Ribbons and ... nausea?

Kathy
To want to go full exorcist on the insurance company tells me you really igaf, because if you really idgaf you would walk away and not do anything. As you said in a pm to me "keep your chin up girl"

I know the whole world sucks, so hook it up to a hose and vacuum your yard! that's what I would do if I had a yard.

I haven't opened and looked at the ribbons mod as yet kathy but it doesn't seem to work in my game, if you actually told us what it adds or modifies that would do for starters, that small map mod gives an exception error by the way, so then I just tried out the ribbon thingie on a new game (LOA exe with the DS1 map), I created a new character and there was nothing extra in there so I played it through all the way to Wesrin Cross, nothing dropped on the way there so I'm assuming this Ribbon thingie doesn't work.

Unless of course you've got these ribbon thingies (I keep calling these Ribbons "thingies", until I know different that's what they will be called) dropping much later in the game, as in when I've died a horrible death waiting for something to happen, so when you've stopped being cranky and have finished your full exorcist thingie in the health office could you please let us into the inner secrets of this Ribbon mod of yours.

A confused Limey is just thinking out loud that one of these weirdo Yanks is a potential bloody basket case, just be careful you bloody lunatic as you could end up on our 10 o'clock news one night, you must be more nuts than us Limeys are kathy because you've got as many shrinks in your neck of the woods as the whole bloody world put together.

Okay, inner secrets. Omniscient Colossus, who is one of the authors of the DS Revived/ DS Revived LoA mods designed some new heads for Farmgirl and also made wigs and hair ribbons as alternate in game helms for FG. I liked those features a lot and added in some ribbons of my own for more variety. I was tinkering with making the ribbons themselves as a stand alone mod without making the changes to the formula or heroes that are in the Revived mods. I think I found a way but I wanted to see if it worked for other people as well as for me.

I haven't put any finishing touches into the mod yet, so maybe that's why they aren't dropping as loot. I have been seeing them in stores though and haven't had troubles equipping them. That was one of the issues I was trying work through, since the ribbons can only be equipped by Farngirl and without using either of the Revived mods they initially were being shown as being unusable. I like using the ribbons since many of the regular in game helms look ugly on my female characters.

Thanks for taking the time to try it out, Moros. Sorry about the map, I included it since it's just a small vendor map. I will make a few adjustments to the mod and then upload it again.

I played another test game (multiplayer) and found the ribbons for sale in Glacern and also Crystwind. Arhok and Stonebridge had nothing. I definitely need to refine the templates.

You seem to be back to your usual vibrant self kathy, did they give you something for your nausea because playing DS1 and uploading the xskins mod and fixing up your ribbon thingie suggests that you're back to your usual top notch form, what did they give you then?, no, no, no don't tell me because I can guess.

A question kathy, I've never even clicked on the multiplayer tab so how would one go about playing a game in multiplayer then?, and do explain things as you would do when explaining things to an eight year old child. I might have 2 degrees in stupidity and a phd in being an obnoxious pillock but they aren't going to help me out on this one are they.

Do you play with yourself or are you playing with other players, "< I've been told that doesn't sound right when I read it out loud", hmmmm, they're right as well, it doesn't sound right but, you know what I mean and that's all that counts, just one more thing kathy, do you need to play a special map or can you just play with the MpWorld.dsmap?. Enough questions for one post, I'll ask any other ones in another post.

Aw, you smooth talker.

What is your video? It's showing an error message for me.

Well, I haven't had a chance yet to fix the ribbons, so the mod is still pretty bland. I have the armor level set for 8, which is why I think they aren't dropping as loot or showing in stores in the very low level areas, that is something I definitely need to work on.

When viewing the multiplayer menu, ignore the button for Zonematch; it's been gone for years. Choose whichever of the other two options you want, I don't think it really matters. I go with internet and host my own game and then it's just me, myself and I.

I've used lan only when playing a game w/ my boyfriend and that was ages ago. If you wanted to play with another person over the internet you would give your ip # for them to connect (if you are hosting) and vice versa if they host. I suppose at that point you will need to fiddle with Win Defender.

You can play any map that you have available in your maps folder, unless the author of the map specifies otherwise. I used the Utraen Peninsula map, the LoA map and Ehb.

Once in the staging area, don't forget to set your game options. Hope that helps!

I ended up in Eldim this morning and had a quick play through but something was nagging me in the back of my mind, that's when I remembered what it was, I once played this map before, I never got out of Eldim as I never played it long enough and I also remembered I played it in SinglePlayer mode.

