Getting an error popup when I load the game through Vortex with this installed. Going one by one and this mod breaks my game. Idk if it's just me but thought I should let you know.
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, I have BG3 mod manager but I don't seem to get these greetings. I still have the same as before. I even tried to move it to the beginning of the load order. Or does it not work mid game?
Reply to myself if anyone has the same issue: I started an entire new game and quickly gained enough affection from Astar, but the mod was still not working. I took a close look at every mod I installed and found out it conflicted with this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/6539
the Astarion romance reaction fixed mod. I removed the latter from my mod folder, and this one now works like magic. Just in case if anyone else wonders!
Hi Cerberry, would you be willing to make such mods in the future?
1.Tweaking Astarion's "you can feed on me tonight if you'd like" dialogue. Would it be possible to include the lines he says after you ask him about that for the first time? I mean the "I'll eat you right up" one and the changed one as well (post patch 7) among the other usual lines he says in that situation? Here's a link for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbIyGL3irnE&t=1s
2. Make him use the greeting "precious, little bhaal babe" among his usual greetings in a durge playthrough
Thank you for all your impeccable work! I've been enjoying all of your mods ever since they came out <3
no please no... or at least make that a separate thing if it comes to that... my soppy redemption durge + spawnstarion are happy with the patch 7 line, more tasteful, less sordid... and the precious little bhaal babe line is quite tasteless for redemption durge too...
I always play redemption durge and I never took it that way! He always says the line "watch out, I bite" and his approvals show that he enjoys light ribbing. I always saw it as a term of endearment like acknowledging that he doesn't judge you for what you are and loves you anyway. I really like it lol. it's funny how different people are. <3
i am +1-ing the first thing!!! I miss his old line of "I'll eat you right up" -sobbing- idk I just liked the playful way he said it. I myself have actually found the line in the dialogue code but it says DEPRECATED in front of it. (it's in the Astarion_InParty2 stuff, node 638. new line is 672) idk if this information would help in any way to possibly make this possible along with these other edits but I would be beyond ecstatic if something like this could be made possible!
edit - i made this for myself as a mod lol and will release it eventually maybe lol
I second the second point! Precious little Bhaal babe is my favourite line in the whole game. Would love to hear it more. Could it be a seperate download by any chance? Pretty please :)
Bhaal babe is so adorable. It's one of my faves too. And in act 1 he called me "dagger-happy friend" just once. Wish these greetings were not unique. They are good, imaginative nicknames, as opposed to calling you just friend or dear. They're all good though, I just would love more variance.
Yes, please yes, I second this! If possible, I would love to hear him call my Durge, "precious little BhaalBabe," more than once! It's the damn cutest thing! It fits both my redemption Durge and my full-throttle Durge! Your mod is amazing and if it things can be added, I totally pray you add that!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hi, love this mod. But I just wanted to ask, after partnering with Astarion, he no longer says this greeting: "Yes, darling? Do you need something?" Is he supposed to, with this mod? Or is that only a 'dating' line now?
My next question is, would you please consider making a version of this mod where that line is included in the partnered greetings? It is my favorite line delivery, and it's like, an essential greeting for my rp.
Is there a guide for how you did this? I have multitool and all that, but I have never played around with dialogue files in terms of editing them but this seems like it might be sorta easy (I hope) to do? I would like to edit his post cazadoor greetings for personal use and all I want to do is switch one greeting for another so I think I can do that myself. I have dialogue reader and all that and have edited the loca files for personal use so I am familiar with dialogue from that end.
Adding for clarity, I know how to make the folder structure, pack the file, make the lsx file and all that. I am unclear on what UUID or other codes I need to change in order to swap out greetings and have it actually work in game. I looked for a wiki tutorial but couldn't find one, so if there is an easy way/tutorial out there you can point me to that would be awesome. If not, totally fine. Thanks!
I can explain a little bit how I approached editing this!
FYI, for anyone reading this NOT already familiar with these things: download Modder’s Multitool, Utilities > Game File Operations > Unpack Game Files, pick Gustav.pak, then Decompress UnpackedData Files; grab the latest Dialogue Parser; download a language loca file and use LSLib to convert it to xml; get yourself a nice code editor like VSCode. Now you’re up to speed! 🙃
So let’s look at the post-Cazador greetings. Let’s say you want to get rid of one of them: “Ah, you’re so adorable when you’re thinking what to say”, for example. These greetings are also found in the Astarion_InParty2.lsx file.
