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Submitted by kevL's on 2021-01-22 13:27.
Last modified: 
2021-04-12 19:08
Version: 
1.1.1.0
Game: 
NwN2
Category: 
Tool
Requirements: 
OC
Language: 
English
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Special, Effects, file, sef, VFX, SFX, Visual, Audio, appearance, plugin
Special Effects Viewer

plugin for Neverwinter Nights 2 toolset

Viewer for SpecialEffectFiles ( .SEF )

c# code - https://github.com/kevL/SpecialEffectsViewer

forum - https://forum.neverwintervault.org/t/special-effects-viewer/3838

Files: 
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File SpecialEffectsViewer_210313_1110.7z (103)30.71 KB
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Open - Free & open only if project also open
Sat, 2021-01-23 01:43
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Downloaded and installed, thanks Kevl's.

I'm afraid I couldn't get it to work though (SplitterDistance must be >0 first, then other messages stated it must be between Min and Max).

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Sat, 2021-01-23 08:04
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kevL's
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fix up

ver 1.0.1.0

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Sat, 2021-01-23 08:17
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Thanks!

Now that it's working, I'll play a bit with, and rate it accordingly wink

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Sun, 2021-02-07 12:17
ChuckerIINO
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Super. Works great and came just when I was looking for something to view vfx with, rather than guessing/trial and error.

Thanks KevL's!

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Sun, 2021-02-07 13:15
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+1 Cino

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Sun, 2021-02-07 14:29
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Ok, now I've played around with it a bit, two noob questions:

1. How do I know which of the listed effects are in visualeffects.2da?

2. How do I apply an effect from a script for effects not in the .2da (like with EffectVisualEffect)?

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Sun, 2021-02-07 15:22
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1. How do I know which of the listed effects are in visualeffects.2da?

select an effect in the plugin and click the Copy button (copies the filename to Windows clipboard)
open VisualEffects.2da and search for the filename ... if found, see what row and column it's under to guess at roughly what it does if/when the VisualEffect constant is used ... note that some effects are used more than once in the .2da

2. How do I apply an effect from a script for effects not in the .2da (like with EffectVisualEffect)?

if you find something appropriate in VisualEffects.2da

int id = ; // row# in VisualEffects.2da
effect eFx = EffectVisualEffect(id); // see NwScript.nss doc


if not ->

string sFx = ; // .SEF filename w/ or w/out extension
effect eFx = EffectNWN2SpecialEffectFile(sFx); // see NwScript.nss doc

then use either

ApplyEffectToObject() or ApplyEffectAtLocation()

iirc certain effects may require either/or an Object or Location ...

 

play around with it, what i said might be wrong but I think it'll things going,

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Sun, 2021-02-07 19:35
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Gotcha. Thanks. I was text searching the 2da and every effect I wanted to use was not in there :(

And I really didn't want to have to add stuff to the 2da (just cause I'm lazy). So the tip on effectnwn2specialeffect is gold. Thanks!

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Sat, 2021-02-20 07:06
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Forgot to rate it!

I kept one star from the rating since there's no option to select the creature you want to test the vfx on wink

Would it be possible to have a dropdown list of possible creatures KevL's?

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Sat, 2021-02-20 14:42
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I kept one star from the rating since there's no option to select the creature you want to test the vfx on

Lol - i was going to ask about that on the forum thread ... yep.

maybe today, maybe next week - busy atm

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Sat, 2021-03-13 01:31
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2021 mar 13 - 1.1.0.0

- reworked to prevent pseudo-memoryleaks
- added source and target appearance selections, and distance between them
- enhanced filtering and resrepo loading, etc
- stores recent search strings in prefs

bla blah

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Sat, 2021-03-13 03:31
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Now, I can give the tenth star!

Great work kevL's!

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Sat, 2021-03-13 06:10
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1.1.1.0 update!

- fix exception when a search is attempted

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Sat, 2021-03-13 07:58
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Too bad it doesn't appear on the first page of the neverwintervault. Did you forget to check the "first release" box KevL's?

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Sat, 2021-03-13 10:28
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hey 47,
yep that's checked. And it works for first release. The problem I see is that it should probably push updated releases to the top of the page also ... maybe ill suggest it in Tech forum,

(though my impression is that nobody really wants to change this old forum software and risk making it unstable)

 

edit. A "repush" or "bump" checkbox would probly be better ... or just change "first release" to "send notice to front page" -- that does that and then immediately clears itself

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Fri, 2021-08-13 09:45
Sean Maxhell
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Looks very useful!

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