Howdo you create a spell?, Similar to Find Familiar Options

[blackdevil0742]

Hi

Like lots of people I've been playing Badlur's Gate 2 for so long and I still ove it. I've downloaded mods but now I want to do stuff I want in the game. So what I wish is to create a spell similar to the Find Familiar but I want it to summon a Winter Wolf(and make it stay/follow me like the other do). I have NI (didn't find a working link to the other tool) and I've exported some of the files that the Find Familiar(based on the cat) spell uses.

FAMCAT.BAM <cat img
FAMCAT.CRE
SPWI123.SPL <find familiar spell
SPWI123C.BAM <spell icon

Now I have no clue how and what to edit in those files.

I tried though. What I did first was to copy some of the stuff the FAMCAT.CRE into a copy of the winter wolf .CRE file(I think I managed to do it right).

Now how do I get a spell to summon this creature and also how do I export/import the images in the .BAM file?

This post has been edited by blackdevil0742: Feb 8 2008, 11:26 PM

[Rabain]

Well my version is like a normal familiar....it doesn't unsummon by itself. Only a summons unsummons.

A familiar will only unsummon (so to speak) if you talk to it and tell it to go into your backpack.

If you have converted a summons spell then you are not going to like your requirement...which will be to cast it in every area you move to...because a summons won't follow you from area to area and it will unsummon eventually (though you could extend the duration of the spell). Extending the duration will not change the need to summon it in every area you move to.

Its pretty easy to make the spell a separate spell...copy the spell into the override directory...change the filename to a unique name (just make it up). Then use something like DLTCEP or Shadowkeeper to give your mage a copy of the spell to cast....or copy a find familiar spell scroll (.itm) to your override and rename and then use the CLUA console to give yourself a copy of that scroll. Remember to change the spell in the scroll to your new name in the override.

Even what seems simple begins to get complicated...right?

If this was easy everyone would have done it in various forms by now!

This post has been edited by Rabain: Feb 9 2008, 12:14 PM