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Brother Laz
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posted 11 January 2002 07:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Brother Laz   Click Here to Email Brother Laz        Reply w/Quote   
What I'm trying to do is a spell that shoots a molten boulder that bounces between enemies, like chain lightning. AFAIK chain lightning consists of one chain 'bolt' that does damage, and a lot of 'bolts' trailing behind it and doing nothing. So replacing the damaging 'bolt' by molten boulder, giving it knockback and slowing its speed, and replacing the trail by fire and making it do fire damage should work... and the knockback should make the boulder repeatedly strike the target, setting off multiple 'chain boulders'.

But I can't seem to find the chain lightning maker, the one that does the damage, in missiles.txt. All I find is the trail. Where is the 'maker' located?

And is either the entry for the maker or the trail in missiles.txt shared between the various lightning attacks? (I don't want the other lightning bolts to suddenly look like molten boulders).

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NefariusDX
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posted 11 January 2002 07:14     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
the chain lighting is a single missile called chainlightning

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Brother Laz
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posted 11 January 2002 08:27     Click Here to See the Profile for Brother Laz   Click Here to Email Brother Laz        Reply w/Quote   
Er... there are two chainlightnings. Besides, if it was just one missile, why would it only do damage when it hits, and not repeated damage when all the lightning trail missiles hit?

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stargazer79
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posted 12 January 2002 10:01     Click Here to See the Profile for stargazer79   Click Here to Email stargazer79        Reply w/Quote   Visit stargazer79's Homepage!
lighting does repearted hits in d1 i know....
but chaing lighting only does one hit upon striking target.. and once its hit.. it stops.. and lighting bolts shoot out from the hit target to near targets. etc.

i dont think your idea is gonna work as you want it too..maybe you coudl do a hula hoop effect replacing the assasins spinning star on with a hula hoop.. and give that knockback

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FoxBat
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posted 12 January 2002 10:39     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
LightningHit is the long, "useless" trail. This affects many lightning spells though.

The second ChainLightning is the head of the sorceress Chain Lightning spell I believe.

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NefariusDX
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posted 12 January 2002 20:49     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
the lighting hit is a overlay the missile is a single one

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FoxBat
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posted 12 January 2002 20:55     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Yeah but there's also an entry in missles text called LightningHit which has a very different function. It is the long, non-damaging trail on many lightning spells. Not the like the little spark appearing on monsters in overlays.txt. I have modded this for Lag Reduction/D2Accel, I should know

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NefariusDX
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posted 13 January 2002 00:04     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
thx for clearing this up

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