Suggestion to fix a small BG2 "oversight"

[Luiz]

I was about to post this in the Oversight forum 'til I saw the sticky.

 

I'm not sure about BG1 but in BG2 (with or without ToB) Neutral-aligned NPCs never give *happy* vocal interjections based on the party's reputation. Strange thing is, these sound files are actually in the game, but they are never activated because the 2DA governing their appearance doesn't have any positive span of values for Neutrals.

 

I've never seen this changed/fixed in any mod yet; so I fix it by hand in my own games.

 

Here's the default HAPPY.2DA:

2DA V1.0
0
          GOOD       NEUTRAL    EVIL       
1          -300       -300       80         
2          -300       -160       80         
3          -160       -160       80         
4          -160       -80        80         
5          -160       -80        80         
6          -80        0          80         
7          -80        0          0          
8          -80        0          0          
9          0          0          0          
10         0          0          0          
11         0          0          0          
12         0          0          0          
13         80         0          -80        
14         80         0          -80        
15         80         0          -80        
16         80         0          -160       
17         80         0          -160       
18         80         0          -160       
19         80         -80        -300       
20         80         -80        -300      

 

And here is the one I use:

2DA V1.0
0
          GOOD       NEUTRAL    EVIL       
1          -300       -300       80         
2          -300       -160       80         
3          -160       -160       80         
4          -160       -80        80         
5          -160       -80        80         
6          -80        0          80         
7          -80        0          0          
8          -80        0          0          
9          0          80         0          
10         0          80         0          
11         0          80         0          
12         0          80         0          
13         80         80         -80        
14         80         80         -80        
15         80         0          -80        
16         80         0          -160       
17         80         0          -160       
18         80         0          -160       
19         80         0          -300       
20         80         -80        -300      

 

I'm sure a skilled WeiDU-monkey from hereabouts can write a little fix to change JUST those zeros to eighties so as not to affect any changes other mods (Happy Party - NPCs never leave?) might make.

 

You'll finally get to hear the happy comments of Yoshimo and other neutrals with this.

[Domi]

Oooh, nice! I think the quick patch for TP2 can be made into one of the generic community codes. I would not mind adding it to BG1NPC if there are any soundfiles available for BG1 neutrals.

[Luiz]

Would it be appropriate to suggest your fix/tweak be added to the G3's BG2 Tweak Pack?

[cmorgan]

Cam and Domi added a version of your suggestion into BG1NPC; since it is a patch, there should be no problem in putting this into the Combined Tweaks (or even Tutufix) if you want to suggest it to them!

[Domi]

Lol, getting one happy comment out of Jaheira alone worth it! Thanks, Cam! I hope I'll get a bit of time to play with the next version to see how it works