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BlueO
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posted 31 January 2002 22:20     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueO        Reply w/Quote   
Hi, I've been trying to replacing the player character. I made the leg graphics for the assassin to replace the neutral stance for the light armor, and insert it into patch_d2.mpq. But when I enter the game, the assassin graphic didn't change one bit.

I figure, maybe something wrong with my dcc, so I tried taking the heavy leg neutral stance of the assassin, and replace the light leg neutral stance. Again, when I enter the game, no change happened.

The dcc file I replaced is AILGLITNUHTH.DCC. That's the assassin light legging neutral stance right? If I replace that dcc, it should change the graphic for the assassin standing around, yeah?

Help please. Eventually, I want to replace the whole player character with custom graphics, but I can't even get this first step going...

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Alkalund
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posted 31 January 2002 22:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
Hopefully one of the moderators will move your topic to the graphics and animation forum soon, you will get better support there

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Wyvern
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posted 31 January 2002 22:40     Click Here to See the Profile for Wyvern   Click Here to Email Wyvern        Reply w/Quote   
opps dunno how my post ended up here =(

[This message has been edited by Wyvern (edited 31 January 2002).]

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 31 January 2002 22:40     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
He already made that topic in the animation forum and no one helped him.

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BlueO
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posted 31 January 2002 22:55     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueO        Reply w/Quote   
I'm getting worried actually. Maybe the players are hardcoded, and there's no way to change them? Except maybe by replacing the dccs in d2exp.mpq. But everytime I tried modifying d2exp.mpq, all it did was removing the directory structure in the mpq. Anyone know why, is it because mpq2k can't handle a 240+meg mpq, or maybe I'm low on harddrive space? (I only have 189megs left)

I also noticed, there's like no topics about changing player characters. They are all about changing inventory graphics, or monster graphics. This is the only good mod site I know of. Maybe someone can redirect me to another good mod site, and I'll try asking questions there too.

I have the custom graphic all planned out, and I think I can replace the entire character. Will take time, but I would love it, to see my custom character in action!

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 31 January 2002 23:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
The thing is, there are SOO many character animations that it takes a while to replace animations for them. And it seems the latest craze is for monster and spell conversions...and no, there isn't a mod site better then this one.

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BlueO
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posted 01 February 2002 00:19     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueO        Reply w/Quote   
Ack, I was at battle.net when the custom leg graphic I made jumped out at me! Took me a few minutes to realized, the neutral stance is for a fighting neutral stance, and not standing around the town neutral stance. DOH!

So I took my assassin out of the town, and there it is, the custom graphic legs I made! Woohoo, now I can continue on the rest of the modification.

There are tons of files to replace, but if worse comes to worst, I'll probably leave some animations like swords, bows, staffs, etc unchanged, since I don't use them anyways. Will let you guys know, how the mod comes along.

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