Tutorials, for the fun of it.
There isn’t much by way of modifications this fortnight, but you can certainly create your own! Complementing some of the tutorials written last time around, we now have tutorials on general Infinity Engine scripting (by Goran Rimén with notes by Yovaneth), coding interjections for joinable NPCs (by K’aeloree), and cutscene scripting (by Yovaneth). These tutorials will certainly get you going on your very personal NPC mod. No doubt there will be more tutorials on the way, so stay tuned to the Infinity Engine Tutorials forum.

Hello all. It’s time for another fortnightly update at the studio.

One less flaming flaw
Erephine has updated the Flaming Swords for the standalone and combination One Pixel Productions modification so that it no longer crashes your system under specific conditions. This is a must if you are in love with flaming steel. Get it here.

The beauty of pixels
Erephine has done it again, this time tweaking the human female unarmoured character animation to improve its sartorial outlook. If you are one to leer at the child of Bhaal with as much as lust as a posing Oblivion protagonist, then Human Unarmoured Female (HFB1) for One Pixel Productions is for you. Get it here.

Rolles (sic) Royce in your items
In value, that is. With Rolles, you will be able to upgrade various items into their more powerful counterparts in Shadows of Amn. The most recent version 3 introduces the translation a la francais. Check it out here. I feel like wearing my bouree already.

Serpentine goodness a la francais
The French translations continue with an addition into vilkacis’ Slithering Menace modification, updating it to version 3.2. Go and get it here before you get ‘rolled’ by baguettes!

Tools for modding mania
Mary Sues aside, there is another world of complexities associated with making NPC modifications for Baldur’s Gate games. To make the technical aspects a ltitle easier for you, K’aeloree has written tutorials on the specific use of a scripting trigger in ‘Using CD_STATE_NOTVALID’, as well as the ‘Coding of friendships and romances’. Check them out here and here, respectively.

In our continued efforts to make SHS a better place for modders, the IE tutorials section has been revamped. Gone are the sub-forums acting as somewhat illogical categories, and we have reverted to a more traditional style of one forum for all tutorials.

Additionally, we’d like to unveil our comprehensive IE tutorials index, which contains links to all tutorials on SHS, but also on other sites. It is currently the most extensive listing available on the internet, and we think it will become a valuable tool for anyone wishing to create mods for the IE engine.

The links in the index are divided into categories and have brief descriptions, as well as both recommendations for specifically useful tutorials and warning labels for tutorials which are a little bit outdated or have other minor flaws. We’ve tried to be neutral with the categorizations and classifications; feel free to post in the thread or contact me with any comments you may have.

We also hope to post new tutorials covering a large variety of subjects in the near future. Meanwhile, tutorial requests go into this thread.

Good luck modding!

SHS Classifieds Forum Opens

I’m happy to announce a new forum here at SHS, which we hope will make the process of finding people to develop mods with much easier!

The Classifieds forum is for those looking for an addition to a modding group or a modding partner, and for those wanting to help out others with their projects by providing aid. Think of it as a partner to ResReq; but whereas the Resource Request Forum is for one-off requests, the Classifieds forum is for finding people to help on a lengthier basis.

So, are you looking to help out with someone’s project, or looking for someone to help you develop your mod? If so, go check out the Classifieds forum!

Cheers,
Liam/K’aeloree

Keeping a project like this a secret--for five years is a difficult feat for most of us, but not for resident area-guru Yovaneth, who has done just that!

Fishing for Trouble (otherwise known as FFT) is a large quest-mod introducing a staggering amount of new areas to explore; five new major areas and almost 100 smaller areas, containing hundreds of new characters to interact with and a huge non-linear plot. With a number of new quests and subquests, as well as new items, spells and stores, FFT is certainly on my wish-list!

You can check out FFT’s forum here, it’s website page here and a website with a large number of fantastic screenshots here.

We’ve got a number of new additions to SHS coming up in the coming week, so stay tuned!

Cheers, and have a great week everyone!