Other than Kathy, iryan and myself...
| Submitted by bare_elf on Sun, 2013-02-24 03:30 | ||
I just finished a new armor mod based on the Idea Kathy gave me the other day, but I have no idea if I should post it or not because I am not sure how many people are still playing Legends of Aranna, with both cat madsion adepts and legends of Utrae 3.2. The little armor mod does require all of the above. If there are maybe another 5 or 6 people out there heck even one I will post it. On a side note how many people know that WESRIN CROSS was originally opened as a shopping mall similar in size to the Mall of the Americas, with Hotel, Eateries, and places to purchase Armor, Fancy Clothing, Weapons, House Hold Items, Trekking Equipment, Spells and other useful items. Look at the lore book for Wesrin Cross, yes I know now it is filled with spiders and other nasty stuff and its last use was as a fort for the tenth legion, which obviously did not work out. blogs: |
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I did not realize that about Wesrin Cross. I hope the chefs in the restaurants clear out those cobwebs before serving lunch. I would be interested in seeing your mod, as well.
I would be playing some if not for that nasty Vista thumbing its nose at me.
The only way I have gotten Dungeon Siege 1 and LoA to work on Vista and Windows 7 was to move the games into their own directory via copy and paste (C:\Users\Kathy\Kathy's Games\Dungeon Siege). I left the original installation in the programs(86) folder.
For me, running those older games (DS and some other ones) from their original installation shortcut with or without using administrator permissions was like the kiss of death to getting the game to run smoothly, and allowing the easy use of mods.
The only problem I have encountered is setting up custom shortcuts. For example, on my Win XP laptop I have all my mods in their own little folders and each has its own shortcut. I have had some difficulty doing that with my big computer.
Who knows, that might work for you, even though I am bypassing Windows security or whatever. Those security options in Vista and Win 7 can piss off as far as I am concerned. Sorry for the vulgarity, but they really make me mad!
Kathy and others I uploaded the file and posted a link to it in the mod categories -> Legends of Aranna -> add-ons download area.
It is very important that you read the read-me file or the entire discription of the mod here on the site as there are other mods that are required for it to work correctly, and the location of the mod when playing the game is less than intuitive.
According to Blondin235 in the following post http://www.siegetheday.org/?q=node/1304 there is a patch for program compatability with Vista and legacy game programs such as DS1 and LoA. Check it out it might help. I found this post using the search content command and the quary "Vista".
Don't mess with these two. BAMFs
On my computer, I noticed the same armor piece looked different on the male vs the female. How did you achieve that affect? It was magic, wasn't it (seriously, I'm curious).
The Catmansion girls are far more detailed and simply a better model all around. Their eyes blink, but the guy just stands there staring into space with a derp face, amongst other things. This is not news to anyone but me, I'm sure, but I haven't actually played with a male CM character before.
Well it is just one little bit of code in the adepts world/global/skins/pants.gas file
[farmgirl]{
* = b_toumei;
}
So it was nothing I did more a hamcat and iryan thing.
I have discovered that if you add * = toumei; to each and every chacter type except the skeleton the armor looks the same on all characters.
[pants]
{
[common]
{
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_004;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_005;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_006;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_008;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_010;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_012;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_013;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_015;
* = b_c_pos_a1_pant_016;
}
[farmboy]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[farmgirl]
{
* = b_toumei;
}
[dwarf]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[skeleton_good]
{
}
[halfgiant]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[utraean_boy]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[utraean_girl]
{
* = b_toumei;
* = b_toumei;
}
[dsx_mp_farmboy]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[dsx_mp_farmgirl]
{
* = b_toumei;
}
[dsx_mp_dwarf]
{
* = include_common;
* = b_toumei;
}
[dsx_mp_skeleton]
{
}
}
Now the male characters will look a bit strange as they will be missing some parts. Technically the mesh is missing a few bones. It would take a major redo to fix it so I just live with it.
I will post a screen shot or two when I have a minute or two tomorrow
If you use the standard Cat Mansion Adepts you get this for the same armor depending on the sex of the character.
If you add the following * = b_toumei; to each character type's global pants file you get unisex armor that looks the same on everyone (well almost)
im still playing dsloa and ds2bw too but mostly playing it more for performance benchmarking or "testing" on how fast it can run with new hardware.
test 1: got bored playing alone. so i decided to make best use of my multicore cpu by running multiple instances of dsloa and ds2bw. cloned up quite a party of Femmes (Femme chars) with 4 instances of dsloa/ds2bw. maxed out my quadcore with 4 instances of the game! if only i cud afford a hyperthreading quad core or a core i7 extreme hexacore or octacore... that would mean 8 threads/cores to run 8 instances of dsloa/ds2bw! bam wud have a full 8 player game for maximum self cloning narcistic funness~ :mrgreen: me three, four, five, six, seven, eight!
test 2: stuttering fixes. found it quite annoying everytime the game stutters when a new region is loaded into the frustum. guess the new hardware fix for it? bingo an ssd. with its access time in microseconds as opposed to milliseconds for hard disk drives, u can now say bye bye to dungeon siege powerpoint slideshows.
test 3: more beautiful ds world scenery in the distance like in oblivion and skyrim. nowadays, with cpus having the hidden potential to easily overclock to 4ghz or more and the cheap availability of 8gb ddr3 ram, u can now enjoy an extremely large frustum radius by using seefar mods due to the additional computing power and heaps of ram u can get cheaply. i'd say ds2 gives oblivion a run for its money with a frustum radius of 80 or more. also with lots of ram, u can get ram disk software like imsoft virtual disk driver, create a ram drive in ur ram and then copy ds over to the ram drive while editing the shortcut and installation location in the registry to point to the new ram drive. if u cant afford an ssd but have 3gb of ram or more, then its certainly worth considering.
with all these performance enchancements, it seems ds is an extremely advanced game for its time. i'm still going to appreciate ds even more as i still continue to play it as i've found no other game that can be performance tweaked like ds can! a terrible pity its a victim of shitty publishers screwing with a dev's purse strings.
also, if the newer windows are bogging u down in your attempts to play ds, there are always ways to procure certain *ahem* copies of winxp pro to install on ur system to make it dual booting to play ds only. im sure ds is such a valuable game in itself to deserve such special treatment, right? imagine an os dedicated to playing ds only... it is certainly worth that is it not? do not let shitty windows get in the way of your fair use rights to play ds. i personally do NOT condone procuring *ahem* stuff but end users DO have their fair use rights to their software...
Thanks for the information and the screens. That is pretty cool.
happy you find it useful wish I had the cat mansion boys for DS2, then I could do the same stuff for ds2 as I did for ds1, oh well that is way beyond my talent.