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Topic: Who is converting which monsters?
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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 12 January 2002 13:03
"That iron golem anim is looking pretty cool now without the shadow (Apocalypse Demon's)"Yeah, all the animations are converted to .dcc HOWEVER, for some reason, the dying animation does not want to convert to .dcc. Every time I try to save it, it gives me an error in Kernel.dll and then gives me an error in cvdcc.dll file. So, I delete the cvdcc.dll, redownload the same file from cv5's site, try to save it and it gives me the same error. This only happens to the Iron Golem dying animation. So, Incandescent can I send you the gif file for the dying animation and can you save that as a .dcc because it's not letting me for some reason.
------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 12 January 2002 22:46
Well, anyone willing to try to save my dying animation of the Irongolems, if so post here and I'll send it to you since my Cv5 doesn't want to save it for some reason.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 01:42
Hey Apocalypse, if you want me to take a look at that dying anim no problem, and going back to what you're trying to do at the moment, with people announcing their conversion plans so that we don't all end up doing the same ones, good idea, it'd also be just as useful if there was also a list of 'completed' projects also, that way other people would know what's been done already, i say this cos not all the conversions end up on the keep. I'm definitely impressed with the work you've all been knocking out from BG2, the normal golems in D2 were always a bit small/boring as far as i'm concerned, and as for the elementals, i remember seeing an air elemental in BG2 & i can't wait to see the conversion  One thing i would really like to see is a working conversion of magic missile BG/BG2, that'd be cool if it could be done as most missiles follow a 'direct' flightpath compared to the magic missile which spreads out & then cuts back in on the target, i doubt thats been done before.------------------ Incandescence

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 09:01
Hey Incandescent One, there already is an Air Elemental conversion for D2, I have it. Thanks to KingCold for converting it, it looks pretty cool. I also have the Fire Elemental too by KingCold. Now, as for the file, I'll send it to you right now.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 09:35
Here is a list of monsters that have been already converted:Diablo1/Hellfire Acid Beast Bat Biclops Bloodknight Crypt Demon Defiler Diablo Fallen Brute Gargoyle Hell Boar Hork Demon Hork Spawn King Leoric Lich Magma Demons Na-krul Necromorbs Overlord Psychorbs Scortions Shredded Stormrider Baldurs Gate I/II: Air Elemental Fire Elemental Black Knight Lich Tanari(Spinx) Irongolem(almost finished, just needs shadow editing) ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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KingCold Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 320 From: Skowhegan, ME, USA Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 10:04
hmm maybe you should also make a working on list daily apocalypse demon, because i can do 3-4 normal conversions a day, and aside from the dragon thats takeing me a goodly amount of time the others can be shot off like a bullet, and as for the magic missile animations, yea they can be ripped but i really dont thing it would make much of a difference in how they fly to the enemy, but im not an expert in that are youll haveta ask someone else-------------------- you forgot about the bg1 wyvern wich still functions properly ------------------ "I Have Risin From The Ashes Of Death More Powerfull Than Ever" [This message has been edited by KingCold (edited 13 January 2002).]

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 10:29
Hey apocalypse, it's true you know, a list would really need to be updated daily, well volunteered  I just checked my mail, nothing new in there, i've got 1.5mb of space so it shouldn't have been rejected, and btw, you missed Darkmage from the converted list  As for the magic missile anims, i was thinking out loud really, hadn't given any thought to the how's or why's of it, i'll put it on the shelf for now but i'm sure i'll come back to it eventually  ------------------ Incandescence

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 10:32
Hey Incandescent, for some reason Cv5 is cooperating with me again and the file saved normally. Now, all I need to do is get rid of the shadows from the Irongolems and I will upload them to jbouley.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 10:39
Hey Apocalypse, that's good to hear, i don't so much get crashes with cv5, but every so often it refuses to run & i have to re-install it! As for the Iron Golems, i can't wait to see them, I played around a while ago with golems, in fact it's where i started, had the intention of making four elemental types, but the grafix just weren't available at the time. So i'm definitely after any kind of Golem/elemental creatures that get converted  ------------------ Incandescence

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 10:53
Hey, the irongolems screenshots can be found at www.apocalypsedemon.freeservers.com/index.html ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage [This message has been edited by Apocalypse Demon (edited 13 January 2002).]

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 11:36
Hey Apocalypse, i'd already been & had a look around at your screenshots, i am impressed, especially by the size of the golems, they really put the standard d2 ones to shame! I also liked the ice monster shot as well, that looks interesting, any chance you're gonna put up any pics of the air elemental/other conversions?------------------ Incandescence

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badasswerewolf Knight

Posts: 70 From: Minneapolis, MN. USA Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 13 January 2002 11:49
Hey Apoc, should the monsters not have ANY shadows when converted into D2X? The RGB color of the shadows is 128,128,128 in BGII across the board. The color index that corresponds to this color in the GIF global palette can be converted to another color (maybe 0,0,0 ?) including the background color (170,170,170) so you can make it "disappear" in one easy step. However, I learned that if you make the background "transparent" - such as on your avatar - it will not work and you are forced to paint out the shadow on each frame.Let me know if I should repost the iron golem animations without a shadow or with a "black" shadow or with whatever color shadow you want. By the way, I recommend Gamani GIF MovieGear 3.01 over Jasc Animation Shop. ------------------ Last night I had Italian for dinner.

