Ted's mod is HERE

Okay I can shed some light on the item_creation problem, I think. It's, utimately, all my fault. A while ago I released a mod that made the 3rd and 4th level ranger/paladin spells available to those classes.

In order to do that I changed the spell levels for those spells to 1st or 2nd level for paladins and rangers. This was done so they would show up when you went into the spell selection screen to choose spells to memorize.

The second part of my plan was to disable the actual casting of those spells if they were not memorized in a spell slot of high enough level (ie 3rd level spell slot for 3rd level spells, 4th level spell slot for 4th level spells.) This was done by adding lines to the spell script files that made the spells fail in such a case.

Up to this point there are no problems, everything is fine and dandy.

The third part of my plan was to give a hint to the user as to which spell slot level would be required to be able to actually cast the memorized spell. I hit upon the (at the time) happy solution of changing the spell names in spell.mes and spell_enum.mes. P3 appended to the spell name meant that the spell slot level required for paladins to cast the spell was third. R3 appended to the spell name meant that the spell slot level required for rangers to cast the spell was third. Similarly for P4 and R4 and the necessary combinations where the spell was on the spell list of both classes. This is where I screwed up.

My tests had shown that, for the spell script files in data\scr and the spell text files in data\rules\spells the name of the spell didn't matter. What mattered was the number preceding the spell name,which was the number of the spell assigned in spell.mes and spell_enum.mes. This lead to my assumption that all spell references would be by number except for the obvious references made to spell names as string arguments in the script files. This, of course, turns out not to be the case. The protos references the spells by the spell name in spell.mes/spell_enum.mes and item_creation.mes has its own referencing scheme.

As soon as I found out the error of my ways (big thanks to Allyx), I disabled the download link to my mod and set about finding a suitable way to fix things. Since no one other than Allyx had posted about this problem I assumed no one else had downloaded the mod and that I was safe to ignore the problem while I worked on a fix. Imagine my horror when I dowloaded ted's mod and found that he had re-released my bug-ridden mod along with his. Still, I had worked out a suitable quick-fix and made it available almost as soon as I knew about the problem (ted and I played e-mail tag for a bit while i tried to decide the best way to deal with it all.)

In short, the quick fix I posted earlier in this thread should have eliminated the problems I introduced in this regard. Ted's last patch included that and fixed a few other errors in my release. What gasts my flabber, though, is: where in the h*$$ did the item_creation.mes file which included my buggy spell name changes come from? Obviously someone, somewhere amended this file to conform with my buggy spell release, but I guarantee it wasn't me.

The various problems with the item_creation.mes files seems to stem from this. If you have my spell mod as originally released and the non-conforming item_creation.mes file you will have problems. If you have the fixes for my spell mod and have the item_creation.mes file that conforms to my original release you will have problems. If neither of these is the case and you still have problems then I am not sure where the problem might lie.

As far as I can tell, your best bet here is to have the latest ted release and make sure that no item_creation.mes, spell.mes or spell_enum.mes file you have has the strings 'P3', 'P4', 'R3', or 'R4' in it. For good measure, make sure that your protos.tab doesn't contain them either. Also make sure that the first 3 mentioned files have no spaces between the curly braces and the enclosed string. Spaces between word enclosed with curly braces are okay

If you are not sure of what you are doing or what I mean here, private message me your questions and I can give you more detailed instructions. Unfortunately I am going to bed very soon, so you may have to wait a while.

Darmagon

 

Spugnoir's Voice Issue: When killing the traders (with Spugnoir in the party), their man-at0arms went down. As he died, he also used Spugnoir's death cry.

On the other hand, killing Lareth and hearing his last words was hilarious.

Loved Meleny's reation to the slave girl and the prostitute joining the party as well.

 

This may be a save game issue, but I've never seen this bug:

My Cleric now has Quicken Spell on spells which she had previously placed Extend Spell.

Just noticed this after adding in the new Item Creation mes, but I have no idea if that's really part of it.

So, anyone touch the meta-magic feats?

 

Me neither.

Darmagon

 

Re GKR: I'm sure. I'll try it again on my next run through.

Re Patch: Woot! Thanks for the merchant!

 

I notice that the new Celtic from the tatoo artist offers no protection and can't be enchanted. Are there protective runes available elsewhere?