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That would turn Kangaxx or the other demi-lich into Morte? You know, an NPC you could add to the party, with typical Morte banter, a nasty bite, and maybe something like miscast magic to substitute for his taunts? Or perhaps make him a mage, playing off the "I'm the head of Vecna!" line.

 

all you need is cheese and matchsticks. You will have your very own Kangaxx mod in no time. Er, I don't understand your question to be honest, so I'd thought I'd be rude :/

 

go to: www.teambg.com

download their tools and you are pretty much set.

 

I once Ctrl-Q'd Demi-Kangaxx to my party. Was very interesting. LOT of spells.. This may be a little spoiler, so don't read if you don't wanna know, but he has got 27 levels and only 80 hitpoints.
It would be nice to make NPC. I just downloaded WeiDu editor, so I'm starting to learn how to use it. Maybe someday I will have a decent NPC mod.

 

The only spell that the demilich has is Banishment (Imprisonment), he's level 31 and he has 50 hitpoints.

Maybe you're thinking of the lich version?

 

What about the Demilich Howl?

 

Nope.. I am quite sure it was Demilich. I killed his earlier form and when I couldn't beat the other one, I ctrl-Q'd him and started a new game.

 

@Malovae

Sorry, I should have given a heads-up that Morte is a character from Planescape: Torment. He is also just a floating skull, like a demi-lich. And he claims to be the head of the famous lich Vecna.

 

You'd need to download a couple of programs - it is actually quite and easy mod to make. Edit the dialogue files from PS:T slightly, edit a couple of script files add a creature and hey, it works!

might need to do different party banters though. Morte was so cool though. Imagine him trying to chat up Viconia

 

That's actually wierdly coded. He doesn't actually have that, a script forces him to cast it even though he doesn't actually have the spell.

8people is correct that it wouldn't be that hard of a mod to make using WeiDU.

Kangaxx and Morte have completely different personalities though. I can't see Kangaxx making a good party member. You can add a regular Morte though (Planar Prison maybe?)

 

Imagine if Kangaxx and Morte met

Morte: Hey look! Another floating skull, you off the pillar too, huh?
Kangaxx: Foolssssssssssssss!
Morte: Hey chief, what's up with him?

I think Morte shouldn't replace Kangaxx or any other demilich.

Perhaps you find him locked in a tomb or in Irenicus Dungeon.

 

I guess I'm just a bit tired of Kangaxx. The old "Go get my body so I can unleash my vengeance" bit doesn't really do anything for me. I mean, being good, I really should have no motivation to help him. And I wouldn't, except for that nifty ring he has. He's also a pushover. Killing the first incarnation is easy. Set a few traps before you let the cat out of the box, and he's no longer a threat. For the second incarnation, Carsomyr and greater whirlwind wipe him out in one round before he can get off a single spell.

But I'd be just as happy to leave Kangaxx where he is and add Morte somewhere else. The planar prison seems like a good suggestion -- certainly fits the story better. I'm not sure I could make a mod, though, since I'm not really up on how to do all the scripting and what not. But if time permits I'll give it a shot. Of course, if someone wants to beat me to the punch, I'll be your biggest fan.

And if Morte can be modded into the party, then Grace can to. Woo-hoo! Now there's some real motivation to learn how to mod, eh Rastor?

 

Actually, it would be harder to get Grace into the party. You would probably want to import her graphics into the game - something that would be difficult, neigh on impossible. And some things would be difficult to add - like her special abilities and race and such.

 

TeamBG.net has a tutorial on importing PS:T graphics to BG2. Does this not look like it would work? I readily admit that I don't yet understand the tutorial. Is it not intended to import character graphics? Maybe just spells effects and such?

 

I've seen that tutorial as well. But as far as I know the PS:T graphics would look wildly out of place and probably out of proportion to everything else.

 

Grace is already taken .

8people,
You'd have to resize the graphics and such but it is doable. The only problem is that in order to import into BG2, we'd have to replace one of the in-game animations.

 

Fixing the size isn't too hard, people have worked out automated ways to do that. The perspective isn't the same, though, which can't really be fixed.

 

Rastor: Would we have to replace another animation? Or would it be possible to give it a different number and access it through CM?

 

8people,
Every source I've checked says that it would require overwriting an already existing animation.

Truthfully, I'm tempted to try doing it and adding a new line to anim.ids, just to see if what you thought up might work (I don't see why it wouldn't, but you never know).