#script extender

[insipid-drivel]

BG3's Hotfix 18: Fixing Broken Script Extender for Modders

So as of today (2/20/2024) Larian released Hotfix #18 to BG3. For those of you that are like me and enjoy modding the game, you've probably found Norbite's Script Extender is broken and a bunch of, if not all of, your mods are broken.

For those unfamiliar, Script Extender is what allows modders to use mods that use files, colors, commands, and models that aren't native to the innate code of the core game. Script Extender allows mod developers to extend the game's code so it will run normally alongside modded codes that alter, add, or remove features from the game.

Norbite has gone on-record saying that they do not know when they'll be able to fix this issue, as they had only just finished updating SE for Patch 6. Hotfix 18 changed some of the fundamental files within the game that will take longer and be more frustrating to fix, and there currently is no estimate for when SE will be fixed for Hotfix 18.

If you play using Steam, here's how you can roll back your game to Patch 6 and get Script Extender and your mods back:

Go into BG3's /bin folder. This is usually found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\bin on most default downloads for PC.

Save/back up the original files in there.

Open your PC's Run menu (Win+R)

Write in the command: steam://open/console

Press Enter

Steam's engine should open automatically. You should see a blank page with a text window at the very bottom. This is Steam's console command menu.

In the command line, type the command: download_depot 1086940 1419652 8231067205656009020 [<delta manifestid>] [<depot flags filter>] : download single depot

Press enter. Steam should begin to download a few MB's worth of files.

Once steam finishes downloading, the same command screen will show you the exact file route where the newly downloaded folders were placed.

Open the new folder. There should be multiple different files of different types.

Copy all of the new files (Ctrl+A + Ctrl+C works)

Go back to BG3's original \bin within your Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3 path (see Step 1)

Paste (Ctrl+V) the new files into your \bin folder.

You should receive a prompt asking if you want to replace the files. Choose yes. (This is why you backed up the original files)

Close out of the folder and run BG3. You should receive a Data Mismatch warning from the LariLauncher. Ignore this and launch the game.

You should be able to enjoy your mods again

[blackjackkent]

Just Launched: BG3 Script Extender Console Cheat Sheet!

This is a pet project I've been working on for a little while that is finally, I think, ready to see the light of day, and I'm excited to share it with y'all!

Visit http://bg3se.netlify.app for a useful cheat sheet of easily copyable and customizable commands to be used for various purposes in the BG3 Script Extender console mod.

Currently supported:

Quick-copy character UUIDs.

Search for plot flags and generate commands to set/unset/check them.

Search for character tags and generate commands to add/remove/check them.

Search for cutscenes and generate commands to trigger them dynamically with any character in each role. (Currently a non-exhaustive list due to the huge number of scenes in the game, but reach out to me if there's one you need and can't find!)

Search for items and generate commands to spawn them in your inventory.

Generate commands to spawn gold in your inventory, set character hitpoints, trigger a character respec, or set companion approval.

Suggestions very much welcome! Please reach out to me on Tumblr or Github if you have an idea for another feature, encounter a bug, or find some missing data.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

I doubt this'll get far enough to reach anyone who might have anything kicking around but yelling into the void has worked before (e.g. Supernatural, The X-Files, bonus X-Files):

Back in June 2024 TV Writing added a nice little set of 12 Xena: Warrior Princess scripts.

I made the four scripts Cousin Liz shared many years ago into pdfs and sent them to TV Writing, they were added in October 2024.

In December I stumbled on a new upload of the 2008 Photobucket images of "The God You Know" shared by LadyKate63 and made the draft where all of the page numbers were visible into a pdf. I sent that along with the first and last of season one to TV Writing:

Xena Warrior Princess 1x01 - Sins of the Past (READ NOW)

Xena Warrior Princess 1x24 - Is There a Doctor in the House (READ NOW)

Xena Warrior Princess 6x12 - The God You Know (READ NOW)

Finally, my question:

In celebration of the pilot first airing on 13 March 1995, is there anyone out there who still has any of the Creation Entertainment scripts from Xena: Warrior Princess kicking around that they'd be willing to email* to TV Writing, XenaGabrielle, and/or me?

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Update 02/23/2025:

We're up to 42 Xena scripts, 6 Hercules (crossover episode) scripts, and 3 Xena outlines/beat sheets!

Beat Sheets, Outlines, Misc. Unproduced:

Xena: Warrior Princess 2x00 - The Last Days of Socrates (Unproduced Episode Outline)

Xena: Warrior Princess 4x07 - Locked Up and Tied Down (Outline)

Xena: Warrior Princess 6x11 - Dangerous Prey (Beat Sheet)

Xena: Warrior Princess 6x00 - Fallen (Unproduced Episode)

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*If you send any you'd be willing to share directly to TV Writing he won't tell who donated what (e.g. less than a month after he added almost all of the remaining the latest drafts of the Supernatural collection, someone scanned and emailed Supernatural 6x01 and he hasn't shared who donated it to me, one of the original lunatics who started building that collection in 2019 and retired the project in 2024).

