UPDATE: EE-EET-compatibility +TRA-ifed version

[Austin]

​Hello!
Firstly, I want to thank Smiling Imp for a wonderful mod!
Secondly, I want to inform that I (and tipun from our Russian forum of BG's fans - Arcanecoast Team, which helped me a lot to solve some problems) added EE and EET compatibility to the mod. Fixed many bugs. Also, the mod is fully translated into Russian!
Smiling Imp didn't mind updating the mod: http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7774.msg78852#msg78852

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hj69wxxe96aahh/BG1NPC%20SoAToB.rar?dl=0​
Alternate link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kK61aJerC2SEfwphEP82xyeAjsfLCymS/view?usp=sharing

So, the version with my improvements includes:

1. Mod traifyed

2. Reworked the code for installing components - now you can install any NPCs separately from each other (for example, only Shar-Teel)

3. Added EE-adaptation of the journal entries (according to this instruction)

4. Added iconv-transcoder (so that the mod is installed both on the EE version, where a UTF-8 encoding is required, and on the "vanilla" version in any languages where other encodings are required)

5. The chapter variables for EET were renamed and everything else is done too according to the instructions from here

6. Modified the sound installation to the LAF HANDLE_AUDIO END command to simplify this process, as described in this thread.

7. Variants of TIS files for the EE version (TIS V2 + PVRZ) were created and the code for installing different TIS files depending on the installed version of the game was added to the tp2-file. Thanks to the help of tipun from from Russian forum of BG's fans!
Added conversion of MOS files for EE using the Tile2EE program from Argent77

8. Fixed installation error that occurred due to the fact that the old IC_YUANTI3 animation did not match the new EE-version where it was replaced with YUAN-TI_PRIEST. Verification in the tp2-file has been added:

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ACTION_IF GAME_IS "bg2ee eet" BEGIN
      OUTER_SPRINT yuanti_animation YUAN-TI_PRIEST
   END ELSE BEGIN
      OUTER_SPRINT yuanti_animation IC_YUANTI3
   END

Thanks DavidW for instructions on how to solve this problem.

9. Fixed several errors that were written about in this thread: http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php?topic=8310.0 (a two .d and one .baf 'fix, and a one .cre-ature from the BW Fixpacks)

10. Updated WeiDU-installer.

11. Versions of portraits with other sizes required for the EE version have been created, as described in the instructions.

12. Fixed a bug where the game crashed in a conversation with Kagain, if the "Store w/Vanilla Items Only" component was installed and the player selected the response option that opens the StartStore("bg1npc5",LastTalkedToBy()). The reason was that when installing this component, the BG1NPC5.sto file, required during the dialogue, was not copied to the Override folder.

13. EET_NPC_TRANSITION function was added to all NPCs with EET installed (necessary for calling through the Fate Spirit in the EET, otherwise the character development in SOA was not taken into account after the call). Thanks to the help of tipun from Russian forum of BG's fans!

14. Added Russian translation

15. Added and fixed checks for all current new versions of "parallel" mods, also adding these NPCs (to prevent duplication of the same character in the game and the appearance of bugs):
Skie - The Cost of One Girl's Soul
Yeslick SoA/ToB
Alora NPC
Xan for BG2
Kivan and Deheriana Companions for BG2
Coran_for_BGII
Branwen for BG2
Quayle BG2
Tiax for BG2
Safana in Amn
Sir Ajantis BG2
Romantic Encounters BG2 (Eldoth)
NEJ (Shar-Teel)
Tortured Souls (Dynaheir)
The Darkest Day (Kagain, Yeslik, Kivan, Shar-Teel, Xzar, Montaron)

16. And much, much more (full changelog is available in the readme folder)!

[Austin]

I also wanted to ask - are you planning to add the banters of these NPCs from BG1 with the new NPCs from the EE version of the game (the wild magician Neera, the monk Rasaad, the vampire Hexxat, the bear Wilson and Dorn)?
And now they are ignoring new EE-NPC, unfortunately (

[Austin]

+ Another question: I did not find epilogue lines for NPCs in the texts of ToB components. Are you planning to add them?

