# Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks for Tutu, BGT, BGEE, and EET

A Gibberlings Three Mod
Authors: Domi Sotto
On the web: Home page and discussion forum

Version 5.2 - September 19, 2022Check for the most recent version
Languages: English, German
Platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux

## Contents

Notes
Overview
Compatibility
Installation
Thanks and Acknowledgments
Contact and Copyright Information
Version History

## Notes

This mod is designed for use on the following platforms: Tutu, BGT, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition (BGEE), and EET.

It features an installer using cross-platform variables to install the same code on Tutu, BGT, BGEE and EET installations. For more information on how you can use CrossPlatform variables in your mod, please visit us on our forums.

## Overview

This mod expands Coran's Friendship talk sequence, adding up to eighteen (18) new banters with the protagonist (and one potential comment by Garrick) for a player character who is not in an active romance with him. If you have The BG1 NPC Project installed, they begin playing after the last regular friendship talk. If the player started and interrupted Coran's The BG1 NPC Project romance, the friendship sequence should initiate after that. If you do not have The BG1 NPC Project installed, they become available immediately.

## Compatibility

This mod is designed to work on Tutu v4, EasyTutu_SoA, EasyTutu_ToB, and BGT, all based on full, patched installs of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II. Neither the BG2 expansion Throne of Bhaal nor the BG expansion Tales of the Sword Coast are required. As of v4, the mod is also compatible with BGEE. As of v5, the mod is also compatible with EET.

This mod will not install correctly under versions of WeiDU below v237.

It is unlikely to be compatible with Tutu v6. It might install, but may behave incorrectly. Don't say we didn't warn you.

## Installation

Windows

Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks for Tutu and BGT is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a self-extracting archive. To install, simply double-click the archive and follow the instructions on screen.

Alternatively the files can be extracted from the archive using WinRAR. If properly extracted, you should have a "coranbgfriend" folder, and setup-coranbgfriend.exe in your game folder. To install, double-click setup-coranbgfriend.exe and follow the instructions on screen.

Please run setup-coranbgfriend.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.

Mac OS X

If the mod was previously installed, uninstall it before extracting the new version. Please note that this mod is incompatible with Mod Organizer. This mod is packaged and installed with WeiDU. If properly extracted, you should have a "coranbgfriend" folder, "setup-coranbgfriend", and "setup-coranbgfriend.command" in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-coranbgfriend.command and follow the instructions on screen.

Linux

Extract the contents of the mod to the folder of the game you wish to modify. If not packaged with the mod, download the latest version of WeiDU and copy WeiDU and WeInstall to /usr/bin. Run WeInstall coranbgfriend in your game folder to install the mod. Then run wine BGMain.exe and start playing.

## Install Order

While this mod is very independent of install order issues, adding banters and not touching other existing dialogue states, it does search for The BG1 NPC Project. If you are planning to install The BG1 NPC Project, the Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks should be installed after it.

## Thanks and Acknowledgements

Thank you to berelinde and cmorgan for assisting with code and tp2.

## Tools Used in Creation

WeiDU by Wes Weimer, updated, bugfixed, and extended by "the bigg".
IESDP maintained by igi
Aptana IDE HTML/XML Javascript editor. © Copyright Aptana, Inc. 2007. Portions © Adobe, 2007.
ConTEXT by Eden Kirin
TextPAD purchased version 5 by Helios Software Solutions
Crimson Editor by Ingyu Kang
WeiDU ConTEXT Highlighters by Idobek, updated by cmorgan
WeiDU Crimson Editor Highlighters by cmorgan
WeiDU TextPAD Highlighters by cmorgan
BGT by Ascension64
Tutu by japheth, et. al
EasyTutu builds of Tutu by Macready

## Modder's Notes

All of the content in this mod is added nondestructively to Coran's and Garrick's Baldur's Gate content. All content is shut down in a BGT using the blocking variable ~!Global("endofbg1","GLOBAL",2)~. This variable is set via OUTER_SPRINT and will not appear in Tutu games.

Contact and Copyright Information

Domi can be reached at The Gibberlings Three forums. For information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which she may be working.

Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks for Tutu, BGT and BGEE was not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare™, Interplay/BlackIsle or Beamdog. The Tutu mod was created by Japheth, aided by Ghreyfain, SimDing0, and Kish. EasyTutu was created by Macready, based on a Baldurdashed (Kevin Dorner) version of Tutu v4 Fixpack 15. BGT was created by Ascension64. If there are any copyright issues or this statement needs revision then please contact one of us and advise us what to do about it. This mod was created to be freely enjoyed by all Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II players. However, it should not be sold, published, compiled or redistributed in any form without the consent of Domi Sotto.

## Version History

Version 5.2 - September 19, 2022

- English version: Corrected text format errors for EE (all tra files need to be in utf8).

Version 5.1 - June 28, 2021

- use UTF8 variant of HANDLE_CHARSETS function
- replace multi-line comments with single-line comments
- update metadata
- update dynamic install order
- update readme
- Packaging: Added support for .iemod packages via Infinity Auto Packager

Version 5 - May 16, 2021

- Added Russian translation, by Austin.
- Added direct EET compatibility.
- coranbgfriend.ini with mod meta data added to support ALIEN's Project Infinity.
- Added libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.7z for licence info on inconv.exe.
- Updated to weidu v246.

Version 4 - January 16, 2015

- BGEE Compatibility by AstroBryGuy; Typo fixes; WeiDU v237

Version 3 - August 17, 2011

- Added German translation by Jarl; WeiDU v229

Version 2 - May 16, 2008

- First full release; WeiDU v206, Windows, OSX, and Linux distributions.

Version 1 beta- December 7, 2007

- Beta release.