Baldur's Gate & Baldur's Gate II Mod Thread

[d1r]

It's not about her being special, but she's charname's sister and it's a main plot element.
Her getting kidnapped later is a brilliant solution to the old design issue with the city quests.

About clay golems, I forgot clerics have a 3rd level Remove Curse. It works, so: slightly less annoying.
Thought I had to go to a temple while I was locked inside the Sphere.

How is your run going?

 

[mastroego]

Had to pause it for a while actually.
Lately I've been playing games in short bursts, switching between them.

Anyway, the last save was just after finishing the Sphere.
The party is stable now.
Charname (dual classed Berserker/Mage), Imoen (thanks to the mod), Jaheira (whom I didn't have the heart to kick out, again, despite the plan being to enroll Hubelpot instead), and Yeslick (fighter/cleric).
Four people, leveling up is moderately fast, everyone is some kind of multiclass, it seems like everything is in place.
So far it's enjoyable.

I'll try and add more when possible

 

[NecroLord]

You modded Yeslick into BG2, I assume?

 

[cdx]

Hey Codex, I mentioned arrows facing the wrong way with GOG BG1 vanilla some time ago, and by chance found a 'let's play' on Youtube. Here's a screenshot:



If you pause it just at this timestamp as Imoen fires her bow, you can see the arrow facing the wrong way. Just a heads up for people running Nvidia cards. In the comments of this guy's Episode 1 he stated this is his video card. AFAIK there isn't a fix other than running AMD cards. Which have all kinds of shit now with their software.

I had the same BG1 issues as the youtube video for a very long time, arrows flying funny, inverted fog of war edges, birds flying backwards, on Nvidia card.

This fixed it for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/tiweqe/comment/i1gohwc/

The original bg1 used directdraw instead of bg2s usage of opengl, and it has a couple bugs in newer versions of windows.

http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html

For the shadow issue I use this directdraw fix. unzip it into your bg1 folder and in the included cfg file change these two parameters to 1 instead of their default 0:

ForceDirectDrawEmulation
NoVideoMemory

Then launch the game as normal. I believe you also need to enable software rendering (maybe also software transparency) in the graphics menu but I am not at my desk to test this.

This should be all you need, he has a weidu mod version of the same software but I don't have any personal experience on how to configure it the way I have, but you can also give it a shot:

http://bitpatch.com/ie_ddrawfix.html

I use the one from the top link with the suggested shadow fix and it corrects birds and arrows, too.

 

[mastroego]

You modded Yeslick into BG2, I assume?

Well, I downloaded a mod made by someone else.
It seems decently done.
I wanted a Fighter/Cleric but veto'ed Anomen.

 

[Jadeite]

They got any nudity or sex mods? Also anyone have a link to that one where Stan says, "They killed Kenny," every time they win a battle? Shit was hilarious as hell.

 

[NecroLord]

You modded Yeslick into BG2, I assume?

Well, I downloaded a mod made by someone else.
It seems decently done.
I wanted a Fighter/Cleric but veto'ed Anomen.

What were your toughest battles so far?

 

[mastroego]

You modded Yeslick into BG2, I assume?

Well, I downloaded a mod made by someone else.
It seems decently done.
I wanted a Fighter/Cleric but veto'ed Anomen.

What were your toughest battles so far?

hmmm, not so fresh in my memory anymore...
but perhaps the final one of Jaheira's quest. I did speed it up with the console, as I initially intended to replace Jaheira.
The battle would probably have happened after coming back from Spellhold, otherwise.

 

[Saldrone]

Is there a mod that brings back the Robe of the Neutral Archamagi in Shadows of Amn? I know i could just bought the Robe of Vecna but the archmagi robes looks cool.

 

[Mauman]

Is there a mod that brings back the Robe of the Neutral Archamagi in Shadows of Amn? I know i could just bought the Robe of Vecna but the archmagi robes looks cool.

You could just Shadowkeeper it in I think.

 

[NecroLord]

You can buy it, but only in Throne of Bhaal (from the Arcana Archives in Saradush to be more specific).

 

[HumanTotemPole]

Minor bit of mod errata. Found that original BG1 mods editing innate npc abilities or spells (e.g. the BG1UB component that edits Safana) can break Gatekeeper functionality for that NPC if it doesn’t recognise the spell.

