How to count banters in an NPC mod
Charriu
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Hi all,
I'm looking into more NPC mods for any future playthroughs. I'm a big fan of banters and therefore would like to know before running a game with an NPC how many banters that NPC has with the original companions. How would I determine that from the mod files alone?
I already know that all the banters are to be found in the .d files and I have no problem to do a text search across all those files. I also know that if there is a 25 in the file name it is most likely for ToB. But are there definitive commands/code phrases that have to come with every banter? I looked up some tutorials and there the CHAIN command was mentioned with banters, but I think it is not required to use that, right? Or do I just look where the original companions are mentioned in the file and how often?
To give an example. Let's take the Kelsey mod. How would I find out how many banters this NPC has with Minsc or Nalia?
Thanks a lot in advance
I'm looking into more NPC mods for any future playthroughs. I'm a big fan of banters and therefore would like to know before running a game with an NPC how many banters that NPC has with the original companions. How would I determine that from the mod files alone?
I already know that all the banters are to be found in the .d files and I have no problem to do a text search across all those files. I also know that if there is a 25 in the file name it is most likely for ToB. But are there definitive commands/code phrases that have to come with every banter? I looked up some tutorials and there the CHAIN command was mentioned with banters, but I think it is not required to use that, right? Or do I just look where the original companions are mentioned in the file and how often?
To give an example. Let's take the Kelsey mod. How would I find out how many banters this NPC has with Minsc or Nalia?
Thanks a lot in advance
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You can get a pretty good example of what a banter looks like from Khalid for BG2. The modder is very good about commenting their dialogs. In this mod, L#KHAB and L#KHA25B appear to be the files they put their banters in. They've clearly commented each one to say who it's banter with.
To my knowledge, there is no easy way to do it.
For Kelsey, I see the file "bj#klsy.d". I would assume the banters for SoA are in there (bj#kls25.d is for ToB). Inside, I see dialogue states like I mentioned, for example would be the start of a banter between Mazzy and Kelsey, started by Kelsey. would be the start of a banter between Yoshimo and Kelsey, started by Yoshimo.
Please note: Kelsey is a bad example, because his lovetalks are also in that file, apparently.
I wouldn't know any easier or more straight foreward way of looking this up.