DS1 Legendary Mod for DS2 Beta Thread

It has been remarked before that the official Utraean Peninsula Map has little relationship to the actual gameplay. I think it was something that they throw together near the end of the development stage just before marketing began as probably created by a marketing graphics designer with little knowledge of the game.

It would be nice to redo all maps in a more realistic fashion (Yesterhaven didn't even have an official map and LOA is hard to come across) to reflect the current times but I'm not very good at such things and wouldn't even know where to start.

The exit of the Ancient Temple is quite strange. The nearest cavern is the Path to Meren obviously and is marked as such but if you choose to do the Quarry Quest you have a long trek ahead of you with no easy way of getting back on track. I'll try adding more information to help guide the player but unfortunately there's no easy way of getting directions in the Editor.

This is one instance where DS2 style teleporters are so handy and they were actually in the early alpha builds of the map before the current system was adopted with the reasoning being that DS2 teleporters weren't in the original games. Though I've just sort of an alternative with maybe the dwarf at the Quarry opening up a portal back to the exit from the Ancient Temple, once you talk to him and finish the quest.

Though I'm also considering making a mini-mod which would add DS2 teleporters to this map and KOH.

Those Lungers are fearsome..!!
it's hit-and-run tactics all the way - powerful mobs!!

mistaking those ceiling lamps for transporter sites:

- one here..

- and one here..

- the entire party was eventually mobbed to death by a pack of Lungers
- who were concealed behind a large rock - they were too quick for us..
- at the time we were a long way into the Caverns..
- too difficult for a Respawn/Restart, no way to safely reach
- the burial spot and reclaim all Inventory

- a very long slog to reach the Caverns transporter, and a hefty sigh of relief!! :sigh:
- having distance set at 100, via Elys' GUI definitely helped plan strategy..

:woot:

No problems with quests and such thus far (Kingdom of Ehb).

I was using the DS1 character pack mod without even thinking about it, so I removed it and restarted a regular game.

are the files listed here the newest, if so, I need to swap out the Arrana and Yesterhaven files.

Sneaked along the ledge to right, and took the lift down into the town

- still have the pirates to deal with..

- this armour vanishes when worn..

- it's completely green under the cursor..

- have disbanded the Dwarf CHR and replaced him with another Archer
- 2 Nature Mages providing back up and Healing..

- ever onward!! :woot:

- this armour vanishes when worn..
Do you mean that the Crimson Starlight Vesture of the Rat Armor vanishes on the character or that there is no active inventory icon? Also appears that the black widow armor has a problem as well. since the character wearing it has a brown face and green arms.

- it's completely green under the cursor..

Not sure what you mean here since I can not find the cursor in the image.

I will have to send you a more powerful bow with greater range for hunting things like lungers.

it becomes see-through, when worn..

if you hover your cursor over the CHR,
then the armour shows up as bright green,
- the same green as the CHR-rings..

so far, it's the only armour I've found that acts this way
I picked up the same armour some time before reaching Meren
it behaved in the same manner, rendering the CHR see-through..

have just found the Meren Stone and cleared out the bandit camp..
on my way to Lang..

Yes I don't like the green cursor (I assume the lead character's highlight) so I use a mod to disable it as well as the highlights around the actors and most items.
http://siegetheday.org/?q=taxonomy/term/95

I think what has happened is that some Type6 armor may have gotten into The Legenary Map Pack. Or the alpha channel for the armor is incorrectly drawn.

seems to be model-related, as it had happened before - with the same armour..

- there's a map missing here in the journal..
- you pick it up from a chest behind the tower
- above Meren, just by the lift..

- onward to Lang!! :woot:

Does the armor work on male characters and go invisible on female characters.

- I only tried it on the female CHR, Nature Mage

- the model looks as though it takes the form of a robe..
- but doesn't render it's actual design onscreen
- it appears see-through, apart from going day-glo green under the cursor..

*spooky*

- I've added Drevin to the party, so now it's
- 2 x Melee CHRs
- 2 x Archers
- 2 x Nature Mages

- it's a pretty strong combo, so far!!

While its true the Legendary Mod does contain some type 6 armors (actually the old DS1 type 7 armors) they are for exclusive use of DS1 npcs and not for use by playable characters. They aren't even defined as templates, just as armor skins. Anyhow the Starlight Vesture isn't one of these.

