Base Enhanced Edition Patch Notes

[Misty]

I decided to post this here for a reference, cause Beamdog is awful at patch note's it seems. (They're either spread out or in -terrible- formatting)

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (v74)

Patch Details:
WARNING! AS OF THIS PATCH, ALL MODULES CREATED/SAVED WITH THE VERSION 74 TOOLSET ARE TAGGED AS REQUIRING VERSION 74 OR HIGHER OF NEVERWINTER NIGHTS GAME OR TOOLSET.

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is installable through the Beamdog Client and Steam
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The game uses an install directory (read-only), and a user directory
for your content and save-games that is independent of the install directory.

This user folder can be found in:
[My Documents]\Neverwinter Nights (Windows)
~/Documents/Neverwinter Nights (macOS)
~/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights (Linux)

* Launching executables with the command-line option -userDirectory alternative_directory will use alternative_directory instead of the one specified.

Linux Install Rebuilt
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* For nwmain, we now link against a different set of libraries for audio and movies.

macOS Support Updated
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* Both the main game and the standalone-server should now run on macOS (OS X) 10.9 Mavericks or later.

Upscaled UIs Added
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* When in full-screen, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition will automatically use your desktop resolution.  The UI will now upscale to the largest resolution possible (3x scaling on a 4k monitor).

Master Server Support and Networking
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* The in-game server browser now works again for v74 multiplayer games.
* LAN enumeration has been improved.
* Servers respond and connect faster.
* Networking has been made much more robust:
- Game servers, both in client and standalone, support UPnP (on Windows only) to map their port.
- Game servers will attempt STUN-like udp hole punching to allow clients to connect even when no ports are mapped.
- If all else fails (as can be on some NAT types), game clients will use Beamdog-provided infrastructure to relay traffic for players. This connection is fully authenticated and transparent to both the player and the server admin. Servers will still see the player IP address and PORT through scripting and the admin console. A script command has been added to query relay status of any player connection.

Audio System Changes
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* The audio system (miles) has been replaced with OpenAL and OpenMP3.

Movie Changes
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* The movie system (Bink) has been replaced with WEBM.

Steam Support
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* Players on Steam can join their friends by clicking "Join Game" or using the Friends tab on the Multiplayer browser.
* Workshop support has been added. You can package and upload content to the Steam workshop (see Workshop_README.txt for details).

Gamespy (Unique Player Names Support) Removed
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* Now that Gamespy no longer operates, unfortunately we can no longer guarantee player names are unique across the community.
* Your identity is now based around your public CD key (granted through Beamdog servers).
* You can configure servervault behaviour on a per-server basis (see below).

Languages Updated
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French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish translations of v74 have been completed.  NWN 1.69 was English only.

Server Changes
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* Optimized multiple hotspots in the servers to speed up processing speed.
* Exposed new .ini option to let servers use less CPU when not enough players are connected, but run at full throttle once enough players are connected.
* Conversation performance dramatically improved on busy servers.
* Servervault characters will be saved by public cdkey (secured via master server) instead of by player name.
* Features added for server admins to allow them to switch servervaults from NWN 1.69 to v74 (see official Beamdog forums for more information on what clients and servers must do to make this work).
* Added a crash reporter to the Linux server that will enable server administrators to easily report issues.
* Servers can now host all premium modules in multiplayer. Note that not all premium modules are meant to be played that way.
* Linux servers now run on file systems that do not have a 32bit API anymore (such as Docker-For-Mac/Windows).

New nwnplayer.ini Options
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* Option added to allow users to claim names permanently and associate the name with their CD Key.  Off by default.  Turn on ONLY if you are running a persistent world.
 [Server Options]
 Sticky Player Names=0

* When Sticky Player Names is set, this allows the old NWN 1.69 servervault characters saved by player name directory behaviour.  Recommended for old persistent worlds that do not want to swap to the new servervault format.
 [Server Options]
 Server Vault By Player Name=0

* Specify the number of clients required to be connected to a server before it stops aggressively attempting reduce its CPU usage via sleep().
 [Server Options]
 Clients Required To Disable CPU Sleep=1

* Specifies the maximum number of scripting instructions available to run within a given script before the script is assumed to be in an infinite loop and terminated (was 131042 in NWN 1.69, minimum = 131042, maximum = 16777216)
 [Script Options]
 Instruction Limit=524288

* Determines whether combat modes are turned off by movement.  The standard behaviour is 0, movement turns off combat modes.  When the value is 1, combat modes become sticky and not interrupted by movement.
 [Server Options]
 StickyCombatModes=0

* For those of you who want to play around with bigger textures without downsampling in your module, set the maximum texture memory used by the engine on your local machine in megabytes.  Minimum 64, Maximum 2047.  You should only RELY on 64 MB of texture space for your module if you intend on giving it to others!
   (Video Options
 MaxTextureMemory=64

* You can configure hard limits on various bonuses and penalties. These ini configuration options can be overridden with the provided script calls (see below).
 [Server Options]
 AttackBonusLimit=20
 DamageBonusLimit=100
 SavingThrowBonusLimit=20
 AbilityBonusLimit=12
 AbilityPenaltyLimit=30
 SkillBonusLimit=50

* You can now adjust the camera distance and pitch limits through nwnplayer.ini. On the first run, the following values are populated:
 [Control Options]
 CameraMaxDist=25.000000
 CameraMinDist=1.000000
 CameraMaxPitch=89.000000
 CameraMinPitch=1.000000

New nwn.ini option
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[Display Options]
language=en
* If you wish to override the language choice as specified by the Beamdog Client, you may set this entry directly in nwn.ini.
* Choices Available Are:
** German: de
** English: en
** Spanish: es
** French: fr
** Italian: it
** Polish: pl
* Note that if language selected does not exist in your build, English will be selected by default.