[Austin]

The Russian translation has been seriously updated and supplemented!

[Austin]

A few more minor bugs were fixed (the first post was updated), the Russian translation was also updated, more than half of the texts have already been translated!

[Austin]

The archive with the mod will be re-uploaded, the error during installation has been fixed.

[Austin]

Mod updated!

Added a new optional component! Now, after installing the component "Gnomes in the city (Tiax-Quayle)", it will be possible to additionally install a change to it - "Simplified battles in the circus". This was done due to numerous requests from players who wanted to get Tiax, but without greatly complicating the quest in the circus with a large number of powerful enemies who were waiting at the new location. Without cheats at the beginning of the game, it was almost impossible to complete it on the standard difficulty of the game. Because of this, there was a risk of being stuck in the circus forever. And if you do not go there at the beginning of the game, then this deprived the player of the opportunity to immediately take Aerie into the group. Because of this, many decided not to install the mod. In addition, due to battles in the center of the location, a bug sometimes appeared - if during the battle the slave Kalah was accidentally wounded, then she disappeared, and it is impossible to leave the location without her.

Now, if you install this optional fix over the main component, then at this location the number of enemies will be reduced by three times, especially difficult enemies will disappear and there will no longer be a "second wave" of monsters. There should be no bug with the disappearance of the slave too.

If Smiling Imp is against this subcomponent, I will remove it. But it is optional and I have not changed anything in the main component. This is exactly the addition, which is placed at the request of the player.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iuazaohh4i7jh8c/BG1NPC%20SoAToB_v10.rar?dl=0

[Austin]

The archive with the mod has been updated!
Improved the installation of the "Inter Component Banter Pack" component - now it is not installed in a single file, but is divided into separate files dedicated to specific NPCs, and during installation, checks were added for which NPCs were installed more accurately, and cross-banters will be added only by these NPCs! Previously, the installation was a single file and therefore, in the absence of some NPCs, the entire component could not be installed. The author of the mod noted this in one of the posts. The problem is now solved!

[Greenhorn]

Hello Austin, great work on updating this interesting mod ( and several others, beside ) and my sincere thanks for your efforts. I have one humble request regarding this mod, which I played before together with another fun mod from the same author, Zelda and Link mod ( by the way, it would be wonderful if you would maybe some day fix and complete it). The Darkest day mod also add several BG1 NPC's ( Kagain, Kivan, Yeslick and maybe others, I forgot ) so it would be great if you could make compatibility checks for them too so I could play it with this gem of the mod.

[Austin]

Hello Austin, great work on updating this interesting mod ( and several others, beside ) and my sincere thanks for your efforts. I have one humble request regarding this mod, which I played before together with another fun mod from the same author, Zelda and Link mod ( by the way, it would be wonderful if you would maybe some day fix and complete it). The Darkest day mod also add several BG1 NPC's ( Kagain, Kivan, Yeslick and maybe others, I forgot ) so it would be great if you could make compatibility checks for them too so I could play it with this gem of the mod.

Thank you very much for your feedback! I hope Smiling Imp won't mind these fixes either and will update the mod officially when it appears on the forum.

OK, I updated the checks for NPCs from the "The Darkest Day" mod (Yeslik, Kivan, Shar-Teel, Xzar, Montaron) and added a check for Kagain (he has a parallel version in "The Darkest Day" mod, but it was not taken into account during installation). They should now be compatible and duplicates of the same NPC will not be installed. The main condition is that "BG1NPCBG2" mod should be installed AFTER other mods.
Thank you for reminding me about this mod!

[Greenhorn]

Hello Austin, great work on updating this interesting mod ( and several others, beside ) and my sincere thanks for your efforts. I have one humble request regarding this mod, which I played before together with another fun mod from the same author, Zelda and Link mod ( by the way, it would be wonderful if you would maybe some day fix and complete it). The Darkest day mod also add several BG1 NPC's ( Kagain, Kivan, Yeslick and maybe others, I forgot ) so it would be great if you could make compatibility checks for them too so I could play it with this gem of the mod.

