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    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Yeah - we have your Req

     

    If you check https://poe.peardox.com/ you'll find the current status of your ModReq

     

    Three members of our group are actively working on filling these reqs (I'm working on the website)

     

    The decision to take on a ModReq is COMPLETELY at the member's choice

     

    We apologise if you've requested a Mod already and had no reply - PM myself if that's a problem so I can investigate the issues

     

    As you'll clearly see from our site we get asked for MANY more mods than we can reasonably do in a short time

     

    We do our best while also developing our own original concepts

    new patch, broken override stringtables?

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Some of our members have specifically excluded Steam Workshop in their T+Cs owing to concerns over retaining control of their work

     

    Some of our members are also VERY anti-commercialism 

     

    We take their feelings very seriously

     

    While we may suggest things if our team votes an idea down it never gets looked at again

     

    Individual members are welcome to release wherever they like (usually Nexus)

     

    The whole point of our group is supporting the membership.

     

    We work together, helping each other out - for example Extended UI - read the credit list... Almost everyone in there is in our group!

    We have members who will never release their own Mods, they just wanna help out with translations (which actually means that our group provides better native translations than Obsidian do!) - the only languages we don't have covered yet are Spanish and French (Korean + Chinese - no problem)

     

    We, as a community, believe that helping each other is good for the modding community

     

    Personally I'm writing support websites (not written a Mod in MONTHS!)

    So,

     

    If you wanna join us simply visit our Invite page
    If you require a Mod you think is a cool idea then visit our Mod Request page

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    new patch, broken override stringtables?

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Wait til 2.1.0 releases - I know this is a fairly useless suggestion

     

    It's been noticed by our members (Slack - you're a member) that the beta has issues

     

    I use the main branch almost always as switching branches takes considerable time

     

    We DO know there are changes in structure so I'm guessing that's the issue

     

    It's bloody annoying when they make releases not backwards compatible but it appears that the beta has hit you

    OBS Overrides IDs in expansions

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    I've now processed  every single ID

     

    The issue noted above only occurs in lax2_audio.gamedatabundle and they overwrite with the SAME DATA so this is not something to concern yourself about (they added some white space here and there)

     

    As part of this exploration I've also identified EVERYTHING that ONLY occurs in Beast Of Winter - I have identified EVERY ID that is ONLY in BOW - this list is, however, rather long

    There are 24,930 IDs in base while there are 1,104 that appear ONLY in BOW (oops - forgot to do Decks)

     

    As has been pointed out in our Slack group if someone don't have the expansions your Mod is gonna fail

     

    I have yet to analyse the data (just finished the analysis)

    OBS Overrides IDs in expansions

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    OK this is gonna take more work

     

    The FIRST clash I see occur is with

     

    ID : aa525891-6ea9-4f8d-a6e4-377d2dd20906

     

    DebugName : cre_scourge

     

    This occurs in Pillars of Eternity II Deadfire/PillarsOfEternityII_Data/lax2_exported/design/gamedata/lax2_audio.gamedatabundle

     

    I need to gather all the overrides together as I find OBS overriding stringtable with the same stringtable

     

    That run took about 45 mins on el crappo server so once I've run some tests I'm looking at > 75 mins for a run (prob more)

     

    I can cut the testing time down in a few ways but THEN I have to manually compare the breaking stuff

    OBS Overrides IDs in expansions

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Only just noticed this but OBS are overriding base game IDs in Beast (they also do strings)

     

    These are things it takes me time to notice as it takes me AGES to process all the data (running this stuff on a really old laptop configured as a Linux server)

     

    This one is gonna take me a while to sort out...

     

    I only have one candidate to look at ATM but wanna see if Beast changes the game in some subtle way

     

    Full report when I work it out - manual compare required on the clashing IDs

     

    I'm working on LootList clashes BTW

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    DebugName clash

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    I'm working on ModClash ATM so discovered the following today

     

    Contrary to popular belief DebugName is NOT unique

    most interest

     

    For example

     

    Wild_Mind_Melee

    aa320ce2-ea32-47e1-885e-86c3e9eff3fa

    b84d1157-19fd-453a-8563-1cc25e414830

     

    Those are both in attacks,gamedatabundle - diffo IDs bit the same DebugName

     

    There are a total of around 420 duplicated DebugName entries (2 to 4 times each) - i.e. maybe 1,500 dupes in total (420 x 3-ish)

     

     

    It should be noted that the DebugNames that are duplicated are low level attaches, this don't happen with Items or Lootlists so should be fairly harmless (I did notice a WorldMap dupe or two though)

     

    Dupes are only going to really involve the consoles as everything in-game uses ID and they ARE unique

     

    There are 209 datatypes and 267 componenttypes in 2.0.1 - not gonna bother with an exhaustive search.

     

    As Wild_Mind_Melee occurs at the start of my run I imagine that there are many similar clashes withing a datatype - not so bad in a componenttype

     

    Format bugs + typos

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    2.0.1

     

    Never blindly follow the docs :)

     

    https://eternity.obsidian.net/game-data-formats/concepts

     

    First off BOW has another or those supposedly fixed badly formatted *.gamedatabundle files

     

    It's this one

     

    lax2_exported/design/gamedata/lax2_progressiontables.gamedatabundle

     

    Secondly the docs say...

