What exactly the "Extended Night" flag stands for?

[White Agnus]

Hi Folks,

 

the topic it already says, for what cause the "expanded night" flag in the are-files?

The problem I have is that in BG-Town (BGT) the mves from trademeet are shown, when the day or night is gone. When I do not set the "expanded night" flag, the trademeet videos are not shown. Playing the original videos in BG-Town via script isn't the problem, I want to know which other duties the "expanded night" flag have and if I can realiese these duties via a bcs script.

 

I owe you in prerau.

 

Thanks & Greetz

White Agnus

 

PS: Excuse my bad english.

[devSin]

"Extended night" means the area has a separate night tileset (there are two tilesets; one for day, and one for night). This functionality cannot be replicated through scripting.

[White Agnus]

Thanks for the reply.

 

The DAYNITE and the NITEDAY notes are placed in the BGMain.exe and I've not the experience to mod the BGMain.exe with WeiDu.

An other way were to overwrite the Videos of Trademeet with the from BG-Town and deinstall it after the transition, but I don't like this squalidly way...

 

Any other idea how to put the trademeet movies out of BG-Town?

[Icendoan]

Traps and scripting?

 

Icen

[White Agnus]

What does this deal with traps?

I've spoken about movies not traps.

[Icendoan]

Well, you could use a trap to play a movie. I am not sure how you would suppress a movie though. Don't the trademeet ones use variables? You could always set them.

 

Icen

[White Agnus]

No, the Trademeet ones didn't use variables. I can't set them.

 

All other movies are implemented by script. These two are implemented in the BGMain.exe. (This sucks so bad -.-)

 

Have anyone a tutorial how to edit the BGMain.exe with WeiDu?

[Icendoan]

Well sure, here it is, it is simple.

 

BACKUP ~myMod/Backup~
AUTHOR ~You~

BEGIN ~BGMain Patching~

//INTEGER VALUES
COPY_EXISTING ~bgmain.exe~ ~bgmain.exe~
WRITE_BYTE/LONG/SHORT offset value

//STRING VALUES
COPY_EXISTING ~bgmain.exe~ ~bgmain.exe~
REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~text~ STRING_COMPARE ~newtextWITH_EXACT_NUMBER_OF_CHARACTERS!~
BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

 

And that is all BGMain patching for you. The rest is finding out where you want to patch, and what to...

 

Icen

[White Agnus]

Thank you very much, Icendoan.

I got it.

It is really very easy, I didn't think so before. :thumbsup:

[Avenger]

Isn't that movie played by a script? Well, hmm, i cannot believe that

They aren't even affected by chapter change?

Maybe a special area flag?

 

ar2000 isn't listed in BGMain, yet somehow it must know when it has to play those movies.

 

[edit]

Oh damn, i should have read your note more carefully. The extended night flag...

[devSin]

The only thing to check is if it wants extended night + city or just extended night. I'm hoping the former, else it'd screw up the restored night tilesets for the druid grove and black dragon clearing (although, Sulldy has extended night, and I don't think it plays there, so fingers crossed).

 

There are day/night trans movies in BG/TotSC too, but they don't play in the Mac version (these MVEs aren't even included with the game), so I don't know if they got cut or if they're just in the PC version (the game does try to play them when you're in Baldur's Gate and an extended night trans occurs).