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Version 3 is up thanks to a new Polish translation from @Cahir!

Added the note for translators to the OP; long story short there's a component to auto-translate about 80% of the mod.

I promised this in the readme, so what follows is a breakdown of how you actually receive lore bonuses. The variables mentioned here are all available and adjustable in cdlore/customize.tpa. These are used at install time, so you'll need to make your adjustments to this file before installation. Note that all of these depend heavily on resting, specifically the script that runs once you hit the rest button. The mod deliberately puts all of this scripting at the end of the script so that higher-priority events (e.g. a love talk) can preempt the mod checks; this is why it's recommended to install LFL after mod NPCs. Also note that these individual components can preempt one another e.g. if you get a lore point from books, it may delay your martial lore point. Books Provide Lore Bonuses The idea here is pretty straightforward: every time the party rests, the PC will spend time reading books. The PC gets three 'actions' per rest (customize this with the variable actions_per_rest) and reading a book is one action. After five books are read (books_to_read variable) the player earns a lore point. This process can be repeated until a max of 10 lore is earned (max_lore_from_books). I have built a framework so that special lore books will, by themselves, earn the player a lore point and consume an entire night's reading. For now, the only book that has been so designated is the History of the Fateful Coin. Weapon Knowledge Provides Lore Bonuses This one's a lot simpler: earning grandmastery in a single weapon earns you one lore point. This is a one-off; getting grandmastery in a second weapon does not earn you another point. A second lore point can be earned through proficiency (just one pip) in 6 different weapons (number_weapon_profs). By default weapon styles do not count towards this bonus, though you can have them count by enabling count_weapon_styles. Party Members Provide Lore Bonuses There are a total of six available lore points here, three from race and three from class. The idea for both is simple: it checks if party members are of a race or class different than the PC's and, if a threshold is reached, it increments a variable every rest. After a certain number of rests you'll earn a lore point. For race, you need three other races than the PC (other_races) and receive a bonus after 3, 10, and 30 rests (race_bonus_1, race_bonus_2, and race_bonus_3). I've included the player-selectable races plus what I could find from the game and mods (e.g. vampire for Hexxat and Valen, tiefling for Haer'Dalis, goblin for M'khiin, and rakshasa for Verr'sza). If I'm missing someone here, let me know. Class checks work on the same idea. You'll need four other classes (other_classes) and receive points after 5, 15, and 45 rests (class_bonus_1, class_bonus_2. and class_bonus_3). These checks are in the form of xxx_ALL so being a multiclass will actually work against you here as e.g. a fighter-mage counts as both MAGE_ALL and FIGHTER_ALL in these checks. On the flipside, a paladin with just Aerie (cleric-mage) and Jaheira (fighter-druid) would hit the threshold due to their multiclassing. Kits do not affect the checks and barbarians are also, internally, classed as fighters. I have some vague plans to expand this for NPCs of more 'exotic' backgrounds--someone like Viconia or Haer'Dalis should really count for more than someone like Imoen or Jaheira. Defeating Monsters Provides Lore Bonuses The first time you see a dead monster of race X (essentially anything 100-199 in race.ids), it increments the counter. At 10, 30, and 60 different types of dead monster (monster_bonus_1, monster_bonus_2, and monster_bonus_3) you'll get a lore point at the next rest period. This is a simple check and doesn't really care if the party was the one actually doing the killing, and also relies on having Party AI enabled since it abuses dplayer scripting. I will probably lower the third threshold at some point as 70 (edit: default is now 60 as of v3) is actually fairly difficult to reach as not all of the race.ids entries are filled or valid. Exploring Areas Provides Lore Bonuses The player accumulates exploration points for visiting areas and will earn a single lore point at three different point thresholds, defaulting to 150/400/800 (area_bonus_1, area_bonus_2, area_bonus_3). All 'master areas' are worth a point. A master area is a technical term, but basically any major area of the game is a master area--e.g. Beregost is a master area, all of the smaller homes/shops/inns inside Beregost are not. In addition to master areas, other areas provide variable bonuses up to five points. In general temples, taverns, and inns are worth 2, famous landmarks are 3, areas specifically relating to the PC's special heritage are 4, and extraplanar travel is 5. You can see (and adjust) these scores are desired in arealist.tpa in the /lib folder. For modders, if you want your areas to contribute, simply set value to the score you think your area should have, and then extend the area script with cdlore/baf/area.baf with an EVALUATE_BUFFER.

The mod makes the assumption that you're using your rest period productively and just uses simple checks for books in your inventory. So on every sleep you'll get a message that you 'spent time reading book X' and, when a certain threshold is reached, you'll get a point of lore for it.

All fixed, v2 should be up shortly. edit: It's up!

