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CEP 2.65 (Community Expansion Pack)
Author: The NWN Community, CEP Teams, and The Amethyst Dragon
The Community Expansion Pack (CEP) is a large hak pak collection of free, community-made custom content. Most of the included material comes from content previously posted on the Neverwinter Vault sites by independent users. Additional content has come from contributors to the Custom Content Challenge, several updates from Project Q, and other content developed specifically for the CEP. Included content is organized to function properly together, with necessary updates made to models, scripts, and .2da files. The CEP is intended to be a "universal" download - players can download this single package to access a large number of modules and persistent worlds that otherwise would have each required their own individual downloads.
Builders using the CEP for their module have the option of selecting which CEP content appears in-game. Content from the core CEP does not override default Neverwinter Nights content, nor does it affect modules that don't specifically use the CEP. The Community Expansion Pack has been very successful over the years, and many long-term players have found the CEP to be as vital to Neverwinter Nights as the official BioWare expansion packs.
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Links:
CEP Installation (for players and module builders)
CEP Forum (ask questions or share your CEP tips and tricks)
CEP Wiki (you can suggest & vote on CEP possible content additions)
The current version of the CEP is 2.65 (released March 15, 2018).
- If you do not yet have the CEP: download and use cep_2_65_full.7z
- If you currently have CEP 2.64: download and use cep_2_65_from_2_64.7z
- - (or cep_2_65_full.7z)
- If you currently have CEP 2.63: download and use cep_2_64_from 2_63.7z, followed by cep_2_65_from_2_64.7z
- - (or cep_2_65_full.7z)
This verion of can be used for playing (and building) modules/servers built with CEP 2.1 and later.
For CEP 1, which may be needed to play some older modules, check the "Related Projects" at the bottom of this project.
Decompressed Size: just over 5 GB (haks, tlk files, documentation, starter modules)
Module Builders! If installing the full version after already using the CEP, remember to backup your cep2_build and cep2_custom haks first so you don't accidentally erase your hard work.
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Partial Features List:
* NPC and placeable portraits
* creature models
* scaleable creature appearances (in highlight and no-highlight variety)
* placeable object models
* waypoint models
* visual effects
* clothing and armor parts
* masks and helmets
* additional cloaks
* expanded tilesets
* additional skyboxes
* additional area loadscreens
* vast numbers of inventory icons
* weapon and shield models
* additional weapon visual effects (visible only to players using NWNCX)
* blueprints and scripts (for objects and scripted systems), importable via erf files
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 CEP 2.65: cep_2_65_full.7z - Full download of 2.65 (40542) | 962.92 MB |
| CEP 2.65: cep2_2_65_quickfix.7z - top hak, fixes a minor belt/shoulder armor problem, requires 2.65 (7772) | 321.29 KB |
| CEP 2.65: cep_2_65_from_2_64.7z - Update from 2.64 to 2.65, requires 2.64 (2441) | 63.29 MB |
| CEP 2.64: cep_2_64_from_2_63.7z - Update from 2.63 to 2.64, requires 2.63 (2223) | 325.31 MB |
| outdated: cep_2_64_full.7z (3156) | 954.07 MB |
| outdated: cep_2_63_full.7z (4877) | 954.08 MB |
| outdated: cep_2_62_full.7z (15266) | 924.72 MB |
| outdated: cep_2_61_from_2_60.7z - Update from 2.60 to 2.61, requires 2.60 (14296) | 444 MB |
| outdated: cep_2_60_full.7z (34581) | 886.86 MB |
Nah, the download probably got corrupted.
mods like gladiatrix(3parts) require cep 2.6. Downloaded the lastest build here, and the game will not load saying it is missing tlk files. will download 2.6 instead of the latest file. just a heads up, not sure what is causing it, but something is missing somewhere.
@kenmei071 you need to install all the .tlk files that come with the current download in your tlk folder to ensure backward compatibility.
I want to start a new module with a new character, but every colour looks like chrome.
Using NWN 1.69 + CEP 2.65 ...
