Inventory Sort

This project provides an inventory manager that works with any NWN game (even modules in progress). This manager has two main functions: first sorts PC / henchmen inventory (places items with same base type next to each other), while second drops useless inventory junk on ground.

While this project provides a very helpful functionality for players, it may cause plot of some modules to break (inability to progress). Use it at your own risk, observe your message log, and always save your game before using it for the first time. Authors of this project do not take any responsibility for corrupted inventories and time lost on replaying.

A demo module is provided.
 
CHANGELOG

2.0 (2019-06-25)

• Complete rewrite and expansion of the project.
• Modified user interface by moving its elements from craft skills menu to Inventory Sort / Player Tool 10 feat and a custom dialogue.
• Made everything as streamlined as possible (well, except for adding the Inventory Sort / Player Tool 10 feat - do it from console).
• Made custom icon for Inventory Sort / Player Tool 10 feat (file names: ife_isort.tga and ife_x3_ptool10.tga - same image data).
• Added ability to remove junk items from inventory.
• Added ability to pick up items from ground.
• Added ability to quickly manage container items (take or add items).
• Added ability to customize project settings and to save and load them.
• All the other small improvements - too numerous to list here.

1.1 (2018-09-22)

• Added hak file containing all files from the override folder to allow other form of project installation - as a patch.
• Modified craft skills menu for easier access to the sorting script - no more need for runscript in DebugMode.
• Added functionality for sorting of henchmen's inventory.
• Added notifications for better sorting progress overview.
• Added death screen forcing player to reload in case of sort failure.
• Added undroppable to the list of features making items unfeasible for sorting.
• Added possibility for module builders to prevent individual items from being sorted or to prevent PC or henchmen from having their inventory sorted at all.
• Allowed empty containers to be sorted (with highest priority).
• Altered sort order and made unidentified items appear at the end.
• Prevented non-PC and non-henchmen from having their inventory sorted.

1.0 (2018-08-28)

• Initial release.

DESCRIPTION

Unlike other games, NWN has no streamlined inventory sorting function. And the inventory fills up fairly quickly, even during the most basic adventures. Manual sorting is usually a futile task and constant search for needed items just takes away a tiny bit of enjoyment from the game.
 
In a similar fashion, every inventory sooner or later becomes cluttered with "junk" - items that have little value (literally or figuratively) but still take space and add to its total weight. This project solves both of these problems by acting as an intelligent inventory manager.
 
Functionality provided by this project also includes picking up items seen on the ground and saving / loading its settings from/to database.
 
This project can work with inventories containing up to 2500 items (an equivalent to almost 5 inventory panels full of bags, each full of 1x1 items like daggers - something you never see in a normal game). A safety check prevents the scripts from raising Too Many Instruction exceptions. "Normal" inventory (up to 360 items - full grid) is sorted / junked very quickly and safely (but keep in mind the warning at the top here).

Assuming you followed the installation instructions and made your PC execute the isort_on script, you should have access to Inventory Sort feat (remember: called "Player Tool 10" by the game). You can use this feat in following fashion to invoke certain functions of the project:

• Target with the feat any item you (or your henchmen) are carrying to start a conversation with the item's owner - here you can sort and junk your inventory, as well as manage custom settings of the project.
• Target with the feat any empty ground ("nothing") to make your PC move there and pick up all items which can be seen from that location.
• Target with the feat any gold stack to set your current item junk cost threshold to amount of gold in that stack (i.e. 100 GP). This value is used to determine if an item is junk or not. Minimum / default value is 1, meaning that an item must no value to be considered junk.
• Target with the feat any container created by the junk subroutine to quickly take back all items from it (this does not work with any other placeable). Targeting it when it is empty causes it to be destroyed.
• Target with the feat any container item in the inventory (bag) to open a special conversation. Here you can quickly take all items from this container or put inside items similar to its current contents.

A ding sound during the conversation means that something had happened.

(See readme for more information)

INSTALLATION

Once installed, scripts from this project can be executed directly, but for full user experience, it is recommended that you add the Inventory Sort feat to your PC. To do so, load the game you are currently playing and enter the following three commands into the game's console:

DebugMode 1
runscript isort_on
DebugMode 0

(See readme for more information)