* SetUIScale:  The UI attempts to resize to the maximum scale possible (when at the default value of 0).  However, if this UI choice given is too large for you, you may set the UI Scale to a lower number.
 If the number is set to a value between 1 and 8, it will attempt to give you that exact UI scale.  The game may decide to override this value if you are running at a resolution that does not allow this
 value properly on the screen.
 (Video Options]
 SetUIScale=0

* The music theme to play on the main menu.  By popular request, now defaults to the original NWN theme.
Additional choices include:
- mus_theme_main (Original Campaign main theme)
- mus_x2theme (HotU main theme)
- mus_dd_witchwake (Witch's Wake main theme)
- mus_wc_theme (Wyvern Crown of Cormyr main theme)
Add your own bmu file in your install dir/data/mus/
 [Sound Options]
 Main Menu Music Theme=mus_theme_main

New Advanced Graphics Options (nwn.ini)
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* Advanced Frame-Buffer Effect (High Contrast):  Increases the colour contrast throughout the entire viewport.
 (Video Options]
 Enable FBEffect High Contrast=1

* Advanced Frame-Buffer Effect (Vibrance):  Boosts saturation (or colour vibrancy) in areas that are monochrome.
 (Video Options]
 Enable FBEffect Vibrance=1

* Advanced Frame-Buffer Effect (Depth of Field):  Causes more distant pixels to be blurred.  This effect only becomes visible as the camera zooms in close to the player character.
 (Video Options]
 Enable FBEffect Depth of Field=1

* Advanced Frame-Buffer Effect (SSAO):  Screen Space Ambient Occlusion causes edges where objects meet to be darker, resulting in more natural-looking lighting.
 (Video Options]
 Enable FBEffect Ambient Occlusion=1

New materials and content authoring tools
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* We added support for normal and specular mapping on any texture.
* We added support for .mtr files, which describe a material that can be applied on a per-mesh basis, including fragment- and vertex-shaders. This is still work-in-progress and will be documented once finalised.

Crashes Fixed
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* Game running on some ATI/AMD graphics cards (updated water support).
* Creatures containing more than 255 memorized spell slots for a level.
* Using Smite Evil and Smite Good against non-creature objects.
* Polymorph spell and items with constitution bonus (in some situations).
* Using NWScript's GetReputation() on area of effects created by modules and areas.
* Player starts barter with a stackable undroppable (cursed) item.
* (Rare) objects deleted while contained in an area of effect.
* (Rare) divide by zero crash in the particle system (hellball VFX creates this infrequently).
* Entries longer than 255 characters in .2DA files.
* Opening the second page of the epic spell radial menu.
* Case-sensitive filesystems (Linux) with non-lowercase resources in override.

New Scripting Commands
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* void SetTag(object, string);
Specifies a new tag for the given object.  Note that this call will not update any of the
references to this tag (such as area transitions).

* string GetEffectTag(effect eEffect);
Returns the string tag set for the provided effect.
- If no tag has been set, returns an empty string.

* effect TagEffect(effect eEffect, string sNewTag);
Tags the effect with the provided string.
- Any other tags in the link will be overwritten.

* int GetEffectCasterLevel(effect eEffect);
Returns the caster level of the creature who created the effect.
- If not created by a creature, returns 0.
- If created by a spell-like ability, returns 0.

* int GetEffectDuration(effect eEffect);
Returns the total duration of the effect in seconds.
- Returns 0 if the duration type of the effect is not DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY.

* int GetEffectDurationRemaining(effect eEffect);
Returns the remaining duration of the effect in seconds.
- Returns 0 if the duration type of the effect is not DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY.

* string GetItemPropertyTag(itemproperty nProperty);
Returns the string tag set for the provided item property.
- If no tag has been set, returns an empty string.

* itemproperty TagItemProperty(itemproperty nProperty, string sNewTag);
Tags the item property with the provided string.
- Any tags currently set on the item property will be overwritten.

* int GetItemPropertyDuration(itemproperty nProperty);
Returns the total duration of the item property in seconds.
- Returns 0 if the duration type of the item property is not DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY.

* int GetItemPropertyDurationRemaining(itemproperty nProperty);
Returns the remaining duration of the item property in seconds.
- Returns 0 if the duration type of the item property is not DURATION_TYPE_TEMPORARY.