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 12:29
Ok, either make the shadow completely black or take out the shadow. If you take out the shadow, we can still use the internal shadow option in monstats.txt(it automatically gives it a shadow if you put a 1 in the shadow column). ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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stargazer79 Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 883 From: Sweden Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 16:04
apoc, umm i jus textracted all the actual bam files i coudl find.. from the expansion¨.. you may want to note, that some of these have already been converted by mr teknokyo (as he is using them in his mod)... anyway.. did you still need to files.. send a quick mail to mgeuken@hotmail.com and i will send em off asap.. ok.. umm just remebered.. i have 1 meg limits on hotmail.. maybe if you ahve either icq (4126140) or msn messanger... you take your pick.. email or one of the other two  ------------------ Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
[This message has been edited by stargazer79 (edited 13 January 2002).]

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 13 January 2002 16:18
Actually, I don't have icq or msn so e-mail will do. Now, do you have the BAM files for the Demigorgon or Demilich? If so, send them over please. My e-mail is e_tchernev@hotmail.com------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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KingCold Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 320 From: Skowhegan, ME, USA Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 08:51
can you make a list of xpac monsters plz? i dont have it but i may be interested in converting something or other sometime------------------ "I Have Risin From The Ashes Of Death More Powerfull Than Ever"

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Baz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 687 From: The Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 09:08
I think we will soon have to leech monster animation files from another game, coz we'll soon have all the animation files from D1, Hellfire and BG2.------------------ Give me fuel, give me fire, give me all that I desire

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 11:41
quote: Originally posted by Baz: I think we will soon have to leech monster animation files from another game, coz we'll soon have all the animation files from D1, Hellfire and BG2.
Yeah, i think that's a very true comment! I was hoping to get some Advocates ready over the weekend but something came up, then the weather turned nasty but i think they're getting there  ------------------ Incandescence

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Baz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 687 From: The Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 12:30
Well, I read about a game called Siege of Avalon. I also read it has got the same isometric system a D2X  But it's a very new game (or not?) so we'll have to wait till there are some tools to open the main files. (I hope somebody has got the game)------------------ Give me fuel, give me fire, give me all that I desire

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stargazer79 Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 883 From: Sweden Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 16:17
tehre one prob apoc i dont know WHICH files you actually want .. what the mosnters look like.. etc ive got the xpack but still playing from bg2 avnet seen any new mosnters yet. ive got your emil now.. so i will go look around... 30 meg for an ace file with eveyr mosnters in it  just gonna try to find teh ones you want.. i have a one meg limit trhough email  demigorogon i found.. mdemgfiles..hes umm 10 meg all up ;/ demigorgon is also a multipart creature.. (tahts the giant 2 headed creature with long arms).. the demilich i coudl not find is that the same thing?.. Ok Zipped Into Volumes of 1000kb, there are 7 volumes.. i might stick em up on a webby .. buti cant keep em up for long [This message has been edited by stargazer79 (edited 14 January 2002).]

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 16:33
Yeah, can you make the demigorgon downloadable PLEASE since you said you have 20MB free space left. And what about the Ogre Mage(the monster you fight in the biginning of the game in the crystal cave. Or, how about the summons like the PitFiends or whatever they are called. The Demigorgons will be cool though, I would love to get them converted and my Skull Wings of D1 are going to be done soon. ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage[This message has been edited by Apocalypse Demon (edited 14 January 2002).]

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stargazer79 Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 883 From: Sweden Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 17:16
Hmmm well here is the demi gorgon.. one mosnter at a time.. i actually only have access to one of teh 10 meg accounts at the moment (i should have access to 5 which is 50 meg.. but i can only get into 1).. so http://w1.315.telia.com/~u31514646/Gorgon.html go there for your file .. hope you like.. http://w1.315.telia.com/~u31514646/index.htmlas payment could you have a look at my screenshots on the gallery section of my page (the second link?)..well not really payment but i would appreciate it  umm lastly could you let me know when you have downladoed the files so i can take them of the server.. im not really sure if i should be sticking them up on the web like that.
------------------ Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 17:51
I can't seem to download them properly. Can you make them into .zips instead of .ace files. I don't have winace and for some reason, they don't download when they reach 100%.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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stargazer79 Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 883 From: Sweden Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 18:14
ok man.. i will go check it out.. DAMn.. get winace anyway man.. it can do zip files.. and its heaps better. but i will try to make em into a zip file.. im not sure why they aint downloading properly though i hope my server is ok------------------ Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

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stargazer79 Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 883 From: Sweden Registered: Jun 2001 |
posted 14 January 2002 18:26
ok.. well im having no problem downloading the files myself trhoughte browser.. so im not sure what the problem could be.ok Zip files wont fit on account!.. its another 3 meg download if i make em zip files ------------------ Love is the irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. [This message has been edited by stargazer79 (edited 14 January 2002).]

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