Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

Weird, it works fine for me but I'll investigate.

 

I altered one instance of the space => û so far, I just substituted for a regular u.

 

Oh, awesome. I'll do that for the next build then

 

I'm still here by the way Al I've finally got IWD:EE & been playing through both games simultaneously, you've done a superb job!

 

Cheers Ted, I appreciate that. Gabriel has supplied a few new maps, though some of the outdoor maps don't come with night time versions apparently, I'll need to check that in near infinity - I know the Destroyed Easthaven map doesn't have a day time version, but you only see that immediately before the final battle scenario.

I'm guessing there is a more elegant way of turning day into night than simply messing with the brightness and colour saturation mixers, or at least I hope there is.

 

Thanks Nightcanon

Al - I am halfway through the sleeping issue, inasmuch as I have set up the Inn to only work when you pay, set the rest of Easthaven to 'pass time only' and have set the caravan map and the Orc Caves to have random encounters. I am now going to tweak those encounters to be sensible (goblins and wolves and such). Also I have updated the globals thread.

I've encountered a few little bugs here and there (mainly my fault with the dlgs) but the main one to mention is, the Orc Cave had no Orcs? Are they yet to come or was there a bug?

 

I've yet to add the Orcs in the cave, mainly because Near Infinity and IWD itself seem to have differing views on how many Orcs are in the main cluster in the south east corner of the map. Maybe NI is showing both day and night positions for those Orcs simultaneously, but there seem to be way too many in there.

The mod is complete-able though, encountering the Orc outside the cave (whether he dies or escapes) is enough to complete the quest, though Easthaven's winter supplies would be left undiscovered - not sure if that's important.

 

Yeah a bit, mostly axes, bows, arrows and 6gp per Orc (which IMHO would be better spent on some armour and/or shield instead), plus scrolls from shaman Orcs I'm a little sure how to implement the random spawning of loot items, does invensource.mes allow carried items to appear randomly? Or does that only apply to respawning container inventories?

 

If you spawn a critter, or just put a random element in inven_source (gold 10-100 for instance) then when you make a mob it will indeed have a randomised loot. However, that randomised number will then be tied to that mob in every future scenario. For totally random mob you have to spawn - that's an option, set up your main baddies eg the shamans etc and then have one of them heart-beat spawn all the rest, adds a nice random touch to replays.

Yeah that certainly worked. There are two different fulfilment requirements though - find the caravans outside the caves ("I found the caravans!") and go in and find the missing stuff, and learn that Orcs nicked it. The first one does indeed work I've written up in the globals thread which does what - var 3 for memory.

I've currently set the random encounter table to spawn Orcs in there if you haven't found the goods (assuming you haven't wiped out the Orcs yet) and to spawn generic cave monsters like carrion crawlers and rats if you have.