So I need to add that one line to UI.MENU? Or is it a different file?
As for the decorated capital letters, Lefreut's UI mod restores them. You can see them, for example, in his "Item description tweaks" and "journal tweaks" screenshots. Narrations also typically had them as their first capital letter in classic BG1.
The small Journal mode- the default journal is always set as ALL quests. I would rather have it as ACTIVE. Changing it to ACTIVE doesn´t save. I have to do it everytime I look at the journal
Do you want to also save the choice across game restarts?
Yes, it´s exactly what I want to achieve
2. The large Journal mode- when I press R the Journal shows up but for some reason when I press R again to close it the Character screen appears.
Look for these lines:
name "journalLeftButton5"
on 'r' -- delete this
I did this but now I have to press R twice to have the journal appear and when I want to close it I can´t. Only with ESC which sucks. Isn´t it possible to open the large Journal with R and to close it with R? Without weirdly landing in the character screen?
To those who experience crashes, could you try the following:
In “override/ui.menu” file find LEFT_SIDEBAR_BOTTOM section and right after the “ignoreEsc” line add this code
label
{
name 'leftSidebarBackground'
area 0 0 0 0
enabled "false"
mosaic GUIWLSP
}
label
{
name 'rightSidebarBackground'
area 0 0 0 0
enabled "false"
mosaic GUIWLSP
}
It’s just a guess based on a crash report I got, but getting another crash takes a lot of time, so I haven’t tested the fix yet.
If I’m right the game tries to call Infinity_GetArea function for these labels, but they don’t exist in DUI, they are for the panels on the sides, one with buttons and the other one with the portraits. Most of the time it’s harmless, but sometimes you get unlucky and the get area function tries to access invalid memory address and it causes the crash.
@meowdog
Have you integrated this fix into your latest version on Github? Because I´ve had a crash after loooooong time and I can´t find the fix in the UI.MENU.
Have you integrated this fix into your latest version on Github? Because I´ve had a crash after loooooong time and I can´t find the fix in the UI.MENU.
It's there, I just moved it to a different place.
Just in case you can add this code to any "override/M_xxxx.lua" file:
-- Temp hack to prevent segfaults when the game tries to get an unknown area.
;(function ()
local get_area = Infinity_GetArea
local unknown_areas = {}
function Infinity_GetArea(name, ...)
if name == nil then
Infinity_DisplayString('^RInfinity_GetArea: name is nil^-')
return 0, 0, 0, 0
end
if nameToItem[name] ~= nil then
-- The checks above should be enough, but just in case I misunderstand
-- how Infinity_GetArea works or if its implementation changes, put
-- something on the stack, it'll be used as the return value.
local bad_code, dead_boo = 0xBADC0DE, 0xDEADB00
local x, y, w, h = get_area(name, ...)
if x ~= bad_code and y ~= dead_boo then
return x, y, w, h
end
end
if unknown_areas[name] == nil then
Infinity_DisplayString(('^RUnknown area "%s"^-'):format(name))
unknown_areas[name] = true
end
return 0, 0, 0, 0
end
end)()
The crash might be for a different reason though.
Do you get any error messages or crash dumps?
For example on macos I got something like this and it was very helpful:
After reloading the last autosave the game crashes after couple of seconds. Always. But after reloading a save before I started to play today no crash at all.
It already has been overwritten. After loading an older save the game works now. I will post you the save when there will be a crash again. I hope not.
When I put it at the end of the file M_dui.lua I get an error when starting the game.
string"M_dui.lua"236 attempt to a nil value
Edit: After I put it at the beginning of the file I have got no more errors
Right, it was parsing as "updateTable(...)(function() .. end)()", since updateTable returns nil it was basically trying to call nil as a function, which is it not.
Fresh install using the latest version on github, and I'm running into the same problem I encountered a year ago: I'd like to customize sprite colors for my companions, but the "colors" option is grayed out for all but CHARNAME.
Deleting all lines of
enabled "characters[id].PC == 1"
in ui.menu did the trick. Now this line is absent in ui.menu...
Any ideas?
EDIT: Ah @meowdog it looks like you decided to go with the inventory mouse hover tweak (where the selected character switches when you hover over different inventories). I remember a year ago, the mouse hover prevented companion customization from working right (because it would switch characters as you moved the mouse from hair color to skin color). I'm not sure if that would happen now...
Is there a quick way to edit ui.menu so I can get the option to edit my companion colors like before?
I'd like to return to BG2 after some time. It looks like there are two places now, which the mod can be downloaded from. From @Pecca or @meowdog github.
1) If I'd like to play the 2.5 version of the game, which repository should I use?
2) Does any of the repositories contain all the tweaks and fixes, that are scattered across this thread? For instance, the fix for having magical items show up in the quick loot-bar as blue?
FWIW, this UI is one of the big reasons I keep coming back to Baldur's Gate now. I've been singing its virtues on twitch and other forums. I sincerely believe it's the single best UI of any RPG I've ever played.
Thanks again!
