BG2EE ToB Starting Xp

[Aquadrizzt]

How does the game know to give you a bucket of experience upon loading into Throne of Bhaal? It doesn't appear to be tied to startare.2da or ar4000.bcs.

 

How would one go about changing it?

[Jarno Mikkola]

In the reqular BG2, it's tied into the BGMain.exe, it was there during the character creation, so I would assume the EE has something alike, but I don't have it at here locally at the moment.

[Aquadrizzt]

Hmmm that's no good. :/

 

Follow-up as I attempt an alternate route: how would one go about changing the tutorial area of BGEE?

 

I've tried simply setting STARTARE to a different map, but it seems like once my character loads the map is still blacked out and I can't interact with it.

[lynx]

Are you in a wall / outside of the searchmap?

[Aquadrizzt]

I don't believe so?

 

The map is Mebbeth's Hut from Torment (ported over to BGEE), and I copied over all the requisite files. If I use console commands, the characters can wander around the region without problem so I'm pretty sure I copied it over correctly.

 

I've chosen a couple locations that aren't near any walls, so I'm really not sure what the problem is.

 

This also occurs if I have the tutorial send the character to a location in a map provided in BGEE.

[lynx]

Maybe try leaving startare alone and extend its area script to teleport you to your area instantly.

[Aquadrizzt]

EDIT: Got it working with some cutscene scripting. Thanks for all the help lynx.

 

So I extended top on TU0015.BCS with the following code.

IF
	Global("QD_PST_START","GLOBAL",0)
THEN	
	RESPONSE #100 
		SetGlobal("QD_PST_START","GLOBAL",1)
		ActionOverride(Player1,LeaveAreaLUA("QD0102","",[250.400],4))
END 

This correctly moves the character to the new area. However, the new area is still blacked out for ~10 seconds before opening up to allow normal movement.

[Jarno Mikkola]

However, the new area is still blacked out for ~10 seconds before opening up to allow normal movement.

And what would a cinematic editor insert into that space ? Heh hehehhehehheh.