A quick search on the interweb and I found a link to that mod, its called "Myrosmap, This mod is a complete conversion of the multi-player map into a single player map. It also adds 5 NPCs for hire in the starter town. 2 are free, 3 cost money."
So I downloaded it and had a go with it, it works with the mod that I currently have running, the pm_fg_summons and all the starter gear that Suki starts with are all in her inventory and work as well, oh what a sunny day.
Anyway if you want to try it out I'll provide the link for you, it beats the hell out of messing around in multiplayer mode I can tell you, I gave it a scan and everythings in order, ps kathy, you can send me a Lamborghini in the post, it'll look nice alongside my Jensen Intercepter

https://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/957159/Re:_Misslilo,_do_you_still_hav

Aaaah, I thought something might be wrong when I saw my original post.

Thanks for the link to the Myros mod. I downloaded it for my Steam Dungeon Siege 1. For single player I like Iryan's Legends of Utrae. It's very good but it requires Legends of Aranna.

I had to look up Jensen Intercepter. I'm assuming your's is an older model? From what I could see most of them appeared at classic car shows. Pretty cool looking. Oh, thanks by the way.. Now I have that song stuck in my head!

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down" ...Guess what Moros? IT'S NOT DELIGHTFUL!!! I had to drink this nasty barium stuff and then had my stomach scanned. Boo!

Yep, Mary Poppins was my favourite film when I was a kiddie and "A Spoonful of Sugar" was my favourite song.

I've been playing the Utraean Peninsula with the LOA.exe, its not much fun without anyone else so I'm going to restart it and summon Kirani my nature mage and hire that bint Raven, that's if I can find her again, I think I'll need to put an experience ring in for everyone or those 3 are going to end up too weak to crack an egg.
I've never had that barium stuff as you call it, hehehe, if it helps the docs out you shouldn't complain too much about it, just my two-penneth, not that you asked for it but you got it anyway. Got to go now as the Utraean Peninsula is calling.

What, you didn't want to hire Deadeye Eviee and Doc Sam? With names like that they should be in a mod for the Old West.
Raven is in the little house right near the church, if you didn't find her yet. Ya know, because she's a bint and might have wandered off and tripped over a blade of grass.

I still recommend Legends of Utrae. It's so well done w/ tons of quests, NPCs to recruit, new monsters and a lot of other added content. It's in our downloads.

I'm not trying to put down Myros' mod by any means. I mean he put it together in what, 2002? It was a great idea and as far as I know he was the first person to do that. I'm still going to play with it. I think Doc Sam and I will stretch our legs and roam the countryside, along with Deadeye and her fancy shootin'.

I found raven and hired her today, the silly mare has developed a black eye overnight, she said she got it fighting the krug, me thinks she got it when she was washing the pots in the kitchen and she caught her eye on the cupboard door, krug indeed, me thinks this bint should be up on a theatre stage, no, not acting, but bloody sweeping it.
As for Deadeye Eviee she looks as though she's fallen out of an ugly tree, she'd only have to look at a krug and they'd run away terrified to death, fancy shooting, more like fancy staring.
Enough mickey taking for now, my new ponytail gang are on their way to Fallraean, I've forgot what we're going to do there so I'll have to re-read the journal again.

I downloaded the Legends of Utrae mod and had a quick read of it, the trouble with it is the quests can be broken so easily, when I get round to it I'll have to watch out for that.

I know what you mean about the quests. When I'm playing Legends of Utrae I keep the text about quests and set locations open. Just to double check and stuff; my memory isn't that good anymore.

She's a big improvement over the GPG one kathy, I wouldn't mind using that Naidi\Eviee version the next time I play this map, If you can attach it in this thread and any others you might have I'd much appreciate it.

I can upload later today.

Myros mod was my introduction to modding. I adapted it further to make my own roster of recruits: lookalikes of Rusk, Zed, Kroduk, Lorun (I called him Pyros), Phaedriel and Andiemus. And for my first recruit, Ulora (dressed in dungarees and carrying a pitchfork). Maybe I even managed to change where I recruited some of them. Which of GPG's original NPCs they replaced, that is. Elia, my Ulora lookalike, replaced Elias the one who said he was having to slaughter all his pigs. (It was pigs, wasn't it?)

I included some other stuff with this upload. Some extra face and hair skins, some "npc" type skins and regular as well as alpha channel armor textures. I also put in a farmgirl "mesh fix" so the women don't have huge shoulders on type 4 armor and so on. I also put in the a1 mesh so the characters can wear in game alpha channel armor. These meshes are included in my Farmgirl face mods, but if you don't have those you may wish to use the stand alone mesh fix. Credits are listed in the included text. The party member mod includes all the recruit able characters in the original KoE campaign. This should update any kind of summon npc mod as well as Ehb.