 

[cretin]

modding for the linux versions is a bit of a mess. Everyone releases linux builds of their mods, and weidu has a linux version, but for whatever reason no one seems to care that linux uses a case sensitive file system. This leads to problems installing as you can imagine. There are various workarounds, the one I found the least intimidating to me (as a linux n00b) was using ciopfs as detailed here: https://moebiusproject.gitlab.io/mods_on_linux

But it still annoys me that this had to be done in the first place.

 

[cretin]

also apropos of nothing, SCS still takes way too long to install.

 

[Hagashager]

Is there a mod that brings back the Robe of the Neutral Archamagi in Shadows of Amn? I know i could just bought the Robe of Vecna but the archmagi robes looks cool.

There's a mod called More Style for Mages. It has an option to allow you to apply any robe variant to any robe you're wearing.

You can make the Robes of Vecna look like the Archmagi Robes. You can also use that same component to have robes match your color pallette instead of being forced to use the default robe colors.

Personally I used that component because I don't like the silly flowing cape on most robes so I used it in BG1 to make them look like Vecna's robes.

 

[cretin]

modding for the linux versions is a bit of a mess. Everyone releases linux builds of their mods, and weidu has a linux version, but for whatever reason no one seems to care that linux uses a case sensitive file system. This leads to problems installing as you can imagine. There are various workarounds, the one I found the least intimidating to me (as a linux n00b) was using ciopfs as detailed here: https://moebiusproject.gitlab.io/mods_on_linux

But it still annoys me that this had to be done in the first place.

edit: nevermind I'm fucking retarded and shouldve RTFM. Ciopfs works fine, I just wish I didnt have to mount it every time I restart my puter

 

[HumanTotemPole]

There's been internecine violence between some G3 spergs lately. Petty bullshit over bug reports and personal discord channels as far as I can tell. Upshot is a few modders have left G3 and some mods got pulled off the site, most notably Morpheus562's stuff including Tactics Remix and Enhanced Powergaming Scripts.

No TES modder level meltdowns as yet so all the mods in question can still be found on personal Githubs or websites but it may be worth checking if any are of interest and downloading them in case things escalate.

I can't comment on the MadeInHeaven mods as I've never played them. ExtraExpandedEnhancedEcounters has 2-3 well considered encounters but shits the bed on the rest and gives Xan some laughably overpowered gear for BG1 & TotSC. The Morpheus562 mods are the most interesting ones of the bunch. Certainly found that the Item Additions component of Forgotten Armament is handy for filling OG gaps in itemisation when trying out traditionally less optimal weapon choices.

 

[cretin]

DavidW is legit the only baldurs modder I even notice. The rest of them can go slapfight each other to death over their fanfic npcs or whatever it is they do

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

The Morpheus562 mods are the most interesting ones of the bunch.

Any more info on that? How long is this content, what kind of story is this, screenshots, anything?
It's amazing that modders expect people to install ADDITIONAL STORY CONTENT going in blind.

 

[Nano]

Any more info on that? How long is this content, what kind of story is this, screenshots, anything?
It's amazing that modders expect people to install ADDITIONAL STORY CONTENT going in blind.

A lot of these modders just do this stuff for themselves. That they bother to post them on the Internet for others at all is just an afterthought for them.

 

[NecroLord]

or whatever it is they do

Imoen romance mods?

 

[roshan]

The Morpheus562 mods are the most interesting ones of the bunch.

Any more info on that? How long is this content, what kind of story is this, screenshots, anything?
It's amazing that modders expect people to install ADDITIONAL STORY CONTENT going in blind.

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88017/new-mod-teaser-announcement-crucible

 

[HumanTotemPole]

The Morpheus562 mods are the most interesting ones of the bunch.

Any more info on that? How long is this content, what kind of story is this, screenshots, anything?
It's amazing that modders expect people to install ADDITIONAL STORY CONTENT going in blind.

It was better documented before on G3. There's a review available over on Smoldering Mods Bar.

 

[Slaver1]

https://github.com/Goddard/Project-IE-4k
Upscale of Baldurs Gate 1 is finally seemingly coming to fruition. Unfortunately the modder is communicating on Discord -> https://discord.gg/Pr7wapQ5H6 a platform with an unseemly modern taint so maybe another Dexer can dirty his hands in finding out further information like an ETA or a download link and bring it to this thread.

Either way, it's exciting to think we'll soon be able to play BG in 640x480 or 800x600 perspective with all the glorious art and sprites touched up. If there's one thing I love about AI, it's what it's done for the graphics of many classic PC videogames.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

https://github.com/Goddard/Project-IE-4k

The screenshot looks like absolute ass https://postlmg.cc/sGcyFxXP