Progress report (2011+) Options

[aigleborgne]

After all this years, it's good to start a new thread

Side work:
- Monsters : preparation task (sort, group, and find stats) : 100%
- AI script (complete rework in progress) : 50%

Main component:
- BG1 Monsters : 10%
- BG2 Monsters : 0%
- BG1 Adventurers: 0%
- BG2 Adventurers: 0%

At this moment, it seems that I undo some of my previous work (compared to old progress report).
This is true, but it isn't the same quality, it is a lot higher now.

With my new own tools and material, I'll be able to work 5 times faster on main components later on and still get an overall better result.

This post has been edited by aigleborgne: Jun 22 2011, 06:41 AM

[aigleborgne]

I'm back in modding!
Finally, I didn't mod in august. Was in holidays, but so tired I didn't even think about modding (a full year without holidays is tough!)

I've resumed my work last week-end.
There was a problem with my current advancement : I didn't check each creature script and just assigned mine.
It was wrong because some are related to quest or special behavior.

So, I had to check all my creatures scripts, took me several hours !

I'm in vaccation in 2 weeks, so I expect to mod a lot this month.
I would be happy to finish all BG1 monsters this month. It's doable, but it is certainly not a sure thing !

I will probably never move on others components.
I simply can't do it alone, the game is now rather old, and I plan to start a new modding activity on a new game (Skyrim).

My current plan is to finish BG1 monsters and determine if I can manage BG1 npc quickly.

By quickly, it means that I won't look into items (except to eventually change or add a weapon, but that's all).
A few steps on each npc :
- check characteristics with race/class and maybe pick a kit.
- check proficiencies and equiped weapons
- make a new spellbook inspired by existing one (but heavily based on kit / alignment)
- assign scripts
Should be between 1mn and 15mn per npc, which is quick enough for me.
Add to this around 50-100 hours to finish my scripts. This is a big part, but necessary anyways.

Nothing for BG2 : not entirely true, all existing BG1 monsters are also done for BG2 !
Sure, it miss out all interesting powerful monsters, but there are many mods that includes them (aTweaks beeing my favorite)