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CEP 2.x (Community Expansion Pack)
CEP Current Version: 2.67 (for Enhanced Edition v8193.33)
Author: The NWN Community, CEP Teams, The Amethyst Dragon, and Pstemarie
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 Neverwinter Nights Community Site (NWN) - Custom Content Challenge, several updates from Project Q v3.1 (For NWN Enhanced Edition v8193.13) | The Neverwinter Vault, 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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CEP SERVER HAKs
This download contains stripped down versions of the current Community Expansion Pack (CEP) haks. Removed are models, textures, icons, and sound files that are not needed by a server to run modules for players to log into. Kept are files like 2da files, walkmeshes, and (in legacy haks) blueprints and scripts.
Current CEP version: 2.66
These Server only haks are NOT suitable for building, DMing, or playing.
Use these haks on the server running your CEP module or PW, as it saves a great deal of hard drive space on an older PC. Normally, the full uncompressed CEP takes up over 5 GB of hard drive space. These "skinny" haks take up around 200 MB.
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LINKS
CEP 2.x bug tracker (github.com) (report bugs you encounter)
CEP 2.x Discord Server (for realtime discussion of CEP)
Neverwinter Nights Community Site (NWN) - CEP Installation (for players and module builders)
CEP Community Forum (rpg-board.net) (legacy forum)
Community Expansion Pack - Neverwinter Nights Wiki | Fandom (you can suggest & vote on CEP possible content additions)
The current version of the CEP is 2.66 (released September 25, 2021).
- If you do not yet have the CEP: download and use cep_2_66_full.7z
- If you currently have CEP 2.65: download and use cep_2_66_from_2_65.7z
- - (or cep_2_66_full.7z)
- If you currently have CEP 2.64: download and use cep_2_65_from 2_64.7z, followed by cep_2_66_from_2_65.7z
- - (or cep_2_66_full.7z)
This verion of can be used for playing (and building) modules/servers built with CEP 2.1 and later.
This page also hosts the original CEP 1 files (courtesy of Shadooow) - see "CEP1 Complete" under downloads.
Decompressed Size: 5.3 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 <A="http://neverwinternights.info/nwncx.htm">NWNCX</A>)
* blueprints and scripts (for objects and scripted systems), importable via erf files
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
Tried following the install instructions for this and it just won't work for me. I'm using diamond 1.69 I also have EE but EE won't load at all. I don't bother with it. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong please
@Armpit - when you say "it just won't work", what issues are you seeing, exactly? Installing CEP2 won't do anything until you start a module that requires it, such as the demo module included. If you've done that, what error message are you getting? Have you looked at the log?
Got problem with Robe and mount phenotype. Any fix?
I don't think anyone is fixing CEP at present.
If there's a robe that doesn't show up when mounted, copy the normal phenotype robe model, then rename to mounted phenotype using model renamer. Also, copy and remame the texture using file manager. For background on how that works, see Custom Content Guide on theVault.
Howdy,
I'm currently playing "The Aielund Saga" in EE. When trying to transition from act 3 to act 4 part 1 I get the error message, "missing custom talk table". Would that be in the CEP, or somewhere else?
I'm running CEP 2.4.
Gregor
Make sure you have downloaded all the required haks from the project page of The Aielund Saga Act IV - The Fall of Aielund (Part One)
FP!
First thing to try is upgrading to CEP 2.65. If that doesn't work, ask the module author.
@Fester Pot: I've done that, but thanks. :^)
@Proleric: Do I have to uninstall CEP 2.4, or just install CEP 2.6 over it? I'm running Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce 64 bit, so the windows installer doesn't work on my computer. I have to extract all the files and then copy them over individually into the proper game folders.
(edit) Nevermind. I figured it out. ;^)
Hi, I have an area that uses the Mines and Caverns tileset. In-game, very few of the doors show on the mini-map (i.e. no blue squares). I've tried deleting the doorways and recreating them, and changing the door models, but nothing works. In my previous older CEP/NWN 1.69 version of my module, the doors showed fine; the only obvious difference is the inclusion of the cep2_ext_tiles hak (aside from EE as a whole of course!)
