[ Mod ] IWDEE in BG2EE

shadowlich

With the release of Neverwinter for Baldur's Gate (and the coming of Skyfire),
I'm preparing my new run. Hence I never played IWD (only NEJ) I make a Weidu mod importing IWDEE in BG2EE, and here I'm in Eastheaven...

After these last days of coding, it's time to test play

Kyros

So, is this like Tipuns Icewind Dale in EET Mod where you can play IWD in BG2? Except that its the EE version of IWD? I would love that.

shevy123456

How well does it work in BG2EE?

What I have noticed, or seem to have noticed, is that the graphics are
slightly different between the different games. It's not a real issue, but
it made me wonder, since some graphics appear to be of higher quality
than others.

Another minor thing I have noticed - also not totally related to any
such individual mod per se - is that the walkthroughs are not always
very applicable (or at the least some are somewhat confusing, since
they were written specifically with one version in mind). I have had
good success here with the walkthrough for Trials of the Luremaster,
for instance, but not as much success with Neverwinter Nights (at
the least on my first run; some of the walkthroughs had content
that was not quite applicable, for instance, or at the least not in the
way I could understand it). May be nice to gather useful snippets in
the individual forum posts.

shadowlich

@Kyros:
Yes I supposed... I looked quickly at the moment at IWD EET prologue script, fixed as I did
But I dont use EET, too many mods to play, I stay focus on BG2EE, so I code my own mod


@shevy123456:
I am only in Easthaven so far and every maps are fine.
Dialogs and scripts too, no surprised because I sort of unit test them massively. Quest and journal are also ok, and since I play BG2 for 20 years I replaced the useless journal menu by my radar menu, then I have no easy way to check the quests entries. Have to code another one now to be able to follow walkthroughs as you do.

I imported every resources including Trial of the Lure Master and Heart of Winter, gonna need more walkthroughs .


Yesterday I imported IWDEE Chapter GUI, because it's cooler than using the BG2EE ones; text is not aligned, seems to ignore data (but not images). Whatever, dont want to lose my time for a x, y, width and height that may be changed by the Infinity Engine, Config, zoom, internal lua, EEEx, screen resolution, my ahk or their mystical synergy...

shadowlich

Just finished Hall of Heroes .

No bug (detected) so far, no problem with graphics, waves on water are beautiful, nice creature animations I had never seen...

shadowlich

IWD done (canon Pomad battle is bug as hell...)

Go to Heart of Winter now

shadowlich

Icasaracht speed run done sucessfully .
I dont test Trial of the Lure Master, should be fine and same as argent77 mod

=> my IWDEE in BG2EE mod is fine


Time to integrate Neverwinter for Baldur's Gate in my install...

shadowlich

So far, I checked/fixed these mods for my future install, notified their author for suspicious things when necessary.

NWNForBG
WhiteQueen
DjinniCompanion
Tidings
SellSwords
TangledIsle
DC
ToD


I recoded the bad Setup-TDDz.tp2 (yea, I am its bad coder). There are 2 corrupted cre files from canon TDD. Here is the Weidu fix:

COPY_EXISTING "KOBWIT02.cre" Override
	// FIX USELESS BYTES
	// Move data
	FOR ( USELESS_BYTES_SIZE = 0x0C src = 0x4D4 dst = 0x4D4 - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE ; src < SOURCE_SIZE ; ++src ++dst ) BEGIN
		WRITE_BYTE dst (BYTE_AT src)
	END
	// Update meta data
	WRITE_LONG 0x2BC ((LONG_AT 0x2BC) - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) // Items count
	WRITE_LONG 0x2B8 ((LONG_AT 0x2B8) - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) // Item slot offset
	// Adjust file size
	DELETE_BYTES (SOURCE_SIZE - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) USELESS_BYTES_SIZE
	
	// FIX CORRUPTED MEMORIZED SPELLS 
	REMOVE_MEMORIZED_SPELL ~SPWI104~ ~SPWI105~ ~SPWI118~ ~SPWI205~ ~SPWI211~ ~SPWI212~ ~SPWI303~ ~SPWI308~ ~SPWI508~	
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI118~ #0 ~wizard~ // Weidu add in reverse order...
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI105~ #0 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI104~ #0 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI212~ #1 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI211~ #1 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI205~ #1 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI308~ #2 ~wizard~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI303~ #2 ~wizard~ (2)
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPWI508~ #4 ~wizard~ (2)
	
COPY_EXISTING "KOBSHA02.cre" Override
	// FIX USELESS BYTES
	// Move data
	FOR ( USELESS_BYTES_SIZE = 0x24 src = 0x45C dst = 0x45C - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE ; src < SOURCE_SIZE ; ++src ++dst ) BEGIN
		WRITE_BYTE dst (BYTE_AT src)
	END
	// Update meta data
	WRITE_LONG 0x2BC ((LONG_AT 0x2BC) - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) // Items count
	WRITE_LONG 0x2B8 ((LONG_AT 0x2B8) - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) // Item slot offset
	// Adjust file size
	DELETE_BYTES (SOURCE_SIZE - USELESS_BYTES_SIZE) USELESS_BYTES_SIZE
	
	// FIX CORRUPTED MEMORIZED SPELLS 
	REMOVE_MEMORIZED_SPELL ~SPPR103~ ~SPPR105~ ~SPPR208~
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPPR105~ #0 ~priest~ // Weidu add in reverse order...
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPPR103~ #0 ~priest~ (4)
	ADD_MEMORIZED_SPELL    ~SPPR208~ #1 ~priest~ (2)

Kyros

Extremely glad you are still at it especially because Tipuns introduces some nasty gameplay bugs. Any ideas when you will release it?