Thank you very much for your feedback! I hope Smiling Imp won't mind these fixes either and will update the mod officially when it appears on the forum.

OK, I updated the checks for NPCs from the "The Darkest Day" mod (Yeslik, Kivan, Shar-Teel, Xzar, Montaron) and added a check for Kagain (he has a parallel version in "The Darkest Day" mod, but it was not taken into account during installation). They should now be compatible and duplicates of the same NPC will not be installed. The main condition is that "BG1NPCBG2" mod should be installed AFTER other mods.
Thank you for reminding me about this mod!

You are welcome and thank you for quick updating. Just 2 more questions, these updates are compatible with old classic SOA:ToB right? And can you elaborate a little how this works, just for me to be on safe side, please? As I understood it BG1NPC will skip installing those NPC present from other mods. Although I hope for the variant that will merge those NPC's, so for example I can finish Kivan's quest from Darkest day in Imnesvale and still enjoy Kivan from BG1NPC ( same goes for Kagain and others)? I recall vaguely that some mod did similar things but I can't remember which one excatly.

[Austin]

You are welcome and thank you for quick updating. Just 2 more questions, these updates are compatible with old classic SOA:ToB right? And can you elaborate a little how this works, just for me to be on safe side, please? As I understood it BG1NPC will skip installing those NPC present from other mods. Although I hope for the variant that will merge those NPC's, so for example I can finish Kivan's quest from Darkest day in Imnesvale and still enjoy Kivan from BG1NPC ( same goes for Kagain and others)? I recall vaguely that some mod did similar things but I can't remember which one excatly.

Yes, this version (in the first post of this thread) is compatible with all versions of the game - classic ("vanilla"), EE and EET. Not tested only for BGT (old), but, most likely, it should work on it.

Regarding how checks work on "parallel" NPCs, the author of the mod, Smiling Imp, said himself, here is his quote:

you can still enjoy Kuylok's Kivan, COM Alora, or your Quayle and still enjoy the rest of the mod. The different components also have 'creature checks' so that if a player were to have your version of Quayle installed and they tried to install the component 'Gnomes is the City: Tiax and Quayle', WEIDU would skip over my Quayle, but the player would still be able to find Tiax even though they are paired up in the component. I tried to include creature checks from all the available mods out there that introduced BG1 NPCs into part two, but those will eventually need to be updated as more and more mods are released.

(http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php?topic=7701.0)
I did not change this system, but only updated the checks (added new ones, for modern mods, and fixed errors due to which old checks did not work as needed).
And, if you have the "The Darkest Day" mod installed, then only Kivan from this mod will be in the game, and Kivan from "BG1NPCBG2" will be skipped and will not be installed. The same will happen with Shar-Teel (she is there and there). Otherwise, there would be a bug and two Kivans, two Shar-Teel, and so on would appear in the game.
But at the same time, other NPCs (which do not have parallel versions) and a new area "Water Gardens" will be installed.

[Austin]

But there is another option - you can install the BG1NPCBG2 mod first, and only then "The Darkest Day". In this case, both versions of the NPC will be installed, and there may be two of them in the game. Bugs are possible. But at your own risk, you can do so.

[Greenhorn]

Thank you very much for clarification Austin. It is as I thought so. I am currently playing old BG:TotSC and I will import my character into a new game which basis will be
ZELINK and BG1NPC so no big deal about BGT untested compatibility. I will think over whether or not I will include DD beside Shadows over Soubar and Check the bodies mods. Mod which successfully merged Kivan from DD was probably Kivan and Deheriana companions but I'm not entirely sure. Thank you one more time for your help. 

[Austin]

The archive with the mod has been updated!
There was a MontyRomance2-4 block in the 7xmontb.d file that never worked because there was no reference to it anywhere. This has now been fixed and the two lines can be displayed.
Also in this file, the DO command was omitted in the MontyRomanceTalk3-6 block when setting a variable. Fixed.