**The owner of XenaGabrielle will also change the contributor info to me, when I cold email fan collectors working on a public script collection I use the old project account.

[kumakuma-circus]

yu doing weird wildcard shit and not elaborating is hilarious to me.

[jasakime]

me rn

[mogruith]

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

Ok so this scene, but A!A on his crimson throne reading a letter from some hotshot patriarch about a ball. Looks to see his consort wearing the new outfit he got for them.

[bridgertonphd]

Songs From My BG3 Playlist ▶ THE WIZARD OF WATERDEEP

[reliablerodent]

I know insanity exists because the Hannibal fandom exists

[fapqueen]

(video by 0nakita on tik Tok )

[yume-tavriel]

" It's very faint... but I think that a foster family looked after me before I ended up in the Temple of Bhaal."

[blackjackkent]

@featherwurm replied to your post “Pondering on trying to spin up a little one-pager...”:

Man I would love to get script extender working but I've yet to crack it.

Unsure if you mean you can't get it installed or can't get commands to run successfully, so super apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know (but posting this anyway in case it's useful to someone else).

Do you use BG3 Mod Manager? If so, there is an option to download and install the Script Extender quickly through that interface:

Run that command and complete the extraction, and then open the game via mod manager from the Go menu:

This will open the game directly (you may have to click a confirmation within Steam, although lately it hasn't been prompting me), and you will see two windows open at once - the game and also a console window.

Once you're loaded into a particular save, you can tab over to that console; hit enter a couple times and it will present you with the "server Lua console" input prompt:

You can then type any command you want into this prompt:

(If you've gotten this far but it's actually getting successful commands to run that you're having issues with - I'm def gonna try to put this cheatsheet together and update it as I learn more stuff, but if I can help with something specific in the meantime please let me know. :D )

[kitthenameless]

💖 Empy, my squid kisser tav, and their pet brain 💖

[ilikedetectives]

Um new title for Minthara is interesting

[charmac]

Cut final scene from an earlier The Gang Goes Jihad script that reveals Charlie and Frank share the futon

[four-loose-screws]

Hi! I've never been able to find good sources on what's actually missing in the Radiant Dawn "extended script" compared to the vanilla localization. In particular, I wanted to ask about Ludveck, the main antagonist of Part 2. I was told he loses a lot of screentime especially and his character gets neutered down, so I wanted to ask about him.. Love the blog by the way, it's great! Thank you!

Hi! Thank you for enjoying and getting lots out of my blog! =)

Quick reference to all links I share in this post:

What is the Radiant Dawn "extended script?" Summary from amielleon in 2017.

Radiant Dawn extended script, side-by-side with full fan translation. Completed in 2024, first posted to Reddit w/ a mediafire link to download the translation.

Link to the localized Radiant Dawn script, for side-by-side comparison with the fan translated extended script.

First, allow me to start with a short summary of what the Radiant Dawn "extended script" is, for those who may not know. The Japanese version of Radiant Dawn has 2 scripts. 1 for normal mode (the easiest difficulty), and 1 for hard and maniac mode. Only the main script is different - no base convos, support convos, etc. have any differences. No one knows exactly why there are 2 scripts. But the prevailing theory is the game devs wanted an easier to read script for children, casual players, and those who did not play Path of Radiance.

The English localized script is based on the normal mode script, meaning there's tons of little details left out all across the game, that overseas fans would never know about without fan translations and online resources! (There's also some scenes here and there that have dialogue unique to the localization, but that's another discussion of its own.) Why didn't the localization get the extended script? No statement has been made for certain. Seems like the kind of thing that would happen due to a time crunch, but that's also just a theory.

For a more lengthy summary of what the extended script is, this post done in 2017 by amielleon is fantastic for that.

Now for my full response to anon:

The Radiant Dawn "extended script," as it is commonly referred to as, is one of the few times in my FE translation efforts when I will realize my human limits. RD is a big, long game, and to think that there's an even longer version of the script, that was never localized...? Oh, and there's small chunks of script here and there that are unique to the localization, and not in the short or extended JP script? Yeah, that's a can of worms I wouldn't open unless I was willing to set aside all my other translations for a while.

The good news: I did some sleuthing, and confirmed that someone recently finished a complete fan translation of RD's extended script! It is beautifully presented in an easy to download file to boot. Click here for a link to their Reddit post, which includes a mediafire link to download the full translation.

The downside: the fan translation is only the JP extended script and fan translation side-by-side. If you want to know exactly what's different, you also have to bring up the localization script and read that side-by-side all by yourself. Not a bad scenario by any means, and probably the only practical option, as the extended script changes so many little things here and there that making an exhaustive list of changes would be, well, exhausting. But it would be neat if there was one definitive reference guide to the differences between the localization, shorter JP script, and extended JP script.

As for the best place to access the localized RD script for side-by-side comparison, Serenes Forest never 100% updated the site to include the entire script, so my current answer is fandom.com. Click here for the link to the RD scripts on fandom.com.

In conclusion, anon, sorry to not address your question directly... but I hope that providing all the resources to compare any part of Radiant Dawn's localized script side-by-side with the extended script is an equivalent exchange!