WeiDU Install Tool: A graphical front end for installing WeiDU mods
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WeiDU Install Tool - A graphical front end for WeiDU Mods.
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Overview
WeiDU Install Tool (WIT) is a graphical front end for WeiDU to install modifications for Infinity Engine games, such as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale or Planescape Torment.
The tool offers all the functionality of the WeiDU command line tool as well as many usability improvements and convenience features to help with the mod installation task. It is meant as a replacement or alternative to the setup executables that are included in most mod archives, but can also be used for more general WeiDU operations. It is not intended to be a full-fledged mod manager like Project Infinity.
The tool is available for Windows (installer, portable zip), Linux (RPM and DEB packages, portable tarball) and macOS (PKG archive, portable tarball).
Features
Tp2 Mod File Association:
The installer versions of the WeiDU Install Tool automatically associate* tp2 mod files with the application which allows you to quickly and conveniently install mods from the file manager without having to deal with setup executables. Alternatively mods can be opened directly in the application.
* Not available on macOS.
Drag and Drop support:
This feature allows you to drop tp2 files or the mod folders themselves onto an open WeiDU Install Tool instance to initiate the mod installation process if no other mod is currently being installed. It is available for installer and portable versions.
Customizations:
The application provides a number of customization options, which includes:
More features are planned for later.
Installation
The application is available as installers for Windows, Linux and macOS which set up start menu and desktop icons as well as file associations* with tp2 mod files. Alternatively, it is available as portable zip or tarball archives. A Flatpack version for Linux is planned for later.
* Not available on macOS.
Supported platforms
Windows:
- 64-bit Windows 7 and later
Linux:
- x86-64 architecture
- a graphical window manager or desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon Desktop, ...)
macOS:
- x86-64 architecture
- official support since macOS 11, but will most likely also run on older versions
Credits
Weidu Install Tool © 2023 by Argent77.
Translations:
- English: Argent77
- German: Argent77 (Proofreading: Shai Hulud)
- French: JohnBob
- Brazilian Portuguese: Felipe
- Russian: abalabokhin
More translations are always welcome. Translation is handled similarly to how mods provide multiple languages. Please let me know if you're interested here or on G3 Forums in this topic or via private message.
Download
Readme
Discussion on G3 Forums
Overview
WeiDU Install Tool (WIT) is a graphical front end for WeiDU to install modifications for Infinity Engine games, such as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale or Planescape Torment.
The tool offers all the functionality of the WeiDU command line tool as well as many usability improvements and convenience features to help with the mod installation task. It is meant as a replacement or alternative to the setup executables that are included in most mod archives, but can also be used for more general WeiDU operations. It is not intended to be a full-fledged mod manager like Project Infinity.
The tool is available for Windows (installer, portable zip), Linux (RPM and DEB packages, portable tarball) and macOS (PKG archive, portable tarball).
Features
Tp2 Mod File Association:
The installer versions of the WeiDU Install Tool automatically associate* tp2 mod files with the application which allows you to quickly and conveniently install mods from the file manager without having to deal with setup executables. Alternatively mods can be opened directly in the application.
* Not available on macOS.
Drag and Drop support:
This feature allows you to drop tp2 files or the mod folders themselves onto an open WeiDU Install Tool instance to initiate the mod installation process if no other mod is currently being installed. It is available for installer and portable versions.
Customizations:
The application provides a number of customization options, which includes:
- Displaying UI text and messages in the user's native language if available
- Toggling between light and dark mode UI on-the-fly
- Setting output text size and character encoding
- Showing visual hints about the installation state
- Warnings about potential mod conflicts
- Customizing the mod installation process
More features are planned for later.
Installation
The application is available as installers for Windows, Linux and macOS which set up start menu and desktop icons as well as file associations* with tp2 mod files. Alternatively, it is available as portable zip or tarball archives. A Flatpack version for Linux is planned for later.
* Not available on macOS.
Supported platforms
Windows:
- 64-bit Windows 7 and later
Linux:
- x86-64 architecture
- a graphical window manager or desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon Desktop, ...)
macOS:
- x86-64 architecture
- official support since macOS 11, but will most likely also run on older versions
Credits
Weidu Install Tool © 2023 by Argent77.
Translations:
- English: Argent77
- German: Argent77 (Proofreading: Shai Hulud)
- French: JohnBob
- Brazilian Portuguese: Felipe
- Russian: abalabokhin
More translations are always welcome. Translation is handled similarly to how mods provide multiple languages. Please let me know if you're interested here or on G3 Forums in this topic or via private message.
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Changelog:
This will probably be the last release candidate before a stable release.
Changelog:
The install tool uses WeiDU in the background, so the actual mod installation performance would be the same. The tool executes WeiDU without performing any auto-update checks, however, which reduces the starting time quite a bit.
Enabling the performance options that were introduced by the latest release you can also speed up the end of a mod installation a bit when WeiDU updates the WeiDU.log, at the cost of not having descriptive comments with the mod component names.
See the first post of this topic for an overview of features and supported platforms.
Changelog:
This would allow to install a new bg after updating the mods and having a fresh install without having to manually install every mod.
An option to perform unattended mod installations is already on my to-do list, which also includes importing mod setups from the WeiDU.log.
Keep in mind though that this app is just a graphical front end for WeiDU mod. It is not meant to automate full mod installations like PI.
PI hasn't been updated in 18 months, so I guess its development is more or less stopped, unfortunately.
But I cant for sum casesenetive crap... I do not get it and i seams linux users love this future for it has not be fixed.
Will your WeiDU Install Tool allow me to install mods on my steam deck?
Unfortunately modding these games on Linux does only work correctly on case-insensitive installations. There is no way around it, even with the WeiDU Install Tool.
There are several options how to accomplish this:
This method is relatively easy to set up. See this post for detailed instructions: https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topic/28516-the-linux-users-guide-to-installing-mods-on-the-enhanced-editions/?do=findComment&comment=271476
See this guide for detailed instructions: https://moebiusproject.gitlab.io/mods_on_linux
I've never tested this option since zfs is usually not available by default on Linux distros and requires additional software to be installed before it can be used.
JFS is a niche filesystem on Linux and may not be available on your distro.
Unfortunately not. The runtime required to launch the tool is not available for 32-bit Windows systems anymore.