G3 is pleased to introduce the The Lore From Learning mod, a small WeiDU mod that adds lore bonuses to your main character as you learn and adventure throughout the game. The bonuses (and the stimuli that provide them) are, by design, meant to be minor and enhance the role-playing aspect of the game. Project page Readme Download

G3 is pleased to introduce the The Lore From Learning mod, a small WeiDU mod that adds lore bonuses to your main character as you learn and adventure throughout the game. The bonuses (and the stimuli that provide them) are, by design, meant to be minor and enhance the role-playing aspect of the game. Project page Readme Download v6 changelog Fixed bug that prevented installation without the new component v5 changelog Fixed corrupted text in the Polish translation, thanks Roberciiik! Added the Exploring Areas Provides Lore Bonuses component Thanks to Cahir (Polish) and paladin84 (Russian) for the translation updates for the new component Fixed a bug where the custom values set by players in customize.tpa could be ignored by the mod v4 changelog Added Russian translation, courtesy of yota13 v3 changelog Added Polish translation, courtesy of Cahir Decreased the threshold for the third point of lore in the Defeating Monsters Provides Lore Bonuses component Added some missing Project Infinity stuff that really should have been in v1 Earning a lore point with the other components could interfere with the various counters for the Party Members Provide Lore Bonuses component Earning lore from books now requires literacy (9 INT) v2 changelog: Fixed bug where Weapon Knowledge Provides Lore Bonuses would not install on non-EE games Fixed bug where Defeating Monsters Provides Lore Bonuses was not iterating correctly when looping through monster types Fixed bug where earning a point of lore would prevent sleep Added a few more continuations in scripts to hopefully prevent conflicts with actual combat actions Fixed bug where Defeating Monsters Provides Lore Bonuses was not picking up on the correct breakpoints for lore bonuses For Translators! The mod has about 100 strings total, of which 80 can be automatically generated using a hidden component. All you have to do is uncomment it in the tp2, make a few settings, and then run it on BG2 (most of the strings) and IWD (about 10 more). Once that's done there are about ~20 more strings to translate.

Under-Represented Items adds items to Baldur's Gate 2 from Icewind Dale 2. Only certain kinds of items were chosen with the intent to flesh out smaller weapon families. Version 7 modernizes the code, makes it EE-compatible, and contains numerous bugfixes. Readme Project Page Windows v7 OS X v7 Linux v7

This sounds like a broken install. Trigger 0x40a8 is a default trigger and should be there; not being able to find Ajantis' script is also a bad sign.

That's odd as it implies the mod was not able to add strings to the tlk. This can be caused by having the game (or an editor) open when installing, or selecting the wrong language for WeiDU when it's first run.

Fixed, thanks.

Use the latter. The problem with the former is that it will throw off your replacement tokens depending on whether it decompiles with "ue". E.g. REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~Dialog\(ue\)?("\(foo\)")~ ~Interact("\2")~ will fail on a match for ~Dialog("foo")~ because it only matches one group, not two. Also of note: while scripts are compiled/decompiled and go through the process Mike1072 describes, dialogues themselves store actions and triggers as plain text. What you see in NI is what you need to match.

This looks very cool. Well done!

It literally requires you to restart the program and get an update, and this is when you decide it a good opportunity to shit on the person providing the tool? Alien should be lauded for taking on an already thankless task, but abusing his effort is a shameful low.

There's a leftover setup-iwdification.tp2 in stratagems/test. It makes Project Infinity unhappy.

For the EEs, you can add opcode 319 to the item, which allows restriction via gender.ids. For the originals, it's a bit more complicated. You could use opcode 180, but unfortunately it needs to be applied to individual creatures. Essentially you'd have to find a way to apply op 180 to every creature file that shouldn't be allowed to use the item.

It wouldn't help translators regardless--they work off of tra files, not a modded tlk.

Yes. Further, it'll use the highest reference of the string, e.g. if your string already exists at 1234 and 5678, WeiDU will assign 5678.

I'm a little surprised since this is my testing platform. Just to make sure, I downloaded and installed BG2 complete from GOG, downloaded v13 and everything worked fine. Previous versions, all the way back to 2013's v9, are available under the changelog link on the download page.

Yeah, BG/BG2 at least have the 'if I'm attacked, retaliate' as a default. Glad it's sorted!

Have you assigned scripts to your characters (record screen > customize > script)? Unlike BG/BG2, party members in IWD start without an AI script assigned so they don't do anything even with Party AI enabled.

Thanks Jarno, your contributions to the thread are immeasurable.

The dispel magic mechanic relies on caster levels. E.g. a level 20 and level 40 mage will both have Protection from Evil last 40 rounds, but the latter's will be substantially harder to dispel.