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Any magic item/ammo icon mod?

dr3buddr3bud Member Posts: 5
in Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Is there a mod to help distinguish normal items from magic items (esp. while looting)? Perhaps with a glow effect like there is for unlearned scrolls? Maybe a colored border?

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  • GraionDilachGraionDilach Member Posts: 589
    Tweaks Anthology has an Unique Icons component: https://gibberlings3.github.io/Documentation/readmes/readme-cdtweaks_unique_icons.html

    Consideriing that almost all items are magical though (even a plain Long Sword +1 is a magical item), I don't really understand what is the question.
  • dr3buddr3bud Member Posts: 5
    GraionDilach wrote: »
    Tweaks Anthology has an Unique Icons component: https://gibberlings3.github.io/Documentation/readmes/readme-cdtweaks_unique_icons.html

    Consideriing that almost all items are magical though (even a plain Long Sword +1 is a magical item), I don't really understand what is the question.

    Thanks for your reply. I'm having trouble distinguishing the things I should grab using BG2EEs area loot feature. I suppose I could eventually memorize the icons of all the magic items (dart +1 vs. dart, for example), but I'm not at that stage yet; so, at the moment, I have to hover over everything to see if it's worth taking. If magic items had an indicator of some kind, it would speed up my looting.
  • jmerryjmerry Member Posts: 3,881
    edited June 2023
    In the standard EE, unidentified items have a blue background. And since magic stuff outside shops is almost always unidentified, and non-magic stuff doesn't need identification...
    9nvhok4ffuyb.jpg
    (Picture depicts a standard long sword and an unidentified +1 long sword)

    What's wrong with using that to tell at a glance what's magical?
  • dr3buddr3bud Member Posts: 5
    jmerry wrote: »
    In the standard EE, unidentified items have a blue background. And since magic stuff outside shops is almost always unidentified, and non-magic stuff doesn't need identification...
    9nvhok4ffuyb.jpg
    (Picture depicts a standard long sword and an unidentified +1 long sword)

    What's wrong with using that to tell at a glance what's magical?

    Oh my; I tracked down the issue. I installed the "Identify all items" element of Tweaks anthology, which explains my problem. Since everything is identified, my items don't have the glow. Thanks for clarifying @jmerry.
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