    GameDataComponent
Name /type	Description /example
$type           The type of the object.
string	        "Game.GameData.*Component, Assembly-CSharp"
    Game.GameData.WoundsTraitAbilityCompoent, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.AmbientMusicDynamicStates, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.AmbientMusicCustomDynamicStates, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.ButtonAudioEventList, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.SliderAudioEventList, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.AnchorPointAttachmentListDataType, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.ShipHostilityManager, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.DLCScriptData, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.WorldMapSettings, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.ShipDuelSettings, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.LoadingScreenList, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.RecipeCategory, Assembly-CSharp
    Game.GameData.ShipCrewJob, Assembly-CSharp
     

    Mod Clash

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Today I STARTED on Mod Clashes

     

    This will take a few more days but I've gone thru EVERY Mod on Nexus and processed the stringtables

     

    I spotted one (completely by accident) where some of my friends share stringtables (it's called a false positive)

     

    This process shows me every single String ID used - some friends want assignment of space

     

    The stuff also WILL (not for a bit) handle GUIDs and convos as well

     

    IF you put a manifest.json in your Mod it also picks up the author (about 50 out of 150 comply ATM)

     

     

    2.1.0 Lootlists

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    @BMac

     

    I wanna clarify an issue

     

    With the adding to a lootlist feature in 2.1.0 can we replace the lootlist with an add?

     

    This, will, hopefully realise a long-term issue with savegames

     

    Myself + my friends would LOVE this work-around

     

    If you can supply me with a sample lootlist and how to change it to an AddToLootList sorta structure I can automate all of this for our members on poe.peardox.com

     

    I have several broken savegame files I can test on supplied by members of our group to verify the fix works

     

    Basically I'd test by removing the lootlist then replacing it with the new structure that I presume will always work

     

     

     

     

     

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    Struggling To Learn: Changing Auto-Learnt Spells Of Priests...

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Read my sig - this lays it out properly

     

    We have over 30 members now

     

    We advise and educate newbies

     

    Simply pop over to https://poe.peardox.com/invite and fill in the form

     

    We'll get back to you ASAP

     

    We will, typically, invite you into a private channel (#greenroom)

     

    @tonpix usually turns up the lights at this point :) He loved this trick...

     

    If myself or @kilay and online we take you thru the basics

     

    @tonpix is also rather good on this aspect (he has a weird sense of humour)

    We then kick you out of #greenroom - it's our introduction channel where we quiz you + you quiz us

     

    You're then 'in the wild' meaning that you're on your own (but not)

     

    Talk to any member and they will happily help you

     

    Our ethos is helping each other

     

    Dunno who you'll make friends with but this defo happens 

     

    Personally I aid and am aided by some of the most prolific Mod Devs you will find

     

    We all have our strengths so if it be art, translation or code tips - we're here for you

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    The "Feature Requests to Obsidian for Modding Deadfire" Thread

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Can we hack savegames again ASAP @BMac

     

    This is REALLY important

     

    We WERE able to unzip the savegames then stick them back together (BluTack included)

     

    As we have a SEVERE caching issue that breaks MODs we need to explore what's happening

     

    In v 1.2.2 I could take a save - extract it, rebuilt it and fix the broken version

     

    I imagine someone noticed my comments on this subject as I can n longer to this

     

    We NEED this ability while you have broken saves

     

    ONE of us will prob be able to fix the cache issue (most likely me)

     

    We also wanna do clash fixing, that's pretty easy really

    The "Feature Requests to Obsidian for Modding Deadfire" Thread

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: Modding (Spoiler Warning!)

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    This links to a similar issue - think it was @kilay had

     

    Please bear in mind I'm going on what I KNOW, no guesses or theorising in this one

     

    @Kilay tried creating a new subclass - it completely screwed up

     

    As I remember @BMac says he's gonna look into this

     

    This is what's happening here - it's exactly the same if you look at the game from a REALLY high level (a GUID does something)

     

    There are exceptions to this - SOME things are moddable (I'll give you an example in a moment)

     

    The BIG hassle is that there are around 60k GUIDs in the game but only (numbers Simon...) about 12k in exported (think that's right)

     

    What OBS expose are called ALIASES to the in-game GUIDs

     

    So - any GUID you get ain't actually in the game - it's translated to an in-game GUID

     

    @BMac - think I'm right on this one

    This makes it NP-Hard to link them up (maths) - ignore this comment if you don't understand what np-hard is

     

    Going back above

     

    @BMac has told me how to create a complete new translation - I'm defo gonna have to try this out

     

    Anyone fancy Klingon as a language option?

     

    I can automate translation if Google Translate speaks Klingon :)

     

    So, there are supported things and unsupported things

     

    I CAN (Google willing) create a Klingon pack but ATM I can't subclass or create a new WeaponType

     

    2.1.0 hopefully gives us more options

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    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Read the above post

     

    @armakoir wrote your ranger

     

    We DON'T READ THIS THREAD (I update it once in a while)

     

    All mod requests MUST come through our website - https://poe.peardox.com/modreq

     

    Simply fill in the form and if we can do it we'll get around to it

     

    The form is there for a reason - we NEVER miss a request and EVERY one is given consideration

     

    The form is part of a group chain of events that let us order our work

     

    You submit, we discuss. If someone really likes your idea then they grab it and you're assigned a Mod developer

     

    At this point the Mod Dev will usually PM you so clarify you request

     

    We had one today that completely skipped this step and immediately hit completed as a new member was already working on something very similar to a Request so he patched it in and released it

     

    If you check https://poe.peardox.com/modlist you can see what we're doing.

     

    Our members get a different version of the site that allow us to edit the information, make notes, create links and apply credits (we get asked for a pre-existing Mod once in a while but always credit the original author)

     

    The ModReq form is vital for tracking what we do

     

    I explain this and the next post is a ModReq from someone who's already used our service

     

    God - I'm defo sticking a Patreon on this one soon. It'd be cool if our team get a Xmas prezzie for their hard work

     

    When I do the Patreon - there is no preferential treatment, I just wanna make that clear. We either do or don't and its entirely up to us...

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