Spell script possible?

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First of all let me say HI to everyone since I am new here. I have been reading posts on this board for some time now but has not had the need of posting anything untill now.

I have started to play BG2 again but this time in multiplayer with a friend of mine.
We play over TCP/IP if anyone wants to know

Anyway, my friend is the host and controlls Pause and such, He plays a Kensai and I a sorceress.

There is always a few spells I cast before we go into battle. Haste, Stoneskin and a few more. Is it possible to have some script or something that makes my character cast all my spells I always use ?
That would help alot and make it faster since I dont pause the game.

Thank you for reading my post.

 

Their is a spell that can do something like that, but I don't know exactly if that is what you are refering to. It is called Spell Sequencer IIRC (can't say for sure, it has been some time since I last played BG2) You can put your spells in there and if you go to battle, they activate immediatly.

[This message has been edited by Silverblade (edited October 30, 2001).]

 

Thanx for the reply, I must check it out.
I think i looked at that spell when I got level up one time with my sorceress. But I never read too carefully about it. Also, since my character is a sorceress I cant waste too many spells.
*going to check my manual right away about this spell*

cant remember what level the spell was either and it it is a low level spell it might already be too late.

EDIT: I found something else that might help me with this. Keymap.ini. If I understand it right all spells are listed in it but with no keys assigned to the spells. Another problem is that those spells are listed as:SPPRXXX as priest spells and SPWIXXX as wizard spells. So now if i could use this i would need a list of spells used in the game code ... sigh. Prehaps it will work if i find out what is what and I set the same key to a few of them.

[This message has been edited by EciDemon (edited October 30, 2001).]

 

Hehe, yes i know of it, but I dont quite understand how it works, I see all the keys and the drop down menu, well im gonna go play around with it some more, or I could just read the manual

EDIT: Ok that wasnt very hard

But what i was looking for to do is to set my sorceress to cast more than one spell with the press of a button. But it will have to work with spells assigned to individual keys.

Thanx for the advice.

[This message has been edited by EciDemon (edited October 31, 2001).]

 

Yeah i read about the spell in the manual. But I dont know if I should pick it or not, I play as a sorceress so I dont get too many spells. If I do choose it I will go with the best one of them so I can use better spells in it.

 

It looks to me like you have 3 options, well 4 but the fourth would be cheating.

You want to be able to say press K and then your sourceress would cast. Say stoneskin then mirror image instead of you clicking on
Spells--->Stoneskin--->Wait for it to cast--->Mirror Image etc.

You could either place the spells you use most often in you quick spell slots.
To do this

• Click (could be right or left can't remember) on one of the empty slots next to the main Spells button
• Find the spell you want and click on it
• Repeat for the other two slots
• When in battle just click on the spell there instead of going through the menus.

Or as mentioned you could use a premade spell. There are quite a few of them actualy raging from average level's up to level 9 The spells are as follow's

• Minor Sequencer. Level 4. This is the lowest level spell and will allow you to store 2 spells in of 2nd level or lower. These will be stored and casted imediatly when the command is given. The button for it when it has been cast is in your special abbilitys menu. (The star on the right) This spell is mostly used in a more offensive fashion as you have to manualy select it and the 1st and 2nd level spells are more offensive. Ie 2 magic missiles, or 1 magic missile and 1 charmatic orb.
• Spell Sequencer. Level 7. This spell is more or less identical to the minor version of it only it allows 3 spells of 4th level or lower. These two spells last until you decided to cast them, be it 5 mins or 5 days.
• Contingency. Level 6. This sounds like the spell you would want. It allows you to store one spell (The level of the spell is decided by the level of the caster, 3 EX levels = 1 Spell level up to 18 and 6) which will be release on a certain condition. For example when you see an enemy, when you reach 50% HP. This will be stored for 1 day per level of EX.
• Chain Contengency. Level 9. I dought you will get any level 9 spells and if you do you wouldn't want to waste it on this. But I'll put it in as there are quite a few scrolls lying around. Basicaly you choose 3 spells of anylevel that will be released when a ceratin action happens.

The other idea mentioned is of course setting up hot keys for them. This is how I would go about doing it.

• Write down all the hotkeys you currently use. eg. m for map etc.
• Write down all the spells you need on a key
• Assign letters that you don't already use to the new spells
• Go into BgConfig and onto the hotkey section.
• On your list find the key you want to be used for your first spell, click on it then in the drop down menu find it.
• Do the same for each spell you need
• Bob's your uncle its done

Hope that helps.

[This message has been edited by Mr Writer (edited November 02, 2001).]

 

OK, some corrections: Chain Contingency can't store spells of higher level than eight.

And then there's also the level eight spell Spell Trigger, which works like Spell Sequencer, but you can store 6th level spells in it.

 

Thanks for that but what I said about chain contenngency was perfectly right, in BG2 the max memorisable level is 8, so any level. (Thats what it said in the manel anyway)


[This message has been edited by Mr Writer (edited November 02, 2001).]

 

Thank you for the info

I ended up using hotkeys Z,X,C,V for spells i always use.

I might add more later but for now that is enugh

 

You could write a script to cast spells you don't actually have and your friends will never know the difference.
MuWhahah!

 

No no no, that would be cheating. I dont want to cheat now when Im playing in multiplayer (I dont cheat in single player either)
It takes the fun out of the game.