Okay, farmgirl party members. These aren't perfect. I could probably spend another three months tinkering with them. I had to scrap the Ulora one because her eyebrows were too high up. Now her eyebrows are lower but her complexion looks strange. My boyfriend says I'm kind of insane. What do you guys think? Hmm?

<--- See? She's all kinds of splotchy!

<--- I really don't like the original Sikra, with her stupid red headband. I used my imagination for her. I hear that's a good thing.

<--- I was going to work more on the original Phaedriel face, but I got lazy. Ha, right. I predict working on the original Phae face in 5,4,3,2...

*edit*
My google drive now hasKathy Extras

Yep, Elias says he has to slaughter all the pigs. All three of them. That should hold all of Elddim for oh,a day and a half I think. Then it's straight back to Gremal stew and fried Phrak wings. Mmmm...

So did you have to add in dialogue for the characters? That goes in the map-conversations I think? What about the NPCs who cost gold, did you leave that the same? I tried to alter that in the Myros mod, since I hate spending money but then I couldn't get any of them to interact with me.

Hmm, I did edit the myros talk for the pm fg gold prices, but I must have missed something. Just for my own curiosity, I'm going to try your three part edit method. Thanks for the help.


PS: Did you have a chance to download my "Extras File"? It contains the texture edits for fg party members and feel free to alter them or w/e. My upload has extras as well as, umm, extras. So I guess that's Extra Good? Okay, you can stop rolling your eyes now...

PPS: Extras!

I had a look at your farmgirl extras and I found them to be very umm, revealing, I haven't loaded it up yet as I've got a new game of the Myrosmap up and running, well, when I say that I mean we've just cleared the town and we're gonna go down to the Crypts and kick Lord Hovart right in his follies.
I forgot to say that the previous game of the Myrosmap had to be cancelled as we 4 were getting out missiled by every thing past the Crystwind mines, I'm still not sure that 2 melee, 2 archers and a nature mage can handle those mobs, Oh yeah and we all kicked the bucket in the flooded sanctuary, I knew then that I needed another archer.

When I said only 3 files to edit, I should have said 2 files to be edited that contains all of the characters and then each character must have their own job talk gas file. If you find my Melisandre mod you can use that as an example template.

I've put Eksevis and his textures on the back burner for now, this is far more interesting and besides a few more weeks won't hurt.

As for the rest of the texture, alpha channel armor will look better. Also, if you want the npc to be nude even though I made their base outfit underwear, so nudity isn't an option unless you edit the fg npc gas file and, well I guess it would... OH LOOK! A KITTY!

Oops, sorry I have the attention span of a fruit fly and get easily distracted. Anyway. Thanks again for the Myros mod edit information. Sorry your gang died. Maybe a combat mage for area of effect damage? Archers and nature mages are a bit weak for aoe. I guess it depends of what spells you can find.

If you don't want the "mesh fix" your npc character will have feet with a bit of texture, but at least they will look flesh colored instead of that ugly foot that is on the default texture. If you don't want the robe model you can re tank the mesh thing. That might be best actually if the ponytail gang doesn't have that same texture layout.

Btw, you don't need to start a new game if you use the mesh fix. I've done that and it works fine. Here is an example of swapping the mesh in and out and also why I like the mesh fix so much.

The other textures were kind of an add-on if you use the a1 mesh as they could be used as starting outfits or w/e. As for revealing, you did want to download X-Skins, so yeah... lol.


Crap. I'm sorry I'm so silly all the time.

I've loaded my mod of Myros mod again: Naidi is in there and Zed isn't. I guess I'd no use for a low level nature mage, so gave Naidi another outing despite being my one paid-for choice in KoE. All my recruits are in or around Elddim, and have GPG-derived names, except my Andiemus-alike is called Myros, and my dwarf combat mage isn't there - must be in Crystwind, with one of the dwarf names.

I didn't take any shortcuts as we followed the normal progression of the game, the reason I mentioned the Flooded Sanctuary was because its almost unheard of for the Pony Tail gang to have a gravestone marker replacing their portrait, unconsciousness, there's plenty of that, but no death game over messages in a long long time. We carried on to what I know of as the cliffs of Fire, we got as far as the Merchant shopkeeper but just after that I called it a day as the game was like plaiting fog, I like a challenge but an archer and a mage just couldn't compete against half a dozen Droog archers.
This next game we're better prepared, ummm, maybe, 2 melee, 2 archers, and a mage, if they can't cope I'll have to re-start the game and bring a combat mage in to play.