* object CreateArea(string sResRef, string sNewTag = "", string sNewName = "");
Instances a new area from the given resref, which needs to be a existing module area.
Will optionally set a new area tag and displayed name. The new area is accessible
immediately, but initialisation scripts for the area and all contained creatures will only
run after the current script finishes (so you can clean up objects before returning).
Returns the new area, or OBJECT_INVALID on failure.
Note: When spawning a second instance of a existing area, you will have to manually
     adjust all transitions (doors, triggers) with the relevant script commands,
     or players might end up in the wrong area.

* int DestroyArea(object oArea);
Destroys the given area object and everything in it.
Return values:
  0: Object not an area or invalid.
 -1: Area contains spawn location and removal would leave module without entrypoint.
 -2: Players in area.
  1: Area destroyed successfully.

object CopyArea(object oArea);
Creates a copy of a existing area, including everything inside of it (except players).
Returns the new area, or OBJECT_INVALID on error.
Note: You will have to manually adjust all transitions (doors, triggers) with the
     relevant script commands, or players might end up in the wrong area.

* object GetFirstArea();
Returns the first area in the module.

* object GetNextArea();
Returns the next area in the module (after GetFirstArea), or OBJECT_INVALID if no more
areas are loaded.

* void SetTransitionTarget(object oTransition, object oTarget);
Sets the transition target for oTransition.
- oTransition can be any valid game object, except areas.
- oTarget can be any valid game object with a location, or OBJECT_INVALID (to unlink).
- Rebinding a transition will NOT change the other end of the transition; for example,
 with normal doors you will have to do either end separately.
- Any valid game object can hold a transition target, but only some are used by the game engine
 (doors and triggers). This might change in the future. You can still set and query them for
 other game objects from nwscript.
- Transition target objects are cached: The toolset-configured destination tag is
 used for a lookup only once, at first use. Thus, attempting to use SetTag() to change the
 destination for a transition will not work in a predictable fashion.

* void SetHiddenWhenEquipped(object oItem, int nValue);
Sets whether the provided item should be hidden when equipped.
- The intended usage of this function is to provide an easy way to hide helmets, but it
 can be used equally for any slot which has creature mesh visibility when equipped,
 e.g.: armour, helm, cloak, left hand, and right hand.
- nValue should be TRUE or FALSE.

* int GetHiddenWhenEquipped(object oItem);
Returns whether the provided item is hidden when equipped.

* object CopyItemAndModify(object oItem, int nType, int nIndex, int nNewValue, int bCopyVars=FALSE);
Creates a new copy of an item, while making a single change to the appearance of the item.
Helmet models and simple items ignore iIndex.
iType                            iIndex                              iNewValue
ITEM_APPR_TYPE_SIMPLE_MODEL      [Ignored]                           Model #
ITEM_APPR_TYPE_WEAPON_COLOR      ITEM_APPR_WEAPON_COLOR_*            1-4
ITEM_APPR_TYPE_WEAPON_MODEL      ITEM_APPR_WEAPON_MODEL_*            Model #
ITEM_APPR_TYPE_ARMOR_MODEL       ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_MODEL_*             Model #
ITEM_APPR_TYPE_ARMOR_COLOR       ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_COLOR_* [0]         0-175 [1]
[0] Alternatively, where ITEM_APPR_TYPE_ARMOR_COLOR is specified, if per-part coloring is
   desired, the following equation can be used for nIndex to achieve that:
       ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_NUM_COLORS + (ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_MODEL_ * ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_NUM_COLORS) + ITEM_APPR_ARMOR_COLOR_
   For example, to change the CLOTH1 channel of the torso, nIndex would be:
       6 + (7 * 6) + 2 = 50
[1] When specifying per-part coloring, the value 255 is allowed and corresponds with the logical
   function 'clear colour override', which clears the per-part override for that part.

* int SetTileExplored(object creature, object area, int x, int y, int newState);
Sets if the given creature has explored tile at x, y of the given area.
Note that creature needs to be a player- or player-possessed creature.
Keep in mind that tile exploration also controls object visibility in areas
and the fog of war for interior and underground areas.
Return values:
-1: Area or creature invalid.
 0: Tile was not explored before setting newState.
 1: Tile was explored before setting newState.

* int GetTileExplored(object creature, object area, int x, int y);
Returns whether the given tile at x, y, for the given creature in the stated
area is visible on the map.
Note that creature needs to be a player or player-possessed creature.
Keep in mind that tile exploration also controls object visibility in areas
and the fog of war for interior and underground areas.
Return values:
-1: Area or creature invalid.
 0: Tile is not explored yet.
 1: Tile is explored.

* int SetCreatureExploresMinimap(object creature, int newState);
Sets the creature to auto-explore the map as it walks around.
Keep in mind that tile exploration also controls object visibility in areas
and the fog of war for interior and underground areas.
This means that if you turn off auto exploration, it falls to you to manage this
through SetTileExplored(); otherwise, the player will not be able to see anything.
Valid arguments: TRUE and FALSE.
Does nothing for non-creatures.
Returns the previous state (or -1 if non-creature).

* int GetCreatureExploresMinimap(object creature);
Returns TRUE if the creature is set to auto-explore the map as it walks around (on by default).
Returns FALSE if creature is not actually a creature.

