SpellPack Beta 4 Released! Options

[Galactygon]

After more than 3 years of waiting, I am welcoming this new year with a released Version 0.4 (or Beta 4) of SpellPack. The entire structure of the mod has been revamped; the stuff you see here will be identical to that of the full unfinished mod. SpellPack has grown both in components (21) and size (76.6 MB).

Some of the changes and new features include but is not limited to:

- Spells present in previous versions of SpellPack have been fixed.
- A smarter version of Otiluke's Resilient Sphere, which allows the caster to cast the spell onto himself or his allies without worrying about saving throws or magic resistance.
- The AD&D version of chain lightning, which strikes one creature, then arcs to several other creatures, with the bolt getting weaker with each strike.
- The AD&D version of Shadow Door, which not only permits the wizard to disappear, but the door "hangs" there for a period of time. Creatures pursuing the wizard will enter the "door" as well, and disappear into an empty room, searching for the wizard.
- Graphics for Fireball projectile (but not the explosion) now uses the BGI version.
- Several IWD I/II spells, such as Moon Motes and Shroud of Flame are introduced.
- A cutscenized Planescape Torment spell, deathbolt. This is something new in the BG series, and it is still experimental, so it is an optional component.

Download B4 [76.6 MB]
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-Galactygon

[Marvin]

Hi, I first of all wanted to thank you for this grat mod. However, I have encountered some bugs:

1. With the spellpac(V3) installed some NPCs won't fight.
e. g. Bassilus from BG1: He casts some degensive and offensive spells and then doesn't attack. As soon as some of the defensive spells are gone, he starts attacking.
Is this different with the new version?

2. tried to install this new one with scs installed but it doesn't work.
Why does the problem occur? And is it possible to fix it moving out all the dw'ajant.d and so on files from the override folder and later recopy them in?
Or does this cause complications?

Marvin

Edit:

Alright, I cut all the .d and .baf files out of the override folder and then I managed to install the spell Pack Beta 4.
Although I was not able to install 2 components, I can't remember which of them.
It seems to work fine, great new graphics. And Bassilus finally seems to Attack after he casts his spells, BUT I think because I cut the .d and .baf files out there is another bug. When Basilus casts, there is a square that covers his avatar... it looks loke a square full of snowflakes . Is this a feature or a bug? Because when my Char casts the "White-snowflakes-Square-over-the-avatar-bug" doesn't occur!!!

Is there another workaround for the scs problem?

Thanks for your help

Edit: I added an Image where you can see, what I mean with snowflake square!!!

This post has been edited by Marvin: Jan 15 2008, 10:25 PM

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[Galactygon]

Hi, I first of all wanted to thank you for this grat mod. However, I have encountered some bugs:

1. With the spellpac(V3) installed some NPCs won't fight.
e. g. Bassilus from BG1: He casts some degensive and offensive spells and then doesn't attack. As soon as some of the defensive spells are gone, he starts attacking.
Is this different with the new version?

I am not even going to worry about V3, and I am glad to see you moved on...

2. tried to install this new one with scs installed but it doesn't work.
Why does the problem occur? And is it possible to fix it moving out all the dw'ajant.d and so on files from the override folder and later recopy them in?
Or does this cause complications?

What error message did you get? Did the same thing happen as with the other person above?

Alright, I cut all the .d and .baf files out of the override folder and then I managed to install the spell Pack Beta 4.

.d and .baf files are not meant to be in the override. But I still do not see why the mod would not install because of them.

Although I was not able to install 2 components, I can't remember which of them.

If you post your WeiDU.log, then we can figure it out which ones did not install. Was it the components Shroud of Flame and (Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting, Incendiary Cloud) by any chance?

It seems to work fine, great new graphics. And Bassilus finally seems to Attack after he casts his spells, BUT I think because I cut the .d and .baf files out there is another bug. When Basilus casts, there is a square that covers his avatar... it looks loke a square full of snowflakes . Is this a feature or a bug? Because when my Char casts the "White-snowflakes-Square-over-the-avatar-bug" doesn't occur!!!

That screenshot really helps.

Btw, why is "magicwiderstand" displayed 3 times in the screenshot?

The "snowflakes" are intentional. But that the AI gets stuck with one spell is not. Those snowflakes happen because Bassilus casts chant on himself. And so when the AI casts Chant, the AI gets stuck with casting chant - because how the spell works.

Chant is a spell that is recast over and over again until the caster does something else - chant can theoretically last forever. This is intentional. It is important to read the spell descriptions.

But I thought I could get away with this because I thought the AI never uses chant. Because chant is best used with multiple allies fighting multiple opponents. This means I will have to slightly change chant for the next release, so the AI does not misuse it.

In Lost Crossroads, however, I will modify the AI scripts so they could properly use the chant spell instead (or not use it at all!).

-Galactygon

This post has been edited by Galactygon: Jan 15 2008, 11:05 PM