Icewind Dale The Icewind Dale Series Thread

[Jigby]

despite both having integer scaling options.

integer scaling is going to affect only the size of the scaling. Plus, you're already at integer since you're playing at half your desktop resolution. So the integer option at that resolution should have no effect. For filters, switch the shaders. I guess the common ones are nearest-neighbor, sharp bilinear, catmull-rom, catmull-rom-sharp and fsr. FSR was added only in 6.5.0.0, so you might have to update (the version packaged with iwd2ee seems to be ~6.0.0.0). Also some of those shaders might be in the shader-package.zip (shader-package.zip\interpolation\...)

 

[Melcar]

Downloaded the most recent cnc-ddraw (6.9 something). Been playing with the filters. Nearest neighbor looks much crappier than what I get in gamescope. Catmulll-rom-bilinear seems to be the best one for me.

 

[Jigby]

I think FSR has the sharpest look, but it doesn't look good with the old fog of war and I don't like the one in EE. So I can't really use it...

Nearest neighbor looks much crappier

Yeah, I also dislike nearest neighbor, some people like though, even Codex has plenty of recommendations with set resolution to your desktop half and the integer scale application etc...

 

[Melcar]

Nearest neighbor looks rather good and crisp in gamescope, so not sure what is happening with cnc-ddraw. Haven't tried fsr, but at least in gamescope it tends to smudge the edges of sprites a bit too much and some colors look messed up (like reds). Text rendering with gamescope and fsr is much better than with other filters. The EE fog of war looks weird, but I prefer it over the constant flickering with the original fog.

 

[cretin]

Guys can you bash together a quick summary for what you did to get IWD2EE running on wine? Ive been having trouble all morning.

 

[Melcar]

Got it running on a WINE staging prefix (ver 9.19) with nothing extra except cnc-ddraw. Mod installs fine (just takes a while like all weidu mods). Using IWD2 Complete from GOG.

• Install IWD2 (preferably on its own WINE prefix)
• Download the latest IWD2EE and extract it to your IWD2 install folder
• Run the IWD2EE setup and install desired components
• Get the latest cnc-ddraw from here
• Extract the cnc-ddraw archive to your IWD2 install folder
• Add a ddraw override to your WINE prefix and set it to "native"
• Run cnc-ddraw config utility (it should be inside your IWD2 installatin folder too) and set preferences to your liking

 

[Melcar]

Better install and run cnc-ddraw after the mod so you use the latest version.

 

[Grunker]

Dragon's Eye, Norway. Wonder if it was an inspiration

 

[NJClaw]

Christmas is just around the corner, which means it is time to reinstall IWD2 and be reminded that its "select party" screen has better writing than any RPG I played in the last 20 years.

 

[Hydro]

Any news about that ToEE total conversion mod for IWD? Pretty sure there was a dedicated thread somewhere around.

 

[Snufkin]

Christmas is just around the corner, which means it is time to reinstall IWD2 and be reminded that its "select party" screen has better writing than any RPG I played in the last 20 years.

My replay is delayed because no snow in Poland yet.

 

[NJClaw]

Posting here to say that I think the magma level in IWD2 is completely fine and I'm tired of pretending it's not. It's one of the lowest points in the game, but it's so short that the backtracking isn't nearly enough to become boring. Obviously, it's not WHY I replay this game, but it also doesn't really count as a reason not to.

 

[Average Manatee]

I agree the magma level isn't that long. It's also so late in the game that I barely think of it when I recall the tedium of IWD2, my mind immediately goes to how obnoxiously drawn out the ice fortress is. Which triples in tedium if you do the battle squares, and then you go back a second time later in the game. You could probably spend a third of your game time there.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Is anyone interested in proompted portraits? I could upload them somewhere.
I think they look alright. Obviously not better than works of Kovacs and Sweet. But sure as hell better than some stinkers half-arsed by Manley.

Examples:

 

[d1r]

Is anyone interested in proompted portraits? I could upload them somewhere.
I think they look alright. Obviously not better than works of Kovacs and Sweet. But sure as hell better than some stinkers half-arsed by Manley.

Examples:

What program did you use? The middle one looks authentic.

 

[NJClaw]

Is anyone interested in proompted portraits? I could upload them somewhere.

Yes, absolutely!

This is the best I could come up with the last time I tried:

Spoiler

 

[Lagole Gon]

What program did you use? The middle one looks authentic.

Long story short:
1. Some models of Stable Diffusion can do that. These were made in ZavyChroma XL. I had not-horrible results in Dreamshaper (SD 1.5) too.
2. The whole trick is "Image to Image" wih the right settings and good input graphic. It gives this "tastefully messy painting" effect.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Is anyone interested in proompted portraits? I could upload them somewhere.

Yes, absolutely!

This is the best I could come up with the last time I tried:

Spoiler

But these are my earlier attempts. I don't get the joke.

 

[NJClaw]

But these are my earlier attempts. I don't get the joke.

Lol, you sure? I must have saved them in the same folder where I collected mine. The fact I picked yours as the ones I liked the most tells you how much you need to share what you have!

 

[Lagole Gon]

Well, that's oddly flattering.
Truly, I must be quite good at telling a machine to make things for me.

IWD2-ready portraits: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Q3DFBnxydK1QHY72ZEE5if8mi4Ho4Ow/view?usp=sharing

PNG pictures, composition and minor details might be different:

Spoiler

 

[Hydro]

Idk it all looks from meh to cringe
No offense

 

[Cael]

Well, that's oddly flattering.
Truly, I must be quite good at telling a machine to make things for me.

IWD2-ready portraits: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Q3DFBnxydK1QHY72ZEE5if8mi4Ho4Ow/view?usp=sharing

PNG pictures, composition and minor details might be different:

Spoiler

Nice portraits.

Modded from celebrity photos?

 

[rojay]

Fucking nice images, boys.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Well, that's oddly flattering.
Truly, I must be quite good at telling a machine to make things for me.

IWD2-ready portraits: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Q3DFBnxydK1QHY72ZEE5if8mi4Ho4Ow/view?usp=sharing

PNG pictures, composition and minor details might be different:

Spoiler

Nice portraits.

Modded from celebrity photos?

I think 80% of them come from a single picture of some erotic model standing in desert landscape.
Fed to the machine over and over again, across various Stable diffusion version.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Posting here to say that I think the magma level in IWD2 is completely fine and I'm tired of pretending it's not. It's one of the lowest points in the game, but it's so short that the backtracking isn't nearly enough to become boring. Obviously, it's not WHY I replay this game, but it also doesn't really count as a reason not to.

Of the supposedly bad parts of IWD2 - ice temple, fellwood, volcano, this is the only one I have an issue with. You just sail around on the lava boat talking to people to trigger something new to progress to the next day and it's full of sections where the game takes the controls from the player to slowly play a scene. There's what, two real fights in total in the whole time loop sequence? Once you know what to do, it's passable, but it's the one part of the game that I just want to be done with when it starts.
Then again, I kinda like the ice temple (battle squares aside) and fellwood and wish the fellwood section was expanded with sidequests, more areas and a dungeon. The marsh and river caves are alright, but I think I'd rather have chapter III more focused on a single large location with more stuff.