Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

I think the command line switch -mod XXX tells toee which modules folder to load. You could then just create a new dat file without all the unnecessary junk. Haven't tested it yet but it's worth a try.

 

Looking good!

But try it with an indoor map that has chairs and tables and shelves, such as the starting tavern in IWD (AR1006).
Then you'll see whether the characters look weird next to the furniture, or if they look appropriate.

Here's a modified version of the AR1006 map background, with some IWD character models (copied from a screenshot at the 100% zoom level) baked in:
https://i.imgur.com/Ap2DxZx.png
The red one is a male Human, the yellow one a female Elf, and next to her a female Dwarf.
The bar keeper and sitting patrons are also humans, I think.

If you turn this into a ToEE map, you'll be able to see the ToEE character next to the IWD characters and the furniture.

 

I have nothing to offer but words of encouragement, but this project sounds fantastic! I hope you guys are able to complete it.

 

@Shiningted

Dialog files

Each talking non-player character in the game has a .DLG file associated with them, which describes their dialog tree.
A dialog tree consists of a set of states, with transitions between them based on which response the player chooses.
Each state and each response can also have a trigger (i.e. a script condition that must be fulfilled in order for it to show up), and responses can additionally have an action (i.e. a script that is executed when the response is chosen, for example to update quest variables).

NearInfinity lets you browse the DLG files using a visual interface. It looks like this:



This screenshot shows the first state ("0/15"), and that state's first response ("0/2"), in DGRISELL.DLG - the dialog file associated with Grisella, the barkeeper in the AR1006 map shown in my previous post.
As you can see, this state has a trigger to make sure it only shows up the first time you talk to her, and only if the quest variable Know_Balance hasn't been incremented yet.

NearInfinity can also mass-extract the DLG files. But there is a complication: The actual dialog text is not stored in the DLG files themselves. Instead, each state and each response merely specifies a string index ("StrRef").
All the strings of the game are compiled into a single dialog.tlk file.

I don't think NearInfinity can export dialogs in a useful form that includes the actual strings for each state, but weidu can.

Weidu was initially written exactly for this purpose: To read from and write to dialog.tlk. It became much more powerful than that, and because it can be automated using its own scripting language, it is now used as the mod installer/uninstaller for pretty much all mods that exist for the Infinity Engine games. But it can still perform basic dialog decompilation just fine...
It has no UI, however - it is fully controlled by command-line arguments and/or scripts.

You can download the latest stable weidu version from here. All you need from that ZIP file is the weidu.exe.
Put the weidu.exe in the IWD "game" directory, open a terminal to that directory, and then you can decompile Grisella's aforementioned dialog tree by running:

Code:

weidu.exe DGRISELL.DLG

It creates a .D file in the game directory as output (in this case, DGRISELL.D), which is a "weidu script" text file.
Here is the content of the file in this example: http://pastebin.com/raw/ur2E3RrH

It looks messy at first sight, but it is actually a well-structured format that could be parsed by an InfinityEngine→ToEE conversion script:

IF ~[trigger]~ THEN BEGIN [state ID]

SAY #[StrRef] /* ~[string that the NPC says]~ */

IF ~[trigger]~ THEN REPLY #[StrRef] /* ~[player response 1]~ */ DO [action] GOTO [ID of the next state]

...
END​

(In fact, Weidu itself can parse it and turn it into a DLG file again, and patch the dialog.tlk accordingly.)

 

You can use the attached one (TioPack). It's just a light app that calls the tio.dll pack function actually (source code here).
Usage intructions:
https://github.com/GrognardsFromHell/TempleFileFormats/wiki/TioPack-Usage

It requires tio.dll present in the same folder, which itself might require other DLLs, don't remember which if any (I just copied all the ToEE DLLs into the same folder).
Also included a .bat file I commonly use to run it.

 

Je suis d'accord

 

Ya know, when you guys manage to recreate Baldurs Gate (and possibly Icewind Dale) in ToEE, Temple will be the de facto best DnD crpg of all time in my opinion, as there would be no need to play the games outside of Temple due to its amazing 3.5 and combat implementation.