Sam.

So let me get this right:  a Sahuagin Scout who has eaten no less than four local fishermen and who is part of the vanguard of an evil army intent on invading the Sword Coast if not Baldur's Gate itself has been captured, and you want to give it a glass or bucket or barrel of water and send it on it's merry way?  Okay, that's fine and quite empathetic of you, but I feel like such a course of action would have some repercussions down the road.

[Note that I don't actually recall the backstory of this particular Sahuagin, but I feel the above scenario likely holds.]

42 minutes ago, RoyalProtector said:

Not to derail the discussion, but has someone made some addon for any text editors to code in WeiDu? Talking mostly about syntax highlighting, I'm not expecting intellisense.

WeiDU Highlighter for Notepad++

VScode support for WeiDU syntaxes

16 hours ago, Weigo said:

To rework it with the function suggested by @Sam., we need a new matching colour for the palette. However, there is still a problem with the function, it is for 4bit colour palette bitmaps and the lightmaps are 8bit.

I remembered the search map, height map, and light map all being 4-bit.  I remembered incorrectly:  only the search and height maps were 4-bit.  The light maps are 8-bit paletted, or (at least in the EEs) sometimes 24-bit.  For the 8-bit ones, I could make a function similar to ps_tileset_replace_palette_entry but for bitmaps instead of tilesets.  Handling 24-bit bitmaps isn't any more effort than adjusting the function to work on 8-bit BMPs.  Of course, all this hinges on the colors being used in the light maps being the root of the issue, and even if it is you'd still need to know the colors causing issues and the colors you'd like to remap them to.  Not so hard for 16-color (4-bit) palettes; much harder for 256-color (8-bit) palettes, unless Yovaneth used a standard set?; back to the drawing board for 16M colors (24-bit).

1 hour ago, Yovaneth said:

It looks like a night lightmap problem. I can reproduce it in lots of different places - in the Thieves Guild I can even make charname turn purple by pushing him/her into one particular corner. If that is the case, IMO the best course of action is to request reports of the problem and the area that the party is in. A screenshot would also be a great help. Checking every part of every LN lightmap just isn't feasible.

This function (ps_bitmap_swap_pixel) can be used to swap the lightmap pixel codes from the offending value to another one using WeiDU, rather than searching thru each area manually.

6 hours ago, skellytz said:

8 hours ago, ktchong said:

Spellhold Studios were supposed to send a validation email for my account registration. I never received the email even after I had repeatedly requested the forums to resend it. (I checked my SPAM folder; nothing.)

The server owner is aware of the issues. We're sorry for the inconvenience. I'm sure @Sam. will sort out your account validation when he's available.

You should be good to go.

5 hours ago, argent77 said:

You're right, there is already an animation fix (#1, #2). But it looks like the commit lacks the code for applying the fix to PST:EE.

I fixed all of the split animations @Galactygon and I could find in BGEE/SoD/BG2EE/PSTEE, except for AM3017[A-D] and AM6200[A-D]. Those are the Machine of Lum the Mad (which I don't think should be combined) and Melissan replenish (I don't understand the mechanisms of how/when these are played).  From PSTEE I believe I did:

A0508BL[2-4]
A0508TR[1-2]
A1201G1[LR]
A1201G2[LR]
A1201G3[LR]
A1202GB[1-4]
A13WZC2[AB]
A13WZC[AB]

It's always possible I've missed some, in which case if you get me a list I'll be happy to do them.

Edit:  I reread the last post for a third time and realized you may be saying the corrected animations for PSTEE have been committed but just aren't installed for that game yet, in which case nvm.

@Weigo I'm trying to test something out and I need an area (WED and palette-based tileset) that has at least one tileset animation (like a fireplace or the crystal in High Hedge), at least one door, and at least one overlay (water, lava, etc.).  Do you know of any?

Email system at SHS is currently down.  I manually approved you.

21 minutes ago, Weigo said:

Is there a way to convert multiple ARXXXX.tis files to png or jpg format in one go without clicking on each one individually?

Near Infinity's Mass Export tool might can do that.

That can be blocked with a uBlock Origin filter:

www.gibberlings3.net##p[data-role="streamOverview"].ipsType_normal.ipsType_reset > span

I can't imagine why the trap was removed/disabled.  Unless a valid reason is brought forth, I vote it stays.

On 11/2/2023 at 9:03 PM, CoM_Solaufein said:

Of all of those tools wish someone could update or do another Area Editor. Always liked the functionality of that.

Agreed.  It has been a while since I've done any area creation, but I always felt DLTCEP and IETME left a bit to be desired.  Have you checked out Argent77's Near Infinity Area Viewer?  I find it very useful.  Seems at least halfway there to a full fledged editor.

8 hours ago, JohnBob said:

I hope you're feeling well and that you'll be able to relaunch TeamBg in some way.

Agreed, on both counts.

On 9/21/2023 at 2:16 AM, Overfiend1981 said:

Hi All,

Does any kind sould perhaps has a copy for the Vampire World for EET in the absense of SHS?

   Vampire World: The Mod itself (Vampire_world_mod_v.0.55_EET.zip)
 

v054 is the latest I have.

Edit:  Is there anything else I've missed that people are looking for but unable to find elsewhere?