Open the Dialogue Parser’s Astarion_InParty2. This lets you better keep track of the dialogue tree flow, and also lets you copy the entire line to make searching your loca file easier.
In your loca file, search for the line. You’ll see its associated handle: h24b940edga7e2g4b5ag8576g38c4578c16e6
Now search for the handle in Astarion_InParty2.lsx. You’ll find the TagText for the greeting: <node id="TagText"> <attribute id="TagText" type="TranslatedString" handle="h24b940edga7e2g4b5ag8576g38c4578c16e6" version="1" /> <attribute id="LineId" type="guid" value="a72ac7da-95ca-4861-bdae-b0c5d3350773" /> <attribute id="CustomSequenceId" type="guid" value="a72ac7da-95ca-4861-bdae-b0c5d3350773" /> <attribute id="stub" type="bool" value="True" /> </node> 'TagText' is the dialogue handle. 'LineID' is the UUID that connects the dialogue tree, voice, animation, etc together. 'CustomSequenceId' does stuff for timelines, maybe? 'Stub' is... a stub. Or something.
Want the line gone? Just delete that whole node. Bye!
If you’re packing with Multitool, remember to save this file as Astarion_InParty2.lsf.lsx. Otherwise, you need to convert it to lsf with LSLib.
But what if you want to move lines around? That’s a little more work. You can copy-paste the nodes elsewhere, but the hardest part will be figuring out where you are in the dialogue tree. Here’s what helped me:
In VSCode, open a workspace in your UnpackedData folder. This lets you search through all the files you’ve unpacked from the game to find handles, UUIDs, rootnames, etc.
Reference Dialogue Parser frequently so you know which lines appear together when you have multiple options, greetings, etc. to choose from.
Use your resources. As you saw, there’s not a whole lot. But Moxi’s docs helped me solve an issue with the greetings (more on that in a bit).
Make a cheatsheet of the relevant dialogue/flags you’re looking through. Here’s the one I made while I was editing this file:
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#### Dating (Odd State) ORI_State_DatingAstarion = TRUE
"Is there something you want to talk about, my dear?" UUID = 0d3e7d6d-0b00-4fa7-a053-9876983aab5e h6cb91d6cg1ce3g4741gb3cagd801c2bf8357
### FLAGS ``` ea9faf06-5886-0ef7-9996-28307f0baeb2 ORI_HadSexWithAstarion "Slept with Astarion after the GoblinHunt celebrations in Act1" ```
``` 5a60943f-979b-4120-9b60-9e9b29529402 ORI_State_WasPartneredWithAstarion "Player was in a relationship with Astarion" ```
``` ba298c56-26b6-4918-9bd4-616668d369d8 ORI_State_DatingAstarion "This character has started on the path to a relationship with Astarion." ```
``` a7bb1f31-b617-4eae-a1e0-3ec516b930c1 ORI_Astarion_State_BrokeUpWithLord "Character broke up with Ascended Astarion during Black Mass Aftermath" ```
``` 7ac31cee-e8f8-4ee1-8843-e4f7856a10e7 ORI_HadSexWithCompanion "Slept with any of your companions after the GoblinHunt celebrations in Act1" ```
``` 56890d6d-b019-44f5-8453-e689af158b22 ORI_Astarion_State_HadAct2RomanceNight The player had Act 2 romance night with Astarion, either in the main flow or via a fallback option" ```
``` 30819c8d-b39d-42e7-acd1-2a8c2c309994 ORI_State_PartneredWithAstarion "This character is in an exclusive relationship with Astarion" ```
All of this should help you identify the lines you want, find the new dialogue tree you want to place them in, and move or copy-paste the nodes accordingly.
As a heads-up, when I added additional greetings in my own custom Astarion_InParty2.lsx, the game pulled the wrong lines unless I deleted the ‘CustomSequenceId’ attribute from their nodes. Dunno if that was the most correct way of solving that problem, but it worked for me! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't have time to actually do this now, but I will. I really, REALLY appreciate the way you laid this out bc this is how my brain learns and I genuinely wanted to do this myself so I can fiddle with more in the future. THANK YOU!!