The problem with new armors for DS2 is that you have to make multiple versions of the same basic armor for each skin available to the playable characters. Thus the Starlight Vesture has 23 variations with the only difference being the skin colour of the hands and feet. However looking at the files they all appear correct.

I'm mystified about what's causing this glitch and am hoping that someone can shed some light on a possible cause.

As suggested by Blondin235, I've revised the Dornek's Quarry Quest to give better directions.

It's also broken up into three tasks to try to help with navigation. Plus once you end the quest, the dwarf Hogar Stonehammer will, as an act of appreciation, open a portal which you can use to zoom back to the exit of the Ancient Temple.

It is a one way portal but should stay open after you saved the game, so if you activated the nearby portal return gizmo you can zoom back to this point from a saved game and either continue to explore the Sulphur Caverns or take the portal back to the Ancient Temple and continue to Meren through the Crystal Caverns.

I think this revision works so well that I'm now going to look at revising the Hiroth Townstone Quest in a similar manner with more task steps and directions. I don't think a portal is needed as the suggested method of playing is probably to visit the secret island next, whose entrance you passed on your way to the Hiroth Stone. Unless you have already explored that and the Lava Caverns, which is quite possible as the map is so open in the regards you can visit places out of step if you want to. You could even skip Meren and instead travel straight to Lang and continue the game from there, though you would have to complete Meren eventually to finish the main quest.

Arrana is working better, finished the Lost Valley. Are the Evil Eyes supposed to bet that hard to hit with bows? Unless at just the right angle most of my arrows went through them . Now on to Illicor.

that looks a neat solution, I look forward to a replay..

I've had a couple of "Exception Data" Errors along the way
I'll try and duplicate them, to get a precise location..

- "Exception Data" error happens beyond this point
- on the road to Lang - on re-run this didn't re-occur
- may just be my BETA gfx driver.. (v14.1)

- is this waterfall flowing backwards..??
- it's the same when you reach the bottom of the gorge
- by another small bridge, the falls appear to flow uphill..!!

- made it to the Lang Mire transporter..!! :sigh:

It appears that the Starlight Vesture works fine when one is playing the game Using Broken World, but becomes transparent when one plays the game using Dungeon Siege 2. There must be a difference in the armor between the two versions of the game. The only time I have ever seen this type of problem is when the armor's alpha channel contains area's of black, which when worn by a Adepts/cat mansion character would show as skin and not armor. Does Broken world have a different version of the armor?

It would appear that Broken World handles alpha channels differently than DS2. Phoenix, the original creator of the Starlight Vesture, declared an alpha channel when it actually wasn't required for this armor. When worn in Broken World, the alpha channel is ignored and the armor appears as designed. However in DS2 the alpha channel is read and consequently the armor appears invisible. Actually it should be various degrees of transparency but instead appears invisible because diffuse = true; is also added to the gas file, which I presume makes the alpha change consistent.

So I simply deleted all the gas files and now it works as intended. I've also verified that it still works in Broken World as well, in case the fix broke it there.

For Bare_Elf late last year the game started experiencing exception errors and graphical glitches when her old graphics card started dying. Replacing it with a new one fixed the problem.

That said it could still be some issue with the Mod, especially if you're playing with vanilla DS2 and not Broken World. I've tried very hard to keep the code clear of anything Broken World specific that could cause problems but something could have crept in. The fact that you can't replicate the exception in a particular area or region could just mean it's something generated randomly in the pcontent system.

Honestly the code is a bit of a mess due to the slightly haphazard way the mod evolved over the years. It would benefit greatly by being revised and structured more cleanly than it is now. Maybe once the next Main version is out?

Yes that's another glitch that has found it way back into the mod over the past few versions. The solution was posted a couple of years ago and I'll have to try to find it or hope that somebody like KillerGremal or Phoenix may pop in, who may remember what it was and save me a long search (this site would benefit from a good search facility).

The summon teleporter spell returns me to Arhok after I passed the Traders camp. I also start in Arhok after saving. The only glitches so far I know are from the original program and my computer, I like the use of the Shard Souls for those Eye creatures.

@Iryan: Usually it's layer?vshiftpersecond in the corresponding gas file of the DS1 texture(s), its value must be multiplied with -1 for DS2.
I often had the impression the water is flowing some faster in DS2 than it did in DS1, so I actually used -0.4 while the original value was 0.5.