* int GetSurfaceMaterial(location at);
Get the surface material at the given location. (This is
equivalent to the walkmesh type).
Returns 0 if the location is invalid or has no surface type.

* float GetGroundHeight(location at);
Returns the z-offset at which the walkmesh is at the given location.
Returns -6.0 for invalid locations.

* int GetAttackBonusLimit();
Gets the attack bonus limit.
- The default value is 20.

* int GetDamageBonusLimit();
Gets the damage bonus limit.
- The default value is 100.

* int GetSavingThrowBonusLimit();
Gets the saving throw bonus limit.
- The default value is 20.

* int GetAbilityBonusLimit();
Gets the ability bonus limit.
- The default value is 12.

* int GetAbilityPenaltyLimit();
Gets the ability penalty limit.
- The default value is 30.

* int GetSkillBonusLimit();
Gets the skill bonus limit.
- The default value is 50.

* void SetAttackBonusLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the attack bonus limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* void SetDamageBonusLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the damage bonus limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* void SetSavingThrowBonusLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the saving throw bonus limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* void SetAbilityBonusLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the ability bonus limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* void SetAbilityPenaltyLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the ability penalty limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* void SetSkillBonusLimit(int nNewLimit);
Sets the skill bonus limit.
- The minimum value is 0.

* int GetIsPlayerConnectionRelayed(object oPlayer);
Get if oPlayer is currently connected over a relay (instead of directly).
Returns FALSE for any other object, including OBJECT_INVALID.

* string GetEventScript(object oObject, int nHandler);
Returns the event script for the given object and handler.
Will return "" if unset, the object is invalid, or the object cannot
have the requested handler.

* int SetEventScript(object oObject, int nHandler, string sScript);
Sets the given event script for the given object and handler.
Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure.
Will fail if oObject is invalid or does not have the requested handler.


Modified Existing Scripting Instructions
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* object GetTransitionTarget(object oTransition);
Get the destination object for the given object.
All objects can hold a transition target, but only Doors and Triggers
will be made clickable by the game engine (This may change in the
future). You can set and query transition targets on other objects for
your own scripted purposes.
Returns OBJECT_INVALID if oTransition does not hold a target.

* void SetName(object oObject, string sNewName="");
Set the name of oObject.
- oObject: the object for which you are changing the name (area, creature, placeable, item, or door).
- sNewName: the new name that the object will use.
SetName() does not work on player objects.
Setting an object's name to "" will make the object
 revert to using the name it had originally before any
 SetName() calls were made on the object.

* void BootPC(object oPlayer, string sReason = "");
Remove oPlayer from the server.
You can optionally specify a reason to override the text shown to the player.


New Console Command
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* MakePano
This command will generate a sequenced series of pictures in your screenshots directory.
- You can use the resulting files to stitch together a 360 panoramic.
- They are labelled with their respective yaw and pitch angles: MakePano_p_y.tga
- view_angle describes the camera FOV in degrees.
- The center point is the camera position, not the player position.
- Only one panoramic sequence can be taken at a time. Repeated calls overwrite the previous sequence.
- Make sure to provide sane values, otherwise your game might hang while the disk fills up.
- You can omit the arguments to use the defaults as stated above.


Toolset Improvements
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* The toolset is now much faster in many situations, like opening and editing objects.
* Numerous crashes and memleaks have been fixed.
* The toolset will no longer move objects down to the walkmesh z-level when clicking/editing them.
* Undo/redo is supported for object moving.
* Objects can be edited by double-clicking them.
* The toolset keeps variables on triggers and encounters when repainting their polygon.
* The script compiler identifier limit has been bumped to 16K (from 8K).


