Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

Yeah, we can totally do it.

Fair enough. I was thinking a bit about it - your writing over, say, the Nulb map - and yeah, it probably wouldn't work without redoing a lot of stuff. O well.

I'm doing kiddy-related nonsense for the next few hours, but can write up something after that on using waypoints. To hide monsters, either physically hit the 'conceal' flag in WorldEd, or first heartbeat it with attachee.concealed_set(1) . Have a look at any of the cat scripts in KotB for examples.

And yes, you can get to Kuldahar Pass without encountering the Orcs - just go to the outside of the Cave, see the wagons, and go back and report this to Hrothgar. That part is already working.

EDIT: Ahhh, that part wasn't a question... never mind

 

Ted, could I ask for your help getting the kids with the squirrel talking? I was thinking I could make the squirrel itself make the kids talk (like various npc's did in DH) but I couldn't figure out how to script it. I'd like it to use floatlines like Furnok and his gambling games or Tolub's fist fight banter.

 

O yeah, I meant to do that Also, get a few of the townsfolk moving around etc. Sorry, I should have said

EDIT: Did you want elaborate floatlines or just the mes-lines (like 'friendly fire!')? The latter seem a bit more IWDish, but the former are my preference.

 

Ok... waypoints. First of all, you need to set the flags. Right-click your mob, select Edit, then click the Flags button (3rd down on right). Toward the bottom there are 'waypoints day' and 'waypoints night', click either or both. (You can set them independently so the mob only walks waypoints at one or the other - night or day - but you can only set one lot of waypoints. So, for instance, the builder guy in KotB building the church walks his waypoints and stops and does his hammering by day, but by night goes to his Standpoint by the campfire - ditto the builders of Burne's castle in Hommlet. Or you can click both and the mob just walks waypoints 24/7. Note that a mob set to do his waypoints by day, who is at a Standpoint by night - if you enter the map by night - then pass time til day, will generally then walk to his first waypoint, which is pretty cool).

To set the waypoints themselves, make sure you can see them (View / Objects / Waypoints) then right click the mob and select Waypoints. A blue box will then occur on the tile the mob is on, marked 0, and you can add boxes marked 1, 2 and 3. Hit save when done. If you want to change them, just click Waypoints again but you have to start from scratch.

Once you have created the waypoints, right-click the mob again (there is a little asterisk next to 'Waypoints' to indicate it has some, as above press Waypoints again if you want to delete those and restart). When you right-click the mob, press Edit. The buttons on the right, the bottom one is 'Waypoints' and brings up the Waypoint editor. This allows you to add delays, animations and rotations to each waypoint. It allows for 5 but you may have noticed only 3 (4 including 0) are allowed when setting the waypoints.

That's a limitation of WorldEd though. The waypoints are written into the mob and you can have as many as you like if you use Ag's WorldBuilder. Case in point - the barmaid in the Green Gryphon in KotB. I've got no idea how many she has but she walks all over the place, and each time walks back to the bar - 10 at least if not more. To set Waypoints in WorldBuilder, I don't have it installed on this PC but basically you just use x/y coords each time, and then add animations, rotation etc. It's much easier in WorldBuilder, but again don't forget to set the waypoint flags. (All of the KotB first demo was done with WorldBuilder, We didn't discover the WorldEd til later).

Hope that helps

 

@Shiningted do you know if setting waypoints on a hiding mob makes them sneak around at all?

@Oleg Ben Loleg It theoretically could have different difficulty settings, doesn't currently, but adding a dialogue option on the shopmap portal to set a 'difficulty level' global_vars[#] then adding mobs that turn off if that vars is too low wouldn't be difficult to do, a little time consuming perhaps. It's something I'll consider doing at some point.

 

I hope you have some joy with that Sitra Achara, that would certainly save some potentially serious legal backlash, alas it's well out of my comfort zone as far as modding is concerned, please keep me informed of any developments regarding this.

 

I added the orcs to the Cave, but they are proving too powerful, and or too numerous, I'll adjust their stats and equipment a little to help balance the fight and loot, also need to adjust the Orc Shaman's stats, spells and AI routines.

 

Thanks Ineth, that's perfect.

I think ToEE style fights are just harder. I've been playing with a generic party (Mailee and such, the pre-gen characters) and they've been pwned. The beetle fight killed one, while the goblin fight in the south of Easthaven led to TPK. The main question is the XP and whether the players will be the appropriate level when they finish. Otherwise, make it tough.

Anyways, I have been trying to improve Hrothgar (make him run out the door, etc) and no luck on anything. But here are the kids. They now randomly comment on any squirrel in the vicinity, so not only the four standing around but any others you have strolling past will say something. Note you'll have to change the protos.tab for their dlg and heartbeat entries to 432.

I'll keep working

EDIT: Forgot to mention: I have had no luck whatsoever with downloading the latest version. I tried many times using both IE and Chrome to download it and I can't get past a certain point (800mb or so). Rather than force you to hunt for a new host, can you just upload the latest files without the artwork? I have the various Kuldahar Pass art files already and that would save many mbs.

 

Ok, so I have all the monsters and NPC's in the Prologue chapter added (minus a few dialogue files, and I need to change Hickory Branch's Captain Krunch into a 2nd level fighter) and I've started adding various items to chests and monsters...

In Invensource.mes I see some items listed have a random range (EG 100,4016 for 100% chance of getting a shortspear) and some groups of numbers are listed in parenthesis (EG (4111,4112,4113) I assume this is for one of the following), can you mix them together to get a random chance of one of 3 items? (EG (15,4997 15,4181 70,4132) to get 15% chance of one of 2 items or 70% chance of the third) or will I just be spawing 3 doors into the Elite Goblins inventory?

 

Can do, Gimme a sec to plug in those dialogues for the kids and I'll upload the files minus maps in a few minutes - though it will take a while to upload.