EDIT:
It would also be great to have the equipment comparison code working with the old inventory version... I've been trying on my own, but no luck so far...
@tl1942
I updated the branch to include equipment comparison.
@raizo
My repo is for the 2.6 version, it might work with 2.5 however. I think the only major change in 2.6 UI.menu was in the voice selection screen.
It has some of the fixes from this thread. You can look at the commit history to see which ones.
Hello everyone, noob here, just playing BG1:EE (PC, Windows 10) for the first time and I'm having a blast. This mod looks so amazing that I just had to make an account to ask this, apologies if it's a stupid question or I've overlooked something.
I bought BG1:EE and BG2:EE from GOG. (BG1 is installed, BG2 isn't, if that makes a difference.) I have not bought SoD, so all I have is a plain BG1:EE install. Is the latest version (meowdog's fork I assume) compatible with BG1:EE, without the SoD expansion? I've seen conflicting info about it on Reddit, and the OP says it's compatible with SoD and BG2:EE.
But on the other hand the recent fork seems to include EET support, so my intuition is if mods of that level are supported, the standard vanilla version probably is too, and since BG1:EE uses the same engine as BG2:EE (afaik) then I'm thinking it's probably compatible with BG1:EE. If I'm understanding everything correctly, the version of meowdog's fork linked on 25 July added support for ver. 2.6.6 which is the most recent version of BG1:EE (and also SoD and BG2 from the looks of things, which is also promising if they're all lumped together under one changelog).
Normally I'd be happy to try for myself without needing to trouble anyone for the answer, but given my ignorance of BG:EE modding, I'm hesitant to apply the mod and potentially mess up my BG1:EE installation, if it's not compatible after all. It's a shame that, although GOG is selling BG1:EE at 85% off, they're still charging the full $20 for SoD, or else I'd just pay a couple of bucks and not worry at all Thanks in advance to anyone who can clarify! Great work on this project, it looks tremendous and I'm excited to try it.
@affablePeafowl
It's not compatible with BG1:EE, it's missing some assets, the start screen has the extra SoD campaign button and the world map requires some changes.
There might be other issues, I only tested for a few minutes.
The missing assets can be found in "dragonspear_ui++/content-common/eet-bg2".
@affablePeafowl
It's not compatible with BG1:EE, it's missing some assets, the start screen has the extra SoD campaign button and the world map requires some changes.
There might be other issues, I only tested for a few minutes.
The missing assets can be found in "dragonspear_ui++/content-common/eet-bg2".
Ah, that's too bad, but thanks for clarifying, it's much appreciated!
This is a dumb question, but that directory with the missing assets, it's included in the zip, no? Or does the setup pull other assets from BG2 in addition to the ones in that directory? I ask because I do have a BG2:EE license, so I could install the game if that would mitigate some of the incompatibilities. At the risk of sounding even dumber, I take it the missing campaign button has a particular use that can't be fulfilled with the Black Pits button? I wouldn't miss BP if it's just an issue of needing a button to point to something
I probably should've asked if DUI is backwards-compatible with BG1:EE if BG2:EE is also installed. Or, failing that, if there's anything that can be done manually on the user end, to pull any required assets from BG2:EE into BG1:EE/DUI directories.
I hope I'm not taking too many liberties with your time by asking. If there's nothing I can do short of forking over 20 bucks for SoD, them's the breaks I guess! The reviews aren't exactly glowing lol. But I can either wait for a sale or just finish BG1 and enjoy DUI when I get to BG2
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As for the decorated capital letters, Lefreut's UI mod restores them. You can see them, for example, in his "Item description tweaks" and "journal tweaks" screenshots. Narrations also typically had them as their first capital letter in classic BG1.
@p6kocka same file for the journal fix.
I looked at the code for the decorated letters, it's kinda too involved, I don't think I'm gonna do it, sorry.
Do you want to also save the choice across game restarts?
Yes, it´s exactly what I want to achieve
Look for these lines:
name "journalLeftButton5"
on 'r' -- delete this
I did this but now I have to press R twice to have the journal appear and when I want to close it I can´t. Only with ESC which sucks. Isn´t it possible to open the large Journal with R and to close it with R? Without weirdly landing in the character screen?
enabled "JournalSize == UIStrings.UI_Large" name "journalLeftButton3" on 'J' -- replace with 'r' area 0 0 48 47I pushed journal filter and single click travel changes to github, the later needs to be enabled by adding this line in Baldur.lua:
SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','Single Click Travel','1')No, I don't. I don't think it's possible to do from Lua.@meowdog
Have you integrated this fix into your latest version on Github? Because I´ve had a crash after loooooong time and I can´t find the fix in the UI.MENU.