Also thank you Cerberry bc I have played around with the dialogue files and somehow had no idea the specific version of hello lover existed. It's really all I want and need lol. Thank you both a thousand times.
Magnetuning also has a guide to dialogue as well that goes more in depth about stuff like timelines. https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/10086 here's a link to their guide!
would this mod conflict with this other one? Astarion Kiss Dialogue Fixed it seems like they shouldn't as that one is to retrieve kiss lines from EA and this one is for greetings, but i was wondering if they both touch the same files...
Thank you! this mod is great, it took me back to my EA days! I hope you plan to add more Astarion cut dialogue like with Nettie, Sazza and Mayrina in the future. Thanks again for the hard work, super appreciated!
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try loading a different playthrough
the Astarion romance reaction fixed mod. I removed the latter from my mod folder, and this one now works like magic. Just in case if anyone else wonders!
Thank you very much for another great mod!
Works wonderful and I even make video about this mod on my channel.
A great boost for romancing Astarion.
would you be willing to make such mods in the future?
1.Tweaking Astarion's "you can feed on me tonight if you'd like" dialogue. Would it be possible to include the lines he says after you ask him about that for the first time? I mean the "I'll eat you right up" one and the changed one as well (post patch 7) among the other usual lines he says in that situation? Here's a link for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbIyGL3irnE&t=1s
2. Make him use the greeting "precious, little bhaal babe" among his usual greetings in a durge playthrough
Thank you for all your impeccable work! I've been enjoying all of your mods ever since they came out <3
my soppy redemption durge + spawnstarion are happy with the patch 7 line, more tasteful, less sordid...
and the precious little bhaal babe line is quite tasteless for redemption durge too...
edit - i made this for myself as a mod lol and will release it eventually maybe lol
Is he supposed to, with this mod? Or is that only a 'dating' line now?
My next question is, would you please consider making a version of this mod where that line is included in the partnered greetings?
It is my favorite line delivery, and it's like, an essential greeting for my rp.
for your edits you might want to look at Moxi's research docs
FYI, for anyone reading this NOT already familiar with these things: download Modder’s Multitool, Utilities > Game File Operations > Unpack Game Files, pick Gustav.pak, then Decompress UnpackedData Files; grab the latest Dialogue Parser; download a language loca file and use LSLib to convert it to xml; get yourself a nice code editor like VSCode. Now you’re up to speed! 🙃
So let’s look at the post-Cazador greetings. Let’s say you want to get rid of one of them: “Ah, you’re so adorable when you’re thinking what to say”, for example. These greetings are also found in the Astarion_InParty2.lsx file.
- Open the Dialogue Parser’s Astarion_InParty2. This lets you better keep track of the dialogue tree flow, and also lets you copy the entire line to make searching your loca file easier.
- In your loca file, search for the line. You’ll see its associated handle: h24b940edga7e2g4b5ag8576g38c4578c16e6
- Now search for the handle in Astarion_InParty2.lsx. You’ll find the TagText for the greeting:
- Want the line gone? Just delete that whole node. Bye!
- If you’re packing with Multitool, remember to save this file as Astarion_InParty2.lsf.lsx. Otherwise, you need to convert it to lsf with LSLib.
But what if you want to move lines around? That’s a little more work. You can copy-paste the nodes elsewhere, but the hardest part will be figuring out where you are in the dialogue tree. Here’s what helped me:<node id="TagText">
'TagText' is the dialogue handle. 'LineID' is the UUID that connects the dialogue tree, voice, animation, etc together. 'CustomSequenceId' does stuff for timelines, maybe? 'Stub' is... a stub. Or something.<attribute id="TagText" type="TranslatedString" handle="h24b940edga7e2g4b5ag8576g38c4578c16e6" version="1" />
<attribute id="LineId" type="guid" value="a72ac7da-95ca-4861-bdae-b0c5d3350773" />
<attribute id="CustomSequenceId" type="guid" value="a72ac7da-95ca-4861-bdae-b0c5d3350773" />
<attribute id="stub" type="bool" value="True" />
</node>
#### Dating (Odd State)
ORI_State_DatingAstarion = TRUE
"Hello, lover."
UUID = cdb24bf9-9b6f-44b5-8874-bbc886576cba
h9bea481eg8776g43bdgaf16g32ce2a08a22c
"Need something? Or did you just miss me?"
