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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 10 January 2002 22:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Okay, now that there has been a great breakthrough with these monster conversions, it seems we can convert pretty much anything from BG, hellfire, etc. So, I think since there are a few people on this project like Nefarius, LordQuapla, Incandescent One, badasswerewolf, KingCold as well as me(I'm going to start some conversions of my own), I think we should organize who is going to convert what. So, first off Nefarius do you have those D1 Vipers and Hidden ready for upload?

Now, monsters that I think need to be converted are:

D1/Hellfire:
Rhinodemons
Advocates
Succubus
SKULL WING(I really want him)
Flesh Thing

BGI/II:
Earth Elemental
Demigorgon
Umber Hulk
Ogre Mage
Ugyant(sp?)
Werewolves

So, what do you think? Any other monsters that should be added to the list? Now, who's going to volunteer to do what? I think I might do the D1 Skull Wing for now. It will probably be finished tomorrow or saturday depending. So, everyone take your picks on who wants to convert what.

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posted 10 January 2002 22:36     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
I'll do the Werewolf and the Otyugh (I checked and this is the right spelling). I might be pushed into doing others if need be...

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posted 10 January 2002 22:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Are there any other monsters that are good candidates for conversions?

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NefariusDX
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posted 10 January 2002 23:36     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
im working for a fleshthing for act3 so expect one to pop out after the act1-2 alpha test is over

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posted 10 January 2002 23:51     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Hmm, are you going to try out some BGII conversions because those seem to be much cooler Now I wonder what KingCold will want to convert...okay, KingCold since you are very good at converting multipart monsters, are there any other really cool monster that have multiple body part files? Is there any Tiamat monster(multiheaded dragon) or a Hydra?

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posted 11 January 2002 00:02     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
i need to get a copy of bg first

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posted 11 January 2002 03:43     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
Hey Apocalypse, I'll get cracking on the Advocates, i've already done the Dark Mage from diablo1, it went up on incandescence yesterday if you want the files, Advocate is pretty much the same kind of monster but different grafix, so it shouldn't take very long.
I was going thru my "junk" cds, the one's that you chuck in a drawer & think nothing more about, i found one game that has files with .spr extension for the grafix, i'll see what can be done with it.
Also: i'm still trying to work out the "worm" folder in diabdat.mpq, it has 8 wav files but no cl2 inside, i did ask Nefarius a while ago whilst he was busy on the diablo1 diablo conversion, so if anyone can give any feedback on this folder i'd be grateful.

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posted 11 January 2002 04:25     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
its the same graphic just with red cloth on instead of black

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posted 11 January 2002 05:13     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
im doing the dragons right now, and if you want to convert any bg2 things i can send you the needed bam files nefareus

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posted 11 January 2002 07:18     Click Here to See the Profile for stargazer79   Click Here to Email stargazer79        Reply w/Quote   Visit stargazer79's Homepage!
ok more bg2 animations

the Etin would be fun to have..

Liches
Bodhi,
Sarevok from bg1..
some shadow assasins from bg2 weould be nice.. some knights..
Demon knigts rock
Umber hulks'
Hula Wizard
Dont forget teh Slayer
And the Many different Version OF Shambling Mound (earth elemental I believe as well)
wyverns
snake
leopard etc would be fun .. snake for the druid instead of his poison vine
i tred the ctrl-6/7 trcik in game to swtich animations.. it was pretty cool
except it alwasy crashes at a certain point

but yeah.. there are some COOL animations in there.



pit fiends
Ginat Spiders Sword SPiders. thsoe big millipeded thigsn.. the monsters that make you turn to stone..
man im gonna go play the game again lol
i've extracted every Bam file from the bif files.. about 100 meg of monsters animations.
im just crap at converting them

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posted 11 January 2002 08:37     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
umm lol just open up the monsterous manual alot of the monsters from there are in either bg1, planescape, bg2, or icewind dale, also can someone who has a cd burner burn the bg2 expansion creature animations and mail them to me? just the animations im not interested in pirateing the game or anything

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posted 11 January 2002 08:37     Click Here to See the Profile for stargazer79   Click Here to Email stargazer79        Reply w/Quote   Visit stargazer79's Homepage!
Allirght ppl Iäm doing the MRAV its gonna take me a while.. ive just extracted him..

all in gif files already.. now i just need to piece him otgheter.. hes got headbutt, arm attack, tail attack, roar, cast animation

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posted 11 January 2002 09:17     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Stargazer, who are those demonknights? Are they those darknights in armor that carry a sword? IF so, they are already converted by KingCold and you can find a pic of them at www.apocalypsedemon.freeservers.com/index.html

I'm also having some trouble with the extraction process believe it or not...hmm, are there any demigorgon or other gorgon monsters in BGII since I haven't bothered to extract the files yet? And I haven't beaten the game yet so I wouldn't know.

