Latest Ascension release : v1.4.23 on Mon Jan 21 19:33:41 CET 2008	Latest Solaufein release : v103 on Mon Jan 21 19:33:41 CET 2008 (what's new?)	Latest Valen release : v45 on Thu May 12 08:09:27 CEST 2005
Latest Ease-Of-Use release : v33 on Mon Aug 4 11:40:18 CDT 2008	Latest Item Upgrade release : v37 on Mon Apr 28 14:12:35 CDT 2008	Latest Tactics Mod release : v24 on Mon Apr 28 14:12:35 CDT 2008
Icewind Dale 2 mods are also available	Latest Underrepresented Items release : v5 on Sat May 7 02:06:27 CEST 2005	Latest Spell-50 release : v6 on Tue May 6 13:01:58 PDT 2003
Looking for The Baldurdash Remix? Check out the BG2 Fixpack. The Remix has been discontinued.	.D Latest WeiDU release : 208 on Thu Jul 17 15:03:53 CDT 2008 (what's new?)	Looking for The Ritual or Improved Ilyich? Check out the Tactics Mod.

• Solaufein of Ust Natha becomes an NPC who can join your party.
  • He's a Chaotic (Good/Neutral) Drow fighter/mage.
  • He has "plenty" of dialogue.
  • He has a number of interjections in common SoA encounters.
  • He will banter twice with each other party member.
  • He will attempt to romance the PC regardless of race, gender or other loved ones. If you don't like it, just tell him to go away.
  • He can still Dimension Door (don't abuse it!).
  • He can be abducted by Bodhi (watch out!).
  • Three Solaufein-specific challenges (one requires ToB).
  • Two Solaufein-specific rewards.
  • Auto-Buffing Spellcaster scripts.
• German Translation by Falk Swoboda. Example:
  • "Veldrin", ich bin froh, dass ich Euch gefunden habe. Ich hatte geplant, in Ust Natha zu bleiben und nach gleichgesinnten Drow zu suchen. Mit dem Tod von Mutter Oberin Ardulace und Phaere jedoch fühlte ich mich dort nicht mehr sicher.
• Italian Translation by Luciana Boscaratto. Example:
  • Veldrin, sono felice di averti reincontrato. Come già sai, avevo progettato di rimanere in Ust Natha e di cercare altri Drow che la pensassero come me. Con la morte della Matrona Ardulace e di Phaere, in ogni caso, non mi sento più a mio agio laggiù.
• French Translation by Ly Meng, Archange de la Redemption, Laurent Duvernet and Banshee. Example:
  • 'Veldrin', je suis heureux de t'avoir trouvé. J'avais prévu de rester à Ust Natha et de chercher des Drows partageant mon point de vue. Cependant, avec la mort de la Matrone Ardulace et de Phaere, je n'ai pas l'impression d'avoir une raison de rester là-bas.
• Portugese Translation by Allyonora. Example:
  • 'Veldrin', fico feliz por nosso encontro. Eu havia planejado permanecer em Ust Natha e procurar por Drows de opiniões semelhantes. Com a morte da Matrona Ardulace e Phaere, contudo, não me sinto mais confortável aqui.
• Polish Translation by Damian Staniszewski. Example:
  • 'Veldrin', cieszę się, że Cię znalazłem. Planowałem powrócić do Ust Natha i poszukać Drowa o podobnych poglądach. Aczkolwiek, wraz ze śmiercią Ardulace i Phaere, nie czułem się komfortowo tutaj.
• Russian Translation by Serdrick and Aerie.ru. Example:
  • 'Велдрин', я рад, что нашел Вас. Я планировал остаться в Уст-Нате и искать согласных с моими взглядами Дроу. Однако, со смертью Матроны Ардулейс и Фаери, я больше не мог оставаться там.
• Spanish Translation by Clan REO. Currently underway.

Installing The Mod

1. Foreign language directions are also available: German. Portuguese. Russian. Spanish. Polish.
2. You will not need to start a new game to take advantage of any part of the Sola mod.
3. The Sola Mod requires SoA and works with (or without) ToB.
4. Curious about the proper mod and patch installation order? Check out this threat summarizing things.
5. You should install the official Bioware patch right after SoA or ToB.
6. Your first mod after the official Bioware patch should be some form of Baldurdash. I have mirrored the official Baldurdash SoA FixPack v3.61 and ToB FixPack v1.12 here.
7. Have a Mac? Check out these instructions.
8. The Sola Mod works with (or without) The Darkest Day - ToB Compatible Version. Install TDD-ToB first if you want to use it.
9. Users have reported conflicts between The Sola Mod and The Reign of Virtue mod. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Make a backup first if you want to try them together.
10. The Sola Mod works with (or without) the standard Ascension Mod. Ascension requires ToB. Install standard Ascension first if you want it. Sola also works with Ascension/WeiDU (which may be installed in any order).
11. The Sola Mod works with (or without) Nalia's Romance. Some people have reported that having Nalia and Sola installed will cause the game to crash when Archryssa appears, so be wary. Install Nalia's Romance first if you want it. Nalia's romance does not work with Ascension.
12. The Sola mod works with the Freedom's Reign MiniMod. Install FR first if you want it.
13. The Sola Mod works with (or without) all other WeiDU mods.
14. The Sola Mod probably does not work with the Torgan Mod. It should work with just about everything else.
15. The Sola Mod does not require IEEP or any other TeamBG utilities.
16. The Sola Mod installs correctly for international players that have DIALOG.TLK and DIALOGF.TLK. Currently quite a few translations are available.
17. You may install a new Sola Mod over an older Sola Mod without hurting your saved game. If you have an old version of the Sola Mod, try uninstalling it first.
18. Just to reiterate, you may "upgrade" to a newer version of the Solaufein Mod in the middle of your current game. It won't hurt anything. We recommend it.
19. Click here to view the Mod README file.
20. Download the Sola Mod (version v103, size is 990K)
21. The EXE file above is a WinRAR self-extracting archive. Run it, and in the Install to field put your BGII directory. That is normally:
    C:\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA
    If you do not like self-extracting EXEs, you can get a normal RAR version.
22. Close ShadowKeeper, Near Infinity, Infinity Explorer and Baldur's Gate II.
23. Run the newly-extracted Setup-Solaufein.EXE program that you will now find in your BGII directory. Choose your language and then choose which components to install. You may uninstall any or all of them later.
24. If you see a message like: ERROR: Sys_error("dialog.tlk: Permission Denied") then you forgot to close ShadowKeeper, Ni, IE or BG2. Go back two steps and try again. :-)
25. The README has more information, but the quickstart is that you can find Solaufein just north-west of Elhan after the Underdark (assuming you did all of Sola's Ust Natha quests) or you can have the Fate Spirit summon him in ToB.
26. If you would like to use a different portrait for Solaufein, you may now install one.
27. You may run Setup-Solaufein.EXE again to uninstall any component that you have already installed.

