Oh joys of the internet ! I'd forgotten about those... This is my first post in any forum whasoever in many years, and I just hit my "last page" mouse button as a mistake, making my entire wall of text disappear in an instant. Weee. I think i'm going to cry. People, can you tell me if the frustration ever wears off?
Damnit. Anyways... Here I go again.
Hello there.
I'm a new face... well, kind of.
I've actually been there for quite a lot of time in a way. I've been using and following Spell Revisions' progress for 3 or 4 years now. Which corresponds to the moment I first started playing Baldur Gate 2 & TOB in my entire life. It had become THE mandatory part of my Baldur Gate builds.
During all this time, every few months, I would check the Spell Revisions forums and feel disappointed, saddened by the lack of news (I was especially interested in the familiar rework ). I thought you were gone to do something else with your life and that you'd probably never come back.
Nevertheless I kept hesitating to create an account and write "Hey! There's someone who loves your work and keeps checking for progress. What you're doing's excellent and that person can never mention Baldur Gate to his friends without Spell Revisions. I hadn't said a word of appreciation before, but here I am now, and I'm certain I can't be the only one like that."
But then, a few weeks ago, I realized my mistake. I discovered not only that was I wrong, but that there was another mod already out (Item Revisions, which has since then ALSO become mandatory for me), and yet another one in development. Oh, and if that wasn't enough, you keep mentionning the fact that you'll go back to Spell Revisions for its fourth iteration. That made 4 reasons for me to feel surprised, happy, and stupid all at the same time.
So... here I am now.
This is actually my first time writing on an online board in many many years (well, maybe not that many, I'm only 22 after all). Feels strange (and frustrating, considering the event mentionned at the top of this post).
Since there musn't be that many people interested enough in baldur gate to help you with whatever you're doing, I thought I could maybe, finally help out. by beta-testing Kit Revs.
Thus I downloaded the latest Kit Revisions beta (11) yesterday and tried it out. Unfortunately, both the Ki Pool and Called Shot abilities made my game crash to desktop with a Windows Seven "This program has stopped working" kind of error. Today I checked in and downloaded the hotfix. I believe I applied it (replaced the file of the same name in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Black Isle\BGII - SoA\kit_rev\data\fighters\kensai" and re-applied the mod via the WEIDU setup) but it didn't change anything.
So I started NI up and checked the items involved. And I found out that the Ki Pool ability was referencing DVCL112.2DA instead of DVCL144.2DA, so I made it reference DVCL144.2DA instead and it works fine now.
The Called Shot ability still doesn't though. I tried everything in my abilities to make sense of what could possibly be the cause of the problem (comparing the two spells' inner working and the two 2DA files mostly) and haven't found anything of interest. Am I the only person with this issue?
By the way, since I'm here and I've already written a wall of text (2 actually, if you're counting the one which got lost into the depths of the internet), I might as well ask you something that's been on my mind for these last few weeks since I learned that you were still modding. You see, I've been working quite a bit with near Infinity for some time and have made quite a lot of re-revisions of your mods' spells and items (for instance to solve the shortbows/longbows discrepancy) in a way to balance some more what I felt wasn't just there yet.
So I was thinking of creating a thread within the Spell Revisions forums called something like "Andimar's Spell re-Revisions" where I'd share some of my modest work and maybe get some feedback, advice and help. Maybe even see some people be happy with the changes I've made.
The reason why I'd want to do that there is that I'm working on YOUR files, using YOUR work as a base. And I figured that if there was any place to find some people interested in that sort of stuff, it'd be within Spell Revisions' forums themselves. Of course I'd need to have your agreement first, since I'd effectively be a kind of squatter.
I'm not saying it will definitely happen. I tend to take my time and do things when it pleases me to do them (too ? ).I'd just like to know if you would consider it possible. So when I do get in the mood to do that, I can get to it right away.
PS : ONE LAST THING, I swear. Since I'm relatively new to all this, and my coding ability is pretty much non-existent besides extremely basic stuff (I did some HTML 7 years ago or so, does that count?), I might find myself in a position to ask for some tips. Would that be okay? I haven't really dabbled into the WEIDU-ing of my "mod" yet for instance.
PS2 : Oh, did I forget that? hello everyone !