SpellPack Beta V3 is out! Options

[Galactygon]

2 days late, SpellBack beta version 3 is up on the web at

http://dragonshoard.blackwyrmlair.net/down...SpellPackB3.zip (39.9 MB) Now 19.9 MB

There are some significant changes I have made since the last version. Since I forgot to upload the readme seperately, and I have limited access to the FTP Program these days, I will summarize the changes I have made from B2 to B3 (from my memory; there might be more):

Changes/Bugfixes
-Prayer now affects the caster
-Prayer is not cumulative with itself anymore
New Features
-Ranged Spiritual Hammer (as in IWD1/2)
-BG1 Fireball animation
-Everything I wanted to include in the LC Pre-Release planned last year (partially revamping the spell graphics)
-Some new Wizard spells! Modified PnP versions of Power Word Kill and Death Spell.
-Some new Priest spells! I forgot which, but I remember including recitation, and some fixed TDD spells (if you don't have TDD installed, it introduces new spells).

You can safely install beta version 3 on top of any previous versions. I might reccomend reinstalling Cleric Remix and Refinements after you installed beta version 3, or simply install beta v3 before either of those mods.

You can still see the features of beta version 2 in a previous post of mine, but you cannot download any of the previous versions.

You can still read the fully updated readme when you download the mod.

-Galactygon

This post has been edited by Galactygon: Jul 23 2005, 03:22 PM

[Falkentyne]

w00t Great news.

But, is this spellpack compatible with "The Big Picture" mod?
I'm not using BGT, just big picture (with the tdd, ts, sos, and the packaged fixes and enhancements).

(Edit)
well, after downloading 30 MB at about 2k/sec ..I think I was downloading 4 hours , got it installed.

I just did a quick battle with a wolfwere and greater wolfwere, testing prayer and chant.

Works quite nicely.

I did have a couple of questions:

1) Is chant supposed to give a saving throw bonus (also I assume, culumative with prayer?). Prayer is giving the +1 save bonus, but neither the original stock chant nor the spellpack chant is giving the bonus (at least not on the party).
It didn't do it in BG1, either.

2) Can you cancel a chant in progress in P&P, and if you can, does the IE allow spell canceling, anyway? I remember trying to futilely cancel a Polymorph self spell in BG1 TOSC, and had to sleep it off...I think it took almost 5 minutes of real time to end normally I assume an engine limitation with how it handles spells (there was a thread about this awhile back, about a bug that caused polymorph that -refused- to cancel at all (no matter if you were your normal form or not).

3) Does Prayer ignore a monster's magic resistance in P&P?
When I cast it, it said "Greater Wolfwere: Magic Resistance" and it wasn't affected, but the chant worked (Chant: Reversed).

It didn't resist the "prayer" on my "quick and dirty prayer" hack I did on the TDD prayer (I simply changed it to a "-1" chant effect on globaltargetexcludingparty and ignore magic resistance was already set, and no monster resisted it. But on yours, magic resistant monsters were occasionally resisting penalties to their attack rolls. Is this how it's supposed to be?

4) Spell icon borders are black

*BUG*
When uninstalling, some spells are not uninstalled correctly (Elysium's tears still works and still has the icon, but no name or spell description), and some of the other spells still have the new graphic with the black border.

Is there any way to fix that without reinstalling BP completely? (I don't know which files do what).


Very happy with how the chant and prayer spells work together now.

This post has been edited by Falkentyne: Feb 19 2005, 08:15 AM