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]

Are you sure about that? Creature scripts don't run for creatures that are not in the area currently.

If that was the case every creature script in the game would be running continuously all the time.

So if you put that block in the familiars script and then the party moved to another area...but the familiar didn't..how is the familiar going to continue to run its script? The Familiar isn't a party member remember so it is not treated as such, also you may experience oddity with scripts in areas that are not in mastarea.2da as they continue to run the area script from the preceeding area.

The way I do it in my version...is add the blocks to baldur.bcs, this covers every contingency because if the familiar is ever not in the same area as Player1 it moves to Player1 (assuming its not in the backpack of course). baldur.bcs is where the developers did all their familiar stuff so i see no reason not to continue to use it.