Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

I know it was related to scenery objects in this case, I was messing around with extracted, edited, and embedded doors in World Builder, obviously I'd messed up somehow.

 

Sounds more like a lighting/particle effect thing than JS. JS would be characters not completing their move commands and that sort of thing, not just stuttering based on faulty particle effects.

 

I guess I never saw the whole jerk stop error after all? Only faulty static objects - like when Desperate Housewives was released and we had sparkly-ageddon in Hommlet and CTD's in Franks house.

 

O sure, it always comes back to one of my mods...

Vis-a-vis the doors, got to the bottom of that. For the door to run it's 'sticky' routine and shut itself so it is shut again after you come back to the map, you need a longer interval than the current 900ms between opening and being teleported. Specifically, you need around 2100ms (2000 is not enough, exact to the millisecond figure unknown). This is quite a pause, anyway adjust the number in py00460Doors and see.

My recommendation is you leave it at 900ms, let people do a proper transition (that's just enough time to see the door opening) and when they come back, there is an open door and they instead access the place through the icon. That assumes you are leaving the icon there, which I think you should. Anal players can still shut the door, since I ran the script off san_unlock rather than san_use it will only fire on the door opening bit, you can shut them without being teleported.

I also recommend (and probably should have mentioned this on 50 other things) that we don't waste too much time on this. Yes, it is cool opening the door and being teleported straight in, but these little details, while very cool, can also become time sinks. I say that as someone who got diverted on an endless number of time sinks in KotB, when my time in hindsight would have been infinitely better doing 'place monster / write quest / repeat'.

 

Yeah, sparklies and jerky movements (I assume corresponding to heartbeats) in conjunction are normally bad lights/particle effects IME, but if montiac's got incomplete moves, that definitely sounds like jerkstop. That'd be remarkable because as far as I know, true JS only ever occurred as a result of me putting in the tutorial-hijacked area description boxes - arrived with them and left with them. You're not using any of those, I assume?

 

Nope, not using tutorial chests, and the issue seems to have been fixed by more recent builds.

 

Ok, new patch time. Patch 6 is here this time with (hopefully) pre-buffing on the Orc Shaman and Tempus temple clerics, all ammo drops should be reduced to a maximum of 10 arrows, all Goblin bucklers have been confiscated, all random loot (unsure about the north west Orc cave chest - please check this as it should be spawning one of 2 magical shields) should be working as intended, Uligar speaks, and his intimidation check is as it is in IWD in this version (I had to console in a headband of intellect +4 to test that it works - and it does). Jermsy's back in his closet - the Bard special response is pretty funny btw. Ted's new doors fix is in (I noticed that large parties have a chance that one member will spawn behind a door on exiting the buildings, but I can fix that by blocking those areas off. All chest inventories have been fixed with IWD GP equivalent gems and other loot (not addressed loot prices for wolf pelts etc...)

I think you have the option to tell Jhonen that you've met a blue skinned woman before you actually meet Elisa, didn't get around to check that bug or fix it, or add the Hrothgar summons spell yet, but I think this is getting very close to release ready.

Still have to work out maplimits and add sounds for Kuldahar pass and localised sounds in Easthaven, and the improved random encounters Ted is working on.

 

Oh crap, I guess I forgot this Temple.dll which fixed that issue. Which patch are you using? Download that temple.dll, extract it, and put it in the root folder, that should fix the world map issue.