PnP Celestials

[Galactygon]

I have both BP installed and P&P celestials. So far, I found no compatiblity bugs.

 

-Galactygon

[Galactygon]

About the scripts.  I noticed that many of the spells are cast by an invisible creature and not the devas/planetars.  For example you will frequently see the message "casts Aid", "casts x" instead of "Planetar casts Aid" or "Planetar casts x".  Is this just a cosmetic issue or will it prevent the deva/planetar from being interrupted?  If its just cosmetic then that isn't game breaking, but if it affects the spell casting process then it is a bit more serious.  I hate it when the computer cheats against me and having it do so for my party isn't much better.  Either way, if/when you can spare the time I'd appreciate a look at it.

It didn't happen like that for me that way. Do the spells the planetar casts vanish from the planetar's spell repoirtorie? What I mean, are the Planetar's spells cast from memory? They all worked fine on my computer.

 

Tis' best to discuss these bugs in PMs rather than out in the open.

 

-Galactygon

[Guest Aristothenes]

Don't PNP celestials have even less hit points than Balthazar(and the Slayer?)

Afterall, Elemental princes have <100HP in PNP...

[CamDawg]

The site has been updated with the new version.

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[Andyr]

Dodgy names for creatures and so on suggest that either they're not properly assigned in the .tp2, or that a tlk-overwriting mod or patch was installed afterwards (ie dodgy install order).

[seanas]

Dodgy names for creatures and so on suggest that either they're not properly assigned in the .tp2, or that a tlk-overwriting mod or patch was installed afterwards (ie dodgy install order). 

 

yeah, that's what i thought andyr. it wouldnt be the install order: the PnP was definitely the last installed, by about a month (ie, i've not fiddled with my install since i got it working), and no tlk-overwriting mods installed. in the .tp2, the .cre files are copied from the celestials folder to the override - and from my limited knowledge of weidu, that seems the right way to do it. my only ideas are a: it's something in the .cre files (how are the strrefs that signify .cre names allocated in BGII?); or (more likely) b: it's an artifact of my particular install.

Edited July 9, 2004 by seanas

[Andyr]

The names should be assigned in the .tp2 as well, eg:

 

COPY ~MyMod/MyCre.CRE~ ~override/MyCre.CRE~

SAY NAME1 ~Name~

SAY NAME2 ~Name~

 

If it's a copy of a file which already exists, the name won't necessarily need to be reassigned.

 

Could be something from your particular install, I haven't seen the code for v2 yet.

[seanas]

huh. check it out:

 

/*Creatures*/

COPY ~Celestials/Planetar/Creatures/CA#PLAN.CRE~   ~override/CA#PLAN.cre~ //Planetar creature file

/*Spells that summon the celestials*/

 

from the .tp2 (Setup-Celestials.tp2 extracted from PnP_Celestials_v2.zip) i installed.

 

the movanic and astral devas have:

 

//Creatures

COPY ~Celestials/Devas/Movanic_Deva/Creatures/CA#DMOVA.CRE~     ~override/CA#DMOVA.CRE~ /*Movanic Deva*/
SAY NAME1 @11
SAY NAME2 @11

/////////////////////////////////

 

and

 

//Creatures

COPY ~Celestials/Devas/Astral_Deva/Creatures/CA#DASTR.CRE~     ~override/CA#DASTR.CRE~ /*Astral Deva*/
SAY NAME1 @10
SAY NAME2 @10

///////////////////////////////

 

which i guess explains why they installed correctly.

 

there's no reference in .tra file for the planetar either: i'm guessing that if i were to add a line number in the .tra for the planetar's name then add the SAY NAME to the .tp2 it'd work, yeah?

[Idobek]

You don't need to change the tra file, just add:

SAY NAME1 ~Planetar~
SAY NAME2 ~Planetar~

The string refs in the cre file are probably correct for a standard ToB install, but possibly not for a BP one.

[Andyr]

Yes, what Idobek said.

[Caedwyr]

Ah, that must be the issue then. Please let people know if it works after adding those lines to the .tra and .tp2. If they do then either myself or Camdawg/Ibodek can add them to the uploaded files.

[seanas]

afraid it didnt work, unfortunately, so i'm back to b: an artifact of my install.

 

i tried idobek's 'say name ~Planetar~', tried a 'say name @45' with a .tra entry @45=~Planetar~ (both of these had say name1 and say name2 entries); i tried commenting out the limited wish spell which appeared to be independently causing a CTD and then trying each of the above changes; tried both tp2 changes with the existing strref in the planetar .cre and with the strref which points to planetars in my .tlk file: all caused CTDs.

 

each was tested in a saved SOA game, so i could be sure it wasnt the area causing the problem, each was tested by summoning a planetar and/or ctrl-i dialogues. the limited wish seemed to be crashing without any dialogues being spawned, which was why i commented it out (it was crashing after the dao left having given or not given a wish: i tried both).

 

there was one change though: i wasnt getting a CTD on *every* ctrl-i'd dialogue. SPMAGGLO was fine (the first called when i ctrl-i'd), MINTSBOT (the second called) caused a crash each time.

 

i tested the game uninstalled again, just to be sure: any amount of ctrl-i caused no drama, so i guess i'm going to have to wait til the next time i do a clean install to install PnP Celestials.

[Idobek]

I don't know what is causing your CDTs but it isn't bad string refs.

[Caedwyr]

Well, I'm stumped as to what is causing the problem. Unfortunately I don't have the experience to be able to spot the problem immediately and I will be without access to the computer I created the mod on for the next month or more due to work. If someone else can find and fix the problem then please go ahead. Otherwise I'll see what I can do in a month or more.

[Guest TGM]

There were a few graphical problems with your version of Teleport Without Error in this mod Caedwyr, for example the DD animations never appeared as they should on start and arrival - I corrected them. Actually, the ability contained a bunch of unnecessary effects too, so I re-built the whole CA#TWOE.spl file based on a new logic (for Revised Celestials). If you are interested in it, I can send you the modified file to use it in Pnp Celestials too.