If I create an area from scratch using this same tileset, I get the same problem - but not if I don't have CEP as custom content. Any ideas as to what I can do to 'fix'?
The doors are actually "painted" on the minimap textures used for the tiles that have them. The cep2 tile haks overwrite these minimaps with new ones. Unfortunately, none of the Community tools used to generate minimaps are capable of automatically generating the doors (blue squares) on the image. Fixing it would require manually adding the door squares to literally hundreds (if not thousands) of minimap images - something I don't think my eyesight could handle for very long, nor do I have the time.
Don't know why but every time I extract cep 2.65 full I get ambient wav file corrupted flags
@Allanon - Works fine for me (using latest 7zip). As far as I can see, there is only one wav file, al_pl_bazarwalla.wav.
Could be an issue with your tools or configuration - best place to ask for help is https://forum.neverwintervault.org/ giving a little more detail on what you mean by "wav corrupted flags".
I've taken over curation of CEP 2.x and am currently working on a patch (v2.66) to bring CEP up to date with the latest EE 8193.32 STABLE release. More information here - CEP v2.x Going Forward - Neverwinter Nights 1 / Custom Content - Neverwinter Vault
I've setup a GitHub for tracking bugs related to CEP 2.x - pstemarie/cep2_bugtracker: CEP 2.x bug tracker (github.com)
This will allow me to track them in one place and greatly increases the odds of them being fixed by either myself or a volunteer from the Community.
Forgive my ignorance, but will 2.66 make this CEP 2.65 to NWN:EE 2da merges | The Neverwinter Vault effectively unnecessary? Thanks for taking up this challenge, it's much appreciated!
Yes, that package is no longer necessary. It was outdated anyway and didn't have all the 2da files.
... though to be fair it was only outdated because EE 8193.32 was released in the last few days.
The final hiccups have been excised from the downloads - ALL files are now included in the FULL and PATCH downloads.
Hotfix for the belt/shoulder issue for CEP 2.66 has been uploaded. THIS WILL BE INCORPORATED IN CEP 2.67
If you downloaded CEP 2.66 from the Steam Workshop, you DO NOT NEED THE HOTFIX
Thank you for the work put into reviving 2.x and publishing the new updates.
Hotfix for the missing Beamdog/Ossian generic doors if using cep2_add_doors.hak has been uploaded. THIS WILL BE INCORPORATED IN CEP 2.67
If you downloaded CEP 2.66 from the Steam Workshop, you DO NOT NEED THE HOTFIX
Yet another Hotfix has been uploaded. This one fixes some issues in baseitems.2da - the full rage of models will now appear and doa baseitem model references have been restored. THIS WILL BE INCORPORATED IN CEP 2.67.
This new hotfix also includes Hotfix 1.
If you downloaded CEP 2.66 from the Steam Workshop, you DO NOT NEED THE HOTFIX
I've created a Discord for CEP - https://discord.gg/4kEh8HqS
I sincerely hope that CEP issues will continue to be discussed in the Vault forum, as, to put it politely, NWN Discord is not for everyone.
No worries - I'm very active in both places. I'm just trying to reach a wider audience because not everyone uses the Vault.
Any CEP issues that may be initially introduced by others on the Discord, will be brought to the Vault for discussion as Discord is really a BAD format to discuss such things - no paper trail so to speak.
For those that don't like the "freedom" - if you will - of the Vault Discord, my CEP Discord is NOT part of that server. The CEP Discord is moderated and I'm not above using the ban button on unruly folks.
Thanks for all your hard work in updating this. There is a ton of good stuff in it. CEP3 also looks good.
Thanks. I don't really have anything to do with CEP 3 beyond some technical help and the passing along of some files.
CEP 2.67 has been uploaded and is compatible with EE 8193.33 and Diamond 1.69. Barring any surprise game patches by Beamdog, this should be the last needed CEP update for some time.
That said, I'm done with CEP. It has far too much baggage for my tastes and evokes far too many emotions, concerns, etc. among players. To whomever comes along next, good luck. You'll need it!
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