Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale Total Conversion' started by Allyx, May 7, 2016.

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  1. Shiningted

    Shiningted I want my goat back Administrator

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    Yeah, that's what I meant by resizing - tweaking it to look right for a ToEE PC model. Once a figure is reached (say, reduce by 5% or whatever) that can then be uniformly applied, because all the BG maps should be the same: having to check each and every map would be a royal pain.
     
  2. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    I've had no joy extracting the maps yet, I'll search for Infinity Explorer tomorrow and have another crack at it. I did manage to play an extracted video with VLC Media Player though, every attempt to convert the video into a format readable by Rad Tools however met with failure also. :(
     
  3. Sitra Achara

    Sitra Achara Senior Member

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  4. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    Ghah, Infinity Explorer requires the presence of baldur.ini - a file which doesn't exist with the Steam version of Baldur' Gate, does anyone have a copy of this file that they could upload for me perchance?
     
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  6. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    I had to put a copy of baldur.lua (renamed baldur.ini) and dialogue.tlk into the root folder, but it seems to work, still can't export maps though, it only tells me "AR2600 There are no more files" Grrr, are there other methods of extracting maps from BG?
     
  7. Shiningted

    Shiningted I want my goat back Administrator

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    Is anyone still in contact with Old Book? He was a venerated BG modder in his day.
     
  8. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    Might be a good idea to drop him a pm, maybe it will coax him out of obscurity. ;)
     
  9. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    Right, so I managed to extract most of the maps, it turned out that Comodo Internet Security was being overprotective. I am missing 60 of the maps however, mostly outside large maps I think. If someone else could try extracting these maps, and has more luck than I do, would you be able to .zip them and post them as an attachment here?

    I am currently missing the following files:

    AR0900
    AR1200
    AR1200N
    AR1300
    AR1300N
    AR1400
    AR1900
    AR2000
    AR2100
    AR2200
    AR2300
    AR2300N
    AR2400
    AR2600
    AR2600N
    AR2700
    AR2800
    AR2900
    AR3000
    AR3100
    AR3200
    AR3200N
    AR3300
    AR3400
    AR3400N
    AR3500
    AR3600
    AR3800
    AR3900
    AR4000
    AR4100
    AR4200
    AR4300
    AR4400
    AR4500
    AR4600
    AR4700
    AR4700N
    AR4800
    AR4900
    AR5000
    AR5100
    AR5200
    AR5300
    AR5400
    AR5500
    BD1000
    BD1000N
    BD2000
    BD2000N
    BD4000
    BD4000N
    BD5000
    BD5000N
    BD6000
    BD7100N
    BD7300
    BD7300N
    OH3000
    OH3000N
     
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  10. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    I actually feel like I'm finally getting somewhere, I have viewed and separated out all the maps that don't need editing (have no replacement tiles for doors/fires/water etc...) a grand total of 230 maps which could be usable in ToEE once the issue of scale is investigated, and the image size of the map files proportioned appropriately for splitting into ToEE digestible chunks.

    I also had a thought about looking through the BGII maps to see if any I'm missing were among those map files when I saw this map and my door destroying mindset went ballistic!
     

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  11. Shiningted

    Shiningted I want my goat back Administrator

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    If I'm helping with the sectoring I don't mind adding the doors / fire / water: that (and the lighting) is the fun part. Do they do it like ToEE with background maps that don't show things like door models and fires?

    Where do you stand on infravision? It was a big part of the game and while it is not activated in ToEE, as far as I can tell there is enough in the innards of the game to make it an option.
     
  12. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    Infravision could be fun, I actually wanted the Darkness spell for the Drow in Verbobonc, but then you'd also need a Light spell to counter it.

    BG maps have all openable doors painted on the map in the open position, and holes in locations where water and fire are to be animated in, at the bottom of each map are tiles with doors/fires/water which are activated to cover doorways into a closed position, and cycle water/fire animations. For them to be ToEE compatible, the doors will need to be removed from each image, water sections replaced to be static, or another solution to add water animations through the gaps in the map perhaps? And for fires we can just add ToEE's effects
     
  13. Allyx

    Allyx Master Crafter Global Moderator Supporter

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    I am a little annoyed that most of the large outside area maps don't want me to extract them, I guess I could take multiple screenshots and sew them together that way, but it would be better if it didn't come to that.
     
  14. lord_graywolfe

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    Wow sounds like you are getting everything together to make a go at it. Have not played any of the BG series in a long time, was a great game Bioware has always done good work.
     
  15. GuardianAngel82

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    Actually, it'd be kind of fun to create ToEE PC versions of the playable NPC's and import their voice files and portraits to start things off. Weren't there something like 30 of them?
     
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