UUID = 00e195c8-7dfe-4ec3-b8f2-a6f08454c6f2
h3a5dfd44g2e21g4e4ag8e89g2e473555ffa9
"Yes, darling? Do you need something?"
UUID = 826328c6-e077-4bcc-8051-3592dd767004
h53a11dbbge5dbg48c2g885ega1992d10fe21
#### Dating
ORI_HadSexWithAstarion = TRUE
ORI_State_WasPartneredWithAstarion = FALSE
ORI_State_DatingAstarion = TRUE
ORI_Astarion_State_BrokeUpWithLord = FALSE
"Hello, beautiful."
UUID = ee7b1f9e-d84a-44cb-83e2-0145787db4ab
h15814c30g74acg4b41g9283g2ab74390e84c
"Yes, darling?"
UUID = 7966a7f3-4f79-4a7a-b0b2-270886a57dd4
h1288e48fgd8e6g45e4g951egb09d207f078f
"I did miss that face, you know."
UUID = da3e7035-2608-4839-9694-6150273c3684
h9bd5cec2g8ca0g41bcga0f6g18f2c014e6f3
"Hello, my sweet."
UUID = efccbb2f-b088-4d02-8edc-5df50da999d1
hc320b7d9ge6b0g4e07gb943gb7f7ad2aad26
"It’s always a pleasure to see you sauntering over."
UUID = 3c9d1742-035e-43eb-a75c-14c980befcaa
h6cb91d6cg1ce3g4741gb3cagd801c2bf8357
#### Partnered
ORI_Astarion_State_HadAct2RomanceNight = TRUE
ORI_State_PartneredWithAstarion = TRUE
"Gods, you're beautiful."
UUID = 07151415-6864-451d-93dd-05a4b16096fa
h7b06eb6ag54c5g49b6g9954g0783f4788cdf
"Is there something you want to talk about, my dear?"
UUID = 0d3e7d6d-0b00-4fa7-a053-9876983aab5e
h6cb91d6cg1ce3g4741gb3cagd801c2bf8357
### FLAGS
```
ea9faf06-5886-0ef7-9996-28307f0baeb2
ORI_HadSexWithAstarion
"Slept with Astarion after the GoblinHunt celebrations in Act1"
```
```
5a60943f-979b-4120-9b60-9e9b29529402
ORI_State_WasPartneredWithAstarion
"Player was in a relationship with Astarion"
```
```
ba298c56-26b6-4918-9bd4-616668d369d8
ORI_State_DatingAstarion
"This character has started on the path to a relationship with Astarion."
```
```
a7bb1f31-b617-4eae-a1e0-3ec516b930c1
ORI_Astarion_State_BrokeUpWithLord
"Character broke up with Ascended Astarion during Black Mass Aftermath"
```
```
7ac31cee-e8f8-4ee1-8843-e4f7856a10e7
ORI_HadSexWithCompanion
"Slept with any of your companions after the GoblinHunt celebrations in Act1"
```
```
56890d6d-b019-44f5-8453-e689af158b22
ORI_Astarion_State_HadAct2RomanceNight
The player had Act 2 romance night with Astarion, either in the main flow or via a fallback option"
```
```
30819c8d-b39d-42e7-acd1-2a8c2c309994
ORI_State_PartneredWithAstarion
"This character is in an exclusive relationship with Astarion"
```
All of this should help you identify the lines you want, find the new dialogue tree you want to place them in, and move or copy-paste the nodes accordingly.
As a heads-up, when I added additional greetings in my own custom Astarion_InParty2.lsx, the game pulled the wrong lines unless I deleted the ‘CustomSequenceId’ attribute from their nodes. Dunno if that was the most correct way of solving that problem, but it worked for me! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't have time to actually do this now, but I will. I really, REALLY appreciate the way you laid this out bc this is how my brain learns and I genuinely wanted to do this myself so I can fiddle with more in the future. THANK YOU!!
Also thank you Cerberry bc I have played around with the dialogue files and somehow had no idea the specific version of hello lover existed. It's really all I want and need lol. Thank you both a thousand times.
it seems like they shouldn't as that one is to retrieve kiss lines from EA and this one is for greetings, but i was wondering if they both touch the same files...
My next playthrough's gonna be the soppiest ever! Just how i like it @_@