Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

I guess I could offset that issue in a way, by moving those Orc's further into the cave (so combat doesn't instantaneously start) and set waypoints for those Orcs to travel to their current standpoints. This would give the Shaman a chance to prebuff before the patrolling Orcs engage the PC's without giving the PC's too much room to breathe before the action resumes.

I'll have a play with that and see if it improves the prebuff and caster AI routines.

 

I did that several times in KotB but with mixed success (due to my own silliness). Certainly I could not always get spells to fire from scripts so I would just get something that did fire reliably from a script, like Mage Armor, and piggy-back things onto it.

Here is the movie thing for random_encounter.py; I don't know I have the latest version (I haven't tried patch 7 yet as I am working on my stuff) but all you have to do is alter the 'encounter_exists(setup, encounter)' script.

EDIT: Btw Sitra, kudos on your game.time handling scripts but I just did this the long way.

 

Now, regarding skinning animals:

- the animal's pelt should only spawn in it's death script (to prevent animals getting knocked unconscious and looted of their own skin, or worse still, pickpocketed of it...)
- I did it as a simple survival check in KotB: roll a d20 against your survival score. The script is in py471 in KotB. (This script includes a potential +2 for using a Poacher's Knife, and +2 for Knowledge (Nature) synergy, which can be removed).
- The script is fired by insert_item: it won't fire when 'inserted' into the animal, only when picked up by a PC, and only the first time obviously. But it does assume any time you are picking up a pelt for the first time, you are skinning something. If you plan to have them elsewhere (like on the floor as a throw rug, or in someone's coffer, or something) that will have to be altered.
- If introduced, you have to think carefully about the wolves part since they turn up as random encounters and it sounds like a lot of money to be throwing around.

I had a look at these FDR, I reckon the following 2 definitely can and should be included:

Presio's Duel
The third level of Dragon's Eye features Presio and her legions of undead. As the party travels the area, she speaks to the party via her undead lieutenants. Paladins and mages can call her out to single combat through one of these vessels.

Orrick's Rhino Beetle Shield
The duergar Dirty Llew can fashion a shield out of rhino beetle shells for the party; Nym can further enchant the shield. As an alternative, the party can take Llew's shield to Orrick in Kuldahar instead with a slightly different result.

 

That should be the most current version Ted, I've not worked on Random Encounters.py recently.

Thanks for your insight as to the pelts, they don't seem to be lootable from wolves generally in the original game, whereas Yeti's always drop their pelts. With that in mind, there's not a lot of point implementing the animal skinning mechanic at this point, but worth considering at a later date should something else require 'skinning' - like those Rhino Beetles.

 

I was trying to get them to cast 2 buff spells on themselves each, they both use different scripts with different vars to keep track of what they should be casting, but I'll do some checking.

I've tried moving the first group of Orcs further into the cave in World Ed but it doesn't seem to have moved them in game, so I'm going to have to move the mobs in world builder instead and hope that works. Failing that I'll delete them and replace them with new versions further back.

 

I totally agree - it's fun introducing those sort of mechanics (and gives non-face players a reason to have skills beside hide and move silently. And tumble. And heal) but since there is nothing similar in the original game it's not a priority, I think.

Btw, thanks for testing the RE stuff FDR.

 

I believe I witnessed what you describe @FDR4PREZ and it is my script at fault, though I don't understand why it isn't working. They seem to be recasting the first prebuff spell over and over, because for some bizarre reason the game.global_vars that is set to 0 on the first heartbeat script isn't advancing by 1 every time they get a heartbeat. Each of the Orc Shaman have their own vars number so they aren't getting confused.

I am beginning to think that the reason clerics in ToEE don't prebuff with bulls strength is because it's not called spell_bulls_strength in the prebuff script... I think Bears Endurance is simply 'Endurance' and that may be why it's not working? @Shiningted any chance you could help me out here with the Orc Shaman at all?

 

Sure, downloading Patch 7 now. It doesn't sound like what Sitra described because if NPCs were buggering up each others buffs surely we would have noticed it previously (Liv made every NPC spellcaster pre-buff without these problems, from memory).

Which means it's a scripting problem So 'Orc Shamans' means the ones in the Orc Cave, is that right?

 

If the idea is that evil parties get XP for being evil, then I totally agree with that.