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Bubb13 / EEex

An executable extender for Beamdog's Enhanced Edition of the Infinity Engine
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Chant showing up only on caster in effect-menu module #43

Closed v1ld closed 2 years ago

v1ld commented 2 years ago

When testing the effect-menu module, a Chant cast on the whole party only shows up in the Shift-mouseover listing only on the caster and not the other members of the party.

Thanks for your work on EEex and on Spell Menu Extended!

Bubb13 commented 2 years ago

Hi v1ld,

The effect-menu does the best it can automatically. Chant is hidden because it immediately splits off into subspells, and these subspells don't have any icons assigned. This doesn't affect vanilla gameplay, however, this detail means the effect-menu will interpret these subspells as internal and hide them. If you're familiar with using Near Infinity you could add icons to the subspells and the effect-menu will start picking them up.

Unfortunately there are instances of enemy-specific spells and little technicalities like this that make the effect-menu miss spells. Only way around it is to curate a list of known spells, and that's simply infeasible when considering the many game versions / mods.

v1ld commented 2 years ago

Makes sense. I noticed Bless didn't have the same problem.

I find this feature really useful when playing SCS as is, so thanks much for adding it.

https://imgur.com/2AdSXK3

4Luke4 commented 2 years ago

Hi v1ld,

The effect-menu does the best it can automatically. Chant is hidden because it immediately splits off into subspells, and these subspells don't have any icons assigned.

What do you mean exactly...? They (SPPR203D, SPPR203E) do have an existing icon assigned in my v2.6 game (offset 0x4, Ability / Extended Header)...

Bubb13 commented 2 years ago

It varies by game. Looks like BG:EE has icons assigned, but BG2:EE and IWD:EE don't.

4Luke4 commented 2 years ago

It varies by game. Looks like BG:EE has icons assigned, but BG2:EE and IWD:EE don't.

Oh, you're right, didn't notice it...