Other Issues
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* Fixed aggressive removal of spell uses for bards/sorcerers when charisma bonus is removed from the character.
* Fixed DC checks for spell-like abilities (instant feats).
* Local variables are now copied correctly to items purchased from an infinite-stack in stores.
* OnHit::SpellCast property will no longer overwrite properties of spell currently being cast by creature.
* Fixed an issue using EnforceLegalCharacters where feats were temporarily removed, causing spell slots to disappear.
* Fixed an issue where spell slots are removed because of premature calculation of primary statistic as we equip the character during validation.
* Fixed an issue where item properties can be attributed permanently to a creature without having the item equipped.
* Fixed an issue where placeables could get stuck open/closed.
* No longer remove creature weapons/armor when ItemLevelRestrictions or EnforceLegalCharacters is on (since this is how horses are generated).
* Ensure the PC is actually saved when a PC has been dominated (was saving the dominator's creature data in its place).
* Binarized some of the 1.69 MDL files (horses, dragon wings) to improve the speed of loading them into the game.
* Dispel Check calculation now takes a tie as a remove effect, as specified in the Player's Handbook.
* Counterspell cleaned up properly, no longer grants a wizard with an instananeous spell cast after it is finished.
* OnClientLeave event is now called before the creature is physically removed from the area, instead of after, to allow scripting to determine the creature's position as it leaves.
* Assassins with Death Attack can now use Improved Sneak Attack without having Sneak Attack 1.
* Player Party Changes will only cause other players to stop hostile actions against the creature that has now become friendly, instead of all hostile actions against all creatures everywhere.
* Casting a metamagic spell will no longer add the metamagic to the item used immediately afterwards.
* Weapon Focus (Trident) should now work properly.
* Prevent characters, when being moved in drive mode, from rarely appearing in incorrect locations after area transitions.
* Ensure that the module's desired HAK and TLK files are loaded before we attempt to start character creation within a multiplayer module (allows servers to specify their own set of additional base classes, races, et cetera)
* Area of Effect objects (in areas containing PCs) have a higher AI priority.
* Area of Effect objects now move each time their creature moves (to prevent creatures from outrunning their own auras in busy areas).
* Character sheet will now be refreshed when a player loses a level.
* Attempting to buy a non-infinite item from a store when you have a full inventory will no longer cause the item to disappear from store.
* Fixed rules for deflecting arrows (use the target, not the shooter, to measure whether we must wield the current weapon with both hands).
* Properly linked item property to their associated game effects (removal of temporary game effects would occasionally remove the item property effects instead).
* Metamagic slots are now properly removed, if the metamagic feat is lost.
* Assassin's Death Attack balanced to only fire once per round (first attack).
* Assassin's Death Attack paralysis length is based only on assassin level, not total character level.
* Quivering Palm will no longer work against Pale Masters with Deathless mastery (immunity system fixed).
* For feat-based spells (such as Harper Scout sleep), GetSpellSaveDC now computed properly when the base ability score for the character is less than 10.
* Extra spell slots earned from items are unreadied instead of cleared when shapeshifting/polymorphing.
* Dungeon Master limboing a sitting creature will no longer make the placeable they were sitting on unusable.
* Triggers and doors will no longer run default.nss for scripting events if no script has been declared for the event within the Aurora Toolset.
* Spells cast with cones will never target the caster (when launched in some directions, the cone would sometimes encompass the caster)
* Applying EffectDeath() on a target immune to death magic will no longer cause the creature to stop all of its actions.
* Remove all bad effects from a creature properly (some bad effects were ignored).
* Fix to Uncanny Dodge 2 feat (higher-level rogues are now allowed to attack lesser rogues with Sneak/Death attacks).
* Increase maximum number of charges that can be placed on items from 50 to 250.
* Scripting command CopyItemAndModify can now modify colours 1-9 for custom-content weapons (note that all standard content only has four colours)
* Weapon Master prestige class:  For the Ki Critical feat, the offhand weapon will no longer use weapon of choice of onhand weapon.
* Monk's Circle Kick:  When current target leaves maximum attack range, we will now pick a new target within attack range instead of standing and doing nothing.
* Defensive Stance mode will be canceled properly when casting spell or using an item.
* Fixed issues with saving a character while polymorphed/shapeshifted (temporarily removing the polymorph, saving the creature and reapplying the polymorph).
* Greater Sanctuary now stacks properly with Invisibility (True Seeing no longer pierces both effects).
* Spell-like abilities assigned in Special Ability tab in creature properties will be cast at level as set by builder (was ignored and set to innate caster level).
* Combat modes are now terminated properly when swapping from one combat mode to another.
* EffectDeaf() should now work properly for perception.
* Monk's Stunning Fist:  Balance change to last only one round instead of three rounds.
* Party list UI element should function correctly now when one has a large party list and many members leave/rejoin.
* Custom-content added base classes can now be selected during character creation.
* Players cannot cancel actions through the UI when character is non-commandable (for example, while confused).
* Special abilities and cleric domain feats can now coexist in the Special Abilities radial menu if there are >= 8 elements.
* Added Rob Krajacarski and Jenny McKearney to the English XP2 credits (they were in the credits for all other language builds).
* Combined credits list for all languages into a unified credits movie for XP1 and XP2.
* Updated embedded zlib library.
* Fixed case where Enforce Legal Characters could prevent a character from multiclassing into a new class with a larger hit dice than the one previously selected.
* Removed ability for shapeshifting players to abuse the UI and use their normal spells while shapeshifted.
* Skinned animations no longer go out of sync in some corner cases (like editing creature/armor appearances.)
* Skybox position is now centered on the character, so skybox warping will no longer be apparent when you're at the edge of large maps.
* A crash has been fixed that would occur when modding restduration.2da to very short values.
* A crash with reading broken PLTs has been fixed.
* A crash related to script caching was fixed.
* A set of memleaks in resource handling was fixed.
* A serious issue with how shadow edges are generated has been fixed. This happened with complex custom models, like some Project Q creatures, and resulted in visual corruption and delayed, hard-to-fathom gameplay crashes.
* A crash with delayed effects applying after a player has left the server has been fixed.
* A rare cornercase has been fixed where removing an ability penalty would not remove a linked movement speed penalty (and possibly others).
* The limit for SetDescription() has been bumped to 128KB (was: 8KB). Be aware that descriptions sent this way will be transmitted over the network each time a player views it.
* A crash triggered by damaging a caster-class player and having them roll a concentration check after having left the server has been fixed.
* A rare cornercase crash in applying True Seeing has been fixed.
* A bug has been fixed where a immortal bodybag would still despawn after a DestroyObject was queued.
* Drag-rotating the window viewport with middle mouse is now framerate- and resolution-independent.
* A lot of crashes in the networking protocol handling and related game state manipulation have been fixed.
* Security audit; removed numerous hacking methods from codebase.

