Ep1p

Ep1p is the spiritual prequel to Epip, bringing numerous QoL & UI adjustments to Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition, such as more informative healthbars, a longer hotbar, shared loremaster & lucky charm, engine bug fixes and more.

• Download and installation instructions
• ✨ Features overview
• Epip & Ep1p development Discord channel
• ❔ FAQ

Some of the sweet UI improvements in Ep1p.

Credits & Special Thanks

Special thanks to:

• Norbyte, without whose reverse-engineering mentoring and motivation this project likely would've taken years longer to develop.
  • Ep1p also makes use of code from his DOS2 extender as boilerplate.
• The Epic Encounters community, for keeping interest in DOS1 alive.
  • Special thanks to Ameranth & bleah11 for the motivation to look into the scripting engine bugs.

Features

Ep1p features various QoL & UI improvements and fixes, most of them being configurable from the in-game settings menu.

Target health bar UI

The health bar UI that appears when hovering over characters has received numerous improvements, mainly to reduce the amount of trips to the examine UI:

• Exact character vitality amounts are now shown.
• Character resistances are now shown, as well as armor and physical damage reduction for player characters.
  • The physical damage reduction shown is against enemies of the same level as the character, like in the character sheet tooltip.
• Statuses now display in 2 columns, like in DOS2 - making better use of screen space and making them less likely to overflow the screen.

Hotbar

An option to use a longer hotbar that displays 20 slots at once has been added ("Extended Hotbar" setting).

Additionally, a lock button has been added; when enabled, the contents of the slots cannot be dragged out.

In addition to this, a bug has been fixed in the UI that made dragging slots out far easier than was intended; you now need to move the cursor 10 pixels instead of just 1 pixel to start dragging, solving the infamous accidental dragging issues.

These last two features are available when the extended hotbar is disabled as well.

Note that the maximum amount of hotbar slots (50) remains unchanged - as such, the extra 10 slots to the right of the third row are greyed out and not usable.

Player portraits UI

The status bars by the player portraits on the right will now wrap once a player character has >6 statuses, reducing the likelihood of them obscuring the center of the screen.

Examine UI

A hotkey to open the examine UI for characters has been added, defaulting to T and rebindable within the controls settings menu. This hotkey is usable even in situations where you normally wouldn't be able to bring up the context menu, such as when it is not your turn.

Additionally, it's possible to configure the UI to show all information regardless of loremaster, or use the highest loremaster of the party.

Shared "civils"

Settings have been added to "share" loremaster and lucky charm scores across the party for the purposes of examining and looting respectively, like in DOS2. Mods that add scripted aspects to these stats are unaffected.

There is currently no visual feedback for this.

Dialogue improvements

Various improvements have been made to dialogues, particularly in regards to listening to dialogues in multiplayer:

• When listening to dialogues in multiplayer, you can have the UI automatically close when the dialogue ends ("Automatically stop listening to dialogues" setting), rather than having to press "stop listening" manually.
• Dialogues you're listening to can automatically scroll down when new lines are added ("Automatically scroll listened dialogues" setting)
• A setting exists to allow rotating the camera while in dialogue ("Allow rotating camera in dialogue")

Hotkeys

Hotkeys have been added to chain/unchain and sneak/unsneak the party members you control. These can be bound from the ingame controls settings menu, and are unbound by default.

You can set hotkeys to any key the game supports, with up to 1 modifier ( Shift/Ctrl/Alt ).

Other features

• Auto-identify: marks items as identified when they're generated if the party has enough loremaster and an identifying glass, with an option to bypass these requirements.
• Unlimited carry weight: prevents characters from gaining the "overencumbered" status.
• Unlimited equipment durability: prevents weapons and armor from losing durability. Does not affect unrepairable items.
• Dead party members in Tactician & Honour modes can receive experience.
• Showing world tooltips for all containers (barrels, crates, etc.)
• Looting containers by clicking on their world tooltips, like in Epip.
  • This can speed up looting clumped, small containers that are otherwise hard to click.

• You can now toggle your helmet's visibility when playing with a controller.

  • To do so, open the context menu for the equipped helmet and select the new "Hide helmet", "Always show helmet" or "Only show helmet in combat" context menu options. Changes will be reflected upon closing the UI.

• The maximum camera zoom can be adjusted.

  • Note that render distance limits are not adjusted; as such, at high camera distances, you may see features such as shadows or surfaces disappear.

Example screenshot of the highest zoom-out level.

Bug fixes

Some bugs in the game have had workarounds made for them:

• Added a workaround for the scripting engine breaking "randomly", most infamously during the tutorial dungeon while using Epic Encounters.
  • This appears to be the bug that caused the door and pressure plate at the end of the tutorial to not work, as well as random mechanics breaking and torches not getting toggled when interacting with them, fixable only by fully restarting the game.
  • If you disable this workaround in the settings menu, Ep1p will still notify you with a message box when it detects the issue has occurred.
• Added a workaround for the skill range indicator effects not appearing if you begin casting a skill while the caster is not on screen.

Settings menu

The gameplay settings menu has new options that allow you to configure Ep1p's various features.

Changing settings requires the game to be fully restarted - don't wait to do so, or you might run into crashes.

If playing multiplayer, the following settings need to be the same for all players:

• "Always grant XP to dead party members"
• "Unlimited Carry Weight"
• "Unlimited Equipment Durability"
• "Shared Lucky Charm"

Settings are stored in Ep1pSettings.json within the Shipping folder, after modifying them once in-game.

Modding improvements

A few changes have been made to help with regular modding:

• Osiris logging can be enabled, which will log to osiris.log in the Shipping folder, similar to DOS2.
• Story patching can be forced to facilitate testing scripting changes on existing saves.
  • Note that it is possible to perform story patching without Ep1p; the mod merely makes it more convenient.