Lich template question

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I have installed the BG2 templates and am trying out the lich, he kicks ass! One question bugs me though, using SK, how would you give a mage/sorceror the ability to cast spells like the Lich (ie. without a pause between them)

I know there is a spell which does that temporarily, but how do I give a character the ability permenantly like a Lich without installing the template?

Any help here would be hot, thanx!

 

I thought Robe of Vecna sets casting time to majority of spells to 0 and for high ones to 1. Why do you need faster casting beats me.

 

No, not increase the casting speed, I want to remove the time you have to wait BETWEEN casting spells. Try casting two spells with a mage and you see that he/she/it has to wait a while between castings.

 

Ooh, that! That's easy.
Cheat many scrolls of Time Stop in your inventory and cast 'em each time you need to perform several spells at once. At least liches always cast Time Stop.

 

I was actually looking for the scripting method, but thanx for the tip. BTW> Does anyone know a way that I can e-mail the creator of the Templates, I cannae find his address

 

If you were looking for scripting method you wouldn't mention ShadowCheater.

And yes, there is a way to cast thousand of spells at the same time by using the Continue() script command. But such things can't be used within ShadowCheater nor will ever be.

For mail to the templates author, there is a readme file inside templates and the addy should be available in there.

 

Three words: Daer’Ragh’s_Aura_Cleansing
Is this the spell you were talking about?
If so, you are the only other person that I have ever heard mention it.

Yeah, by the way I’m Davaeorn. Salutations.
I guess my watcher avatar is appropriate because I’ve been using this board as my main tip/hint/answer/spoiler/whatever page for quite some time, I just never bothered to register. And frankly, my bestest compliments all around . So, I’m not new in that sense, although I would appreciate a nice “welcome”!

 

Daer'Ragh's Aura Cleansing is a cheat spell that noone, and I mean noone in BG2:SoA is using anywhere. I know for it for months, but why would I mention it?

It sets caster's casting speed on zero.
Duration: If caster is lower than level 8 time is 12 secs
Higher level casters get 30 seconds duration on level 8 and 12 additional seconds per each four levels (for example, at level 16 it will be 30+12*2=54 seconds).

welcome.

[This message has been edited by Extremist (edited April 14, 2002).]

 

Actually, i think nearly ever mage uses it.

Everynow and again it says, "Aura cleansed" in the little bar.

SO THERE!!!

 

Are we talking about the same game?

The ResRef hex 5CF5 is contained only in WHIRLY.BAM (which is seen at only one place in SoA and has nothing to do with anything but animation), and decimal 23797 is not used in ANY SINGLE SCRIPT NOR SPELL!!!
These numbers are a ResRef pointer to your "Aura Cleansed" message.

The only way it could be happening is if that message is hard coded in something - but I really doubt it.

[This message has been edited by Extremist (edited April 14, 2002).]

 

That spell is way too cheap, I must admit.
With an old cheating character, I was able to cast 12 magic missiles across the screen before the first one hit the target.

Needless to say, that goblin was fried!

[This message has been edited by Davaeorn (edited April 14, 2002).]

 

I think I don't want to know what would this spell do in combination with Time Stop...

Geez...

 

about "ResRef hex 5CF5"/aura cleansing, when you say it is used only in animation, do you mean that it is a spell used in a forced event/in-game cinematic by a someone to quickly cast spells, like Irenicus when he is blowing up those petrified people? Similar to that "something-something of the father" that Irenicus uses in Spellhold when performing the ritual (I mean similar in that it is a spell cast in a cinematic that cannot be used during gameplay(can you?)
It's not my problem, but I'm just confused by the way you were talking about this spell...but then, it may not be my business.

 

That comment was a killer for yappie! actually.

BAM files are graphic files and nothing inside them is a pointer to a text in dialog.tlk file. That is the case with WHIRLY.BAM too. But inside that file there is really an occurence of F5 5C bytes. Inside that, and nowhere else.

Anyway, yappie obviously loves to talk nonsense so he never replied.

"something-something of the father" is a file of type .SPL and not .BAM.
You mustn't mix these types. BAM files can't use SPL files. SPL files (spells) can use BAM files (animations).

 

Thanks

 

In answer to the original post, there is indeed a spell that will allow you to eliminate casting pauses, a spell that is legal and real and not a cheat, but we're not allowed to talk about it in here. I don't know if you can work it in as an innate or not (using SK, of course...No offense Extremist)..

 

Why would it not be allowed to talk about something here - even a cheat? Talk!

btw, ShadowCheater cannot alter the nature of a spell, it is a cheating util for god's sake, not mod making util. If a spell is innate, you can place it in mage book and even memorize it - but you won't be able to cast it. That also goes other way around too.
For altering the spell's nature (if it's cleric, mage or innate) you have to use at least hex editor. The address inside the SPL file for this is 0000 001C and values on that byte are:
01 - mage
02 - cleric (and druid, ranger, pallie)
04 - innate

I won't give details where are set spell school and where is set which spell belong to druids, rangers and pallies because it is not the topic of interest here.

btw, I found inside some SPL files a value 00 for spell nature, but I couldn't determine what is it used for. Perhaps for Wild Mage in ToB? No matter, I don't care actually.

 

I can't talk about it in here because it comes with a certain unmentionable expansion to an ass-kickin' rpg that is a topic non grata in the SoA forum. Comprende?

And let me go ahead and confirm your suspicions concerning said spell and the use of Time Stop.

 

expansion? LOL!

And if such thing is really legal, then that plus Time Stop...*shudder*

Powergamers' paradise! *shrug*

 

Yeah, that spell you can get as some sort of high level abilty. Combined with time-stop makes 'the boredom of power.' (pause comes in handy here...for some real powergaming)

But you can get that spell only with the expansion installed and is no SoA material and so it wouldnt help Ta'al.