[Misty]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 1.75

The first major Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition patch is coming to Steam and Beamdog. It's been a long road to 1.75 as NWN:EE fans on our Development branch know, but its finally time to release this mighty patch everywhere Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is available!

Server Changes
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Features:
* The player cap for a single server has been increased to 255 (from 96).(Hint: You can still reserve DM slots by setting a lower limit.)
* Increased the maximum player name length from 32 characters to 127.

Fixes:
* NWScript: Fixed a crash in GetAreaSize() when it was called with the module as the area.
* We added some basic protection against packet flooding that was seen recently.
* Player name checks are now case-insensitive for purposes of locking names to public keys.
* Translations/LocStrings: We've made it so that when looking up translated strings (for example, in object descriptions), we first consider the opposite gender before falling back to english.
* Networking: We fixed some issues with masterserver DNS resolving that would, in rare circumstances, drop servers from the master list.
* The Whirlwind attack feat has been fixed.
* We fixed an issue with some creatures not spawning lootable corpses.
* We fixed the following script events for player characters: OnDamaged, OnSpellCastAt, OnMeleeAttacked, OnPerception, and OnCombatRoundEnd.
* We fixed a crash where ActionTakeItem would fail to deposit an item in a full inventory.
* We fixed the server time getting stuck if the module had many areas.
* We fixed a very rare crash when removing many areas via DestroyArea() in one script.
* We fixed SetTransitionTarget() not propagating to clients in all cases.
* Doors can now once again initiate conversations with players (via nw_g0_conversat).
* Also, the game engine does not assign this script to doors, placeables and creatures with no script set anymore, instead just defaulting to it as a temporary override.

Client Changes
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Features:
* The race selection UI in character generation is now a list (instead of pre-defined buttons) just like class selection.
* Races can now have an icon; defined in the new "Icon" column in racialtypes.2da. This is up to custom content, as we do not currently ship icons for the builtin races.
* New dynamic contrast shader by Søren Møller (Zarathustra217).
* New SSAO shader by Søren Møller (Zarathustra217).
* New Depth Of Field shader by Søren Møller (Zarathustra217).
* Materials: .mtr files can now specify "renderhint"; mesh-specific definitions overrides this.
* Materials: Meshes don't require a texture if a .mtr was set.
* Materials: In the mesh definition, "bitmap"/"texture0" can be used to define the material instead of "materialname".
* The Chat Log and Combat Log UI now remember their size between play sessions (in the .ini); they also remember split mode/combined mode.
* UI: All-metallic colours are now animated in the character creation colour picker UI.
* NWN:EE can now accept cyrillic key input again; and display as well, if a suitable (community-made) font override is provided. This is a stopgap measure to support our russian friends while we work on proper UTF-8 support.
* Linux Fullscreen Mode is now properly supported.

Fixes:
* SDL has been updated.
* A crash when joining a server with haks was fixed.
* The multiplayer server browser UI has been fixed to work properly on 1080x2.
* The multiplayer server browser now default-sorts by player count, descending.
* Steam Workshop now logs to the player log for activity (like progress).
* Movie playback on case-sensitive file systems (Linux) and languages with mismatching case movie files has been fixed.
* Garbled sound issues have been fixed.
* We fixed stopping/resuming audio playback when a audio device is (re)connected.
* UI: We fixed the flickering text on loading screens.
* Saving and loading ShadowGuard premium module savegames has been fixed.
* UI: We fixed Escape not working on some main menu panels.
* Renderer: We fixed rendering animated meshes without animations as static (for example, seen as disappearing water on tno01_v20_02).
* Death Attack now shows properly in feat messages in the combat log.
* Incorrectly rendered armour part colours in character generation have been fixed.
* We added a workaround for an issue where servers would get confused by multiple clients behind NAT on on the same port.
* Crash handlers have been improved to address issues with people not seeing the crash message, or not finding the right files to attach to a report.
* We're now applying FBOs (full-screen post processing effects) in a predefined order to avoid visual corruption when un/checking them in the UI.
* We fixed the Connect button on the Server Details pane not working properly.
* We also fixed the Previous/Next buttons not greying out the Connect button as required.
* HAK and TLK preloading is now checked immediately upon connection; not after character creation. This fixes an issue where players would attempt to join a server with missing haks, only to be kicked after character creation.
* The polish high-res font has been amended to include all needed special characters.
* We fixed a crash in the 2D sound system.
* We fixed an issue in the 3D sound system that would sometimes stutter or hang the game.
* A client crash that would happen when the server sent a visual effect while the client was on a loading screen was addressed.
* A client crash that would happen when the server sent a invalid placeable update was fixed.
* We fixed inventory PLT icons sometimes displaying the wrong colours.
* We addressed some issues with the builtin texture cache sometimes returning the wrong or no image, resulting in visual corruption on layered textures.
* We fixed a crash issue with saving games when the thumbnail could not be generated.
* We fixed the game crashing while exiting a module/game with a floating popup bubble active.