Sadly I never was able so solve the problem with the mist texture that sometimes appears in a different color tone drawing a sharp horizontal line for some waterfalls.

Me too. 10m range is just silly. I might as well jump on the monster's head and shoot from there.

Here are a few weapons that you might find useful. If you and blondin235 like them I will post mod in the download area.
Just put the ds2res in the ds2 resources folder, or the broken world folder if you are using cat mansion adepts. Note even though it says cat mansion they will work for anyone.

http://siegetheday.org/~bare_elf/files/Cat%20Mansion%20Weapons.ds2res

There might be a broken save position at the Traders Camp. Maybe Bare_Elf might be able to verify this. I'll check it out as soon as I can.

unfortunately a few of the more exotic LOA monsters had to be replaced with placemarkers. The Swirling Midges, Zepherylls and Dopplegangers for instance. I may be able to eventually make reasonable facsimiles of most of them but the Dopplegangers?

Whelnars Eyes could possibly stay with the Shard Souls as I can't even remember what they look like now. I remember all the others but they weren't very distinctive.

The mod has been updated again with several fixes and enhancements, thanks to everyone's valuable feedback.
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Map_Legends_of_Aranna_Beta_14.ds2res (37.1 Mb)
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Map_Multiplayer_World_Beta_14.ds2res (69.6 Mb)
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Mod_Content_Beta_18.ds2res (93.6 Mb)
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Mod_Logic_Beta_18.ds2res ( 1.5 Mb)
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Mod_Terrain_Beta_17.ds2res (123 Mb)

http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS1_Legendary_Mod_for_Dungeon_Siege_2_Beta_18.txt

The enhancements are revised quest structure for dornek's stone quarry and hiroth stone quest in the Utraean Peninsula. The Location of the Hiroth Stone should be easy to find now since as well as improved directions within the quest itself there's a very handy direction arrow and quest markers in the minimap.

The River Flow Direction has been fixed thanks to KillerGremal's clues. I simply forgot to include all the correct gas files in the DS1_Mod_Terrain_Beta.ds2res. Thanks Blondin235 for reporting it (I did know about it but had been too busy to get around to fixing it).

There was a potential problem with saved game positions with the Trader Camp. While saving your game within the Trader Camp proper worked, if you saved your game before the Trader Camp proper an incorrect save position id could cause the game to start from Arhok. Thanks sigofmugmort for finding this bug. I hope its fixed now.

Fixed the missing map that Blondin235 reported. It was a weird one. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the setup at all but if refused to appear under the map tab. Simply changing the name of the template from map_lore_cloud_forest.gas to map_lore_cloud.gas in all relevant places fixed it. Or at least in my testing. Thanks Blondin235.

The Starlight Vesture fix is also included in the DS1_Mod_Content.ds2res.

thanks for those new resource files, iryan..
also installed CatMansion Weapons resources from bare_elf (- many thanks!)

- the enormous Lang Mire was made much easier with Elys' at 100 setting
- possible to skirt danger areas, by watching the map closely..
- the place looks beautifully gloomy, by the way.. and plays brilliantly
- spotting the brightly-lit town of Lang was a relief, as well as a surprise

- In Lang, I replaced an Archer from my party, with Sheba the Combat Mage
- her fire spells were essential in clearing the swamp of monsters..

Party now consists of:
2xMelee
1xArcher
1xCombat Mage
2xNature Mage

am proceeding with the following resources installed:

- ever onward! :woot:

The problem occurred between the two teleporters on the mountain of the dead.
just before entering Cicatrx's lair and on the way out.

Reached the Ramparts and lvl35, no problems,( except with the mouse )
I think The Chamber of Stars in Ehb need to have Unique items if possible.
My party is 2 Archers, Nature mage, Two-handed Fighter and a Monster Trap.
Will add the newest updates and Return to Arhock before continuing

The Lang Stone is easily found..

- too easily found, I have two of them..
- it repeat dropped on the next restart (??)

- Item Seven of the Goblins Plans.. ha, ha!!
- crazy goblins left out item 4, as well..

- is this an easter-egg, or part of a special set?

BTW: - loving the Mimics, nicely placed..
- and still a MASSIVE challenge!! :woot: