Grey the Dog Bug Report Thread

[Caedwyr]

My BG1 game has progressed from Siege of Dragonspear to BG2.  Grey was a 7th party member in BG1 but he has not shown up in the area with the dryads in Chateau Irenicus.  Should I expect to find him elsewhere, or is there a way that the transition could have gotten messed up?

[Lauriel]

He always shows up at the Promenade for me

[Caedwyr]

That's good news.  I'll keep on going.  I think if you start in BG2 he shows up with the dryads.

[jastey]

He should show up with the Dryads, but this doesn't seem to work at all times. Showing up at the Promenade was a fail safe for "Skip Chateau Irenicus", good to know it fixes this, too.

I am suspecting some spells from the kidnapping cutscene to be still active as the same happened with Breagar. For his appearance in BGII I am using a scipt to neutralize any spell effects that is also working in classic BGII. I will change this so in EET it uses whatever EET is using to strip the cres from effects.

[Caedwyr]

Grey did show up in the Promenade in my game.

 

[InKal]

Maybe you should update item usability? Not useable by thiefling and gnoll.

[jastey]

@InKal would you elaborate on what items etc. you are referring to / what exactly you mean? If you are referring to the description text of item usability in the EEs: the "not usable by" blurbs are generated automatically.

[InKal]

NPC Sirene and Bristlelick can use his items. Maybe not a bug, but they really should not in my opinion.

[jastey]

Ah, ok. Thanks for reporting. I'm not sure I can prevent this (without having looked at it yet), because I can only prevent races that are offered for item editing.

[mickabouille]

Hi, i've... misplaced Grey, it seems. He's not following me (7th member mode) as he was until now.

Just checked, in my last non-rotating save (non-periodic, non-quicksave), he not here either. The previous one is... well quite old.

I guess he could have "died" somewhere (I mean, turning blue and getting rest somewhere on the ground) and "forgot" to re-join when a fight ended, but I don't see him anywhere it could have happened.

I there a way to find out, for example by examining a save in NI?

[jastey]

With BGT, it happened sometimes that - while still with a green circle - the 7th party member would "forget" to move when they lost eye contact with a real party member. (For me it was usually Brandock who got distracted somewhere, but I guess it could happen to Grey just as well). I don#t know whether it's as bad for the EEs.

Hmm, that's a good question. Since he's a real joinable NPC he should be listed in the savegame with his last location, I think.

This is something I definitely need to improve with some kind of "move to PC" skript.

[mickabouille]

6 hours ago, jastey said:

Hmm, that's a good question. Since he's a real joinable NPC he should be listed in the savegame with his last location, I think

So, that doesn't seem to be the case.

I can actually see Brandock, who is also in 7th position, but IS still present alongside the group, and I can see his position is NI.

But even looking at every item in the NPC list I didn't see Grey. I could have missed him, of course but...

(And totally unrelated, but why are so many NPC duplicated in there?)

I guess I'll meet him again when transitioning to SoD...

Edited September 12, 2022 by mickabouille

[jastey]

Hm, that's bad. Maybe because he never "really" joined and therefore is not in the GAM file. That's a wild guess, though.

Dog needs his freedom - one rabbit chase too many.. (Yes, I need a solution for that. I'll see what I'll come up with.)

[mickabouille]

12 hours ago, jastey said:

Maybe because he never "really" joined and therefore is not in the GAM file. That's a wild guess, though.

I had it as the  third (full) member of my party though, if that's what you mean.

12 hours ago, jastey said:

Dog needs his freedom - one rabbit chase too many.

That's it!

 

[mickabouille]

Just an addition, I tried to do CreateCreature("c#grey02"), but that just spawnsa dog with no dialog (so no way to have Grey join the group)