51 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Has there been any talk of migrating projects elsewhere? No way to recover all the invaluable discussion that was lost, of course, but closing in on six months of no communication would seem to portend a rather grim outcome. Though I thought a similar situation recently with another site of mine that had been missing its lead for over six months before then going down for an entire month and a half with almost no communication basically meant the end of that site too, but I was proven wrong.

Unfortunately this isn't exactly the first extended downtime, or the second, or the third, tho admittedly I haven't tried to keep track of which one has lasted the longest.  I wouldn't giving up just yet.  A decent number of mods have been added to the official SpellholdStudios github organization, and a large portion of historic public discussions and some downloads have been archived on the Wayback Machine / Internet Archive (if you know where to look).  Additionally, I have backed up some 80 GB of mod files and images/attachments on a local drive, tho many are not the latest version.  As far as full forum backups, probably only K'aeloree would have access to those, and after returning from the last downtime we lost more than a month of posts/updates.  This time could be better or worse.  Unless K'aeloree outright says he's done with SHS and he's sending the backups to the shredder, I've no interest in cobbling together a mass migration of content from scattered sources in the coming months.

8 minutes ago, szef said:

I'am trying (it's already done ;)) to convert PNGs into compressed BAMs.  PNGs are in 'Nowy folder', and BAMs converting into 'compressed'.

Then I'd suggest this:

"PS BAM_x64.exe" --Save "BAM" --CompressionProfile "Recommended" --LogFile "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM\Log.txt" --OutPath "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM\Nowy folder\compressed" "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM\Nowy folder\*.png"

However, unless you want each PNG to be converted into a separate BAM, "*.png" isn't going to do what you want.  You need to point PS BAM to the 1st frame of each BAM, and the images should be named so that PS BAM can detect which PNGs belong to the same BAM and know which sequence to put them in.  To give further advice I'll need more info.

@szef

Are you trying to convert PNGs into compressed BAMs or are you trying to further compress existing BAMs?

Edit:  What I'm confused by is what

1 hour ago, szef said:

"E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM\Nowy folder\*.png"

stuck in there is supposed to be doing.  If you're trying to further compress existing BAMs, I'd suggest something like the following:

"PS BAM_x64.exe" --Save "BAM" --CompressionProfile "Recommended" --LogFile "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM\Log.txt" --OutPath "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM compressed" "E:\Media\Gry\PS-BAM to compress\*.bam"

I'm not in a position to check the scripts at the moment, but how about the BG1 zombie farm?  I've had the farmer not acknowledge that I had killed all the zombies, but maybe not in the EEs...

20 minutes ago, Axatax said:

A previous version was BG1VARFIX.EXE (without versioning).  I don't know if thats the most current version.

BG1varFIX.exe

Here's the version I have.

7 minutes ago, Axatax said:

Does anyone have a copy of the BG1 Global Variables Extender? -

http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/968-bg1-engine-fix-extending-limit-of-maximum-global-variables/

The file itself doesn't appear to be archived on Way Back Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190710164055/http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/968-bg1-engine-fix-extending-limit-of-maximum-global-variables/

 

Do you know the exact filename of the downloadable archive/file?

14 hours ago, CamDawg said:

The target has a ring that can be pickpocketed, but it's flagged unstealable

If an item is flagged as unstealable, it has been flagged so for either plot reasons, or game mechanic reasons (and is also usually undroppable).  In neither case can it be pickpocketed.

Personally, I'm a fan of differentiating between the target having no items that can be stolen regardless of your level, and the target having items that can be stolen but only at higher level.  Not that my opinion counts for much... more of a wish list on the engine side to open it up for modding.

3 hours ago, Galactygon said:

@Weigo

In many of the BG1 (interior) areas there's a bug where closed door tiles are of a slightly different color than the surrounding tiles. You can see examples of this bug in the first basement of Durlag's Tower but it's quite widespread especially among secret doors. Do you know about this bug? Tagging  @Sam. as well since we had an ongoing DM about this.

I modified my code a bit to give additional feedback (but haven't commit it) and ran it on oBG1, then wrote a script to total up the count of colors in individual tiles that got changed.  Here's the results:

It does miss some tiles, as evidenced by the first area (AR0002), and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few false positives, but this gives you an idea of the scope...  The issue persists in the EEs, but isn't directly accessible there.

1 hour ago, Thacobell said:

At some point, the line "target has no items" when pickpocketing was removed. Nowthe line that used to only play when your skills were too low plays in the same situation, "target has no items that can be stolen by a cutpurse of your skill" (paraphrasing). Really hurts the clarity of the message.

Offhand my guess is it might have changed as a result of the pickpocketable slots being soft-coded.

33 minutes ago, Morgoth said:

I'm playing with ~BGEECLASSICMOVIES/BGEECLASSICMOVIES.TP2~ #0 #1 // Restore BG1 movies to BG:EE -> Add missing movies: v2.3.0

Don't think this belongs here, but "add missing movies" does exactly what it sounds like.  I.e. it doesn't replace existing (new) movies with the originals, only adds the missing ones...

9 minutes ago, Silverstar said:

Do you know where I can find the old blue gui mod for non-enhanced bg2 named w_gui?  Shown in this screenshot:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=112041156

Searched high and low in the archives posted here, but no luck.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191125182746/http://downloads.spellholdstudios.net/w_gui-v0.6b.7z