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posted 11 January 2002 09:49     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
i didnt see any type of gorgon when i looked thru the monster files so if there is one its in the expansion

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posted 11 January 2002 13:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
I have the expansion but I'm struggling with finding VB on my computer. It doesn't tell me where it saves on my hardrive and doing a search comes out empty. But since I have the Xpac, I can probably be able to find it for everyone if I only knew how to extract from BGII.

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posted 11 January 2002 13:39     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
lol find that vb5 runtime installer and do you have a cd burner? i need those xpac animations

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posted 11 January 2002 14:20     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Well, if you read my post, you would see that when I do download the vb5 installer, it doesn't specify where it goes on my hardrive and when I do a search for it, it comes out empty...

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posted 11 January 2002 15:07     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
LOL well download it again but this time tell it to download to the desktop

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posted 11 January 2002 16:46     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
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Originally posted by NefariusDX:
its the same graphic just with red cloth on instead of black


Hehehe, very close isn't it, but if you compare the advocate to the darkmage, you'll see that there are a lot more colours/more detail in the advocate compared to the darkmage, but yes, one is red & one is black. I guess the darkmage was probably just the grafix used for certain uniques in the game, if only the framecounts were the same (advocate has quite a few more frames per anim than darkmage) it'd make my plans a lot easier. I'll have something up within the next couple of days.

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posted 11 January 2002 17:32     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
I'll do the Ettin and the Beholder too and maybe some of the vampires, unless someone else wants to take them on?

I have the BGII Exp too but haven't installed it yet. Can I just extract BIF files off the CD or do I have to install it and open the key file?

Apoc, maybe your problem is a vidcard thing instead of VB6?

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posted 12 January 2002 05:19     Click Here to See the Profile for stargazer79   Click Here to Email stargazer79        Reply w/Quote   Visit stargazer79's Homepage!
hmmm You know what would be cool getting those spiders.. and enlarging them a lil :P..bg2 spiders look freaker than their d2 coutnerparts...
i'll prolly end up doing the Slayer, Raver, Maybe Shambling Mound (if he is in one piece.. i dont think i will take on the multiple piece monsters

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posted 12 January 2002 07:40     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
take a look at this pseudo conversion i posted in the mod making forums its in the top posts called crazy screenshot

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posted 12 January 2002 11:27     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Stargazer, did you find the demigorgon animations from the BGII expansion. I have the tools to extract but I'm having some difficulties extracting so can you send me the demigorgon BAM files to e_tchernev@hotmail.com. Thanks

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posted 12 January 2002 11:48     Click Here to See the Profile for Baz   Click Here to Email Baz        Reply w/Quote   
This are my plans:
andariel --> (BG2) the big 2-headed ogre
duriel --> still looking for a scorpion animation, if u have got 1, I really wanna know!
mephisto --> don't know yet, is gonna be somebody from BG2
diablo --> (BG2) red dragon or big wyvern
izual --> (BG2) otyugh
baal --> don't know yet, is gonna be somebody from BG2
bighead --> (D1) necromorb
nihlathak --> king leoric
the summoner --> (BG2) lich
high council member --> (BG2) umber hulk

well this are my ideas... first I must learn how to get D1 and BG2 monsters in D2X.

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posted 12 January 2002 12:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
I remember seeing several mentions of a big scorpion anim to replace Duriel, i'm not going to consider starting any BG/BG2 conversions at present, but i'm sure there was a scorpion type monster in BG..... am i thinking of the Basilisk/Greater Basilisk? it's been quite a while since i played Baldur's gate now, anything longer than a couple of months & my memory gets a little fuzzy, but i'm sure there was something large & scorpionlike in that game (turned chars to stone as well)
That iron golem anim is looking pretty cool now without the shadow (Apocalypse Demon's)

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