BGII:EE 2.7.3.0 Beta, iPad Air 5th Generation, iPadOS 26.5
I copied the Baldur.lua file from the above configuration to my MacBook Pro and added the CLUA Console activation instruction. Then I copied this modified Baldur.lua file back to the above configuration and replaced it in the Baldur’s Gate II folder in Files. When I start the game or load a save file, however, it reinitializes Baldur.lua, erasing the CLUA Console setting. How can I make this setting stick? I want to be able to create the De’Arnise Keep Messenger when I miss this character during play, so I can complete the Keep quests. Locking the file does not seem to make any difference.
Our QA just tried: copying the Baldur.lua and adding this line seems to work fine (we copied it to an iPhone, booted the game, copied it back to a Mac, and it was still in the file). One note is that the game does sort the Baldur.lua, so the line may not be exactly where the user put it (e.g. we put it near the top, but after the steps, it was near the bottom).
But all that said, we don't think getting the console working on iOS is possible because we don't yet support keyboards, unfortunately.
How would you send the CTRL+SPACE keys to the game to actually open the console, even if it is enabled? It may be possible in a future patch once we support hardware keyboards.
BGII:EE 2.7.3.0 Beta, iPad Air 5th Generation, iPadOS 26.5
I copied the Baldur.lua file from the above configuration to my MacBook Pro and added the CLUA Console activation instruction. Then I copied this modified Baldur.lua file back to the above configuration and replaced it in the Baldur’s Gate II folder in Files. When I start the game or load a save file, however, it reinitializes Baldur.lua, erasing the CLUA Console setting. How can I make this setting stick? I want to be able to create the De’Arnise Keep Messenger when I miss this character during play, so I can complete the Keep quests. Locking the file does not seem to make any difference.
Our QA just tried: copying the Baldur.lua and adding this line seems to work fine (we copied it to an iPhone, booted the game, copied it back to a Mac, and it was still in the file). One note is that the game does sort the Baldur.lua, so the line may not be exactly where the user put it (e.g. we put it near the top, but after the steps, it was near the bottom).
But all that said, we don't think getting the console working on iOS is possible because we don't yet support keyboards, unfortunately.
How would you send the CTRL+SPACE keys to the game to actually open the console, even if it is enabled? It may be possible in a future patch once we support hardware keyboards.
Point made and acknowledged. I belatedly realized that myself, when I noticed that the only modifier key on the software keyboard is the Shift/Caps Lock key. It didn’t occur to me before. C’est la guerre…
For what it’s worth, I haven’t noticed problems like this with other messengers, including Jaheira’s Harper Hold story, Anomen’s knighthood, or Nalia’s father’s funeral and subsequent abduction, for example. These all seem to appear and interact as intended. The only one I notice having trouble with is the De’Arnise Keep messenger, after installing Bolumir in the Keep chapel. I’ll have to try keeping tabs on it when I get to that point in an ongoing play.
And I just followed all the QA steps you gave above, with the verbatim command, though I copied it at the bottom of the file. It worked the same for me as you described. When I opened the file again after copying it back to my MacBook Pro from my iPad, the command was still in the file, but had been moved to several lines from the top of the file. Six of one, half a dozen of another, I guess.
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Our QA just tried: copying the Baldur.lua and adding this line seems to work fine (we copied it to an iPhone, booted the game, copied it back to a Mac, and it was still in the file). One note is that the game does sort the Baldur.lua, so the line may not be exactly where the user put it (e.g. we put it near the top, but after the steps, it was near the bottom).
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But all that said, we don't think getting the console working on iOS is possible because we don't yet support keyboards, unfortunately.
How would you send the CTRL+SPACE keys to the game to actually open the console, even if it is enabled? It may be possible in a future patch once we support hardware keyboards.
Point made and acknowledged. I belatedly realized that myself, when I noticed that the only modifier key on the software keyboard is the Shift/Caps Lock key. It didn’t occur to me before. C’est la guerre…
For what it’s worth, I haven’t noticed problems like this with other messengers, including Jaheira’s Harper Hold story, Anomen’s knighthood, or Nalia’s father’s funeral and subsequent abduction, for example. These all seem to appear and interact as intended. The only one I notice having trouble with is the De’Arnise Keep messenger, after installing Bolumir in the Keep chapel. I’ll have to try keeping tabs on it when I get to that point in an ongoing play.
And I just followed all the QA steps you gave above, with the verbatim command, though I copied it at the bottom of the file. It worked the same for me as you described. When I opened the file again after copying it back to my MacBook Pro from my iPad, the command was still in the file, but had been moved to several lines from the top of the file. Six of one, half a dozen of another, I guess.