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Tried my hand at making some variants of vanilla portraits. Edited the watercolors to match the unused "female_godlike_earth_c" variants by Polina Hristova 1. I bumped up the colors a bit and changed the background to be more like the purple seen in his Deadfire portrait. Very subtle changes but brings it closer to how Deadfire portraits looks imo. 2. Think I have hit my limit as far working around this portrait.

Smooth Durance. Gave it a shot:

Ooph, that's a pain. The auto-update worked off a backup I had of a previous version though. Everything has extracted quickly and correctly this time. Also gave making edits to a few of the localized StringTables a test, all changes are saving and loading correctly. Great work!

Seem to be stuck trying to update the extracted icons and localized StringTables (Waited 10 minutes so far): Have tried auto-updating and downloading the latest build from GitLab.

The game hasn't been updated since 2017. However Obsidian are currently testing a new patch, so might be worth it to send your save to them along with a description of the issue. Possible they might be able to address it in the final release of the patch.

Sure! Might be worth pointing them towards this thread as well that explains the process of modifying the "Assembly-CSharp.dll" of the game.

Yeah unfortunately the method I describe earlier in the thread is easiest I know of, but still takes a lot of time and effort. And will only work for one language. Which makes it far from the best solution. I'm certain that someone with C# knowhow could come up with a much cleaner solution that would work 100% better and for all languages.

Beyond using the scroll wheel to scroll through the cut-off text, pretty much the only way to get all the text onscreen is the "conversation history" button at the top of the window. I don't want to say it's impossible to alter the UI with mods, but not by any means I am familiar with sadly. Really wish they hadn't gone for this more sleek and simplified design in the Deadfire. I can understand some of their reasoning for it as far as meeting their goal of cutting down the amount of text that needs to read. And well to be fair to Obsidian the window wasn't intended to display text at this size and does cope pretty well with it. But I genuinely think that having such a limited text box for a game this heavy on text, that can't be expanded by the player was a mistake. Even the big dialogue box in PoE1 (which wasn't without its flaws as far as keeping all the dialogue text visible) allowed you to increases the height of the window by dragging it.

Fantastic! One thing I suggest would be swapping the "DebugName" ("Pro-Humor", "Pro-Duty", ) for the name of each topic as it appears in the game ("Lighthearted", "Dutiful"). Anti-Gods = Antireligious Anti-Tradition = Progressive Kind to Animals = Animal Kindness Pro-Autonomy = Autonomy Pro-Deceit = Skulduggery Pro-Duty = Dutiful Pro-Gods = Piety Pro-Humor = Lighthearted Pro-Immodesty = Pride Pro-Passion = Impassioned Pro-Provincial = Provincial Pro-Resourcefulness = Resourcefulness Pro-Stewardship = Stewardship Pro-Tradition = Traditional Pro-Worldly = Worldly

Good catch! Just to be on the safe side it's best not to make edits directly to the gamedata files of Deadfire. I'd recommend either looking at the Deadfire basics tutorial that explains how to make a gamedata mod or the Apotheosis tool which does most of the legwork and presents the information in an easy to use UI. If all you're looking to change is the duration of the effect the following should work. Open Notepad, copy and paste the following: { "GameDataObjects": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.StatusEffectGameData, Assembly-CSharp", "DebugName": "Barbaric_Smash_SE_OnKill", "ID": "44662340-aed1-4bc4-ac2f-01ad1a6c4512", "Components": [ { "$type": "Game.GameData.StatusEffectComponent, Assembly-CSharp", "Duration": 0.1 } ] } ] } Save it as something like "barbaric_smash_SE_duration.gamedatabundle" (make sure there is no ".txt" on the end!) to a New Folder inside of the "override" folder that is located somewhere like: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity II Deadfire\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\override\" Then change the number after "Duration": as you described above.

That is an altered description of the "Soul Mind" passive ability of the Psion subclass. Which was added in a patch, so the strings for it are located in "laxg_exported" directory instead of the normal place. I'm glad! I had come from a day spent writing, rewriting and editing a cover letter. So wasn't entirely sure if I had the ability to write anything that could be read coherently!

Looking over the files, the Basic mod does add some new text entries to the game. (these are known as "strings"). These are stored in the files ending in ".stringtable". Which are found in "CommunityPatchBasic"->"localized"->"en"*->"text". There 3 files that the "Basics" mod makes additions to: abilities.stringtable (Contains "17" strings of text) gui.stringtable (Contains "4" strings of text) statuseffects.stringtable (Contains "10" strings text) *The folder for each language is a 2 letter folder. E.g. "en" = English, "de" = Deutsch. Actually getting a translation in game is pretty simple, and really the hard part is in translating the text. You can look at some of the translations already in the mod for examples. But you can setup the French localisation folder in the mod pretty simply by: Opening the "CommunityPatchBasic" folder. Navigating to "localized". Copy & Paste the "en" folder to create a duplicate of that folder. Rename the duplicate "en" folder to "fr". Which is the 2 letter folder code for French text. Navigate from fr->text->game open a .stringtable file in notepad (or your code editor of choice). Translate every instance of text between <DefaultText> and </DefaultText> Save your changes. Repeat for all instances. An example using Google translate on the "gui.stringtable" : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <StringTableFile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <Name>game\gui</Name> <Entries> <Entry> <ID>2836</ID> <DefaultText>&lt;b&gt;Bonus&lt;/b&gt; Gagnez des blessures grâce aux dégâts des armes de mêlée infligés. (Ne compte pas les capacités) &lt;b&gt;Pénalité&lt;/b&gt; Ne peut pas gagner de blessures grâce aux dégâts reçus. Le seuil requis pour gagner des blessures est augmenté.</DefaultText> <FemaleText /> </Entry> <Entry> <ID>1154</ID> <DefaultText>quelle que soit la santé de la cible</DefaultText> <FemaleText /> </Entry> <Entry> <ID>2128</ID> <DefaultText>{0} sur une attaque réussie</DefaultText> <FemaleText /> </Entry> <Entry> <ID>3810</ID> <DefaultText>sur une attaque réussie</DefaultText> <FemaleText /> </Entry> </Entries> </StringTableFile> Once you are done you could send it to MaxQuest to include in an update, or post it yourself to Nexus mods as a "Translation" .

The items are present in the game's files so can be accessed pretty easily. A mod called "Backer items and Cosmic pets" adds these item like other promotional items: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/499 Otherwise there is adding the items using the console. I read somewhere there are special console commands for adding these particular items to your inventory that won't require disabling achievements. But I can't seem to find them... So the only method I know of would require enabling cheats with the "IRoll20s" in order to input the following for each of the items: GiveItems LAX00_Torch_U_St_Droggas_Skull 1 GiveItems ITEM_PET_Bird_Seagull 1 GiveItems SHP_UP_Flag_Obsidian 1

Really excited to see this getting a new update! Always looking for an excuse to dive into one of my all time favourite RPGs! Edit: I might be getting a head of myself, but I noticed that the game doesn't seem to generate a Output_log.txt file that I could find. Is there a specific file we should be sending when we encounter a bug?

I believe it is, though PoE1 doesn't have modding support in the same way Deadfire does. So involves a different approach that is a lot more technical. Such as making changes to files inside one or more ".unity3d" files. Or even making alterations to the C# code in one of the ".dll" files. Personally I've had no luck with either approach to modding, as much as I've tried.