That's bloody brilliant kathy, the first time I get 2 girls to strip off without having to part with any real money and they don't have a body between them, sheesh, they don't work with that mesh mod or without it, me thinks you've got an alpha channel problem so I'll wait for you to sort it out.
Ulora looks great in that outfit even without a body, although I can't say that for Naidi, perhaps a small spark of inspiration on your part would improve things for the better.

I like front rank hybrids and rear rank shooters (ranged or mage). At Quillrabe (UP's Droog town), with a party of 7:
- my hero was skill 45 at combat magic and skill 40 at melee;
- just one person had STR as highest attribute, but only just, and his ranged skill equaled his melee (37);
- three others were better at ranged than melee, by different amounts;
- another archer was backup healer;
- and the last was a nature mage with strong secondary in combat.
That way everybody had something to contribute to a shoot-out - blow those Droog archers away - but the group could withstand melee enemies too.

That's from a saved game I've dug out. No dwarf mage at all - that must have been a plan I abandoned. Memory playing tricks, as I said.

downloaded and installed but... i must have installed wrong...so will you please kindly tell me how to install them i was looking for installation instructions but couldnt find them. perhaps i am missing something i dont know but i think maybe loa is not right folder

Moros:

I did some trouble shooting and checking other mods for conflicts w/ daloa.exe and then ds.exe. I then reviewed my notes about the issue I encountered when trying to edit the myros mod the other day. Come to find out that it was the myros.talk that was the culprit. For some reason it was over riding my textures, probably because of the edits to pm fg based gas.

However, the mesh fix was out of date (the a1 model), so that's why the inviso girls. I re-tanked both the mesh fix and the npc mod at a higher priority and that fixed it for me. I'm attaching the files, so hopefully it should work for you.

Here are the Victoria's Secret models. Oooh...

Darkelf:

Sorry about the lack of instructions. These mods should be placed in the DS resources folder. I haven't updated the ribbon mod yet, so if you downloaded it, the ribbons will not be available until higher level zones due to the amount of armor on them. Apparently eight armor on a head item is way too op in the newbie zones. *shrug* If you would care to wait a couple of days, I can finish the ribbons and then upload them.

More importantly, the npc and mesh mods that you previously downloaded should be thrown out since the a1 mesh was out of date for the farmgirl mesh fix. As I mentioned to Moros, the updated mods are attached. The other extras stuff is just textures, so no big whoop. Let me know how things work out.

The updated Extras is now on my google drive

Great stuff kathy, ahem, Naidi needs some new underwear pretty badly because that lingerie is well, damn!, also Ulora needs a new head as she can't join the Pony Tail gang without one, and yeah, the poor girl needs a much darker ginger hair colour as well, it just so happens that I have her looking just like that in my Suki mod that I'm using.
I think that a few edits are needed before I use this mod, I'll wait for you to say yay or nay before I get stuck into them.
Oh by the way the Ribbons do work, I put the mod in last night after I saved the game at Fallraean and when I tested it out today they were in the shop, only one problem with it is the armor level is pretty damn blah!, the Ribbons need a whole lot more armor levels if they are to be a useful addition for the girls, as it is now its gonna be removed.

All in all kathy you've done a grand job.

So I take it you don't like leopard print? I was going to tell you to bugger off, you know. The Extras folder contained extra skins, including lingerie in several colors. I don't mind if you modify my files, but since you weren't sure I just went ahead and changed it. I'm glad the ribbons work and yes, I will be done sometime tomorrow. I added some more textures and polishing the gas file. Thank you for the compliment btw. It makes me happy that people like my stuff.

Better?

File is attached.

Awwwww shucks kathy, sniff sniff, that's perfect, the Pony Tail gang will sing songs of joy in your honour for a whole month.

Just for you kathy, from the Pony Tail gang, ps they usually sing this when they've had a few tankards of ale.

What a great song and what a great singer as well.

Leopard print is so 1970's kathy, Suki and the gang say they wouldn't be seen dead in it.

As for leopard print, Amazon, Macy's and and more disagree with the gang. Apparently your girls are out of touch w/ with fashionistas everywhere!

I remember seeing Flashdance as a kid. What a feelng !

PS: Those ribbons won't be finished for a few days more. I was getting myself a cup of coffee this morning and tripped right next to my desk. Sploosh! Coffee everywhere. Luckily my keyboard wasn't damaged. I had an illness back in 2012 that destroyed most of the cartilage in my right ankle and knee so I have some mobility issues. Well, that and being a big time klutz. This left me in a grumpy mood and spending most of my day lounging in bed with an ice pack and reading.