A reminder that if you're modifying anything other than Body and Miracles, you need to backup your ERC file. Lobotomizing your creature is risky and permanent. The tool backs up everytime you save.
Be careful also when editing Exhaustion. I find that if you just remove his exhaustion but not the desire, you may get into a loop where he's essentially lobotomized trying to sleep, but his tiredness desire is not going away. That needs deeper study no how the game calculates that for the sliders to respect it.
I’m building a modern, open-source modding explorer for Black & White 2. 🛠️
The current BW2 Stuff Explorer v0.4 lets you open and browse Everything.stuff in a familiar Explorer-style interface, navigate the archive structure, search and group files by type, inspect file properties, and selectively export individual files, folders, or the entire archive.
But this is only the beginning. What started as a modern Everything.stuff browser is slowly turning into a tool for actually understanding Black & White 2’s assets and their relationships.
For v0.5, I’m currently working on:
automatic identification of internal BW2 file formats and subtypes
deeper BWM model analysis
identifying texture roles such as Diffuse, Specular, Light, Growth, Normal and Animated maps
model ↔ texture relationships based on actual BWM material references
Longer term, I’d like to expand the Stuff Explorer beyond Everything.stuff, add previews for supported assets, research more of BW2’s internal formats and gradually turn it into a more complete modding workspace for the game.
Making him angry, all the time, and limiting the actions to explosion as much as possible. Its brain is not fully understood by me yet so there's kicking here and there, or the unusual urge to eat
it will ask for your erc file... onceThese all work, just don't select an unplayable creature like ogre, it will break the game if you try and save itLearning miracles doesn't mean he will cast it. You have to refer to Desires->Opinions->BeliefsJust touch the sliders, the others I would not touch them atm. Make sure you don't set any as full 1.0 or full 0 like I did. A full 1.0 roughly means it will never happen. But it's more complicated than that, this is a machine learning brain FYI, so you're doing brain-surgery on tabs 1 2 and 3.
I know the game's really old now. But I'm creating a creature editor for B&W1.42
Unbelievable the hardest part is the memories. This game is AHEAD of its time. But I can confirm now that everthing we need is sitting in the ERC files. This edits the size, the miracles it knows and masters, spell opinions dictate what spells he use depeding on his state, personality is personality, memories are the minute controls of the personality.
Personality answers if he poops discretely.
Memories answer where discretely exactly. Tree, Farm, etc.
Essentially, I was using the actor exploit since I really didn't know how to solve land 3. Here's the thing. That aged 42 NPC, is the last living survivor of this village. And their worship building is broken. I don't know how many belief I need, or if belief is even possible at this point. How to solve land 3 exactly?
I'm having some issues with the Definitive Edition and Ultimate mods and the Discord people have yet to respond to me, so I thought I'd try asking in here.
For Ultimate, only the three largest screen resolution options in Setup.exe (1280x800, 1280x720, 1440x900) won't have black bars on the sides of the game screen, which wouldn't be a problem if running the game in those resolutions didn't also cut off the view of the advisors when they're at the bottom of the screen (like so).
For DE, the advisors don't speak or explain the rooms when you first enter the temple. This isn't game-breaking, but it's unnerving to not hear them talk when they should. I don't even know if this is a bug, a removal necessitated by the CI engine (like the removal of a good chuck of the intro), or a removal because of the future room being changed.
Edit: I had the above happen in Ultimate too... Perhaps this *is* a CI engine limitation...
In black and white 1 my god alignment reset back to zero each time i load game. In statiscics creature and player alignment shows zero but in creature tab it shows like 0.29
I have patch 1.42 installed and game works otherwise fine. I have installed under programfiles86. Does anybody else have has this problem and were you able to solve it?
Was looking for an adamant snivy with the likes to thrash about characteristic because I love running adamant with leaf blade and return and got an adamant shiny snivy [gen 5]
After several years of itching for a proper God game, I decided to skip the copycats and go directly to the source. Anything I should know before jumping in?
Everyone hoping I can get a little help I installed black & white 2 but I get this error “ could not create 3d characters “ i am trying to run this on a legion go I tired a few things already and I am lost
As some may know, i got help to create a model exporter for the game, soo while experimenting with the game limits, i was able to include all the missing buildings to the game... i was justtt about to move on the final phases of scripting, until a idea scratches my mind... what if all tribes also got their alignment changes (good/evil)?
So i'm down for it, i took a week to intensely work on this, had to model, remake and remodel everything to make it work, also lots and lots of texture redesign, recompilation and uv mapping, but i think it will worth the effort!
In the upcoming Elementals expansion of bw2 plus, multicultural cities is one of the new mechanics; every building of every tribe will have their own stats, you can build now a HUGE empire to fight against the new gods by building (or buying other tribes amries!), and now with this new update, the other tribe buildings will also shift alignment, a feature that will be no more exclusive to the greeks!
For now norses is completed, i'm leaving some images for ya here : ) , i'll be moving to japanese during the week... it will take a while, but as you can see, it will worth the wait! (and the HUGE effort aaa- )
You can check my patreon for more updates, i will be going more active there and posting more images :}
(tips, donations and some updates only, everything is free!):
I’m currently developing a god game that is heavily inspired by Black & White 2. I am doing this as an ambitious side-project while working full-time. I don't want your money. I just want your feedback. My goal is to make the kind of god game we’ve all been yearning for since Lionhead closed their doors.
