Spell casting BAMs from IWD/IWD2 Options

[Vlad]

Hi Galc,

I have recently finished porting almost all creature animations from IWD and several additional animations from IWD2 to BG2/ToB in NeJ2. It seems there are not so many, and many of them already exist in BG2/ToB but are not used. Anyway, I used my list of incomplete animation sequences and the table of animations compatibility of KD, and succeeded to fill in all the slots. Of course, I replaced some poor BG1/BG2 animations (such as zombies) with better ones from IWD/IWD2, but frankly speaking, they are not too many. However I had some problems with spellcasting sequence of several creatures. For example, red-head giants from IWD/IWD2 (MGIC) have an additional spell casting sequence (that is why the total number of BAMS is 26) but it seems they do not use these two spell casting BAMs in BG2/ToB. Galc, do you have an idea how to make them using these BAMs when casting spells?

This post has been edited by Vlad: Dec 24 2006, 09:36 AM

[devSin]

And the casting animation still doesn't run? I'm probably completely misunderstanding you, but your last post read like you moved the animations to another slot (renamed them). But I don't understand the bit about a "spellcasting slot" (as long as the animation slot is IWD-style, the engine should automatically fetch and run the corresponding sequences if they exist). Or is this only regarding the fire giant animation?

I import all the remaining Icewind Dale animations (from Icewind Dale only) that have their own slot in BG2, and the lizard king runs its conjure and cast sequences correctly (although I have only 24 BAMs for it).