Vasculio Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Once this is complete, I hope you do a Icewind Dale 2 Tutu next. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, the foundations were already written before Japh disappeared. He was having trouble with some of IWD's funkier commands, but Fred will be the IWD master when he finishes IWD1tutu, so there's always hope... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thats cool! I hope it works out in the end! Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted April 27, 2006 Author Share Posted April 27, 2006 I promise to get back to this stuff guys. I just took a bit of a break from all this for a while Quote Link to comment
Vasculio Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I promise to get back to this stuff guys. I just took a bit of a break from all this for a while <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well i don't want you have mental break down! So take the need break and then get back to work. Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 Another status update. I have the music part worked out, though it makes the game slightly incompatible with the original IWD2 (one of the sound file names is hard-coded). I could also handle this by making a seperate binary which has it's advantages (I can probably change the start-up screen). The next stumbling block I've hit has to do with mutate_cre. This routine is frought with a lot of problems. They stem from the original approach which is to convert the 2E based IWD1 CRE's to 3E based IWD2 CRE's. The routine has many clever things for handling this including the way statistics are scaled and feats and class abilities are added to re-build a character from the ground up. Unfortunately, there are several places where this is prone to fail (I'll list them later when I've gone through it again). One particular place of failure is the spell-book conversion. If not enough spells are memorized, then the routine slelects from a "random_spell" table, but the same table is used for all classes! Some of these spells aren't even in LISTSPLL.2DA which breaks things. I'm a bit torn on exactly what to do. I'd like mutate_cre to still do some heavy lifting, so one thought I had was to make a predefined "spell table build-up" chart for each class (RGR,BRD,DRD,PAL,SOR,WIZ,etc). This might have you add the same spell more than once when you get more slots at a given level. What I'm not sure about is if the CRE's scripts will make use of these spells anyway. So I need to look into this. Another thing I've thought about is that a CRE could have a spec for it's stats, classes, levels, spell-book, etc. These could then override whatever mutate_cre would try to do. One thing I haven't checked is to see how a cleric is converted (how is the domain and type picked, just based on alignment?) It would probably be best if this stuff was specified outside of the code (i.e. by a rules file). Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest_Michael_* Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hmm, i only have a really very rough guess of what your talking about, but i sincerly hope you find a relatively easy approach, im waiting for this mod so i wish you well on doing it. Thanks for the progress report so i know its still being worked on. Quote Link to comment
Domi Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 The progress report is half-a-year old, unfortunately Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 My apologies for dropping out for so long. I'm hoping I'll be able to pick things up again. I don't have anything even close to testable, but when I do I'll try to make it available to anyone who's excited about this Quote Link to comment
Domi Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Good to see you back. I started losing hope, but hey, it's one case when it's cool to be wrong! Quote Link to comment
Guest Guest Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 My apologies for dropping out for so long. I'm hoping I'll be able to pick things up again. I don't have anything even close to testable, but when I do I'll try to make it available to anyone who's excited about this Ooh, MOAN! You've been working with this for over half a year, right? Maybe I should check back in january 2008? Quote Link to comment
cmorgan Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Ooh, MOAN! You've been working with this for over half a year, right? Maybe I should check back in january 2008? Ahhh, the joys of working through tough rebuilding/reverse engineering of code, for hours and days, wih no reimbursement except the joy of burning eyes and carpal tunnel syndrome... Yep, awesome to see you back, FSR. Guest, it is probably correct to head back here in January 2008. It may take years to build this project, and more time to test it. That is a measure of how difficult it is both to take RL time, and to reverse engineer stuff. GemRB is a full build, and has been in development for a good deal of time. Just a "regular" mod can take over 2 years to get rolling, and that doesn't involve a 10th of what this is doing! Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Thank you for fielding that cm GemRB is quite a remarkable project/effort, hat's off to your work on that At this point, all of these IE projects rely on a real dedication to the games. If they keep burn in our hearts, we'll keep work on the mods. Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I have some good news. I'm back in the saddle again. I actually found a pretty serious bug I left in the code from the last time I was tinkering with it (has to do with sizes and offsets). I'll try to keep adding notes here as I make progress. I'm hoping I can release something to some very patient, tolerant and energetic beta testers who don't expect anything to work and are willing to help me debug things. Believe me, that is asking a lot! ...but I'm not there yet I'm afraid. I'll put a sticky note for this when I'm a bit closer so people can add themselves to the list for anyone wanting to do this. -Fred Quote Link to comment
maerduin Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Glad to see this project is still under way. Keep up the good work, and I'd love to be one of your beta testers. Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Glad to see this project is still under way. Keep up the good work, and I'd love to be one of your beta testers. Okay, you're on (And I look forward to checking out "Mysteries of the Moonsea" when I finally get to playing NWN2) Quote Link to comment
FredSRichardson Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 Okay, I do have an update. The whole Easthaven part seems to work with a few minor problems. I figured out how to get the starting are changed (pretty easy, it's just in STARTARE.2DA and maybe STARTPOS.2DA). So I played through almost all of Easthaven from the opening dialog with Hrothgar and a new party. But unfortunately there's still a ton to do. I haven't had any spell casters yet and those are going to be a problem. Still, things are looking promising. Quote Link to comment
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