Tweaks 2.0?
shevy123456
Member Posts: 391
in BGII:EE Mods
So this is a bit of an unusual ... hmm, request I would say.
The request essentially is:
Anyone working on a Tweaks 2.0 successor?
To explain what I mean, let me first link to the tweaks repository.
https://github.com/Gibberlings3/Tweaks-Anthology
This has tons of useful - and totally useless, even outright detrimental - components.
Naturally I am interested in the useful parts; while I want to skip the useless parts.
So what is useful? Well ... evidently this will differ, but off the top of my head here is what I
like:
- Multiple stronghold without class restriction. I just love doing those quests. I'd wish these
were standalone though aka separate, but this is another topic.
- No XP restriction. Simply because I dislike the XP restriction per se; it is a bad way to
balance things. (Though the game SHOULD be balanced better, too, by the way.)
- Bottomless bag of holdings. I don't necessarily need bottomless bags, but inventory
management is quite annoying. There are some mods that make things nicer, such
as a key-lock container or so and a toolset for pickpockets. I love the theme for these.
Unfortunately the keylock container was semi-bugger and then seemed abandoned.
So I mostly use bottomless bags for convenience.
There are a few more that are quite nice to have, but by and large I'd love for an
alternative to tweaks. I don't think anyone is doing so, though, and also I understand
the "limited resources onto the same objective makes no sense", I get it. But just in
case someone also felt like that, I'll just write it down here. Perhaps in a few years
others see this and say "why not, let's go!".
There is, however had, also a secondary part to this. It should be possible to
extract the modifications that are useful, and discard the rest, right? Is there an
automatic way to do so? I only have read about this semi-indirectly; be it via weidu
or perhaps through argent77's mods. Would simple extraction work, though? Say
a user would want 5 out of 80 components or so. Can this be as simple as just
taking the directories and files of it? Or perhaps anyone knows some tool that
does this already.
The request essentially is:
Anyone working on a Tweaks 2.0 successor?
To explain what I mean, let me first link to the tweaks repository.
https://github.com/Gibberlings3/Tweaks-Anthology
This has tons of useful - and totally useless, even outright detrimental - components.
Naturally I am interested in the useful parts; while I want to skip the useless parts.
So what is useful? Well ... evidently this will differ, but off the top of my head here is what I
like:
- Multiple stronghold without class restriction. I just love doing those quests. I'd wish these
were standalone though aka separate, but this is another topic.
- No XP restriction. Simply because I dislike the XP restriction per se; it is a bad way to
balance things. (Though the game SHOULD be balanced better, too, by the way.)
- Bottomless bag of holdings. I don't necessarily need bottomless bags, but inventory
management is quite annoying. There are some mods that make things nicer, such
as a key-lock container or so and a toolset for pickpockets. I love the theme for these.
Unfortunately the keylock container was semi-bugger and then seemed abandoned.
So I mostly use bottomless bags for convenience.
There are a few more that are quite nice to have, but by and large I'd love for an
alternative to tweaks. I don't think anyone is doing so, though, and also I understand
the "limited resources onto the same objective makes no sense", I get it. But just in
case someone also felt like that, I'll just write it down here. Perhaps in a few years
others see this and say "why not, let's go!".
There is, however had, also a secondary part to this. It should be possible to
extract the modifications that are useful, and discard the rest, right? Is there an
automatic way to do so? I only have read about this semi-indirectly; be it via weidu
or perhaps through argent77's mods. Would simple extraction work, though? Say
a user would want 5 out of 80 components or so. Can this be as simple as just
taking the directories and files of it? Or perhaps anyone knows some tool that
does this already.
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Tweaks Anthology allows to choose which components to install.
Just install what you want and don't install what you don't care about.
And no, only TA mod authors could do what you ask.
Sorry to be blunt but have you actually tried installing the mod? Every single component is completely modular. And it's broken up into sections so you don't even have to go through the entire list if you don't want to.
If you don't want to go through it line by line during install then use Project Infinity, like mentioned above.
As an alternate, once you've gone through the process of installing just the components you want, save that WeiDU log and then you can use dark0dave's mod installer to automate a future reinstall.
So, yeah, all of this literally exists already. Plus, considering that Tweaks Anthology is still actively being worked on, there is no need for a Tweaks 2.0.
@shevy123456 as others have pointed out, it's of course pick and choose, just install those tweaks that you want or need and don't install the rest