Check that you have removed any custom content from overide / patch haks, and have the CEP haks in the recommended order in your module.
Anyone else having issues with creating armor using 2.65 where shoulders set to 0 show a shoulder piece? The empty part is way further down randomly. Is this intended as it kind of seems counter intuitive in the process of quickly running all parts to a empty starting design.
Apart from that I really appreciate the seperation of the filler content into the sb file! CEP has come a humongous leap forward since its incarnation. Keep up the great work even if its minor tweaking its greatly appreciated for a game such as NWN.
- Meph
Try downloading and injecting the Quickfix (down one slot from the 2_65 mian).
After importing cep2_add_sb_v1.erf I'm getting a "List index out of bounds (120)" error whenever I try to build the module. Seems to always stop at zep_aribeth when compiling. Does anyone know what's going on?
EDIT: Seems to have just been some sort of conflict with cep and one of my other haks. Made all of the custom armors unusable so I had to delete them.
Is anyone else getting an access violation error when trying to paint a custom CEP item into the only area in the mod "CEP - Starter 265 - All the Optional Haks" using the latest NWN:EE build 8193.13? Or do i have to do something to make it work? I just redownloaded the CEP and have not altered the mod in any way. I can paint standard items but not CEP items. I have an old nvidia card so maybe I am just sol as there will be no updated drivers for my old card.
See the image of the toolset error. Sometimes I get that, other times I cannot even see and select items in the custom pallete. Do I need to import the erfs? aren't they already imported in all those haks?
PS: of course just importing cep2_add_sb_v1.erf added some stuff to the palette but not as much as I had in the palette when getting those errors. Not sure what I had in there now, maybe I had imported too much. Are there some included erfs that are incompatible with others?
Anyhoo, the CEP is awesome, thanks!
Looks good. Will give it a try.
Rock On, Amethyst Dragon and Team!!!
Looking forward to digging through this!!! :)
CEP 2.65 is too old when the new NWN EE build 8193.14 is released, so is somebody working to update CEP ?
@Taball - can you explain what you mean by "too old", giving examples or evidence?
New placeables, monsters etc. is not working in NWN EE Development build 8193.14 when you use CEP 2.65, due to new entries in 2da files. so CEP need to update this if builders should be able to use the new stuff:
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/704450/view/2724067792533337540
@Tyball - I can't speak for CEP, but I can give some information about that.
Still think you should do and update, you are missing a lot of cool stuff from this build:
"Early winter 2", "Lizardfolk interior" and "Medieval City 2" tile set really all cool tilesets, some of the placeables (found lizards placables and cheeses placables and other small nice things not in CEP 2.65), all the new monsters not in cep 2.65 (they are really cool and more detailed then standard monsters gfx in NWN), I may have missed other parts not in cep 2.65. But think you need to make a top hak that uses all this new stuff,. you are right that some parts are in CEP 2.65 but not all what is coming, at least when released take a look at it ;)
I've come across an issue with Steam and that is subscribing to CEP does not put the files in the correct place (documents etc).
I found I had to manually download CEP and then copy them over.
Also can't find an erf subfolder so just put those with the other erf files.
Bit of a n00b with NVN and mods so I hope I'm doing the right thing
@thirstyman The issue is with Steam, not CEP. If you subscribe to the Steam Workshop version of CEP, Steam downloads it into a cryptically numbered folder within your Steam files, as it does with all other items. Any modules requiring CEP will then work, provided you run the Steam version of NWN with the Steam client active and an internet connection. So, Steam would argue that the files are in the correct place.
However, you're quite right, you can move the Steam version, or simply download CEP from this page, into the corresponding folders in Documents. That's recommended, because CEP will then work with all versions of NWN EE, even if the Steam client is not active and there is no internet.
Yes, I only have the Steam version but several of the files are not working properly which was solved by manually adding the files.
Quite a few comments on the Steam CEP page confirm this so I unsubscribed and added manually. Hopefully this will solve my problems with modules that need CEP
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