Just in case you can add this code to any "override/M_xxxx.lua" file:
-- Temp hack to prevent segfaults when the game tries to get an unknown area. ;(function () local get_area = Infinity_GetArea local unknown_areas = {} function Infinity_GetArea(name, ...) if name == nil then Infinity_DisplayString('^RInfinity_GetArea: name is nil^-') return 0, 0, 0, 0 end if nameToItem[name] ~= nil then -- The checks above should be enough, but just in case I misunderstand -- how Infinity_GetArea works or if its implementation changes, put -- something on the stack, it'll be used as the return value. local bad_code, dead_boo = 0xBADC0DE, 0xDEADB00 local x, y, w, h = get_area(name, ...) if x ~= bad_code and y ~= dead_boo then return x, y, w, h end end if unknown_areas[name] == nil then Infinity_DisplayString(('^RUnknown area "%s"^-'):format(name)) unknown_areas[name] = true end return 0, 0, 0, 0 end end)()Do you get any error messages or crash dumps?
For example on macos I got something like this and it was very helpful:
Send me your autosave.
Should I put it at the end of the text in this file pls?
It's unlikely it would've helped with your crash in that autosave.
string"M_dui.lua"236 attempt to a nil value
Edit: After I put it at the beginning of the file I have got no more errors
I'd previously used the following fix: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/1144370/#Comment_1144370
Deleting all lines of
enabled "characters[id].PC == 1"
in ui.menu did the trick. Now this line is absent in ui.menu...
Any ideas?
EDIT: Ah @meowdog it looks like you decided to go with the inventory mouse hover tweak (where the selected character switches when you hover over different inventories). I remember a year ago, the mouse hover prevented companion customization from working right (because it would switch characters as you moved the mouse from hair color to skin color). I'm not sure if that would happen now...
Is there a quick way to edit ui.menu so I can get the option to edit my companion colors like before?
You should be able to customize colors from the new inventory, mouse hover is temporarily disabled when you do it.
No, but I made a branch with the old inventory.
Download it here: https://github.com/anongit/DragonspearUI/tree/left-portraits
It remains to implement that you can choose the appearance of this panel on the left or right side directly in the game through the settings menu.
1) If I'd like to play the 2.5 version of the game, which repository should I use?
2) Does any of the repositories contain all the tweaks and fixes, that are scattered across this thread? For instance, the fix for having magical items show up in the quick loot-bar as blue?
FWIW, this UI is one of the big reasons I keep coming back to Baldur's Gate now. I've been singing its virtues on twitch and other forums. I sincerely believe it's the single best UI of any RPG I've ever played.
Thanks again!
EDIT:
It would also be great to have the equipment comparison code working with the old inventory version... I've been trying on my own, but no luck so far...
I updated the branch to include equipment comparison.
@raizo
My repo is for the 2.6 version, it might work with 2.5 however. I think the only major change in 2.6 UI.menu was in the voice selection screen.
It has some of the fixes from this thread. You can look at the commit history to see which ones.
I bought BG1:EE and BG2:EE from GOG. (BG1 is installed, BG2 isn't, if that makes a difference.) I have not bought SoD, so all I have is a plain BG1:EE install. Is the latest version (meowdog's fork I assume) compatible with BG1:EE, without the SoD expansion? I've seen conflicting info about it on Reddit, and the OP says it's compatible with SoD and BG2:EE.
But on the other hand the recent fork seems to include EET support, so my intuition is if mods of that level are supported, the standard vanilla version probably is too, and since BG1:EE uses the same engine as BG2:EE (afaik) then I'm thinking it's probably compatible with BG1:EE. If I'm understanding everything correctly, the version of meowdog's fork linked on 25 July added support for ver. 2.6.6 which is the most recent version of BG1:EE (and also SoD and BG2 from the looks of things, which is also promising if they're all lumped together under one changelog).
Normally I'd be happy to try for myself without needing to trouble anyone for the answer, but given my ignorance of BG:EE modding, I'm hesitant to apply the mod and potentially mess up my BG1:EE installation, if it's not compatible after all. It's a shame that, although GOG is selling BG1:EE at 85% off, they're still charging the full $20 for SoD, or else I'd just pay a couple of bucks and not worry at all
It's not compatible with BG1:EE, it's missing some assets, the start screen has the extra SoD campaign button and the world map requires some changes.
There might be other issues, I only tested for a few minutes.
The missing assets can be found in "dragonspear_ui++/content-common/eet-bg2".
Ah, that's too bad, but thanks for clarifying, it's much appreciated!
This is a dumb question, but that directory with the missing assets, it's included in the zip, no? Or does the setup pull other assets from BG2 in addition to the ones in that directory? I ask because I do have a BG2:EE license, so I could install the game if that would mitigate some of the incompatibilities. At the risk of sounding even dumber, I take it the missing campaign button has a particular use that can't be fulfilled with the Black Pits button? I wouldn't miss BP if it's just an issue of needing a button to point to something
I probably should've asked if DUI is backwards-compatible with BG1:EE if BG2:EE is also installed. Or, failing that, if there's anything that can be done manually on the user end, to pull any required assets from BG2:EE into BG1:EE/DUI directories.
I hope I'm not taking too many liberties with your time by asking. If there's nothing I can do short of forking over 20 bucks for SoD, them's the breaks I guess! The reviews aren't exactly glowing lol. But I can either wait for a sale or just finish BG1 and enjoy DUI when I get to BG2