Content Creation Changes
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Features:
* Object Visual Transformations: You can now scale, translate, rotate the following game objects: Creatures (including players), Items (including held/wielded), Placeables (dynamic only), Doors. You can also adjust the animation speed independently from object scale. This transformation is visual only and has no effect on walkmesh or personal space. (See Scripting Commands below.)
* Materials: We've added script calls that allow overriding shader uniforms on materials.
* Double quotes (") can now be escaped in nwscript (\").
* The toolset can now open unpacked modules: You need to have it unpacked in a directory the same name as the .mod file (without the .mod extension).
* Toolset: You can now move objects along the Z axis by holding down the Alt key and moving the mouse.
* We added the livestream contest winner portrait (po_exornova).

Fixes:
* A crash in the script compiler has been fixed when many includes were nested.
* Utils: We've re-added nwhak.exe and gffeditor.exe to the torrent. nwhak.exe now understands all new res types (like .mtr).
* An issue where custom content tiles could not be laid down in the toolset (notably, Seasonal Forest) was fixed.
* We fixed "Stereo WAV in 3D Positional Sound" popping up erroneously in the toolset.
* We fixed the toolset not displaying spells or feats on character sheets.
* We fixed "sqrt DOMAIN error" showing up on binary models without valid tangent data.

New Scripting Commands
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int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_SCALE                        = 10;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_X                     = 21;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_Y                     = 22;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_ROTATE_Z                     = 23;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_TRANSLATE_X                  = 31;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_TRANSLATE_Y                  = 32;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_TRANSLATE_Z                  = 33;
int OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_ANIMATION_SPEED              = 40;

// Gets a visual transform on the given object.
// - oObject can be any valid Creature, Placeable, Item or Door.
// - nTransform is one of OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_*
// Returns the current (or default) value.
float GetObjectVisualTransform(object oObject, int nTransform);

// Sets a visual transform on the given object.
// - oObject can be any valid Creature, Placeable, Item or Door.
// - nTransform is one of OBJECT_VISUAL_TRANSFORM_*
// - fValue depends on the transformation to apply.
// Returns the old/previous value.
float SetObjectVisualTransform(object oObject, int nTransform, float fValue);

// Sets an integer material shader uniform override.
// - sMaterial needs to be a material on that object.
// - sParam needs to be a valid shader parameter already defined on the material.
void SetMaterialShaderUniformInt(object oObject, string sMaterial, string sParam, int nValue);

// Sets a vec4 material shader uniform override.
// - sMaterial needs to be a material on that object.
// - sParam needs to be a valid shader parameter already defined on the material.
// - You can specify a single float value to set just a float, instead of a vec4.
void SetMaterialShaderUniformVec4(object oObject, string sMaterial, string sParam, float fValue1, float fValue2 = 0.0, float fValue3 = 0.0, float fValue4 = 0.0);

// Resets material shader parameters on the given object:
// - Supply a material to only reset shader uniforms for meshes with that material.
// - Supply a parameter to only reset shader uniforms of that name.
// - Supply both to only reset shader uniforms of that name on meshes with that material.
void ResetMaterialShaderUniforms(object oObject, string sMaterial = "", string sParam = "");

[Misty]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 1.76

The next stable patch for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is live! If you have been following the Development branch announcements, you know what's coming!

This patch focuses on stabilisation and addresses issues found since the previous update shipped. In particular, the patch includes fixes for the majority of Intel-GPU related crashes.

The full list of changes since v1.75 (Build 8176) is:
Client Changes
Features

We added a new experimental full screen shader effect: Sharpen. It's disabled by default, so you have to go into Options, Advanced Effects to try it out.
MacOS now defaults to "Desktop" style fullscreen mode (Borderless Fullscreen). This allows you to switch spaces. To make use of it on existing setups, set FullScreenDesktopMode=1 in nwn.ini.
The name generator tables for all races (including custom) are now configurable in racialtypes.2da.
We turned Depth Of Field off by default (only for new installs). This will be re-enabled once it works better in conversations.
The SSAO FBO has been updated to use 25% fewer GPU cycles.

Fixes

We addressed one of the major crashes people were seeing on Intel GPUs. Matters should now be much improved for some players, however we are continuing to work on Intel-related issues.
The high contrast shader has been tweaked so that the fog colour is not impacted anymore.
Issues with playing Premium Modules in multiplayer have been addressed.
We fixed a resource management issue when entering areas; resulting in crashes on area load screens.
Loading save games now works with encrypted premium module saves.
We fixed where object visual transforms would not apply immediately when spawning or loading objects into an area.
Text bubbles now move alongside any applied visual transforms.
Some people were seeing "Could not translate address" when attempting to connect to servers, especially when attempting to connect via icon shortcuts. This has been fixed.
Area Transitions clickable state is now sent to clients indiscriminately, which previously resulted in them turning into the wrong colour, hiding them from DMs, and making transitioning harder.
We're making it so that door boxes now again don't have a highlight when mousing over them. (This was a very sneaky regression introduced by making the script call SetTransitionTarget work).
We fixed a crash when area of effect VFXes would attempt to animate in an area that was just unloaded on the client.
We fixed a game crash that happened in updating a creature without a valid animation base.
The chat window sizes now load properly for all users.
We allow server admins to disable relay functionality if they so desire. (nwnplayer.ini: "Network Relays Enabled")
We fixed a game crash while updating the appearance of a creature without a valid body appearance.
The game client doesn't hang or crash anymore when receiving a very large data packet; such as character files, area data, or DM palettes.
We fixed the game hanging or lagging when no audio device is available.
We fixed a crash when a dedicated server would save a game, where a logged-out player was in Defensive Stance mode.
We fixed a crash when exiting from a module with HAKs loaded.
The UI scale for Dialogues with scroll bars has been fixed.
We excluded localhost (127.0.0.1) from ever being relayed in order to fix a confusing error message for users.

