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  1. Yes you are right. I'm out of the loop because I do not browse the forums as I used to, I shouldn't give any modding advice any more.
  2. Not officially. I'll keep the status as long as jcompton leaves it to me, but if it triggers such reactions I might ask him to remove it.
  3. The "Kivan's bandit hunt" doesn't seem to be from BG1NPC Project (the title). The quest entry is. Thanks for the report.
  4. Both is true. EndlessBG1 comes with the according license, so everyone is free to take it and make their own version of it. I helped Lauriel when she started with it, actually Lauriel posted the idea of a "remain in BG1" mod basically at the same time I started to actually work on mine, so we had a very fruitful exchange during that time. Transitions started out by respecting several choices of EndlessBG1 when installed. But to be fully compatible, Transitions also reverses content from EndlessBG1. I bemoan this choice, because the other possibility would have been to keep EndlessBG1's modularity and just let the players decide which ones of which mods they want to have. Then Transitions got further developed and now I am not sure how much content of EndlessBG1 actually still remains if you install both. I had a look at the code and it just removes the content. So, player install EndlessBG1's Denkod encounter, Imoen&Jannath interaction, Dukes in the palace, FF healers after the fight ... but it gets all removed. Yes, I'm griping about that. It's one thing to make an own version of a mod, but it's another to just revert things other mods do in your own mod because You Don't Like What They Do. And yes, I am probably unfair to Transitions with regard to EndlessBG1 because of its history, but Transitions also does it to another mod and it's just not what I think when I think "compatibility". Tagging @Lauriel so it's less talking behind her back. EDIT: The warning about bugs is just a fact; I've seen several reports about crashes or other and I lost oversight. To me, it is a bit like WoP currently (sorry DavidW).
  5. Sorry, I wasn't really serious to start with. Although I would totally appreciate the other two werewolves also not attacking.
  6. Yes, it was a general statement, like my whole post. I do strongly suggest to explicitly list the used sources, though. I do find the use of several area graphics quite excessive, also in general. To put it simple: If the mod needs other people's IP because it can't exist otherwise, then the whole concept of the mod is questionable. No, it's not "ok" imho. But the Tyris Flare mod does one thing other mods do not: it doesn't use assets from Tyris Flare for something else, in the means of other content. It waves a flagg saying heyho, Tyris Flare assets used for a Tyris Flare adaption, look here! With regard to the old mods at SHS: maybe there are still there and noone said anything because - noone said anything? I am not aware of which assets are used where, and I do not have the time to go look through all mods to identify what is original area art and what is not. I can't even recognize all NWN resources as such. Which is also a good point for stating what is used where in the readme, it will at least spare us surprises.
  7. Okaaay, if we go down that road, for a fantasy computer game Is it only two more werewolves, though? From a whole village?
  8. I don't even know what to say to this. Both portrait mods - the BGT one and PPE - uses IP and copyrighted portraits from non-mentioned sources. This is the opposite of giving visibility to real people, it's just making use of their work without giving anything back. @Shipwreck Jones If I understood correctly, you are planning on replacing all portraits from PPE? Because, please be aware that PPE uses copyrighted portraits without permission and without even giving proper credits. We do not need another adaption of a portrait mods that does that.
  9. Using IP from sources that are not BeamDog's games is not only a problem in this community, it is a legal Copyright infringement, period. Saying that other mods did it is not an argument. The same would go for saying that it was necessary to finish the project. That is not an argument, either. It is true that this was different in the early stages of the modding scene. This, also, is not a justification to do it now. The community has grown and we purged IP content of other sources from mods because of the possible legal problems. It is correct that there is IP even in G3 mods. Where IP is used, it is usually stated clearly in the readmes, in combination with the statement that the offending content (or the whole mod) will be removed immediately if requested. It is a grey area and we hope that this will be enough to prevent legal problems. Just silently using IP from other sources, some even very recent games is something we tried to leave behind. Also, what we do not do is using many or large assets, or copyrighted portraits, etc. The only exception probably being Tyris Flare, which uses a portrait of - Tyris Flare. IE modding happened always in a very grey area. Experience shows that there is a lot of patience all around if it comes to assets used in IE mods; PPE is a good example for a mod of numerous copyright infringements that triggered no reactions so far. Thinking that this means that we can do and use whatever we want is not the right answer, it's the opposite. I do not know what it will take to stir this up to something ugly. I only know that if you kick the dog enough times it might eventually bite back. Or, in this case, if you start kicking new dogs, too. IE modding is now tolerated, even promoted by the official game distributor, we even have a go to use assets from all BeamDog games. This is fantastic! I will not even start about the topic of respecting other artists work. We had a rather extended discussion about whether IA content (not deepfakes, just IA generated content) would be ethically ok or not. Now we are talking about actual IP of other sources, and I see a general "oh, why not" that surprises me. Using IP from all over the place is something we left behind and seeing recent mods released that do not seem to care about these legal aspects is a huge step backwards.
  10. It might be unlikely, but the component literally is called "Peaceful Werewolf Isle Resolution". Duh?
  11. Woops. @PokPokPekPek thanks for the pointer. The links in the first post are corrected.
  12. This. We don't even have to think about a successor if it's not capable of patching dlgs and scripts like weidu does. Maybe I just don't get the point of this discussion.
  13. @pierpoljack Very cool, thank you! This is the result. C#7REST.SPL: C#MIN5HP.SPL: @DavidW could you have a look at what might trigger Grey to transform into a human avatar after the spells were changed by SCS?
  14. I completely ignored this so far, coming from oBGII where it turned people hostile or didn't work or some other reason.
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