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Here's an example of how to scan weapprof.2da to find your kit's column and update the values with those taken of the parent class. This will take into account all mods which change these values, no checks required.

COPY_EXISTING ~weapprof.2da~ ~override~
  READ_2DA_ENTRY 2 53 1 "kitname"
  FOR (column = 53; "%kitname%" STRING_COMPARE_CASE "IK_ADVENTURER" != 0; column = column + 1) BEGIN
    READ_2DA_ENTRY 2 column 1 "kitname"
  END
  FOR (row = 11; row < 35; row = row + 1) BEGIN
    READ_2DA_ENTRY row 7 1 "thief"
    SET_2DA_ENTRY row column 1 thief // Adventurer
  END
BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

Excellent, thanks.

he would have already selected his racial enemy

A good one for Z.Freud: So, Valygar Corthala, your racial enemy is your mother's latest incarnation on the Material Plane? And you have killed her? And your father whom she turned into a zombie? Uh-huh... Do you see a peculiar if faint connection? Do you hate her or not? I think he does not hate her though, I think it is rather an open quarel that never get resolved.

Not his mother, perhaps, but all other liches? Yes, I think he might have an issue with them. I feel his mother being a lich enforces the argument for them to be his racial enemy. I see it as an extension of his strained relationship with magic.

Okay, so why not at least change Valygar's racial enemy from golem to lich...?

Now I like that idea. I might even steal it.

Don't be like that. You posted your ideas and your arguments for them. We posted our arguements against. This is what a discussion board is for. Also notice that nobody has yet disagreed that something has to be done with Anomen. Including myself and I have a mod that tries to correct this.

Yes, Nalia's thief class makes sense in the story, I suppose, but that's beside the point.

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I'd say that's the entire point. Also, those thief levels make little or no difference to her mage power, so why remove them? Oh, and NPC Kit Pack has the option to give Nalia a mage kit.

Thanks, it looks promising because what I have noticed that ALL original spells have the offset 0x54:

 

7f 96 98 00

 

Then in my opinion it cannot be "the IDed description offset is 0x54 (also 4 bytes)".

If I use DESC than it is really written into 0x54 (4 bytes).

Also there are only a few values appearing at offsets 0x44 and 0x58 which might be evaluated then by changing them.

You want UNIDENTIFIED_DESC not DESC. Nobody's quite sure what those offsets are, NI has both down as possible resrefs but for what is unknown.

You're wrong. The unIDed description offset is 0x50 (4 bytes) the IDed description offset is 0x54 (also 4 bytes). Spells and items are the same. Although spells don't actually require IDed names or descriptions, Cam has an er... (insert nice word for "anal" here) side.

Which mirror did you download from and what anti-virus software are you using?

Index updated: Seifer's on a roll.

I think I'll take Omega Male because I suspect women use "Not if you were the last man on Earth!" without really thinking about it.

IIRC this might have been brought up earlier ~ so it's possible to have 2 kits in a dualclass active at the same time?

Only one kit at a time is ever active. Kit abilities may remain but the description will be gone and you will no longer level up in a kit that you have subsequently overridden.

So when some character duals from... say a Kensai to a Priest, it is possible to disable the Kensai kit (the name/description, but NOT the bonuses, abilities, etc.) by making a dialogue come up for the character when he/she duals?

I haven't tried.

Cam's excuses for not having done any coding get more and more filmsy. No furniture? What kind of excuse do you call that? Tables and chairs are not requirements for modding. Is the floor not good enough for our esteemed leader? Pah!

Updated.

The Infinity Engine Structures Description Project is currently hosted here at G3: http://iesdp.gibberlings3.net/

Only one kit can be active at any one time. You will only gain kit abilities at level up in the active kit, the other half of a multiclass would be treated as a trueclass. However, in the case of specialist mages it is probably possible to fudge something so the other kit gives the appropriate bonuses/restrictions.

I don't know what is causing your CDTs but it isn't bad string refs.

You don't need to change the tra file, just add:

SAY NAME1 ~Planetar~
SAY NAME2 ~Planetar~

The string refs in the cre file are probably correct for a standard ToB install, but possibly not for a BP one.

I'd compile during install, it's generally easier because you only have to deal with the one file. ie Just the baf, not the baf and the bcs.

EDIT: Clarifcation

The operating system makes no difference in the compilation of bcs files.

This tutorial is designed to help people play their romance love songs using a WAV file without the game music playing over the top of it.

NOTE: If you are planning to use an ACM for your music none of this applies.

There have been problems in the past with adding music to mods. While the game's ACM music format is smaller than WAV, it is much larger than MP3 or OGG files, leading to longer downloads. The main problem is that game music will play over the love song if it is not switched off somehow. The current method of switching off the game music for the duration is to add a blank entry to the songlist, using WeiDU's ADD_MUSIC, facility to make use of the blank music file that BioWare kindly provided. Unfortunately there is a problem with this method in that the songlist has limited space, (a total of 100 song slots of which 84 are already filled by the game) and several mods adding blank music entries is not a good thing.

Help is at hand, there is an entry is the songlist that is not currently used by the game or other mods. If you look at row 0 of songlist.2da you will see **** listed as the resource, if we replace this with a mus file that plays blank.acm we can have a universal entry for a blank song.

Here's what you need to do. First you need a mus file that plays blank.acm here is an example:

Blank

1

A @TAG END

It doesn't have to be called j#blank.mus, this is just an example. Second we need to copy it to the music folder and then add it to the songlist, here it the tp2 code to do this:

COPY ~mymod/j#blank.mus~ ~music~

COPY_EXISTING ~songlist.2da~ ~override~

SET_2DA_ENTRY 0 2 3 ~J#BLANK.MUS~

Now to play your love song without the game music running over it simply use PlaySong(0) before using PlaySound("LOVESONG"). Here is an example I lifted (and then altered) from Kelsey:

IF

  PartyRested()

  Global("J#KelseyMatch","GLOBAL",1)

  See(Player1)

  CombatCounter(0)

  Global("J#LoveTalk","LOCALS",25)

  !Global("Chapter","GLOBAL",5)

THEN

  RESPONSE #100

    PlaySong(0)

    MoveViewObject("J#Kelsey",INSTANT)

    IncrementGlobal("J#LoveTalk","LOCALS",1)

    PlaySound("FWKSong")

    RealSetGlobalTimer("J#KelseyRomance","GLOBAL",1)

    Interact(Player1)

END

To finish, a bit of basic sound file stuff. The best way to package your sounds is as 22 Khz mono OGG files, quality level 4 is usually sufficient for both voice and music. To install them use oggdec to covert them to WAV files. This is quite simple, here is a quick overview:

COPY ~mymod/audio~ ~override~

AT_INTERACTIVE_EXIT ~mymod/install-audio.bat~

AT_INTERACTIVE_UNINSTALL ~mymod/uninstall-audio.bat~

@echo off

mymod\oggdec override\mymod*.ogg

del mymod*.ogg

@echo off

del override\mymod*.wav

In this example oggdec is kept in the MyMod folder and the ogg files are held in the MyMod/audio folder.

Useful Links

For encoding: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

For oggdec: http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html

The LinkMaster provided me with "this" regarding TISPack.

As well as changing the spell type to innate you should also set the spell level to 1 (WRITE_LONG 0x34 1). Otherwise if you try to cast it via script you will crash the game. This is the reason for the Scriptable Spells mod, several vanilla innates also have this issue.

Why are you changing the spell icon bam? It makes no difference in-game, the icon from the ability is used. The spell icon is only used in the spell book/scroll. Another anal retentiveness example?

I really should clean up this thread.