' setting shows HPs above heads constantly.
- I think the information you're seeing is only shown when you press tab (or have the reveal details button active). This information is the same irrespective of the LUA settings.

NamelessOne13

All I wanted was to see only the character names above their heads, not the HP.

All the HP numbers make it hard to play with "Reveal Details" on.

Grond0

I can understand that. The reveal details button is a new feature in the EE (equivalent of permanently pressing the tab key). I agree that the information that is helpful when occasionally pressing tab becomes disruptive if permanently displayed and it would be helpful to have an option to turn some of that off.

NamelessOne13

Thanks anyway for all the help.

Can I request this somewhere as a new feature?

Doubledimas

Yes, check https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/49845/how-to-report-bugs. It also contains information for requesting features.