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  1. I wrote code to check for the presence of the extended palette for one of my (unreleased) mods. Feel free to use it or build on it, unless you have already something better DEFINE_ACTION_MACRO er_palm BEGIN OUTER_SET er_pal1 = 0 OUTER_SET er_pal2 = 0 ACTION_IF FILE_EXISTS_IN_GAME ~MPALETTE.BMP~ BEGIN COPY_EXISTING ~MPALETTE.BMP~ ~override~ PATCH_IF (SOURCE_SIZE > 0x2437) BEGIN SET er_pal1 = 1 END BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES END ACTION_IF FILE_EXISTS_IN_GAME ~MPAL256.BMP~ BEGIN COPY_EXISTING ~MPAL256.BMP~ ~override~ PATCH_IF (SOURCE_SIZE > 0x30037) BEGIN SET er_pal2 = 1 END BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES END OUTER_SET er_pal = %er_pal1% && %er_pal2% END The macro returns er_pal which is 1 if the extended palette is present and 0 otherwise.
  2. @subtledoctor, you are not far off, but on this I must disagree. Actually, to me it is rather the opposite, i.e the original games are fantastic, currently far superior to the Enhanced Editions in countless ways. However, I do not despise everything about the Enhanced Editions, and there are few things they do better than the originals (mostly technical stuff, like for example the fact that they use less cpu, etc.) but the things I don't like, at lest for now, outweigh the ones I like. In particular, I'm currently still using EasyTutu to play and BG:EE, (but also BGT, and vanilla BG1 for that matter) only for testing purpose. Maybe one day I will switch to BG:EE (or maybe not) but until then I will not buy BGII:EE or IWD:EE. Backporting to BG:EE some of the IWD:EE features that I'm reading here, implementing all of ToBEx with all its flexibility (that means support for the ini files too; if ToBEx and SCS can use inis to enhance customisability, why can't BG:EE? Granted it would be an advanced feature, but not everyone is a casual player, advanced users need some love too), and in general providing the means to modders to change stuff instead of going ahead and arbitrarily change stuff by default in the game (e.g. there was no need to change the way Pick Pockets works in BG:EE like the last patch did; it is better to leave that to mods; IMO just externalising SLTSTEAL.2DA would have been enough), these are some of the features that could change my mind about the Enhnaced Editions
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