Skip to content

Is it ok to use IsValidForPartyDialog?

vanatosvanatos Member Posts: 876
in General Modding
I seem to recall this function was buggy and modders
didn't like using it in vanilla BG2.

What was the particular problem? i see even in vanilla BG2 it was used all over the place in the retail code.

Comments

  • elminsterelminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,317
    edited December 2015
    I think its because "InParty" (with some added conditions like "See") was a lot more likely to trigger. That being said if you haven't seen it you should check out this thread

    https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/1686/bg2-bug-ifvalidforpartydialogue-flakiness/p1

    Its talking about "ifvalidforpartydialogue" but I think effectively they are the same thing. Basically "ifvalidforpartydialogue" (and by extension "isvalidforpartydialogue") had a whole bunch of requirements in order to trigger. Including a requirement that the person you are talking to was not the last person you talked to. This caused scripting issues.
  • vanatosvanatos Member Posts: 876
    Cheers
Sign In or Register to comment.

2025 Overhaul Games, a division of Beamdog. © 2025 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Forgotten Realms, Baldur's Gate, Wizards of the Coast and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries, and are used with permission. Hasbro and its logo are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. and are used with permission. © 1998 BioWare Corp. All Rights Reserved. BioWare, the BioWare Infinity Engine and the BioWare logo are trademarks of Bioware Corp. Black Isle Studios and the Black Isle Studios logo are trademarks of Interplay Entertainment Corp. Atari and the Atari logo are trademarks owned by Atari Interactive, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.