Content Creation Changes
Fixes

Script Compiler: We now allow escaping backslashes ("\\").

[Misty]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 1.77

Attention adventurers of Neverwinter. Your nights will now be filled with version 1.77!

Read on for a complete list of changes in this patch.

Features:

Three new player-selectable portraits; Heavyline, Skandii, and Lanteri
Fixes:
We fixed certain armor pads (specifically, belts and shoulder pads) disappearing when re-equipping a item
We fixed a floating point inaccuracy that made the player character skew aside ever so slightly when WASDing.
The conversation UI has been fixed to not shift off screen when using UI scaling and having the Inventory/Char sheet open at the same time
We fixed a double-free in the PLT system, which has lead to crashes when multiple objects with the same texture would show
We fixed held equipment not becoming transparent when the character model did so (for example, when casting Invisibility.)
The game now asks you for a CD key, instead of erroring with a confusing message, when Steam CD key retrieval fails for any reason
HW Mouse is now the default on Linux, as to avoid WindowManager-related mouse click point offset issues resulting from UI scaling
We made all DLC portraits now show up for character creation in all modules, regardless of portrait.2da entries

Content Creation Changes

Features:
Toolset: The script editor now shows variables and constant declarations on double click
Toolset: The recent modules list has been expanded to 10 entries
Toolset: The compiler include limit has been bumped to 128
Fixes:
Toolset: Area ambient sounds and music has been brought back to life
Toolset: We removed the requirement that the mouse be over an object to translate it on the Z-axis (with Alt+Left Mouse Button)
Toolset: The tile properties light select color UI is no longer truncated when using windows-native screen scaling
Server Changes

Fixes:
Server resource management on Linux in certain memory configurations has been fixed
Crashes in nwscript functions resulting from bad parameters have been addressed: CopyItemAndModify, GetNearestCreatureToLocation
A crash when reloading LTRs was fixed
Linux only: Database names are now case-insensitive, so DestroyCampaignDatabase() now works as expected
Linux/Mac only: We fixed the server spinning a thread needlessly if stdin gets closed

[Misty]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 1.78

Today, we are shipping Development Build 8186 to the stable branch of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition as 1.78!

This is the very same build that was recently updated on the development branch and contains no changes since then.

The previous build (8181) is available as a Steam branch, so you can switch back if your favorite persistent world needs more time to update. To do so, select 'oldstable' under the beta dropdown list in the Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Steam properties.

New Feature: NWSync

This update contains a major new feature called NWSync, which will allow players to easily download required content data as they join servers, without having to manually manage HAK and TLK files. In this first iteration, this will mostly benefit persistent worlds, as it requires special setup on the server owner's part.

For details on this feature, please see the source repository that contains all the needed tooling and links to the most up-to-date documentation, here.

Client Changes

Features:
We added a new console variable that enables a over-time FPS display. Type "fpstrace 1" into the game console to enable.
You can type `Gamma x` in the console, where x is a floating point value larger than 0. The default is 2.2. This value is persisted to nwn.ini (under a new configuration key). Gamma only affects the rendered ingame scenery, not menus or UI, as it is applied through a FBO shader, not GL/system-wide gamma correction.
The game now supports normal DDS textures without having to mangle the header.
The game now supports KTX texture containers.
The game now writes out all Aliases to nwn.ini even if the file already existed.
We bumped the default maximum texture memory to 256MB. Previous settings of 64MB are rewritten to this value. The new minimum is 96MB. The bigger-by-default texture memory should improve stability in some situations.
Fixes:
We fixed lighting uniforms not assigning properly on some GPU drivers. This should address some flickering and maybe improve stability.
Premium Modules don't show in "Other Modules" anymore.
Yet another crash for creature appearances with PERSPACE=0 has been addressed.
The multiplayer server browser now shows a progress window when downloading the server list. It also switched over to libcurl, which should prove to be much more reliable than the previous solution.
The chat window will not capture mouse clicks anymore, only scroll events. This means you can once again click through it to action the game world.
Server Changes

Fixes:
Greater Sanctuary interacting incorrectly with True Seeing has been fixed.
A rare server hang when a relayed player suddenly regains direct connectivity has been fixed.
A bug in RetrieveCampaignObject has been fixed that resulted in a double free issue, crashing the game. This was another 1.69 issue that was unearthed by us switching to VS2017 for the Windows build.