Discussion Board

WeiDU: Dialogue Compiler (and more)

• WeiDU 208 (1708K) . Download the "Weimer" Dialogue Utilities (updated by Valerio Bigiani.)
• Or download the Mac OS X version...
• ...or the Linux version.
• WeiDU README.
• Recent WeiDU Changes.
• WeiDU source code.
• The last version to be compiled by Wes Weimer, V185, can still be found here.
• WeiDU README en español. Hecha por Bhasbuto (Clan Dlan).
• Also available: a tutorial en Espanol or in English for how to use WeiDU at a basic level to translate mods and games.
• WeiDU Tutorial (by Japh). It covers installation and the basic D file format in a friendly manner.
• Basic WeiDU NPC-Making Tutorial (by Ghreyfain). It covers making a joinable NPC and introduces the D file format.
• Some people like to use DLTCEP as a graphical WeiDU front-end.
  WeiDU Features:
  • Works on PCs and Macs running OS X.
  • Can read and extend DIALOG.TLK and DIALOGF.TLK (used in foreign versions of BGII).
  • Can extract resources like DLGs or BCSs from override or BIFF files based on Chitin.Key (supports BG2, BG1, IWD, PST).
  • Dialogue De-Compiler (dump DLGs to text files).
  • Dialogue Compiler (compile text files to DLG, modify DIALOG.TLK):
    • Powerful handling for multi-party dialogues using symbolic labels.
    • Can append states and transitions to existing DLG files and refer to those new states symbolically.
    • Can replace states in existing DLG files.
    • Can add clauses to existing transition triggers.
    • Includes special support for various kinds of long conversations where the PC says nothing.
  • DIALOG.TLK Patcher:
    • Patch other files (ITMs, SPLs, etc.) with strings.
    • Conditionally append to 2DA files (like pdialog.2da).
    • Replace string references in BCS files with new strings.
    • Conditionally prepend and append your BCS file into an existing BCS file (like baldur.bcs).
  • Can add new custom Kits even if other Kits are installed.
  • Can add new custom music files even if other custom music files are installed.
  • Packaging and Setup Utilities:
    • Create a mod from multiple packages or pieces.
    • Allow user to choose which groups to install.
    • Handles uninstallation and error reporting.
  • Includes quite a few examples.
  • Complete source code included.
• A WeiDU Discussion Board is available.
• Idobek's Color Syntax Highlighting for TP2 files for the Dialogue Compiler (v1, 2 K) using the ConTEXT text editor.
• Color Syntax Highlighting for the Dialogue Compiler (v7, 2 K) using the ConTEXT text editor.
• Color Syntax Highlighting for BAF files (v1, 12 K) using the ConTEXT text editor. Writter by Gebhard Blucher. Japheth recommends: going to Options-Environment Options and under the Editor Tab, unchecking Auto Indent, Smart Tabs, and Tab Indent and then putting Tabs Mode to Hard Tabs with a spacing of 4.
• Color Syntax Highlighting for the Dialogue Compiler (10 K) using the Vim text editor. Hlidskialf's TextPad highlighter for tp2/d/bad files (v1, 1k).
• An older, buggy version of WeiDU (written in C) is available here for archeological historical purposes. Use the newest WeiDU instead.

Links

• Sorcerer's Place. Sorcerer's Place graciously hosts all of the content on weidu.org. Sorcerer's Place itself has a vast amount of content covering many different games. Check it out!

• BG2 Fixpack. The definitive modern fixpack.
• Baldurdash Home Page. The source for the classic fix-packs and tweaks.
• Near Infinity. Along with IEEP, this is the fundamental Infinity Engine resource editor.
• Yahoo Groups Bioware Scripting. A lovely reference for scripting and general Infinity Engine hackery.
• Infinity Engine File Format Hacking Project. A must if you are writing your own Infinity Engine utilities.
• Infinity Engine Structure Description Project. The community's more up-to-date version of IEFFHP.
• Pocket Plane Group. Home to a number of BG2 mods, enhancements, and discussions.
• Spellhold Studios. Home to many independently-developed mods and discussion forums.
• Infinity Explorer. A user-friendly tool for viewing Infinity Engine resources. Some modders like to user newer versions of InfExp to view dialogues.
• Adventurers' Spa and Grill. The Mac Infinity Engine customization site. This is where you can find IRE, the Mac Infinity Resource Editor.

Westley Weimer < Email : weimer@cs.berkeley.edu >