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Teric
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From: United States
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 06 December 2001 18:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Teric   Click Here to Email Teric        Reply w/Quote   
Does everyone know what I am talking about with the subject? Those secret chars you can download off the net? I think I have also heard them called "avatars"? They show up as stuff like the Medic from StarCraft, the sorcerer, warrior, and rogue from Diablo 1, and an orc from Warcraft; but if you try to play them they turn into a Sorceress or something else? How complete are they? How hard would it be to make them work properly (so you could kick Diablo's ass as a Marine)?

If anyone wants to take a look at these avatars, let me know.

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jbouley
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From: Portland, Maine, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 07 December 2001 12:49     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Avatars have only enough animations to look reasonably active on the game select screen...they are not adequately equipped to handle all the animations necessary for gameplay...not anywhere near enough, as far as I know.

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Dr Slue
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From: Australia
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 07 December 2001 15:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
lol. 'the hidden chars'. May i please ask where you 'heard this off the net'? Because i really am confused since i have never heard any of this stupidity before. Did you just see them in chat and think they were hidden or something?? MOst likely...the Marines are SC, the Medics are SCX and the Orcs are W2BNE. Either that or, if they are in D2 channels, they are bots.
NONE of those animations are even enough for an npc. I tryed a while ago, they just blink on and off if you replace two or three (of three) graphics for an npc, and if you only replace one, they are there for one second, blink and then the game crashes.
Secret characters. lol.

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Dr Slue
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From: Australia
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 07 December 2001 15:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Oh, and so that you know, there are more than that. There is some guy with a Skateboard (!?!?! ya think Blizzard is secretly making Diablo 3 Pro Skater?), the Barmaid chick (go to public chat if you don't know what i mean), some old red dude, the big moderator guy and some dude with a cape. That's all i cna remember off the top of my head, but there's probably more.
Check out o1-9 (i think thats what it is) in d2data.mpq>data\global\monsters\o#
(Using cV5, so that you can view the animations also).

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stargazer79
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From: Sweden
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 07 December 2001 16:40     Click Here to See the Profile for stargazer79   Click Here to Email stargazer79        Reply w/Quote   Visit stargazer79's Homepage!
ok heres an idea for an additional player character skin .. or at least an additional armor skin..

you guys remeber the ancietns.. if you wanan try a new character.. you can prolly use the red armored guy (otr at least use him as an extra armor variant for the barb)..

know what i mean?

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FoxBat
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From: PA, USA
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 07 December 2001 19:44     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
With a little monster editing, you could get an avatar to work as an NPC. But they would be static like D1's NPCs.

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Dr Slue
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From: Australia
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 08 December 2001 00:05     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
Oh believe me, they are VERY static. And did i mention that they blink? (no i do not mean with their eyes, i mean that every 8 frames or something they disappear).

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FoxBat
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Registered: Feb 2001

posted 08 December 2001 12:28     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Eh, I can fix blinking

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Forsaken
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Posts: 397
From: Dutch guy in France
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 13 December 2001 05:54     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
It's not about fixing, what needs to be done is called "synchronizing". In other words, you need to make sure your eyes blink the exact same moment the character disappears...:-)

Sorry, bad joke, I know, but I couldn't resist.

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Dr Slue
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From: Australia
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 13 December 2001 16:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Dr Slue   Click Here to Email Dr Slue        Reply w/Quote   Visit Dr Slue's Homepage!
hehehe

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