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28 minutes ago, DavidW said:

OK, revised function attached that ought to do stealing properly.

Great minds think alike. I solved it basically the same way.

I'd suggest to post your script in the WeiDU macros thread as well so it doesn't get lost so quickly.

3 hours ago, squiros said:

if you look at the original nashkel mines entrance, you'll see that the textures are normal. however, if you look at the same spot on bgee, you'll notice actual large pixel blocks. specifically, look at the ground near the mining lift wheel, and some of ground near the tree. it's actually blocks of pixels.

This is caused by the texture format used in EE games to store map background graphics. It may introduce compression artifacts under specific conditions (e.g. at huge or very low contrasts between pixels). It may be possible to optimize compression to make it less noticeable, but it isn't possible to prevent it completely.

This is a magnified version to see the differences:

11 hours ago, DavidW said:

Just for fun, I had a look at how to do this. I don't think it can be done in the vanilla game, but it can be done on EE with a small UI edit (you don't need EEEx).

Great stuff! I never thought about using the GUI for that. Thanks for the code!

The option to disable stealing from stores didn't work, but I think I found a way to fix it.

Only languages with non-ASCII characters were affected by this issue. English translation should be fine since UTF-8 is backward compatible with US-ASCII.

47 minutes ago, DavidW said:

You should be able to

(1) install everything except generalized biffing using WEIDU v249

(2) copy WEIDU v246 over setup-generalized_biffing.exe and then run that.

There isn't a workaround to using the latest WEIDU with IWDification.

Afaik the legacy build of the latest WeiDU version should still correctly preserve filenames with non-ascii characters.

Download "WeiDU-Windows-*-x86-legacy.zip" from the latest WeiDU Release, unpack "weidu.exe" from the zip file and rename it to "setup-generalized_biffing.exe". Since it is the latest version it shouldn't be "fixed" by WeiDU's auto-update feature, so you don't even have to remove all the other setup executables.

18 hours ago, Sergio - ex SHS member said:

Golem construction for spellcasters

1) It would be cooler if it was the player agency that activates the mod, rather than the mod being activated from minute 0. What I mean is that you wouldn’t be finding bones or body parts, until you do a certain thing (wouldn’t finding the manual be a good moment?).

I agree in principle, but that's one of the many limitations of the game engine. Most stuff is added via random treasure tables, and (to my knowledge) it is not possible to selectively disable or enable this mechanism.

18 hours ago, Sergio - ex SHS member said:

Magic store of vergadain

- I dislike the limited amount of times you can use it daily (3). You should be able to tweak that.

I'll see what can be done about that.

18 hours ago, Sergio - ex SHS member said:

I think a good idea would be an optional component that makes building of the artifact and the single parts way more expensive. I would gladly pay 15k to build the “whole” artifact, due to the services that it offers.

I don't think that a higher price would make a real difference. It's the challenge of collecting the source materials and finding the right person(s) to create the artifact that should have a greater impact on the general experience.

12 minutes ago, jastey said:

I feel a bit daft, what do you mean by that?

Sorry, I meant half-jokingly that nobody is available to take care of the problem.

I think it was just bad timing. It must have been Sunday evening in Canada when the website went down.

47 minutes ago, jastey said:

*thinks about SHS*

*cries*

I get the impression that in Australia it's always Sunday evening lately.

18 minutes ago, Roberciiik said:

Do you know if all languages have the same subtitles timings or it can be provided per language?

This is defined globally for all languages. It might be possible to override it by adding definitions to language-specific Lua files, but I haven't tested if or how it works.

Subtitles in the games are handled via Lua scripting.

In BGEE.LUA you can find a nested array "movies" with several entries.

movies =
{
    {'intro', 1, 120, 32207, 0, 1},
    {'intro', 719, 779, 32166, 1, 1},
    {'intro', 809, 869, 32167, 0, 1},
    {'intro', 889, 959, 32168, 0, 1},
    {'intro', 949, 989, 32169, 1, 1},
  -- ...and so on...
}

Each entry defines a single subtitle. The individual elements of an entry are defined as follows:
index 1: name (resref) of the cinematic (without file extension)
index 2: starting frame of the subtitle
index 3: ending frame of the subtitle
index 4: string reference of the subtitle
index 5: horizontal text alignment (0=left, 1=right, 2=center)
index 6: vertical text alignment (0=top, 1=bottom, 2=center)

Btw, the murder cinematic (sodcin03) is already defined in the BGEE.LUA, but has been commented out. If you remove the comments then you'll notice that the timing is off and there are more subtitles than spoken lines. It was probably created for an earlier revision of the cinematic. However, the lines already exist in the game, so you'd only need to adjust the timing.

There are no subtitles available for the ambush cinematic (sodcin05), however. Those have to be created from scratch.

Banter Accelerator

The Banter Accelerator is available for all Enhanced Edition games and allows you to define how often party members will banter with each other.

Version 1.5 provides Brazilian Portuguese translation and component labels for Project Infinity.

Download: GitHub

Discussion: Beamdog

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Freely Resizeable Combat Log

A small UI convenience mod for PST:EE that makes the combat log window resizeable in both directions.

Version 1.4 provides French translation and Project Infinity support.

Download: GitHub

Discussion: Beamdog

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Recolored character's toolbar buttons

This small UI mod provides recolored buttons for the toolbar displayed at the bottom of the screen to make the enabled/disabled states of the buttons more distinguishable. The mod support BG:EE (without SoD) and BG2:EE.

Version 4.3 provides full Project Infinity support.

Download: GitHub

Discussion: SHS

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"Level Up" Icon Tweaks

"Level Up" Icon Tweaks is a small UI tweak mod for PST:EE that provides more control over the display of level up icons of party members.

Version 2.7 provides French translation and Project Infinity support.

Download: GitHub

Discussion: Beamdog

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