The Phrozen Keep

Thanks for the reply, though maybe I'm reading things wrong, but there might be some confusion of sparkly chests (object #397) and these hardcoded objects 580 & 581. An example of a map piece with #580 is slums16x16_1.ds1 (Lower Kurast fire) which contains three of them. There seems to be something ...

These are the special chests found in various specific .ds1 locations, such as Act1 houses, Lower Kurast huts near fire, behind Mephisto, and River of Flame endpoints. I'm wondering if anyone has deciphered what specifically distinguishes them from normal chests, in terms of number of drops and Trea...

So I guess I'll release that other skills.txt soon (though I wont have any time to test it myself due to MetalStorm and other projects needing all my attention for the time to come). Still looking for that chance to beat Riftwing. BTW, what effect does the "# kills" mod have on the Masamune set Col...

Nefarius";p="370273" wrote: ... combined with facets and other things with -target resistances.

I do have a few -res Shards, but I thought -res items like these and facets only worked once resistances have been broken?

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Vendanna managed to kill Icehawk during testing

Could you or Vendanna elaborate on how?

Open Wounds + Conviction (the highest sLvl possible) to crack his immunities. Then pretty much hit him with everything you've got. mLvl 110 Skills: Beachball (sLvl 35) Summon Uber Duriel ([acronym="Skill Level"]slvl[/acronym] 1) Bone Spirit (sLvl 50) Blizzard (sLvl 50) Meteor (sLvl 50) Holy Freeze ...

Went and tried both the glide wrapper ( this one ) and reducing the quality in the Nvidia driver settings. Unfortunately, got the same results. Also tried with sound disabled, but no difference. When testing I set /players 8, summon 10 Moos, a Valkyrie, and HoW spirit, take the Frigid Highlands wayp...

The current machine: 14:56:42.875 Speed: Approx. 2010 MHz 14:56:42.875 Total Physical Memory: 1023.48MB 14:56:47.625 Opening Direct3D window at 800x600... 14:56:48.078 Texture Memory Total= 496.871 MB, Free= 495.324 MB 14:56:48.078 Local Total= 248.871 MB, Free= 247.324 MB 14:56:48.078 AGP Total= 24...

Hmm, was the infinite loop using the same function as the Hellfire Torch, i.e. DiabWallMaker? I've tried both DirectDraw and Direct3D modes, and get the same problem with both. I have to wonder if this machine with a dual core and 256MB 3D card can really be chugging so badly. Here's an animated exa...

With the Hellfire + Strafe combo though, it does seem to be the engine. In Antibalance for example, a dense monster pack that doesn't die right away will quickly reduce to a slideshow (even on a current PC) from the amount of firestorms going off at once - the area of the firestorms will be almost s...

Just wondering if anyone knows where exactly the D2 engine is choking when it comes to displaying those animations. Is it some cap to the number of .DCCs going off at once? It doesn't seem to be the DCCs themselves, since replacing groundFireMedium.DCC with a smaller/less complex DCC doesn't help th...

There's also a factor that makes the space around each monster off-limits? Interesting. Is it one subtile around the monster? WarpDist was 0 in that screenshot (mentioned in the other post), so that shouldn't be affecting it. The Scimitars were spawned only 1 per pack. -> https://d2mods.info/forum/a...

Welcome back Nefarius; thanks for posting this info, it's something I've been wondering about. Do you have the 1.10/1.11 function locations for the 100000ths <= comparison? I also have some experimental results I'd like to reconcile with the 10% cap: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/156/screenshot...

A bit of a multidisciplinary (code/map-edit/txt) question here... After some testing, it seems that increasing MonDen will not strictly increase the number of distinct monster groups that spawn while exploring a map. That is to say, even for large values of MonDen (>10000), it is possible to have fe...

If one wanted to completely disable all item drops from monsters, what are the specifics of ways to do so? Is it as simple as putting a NOP in an item drop function (and if so, which)? What would need to be done for a txt-only approach (if possible)? Can this be extended to all drops everywhere (che...

what if player x sells an item in the game of player y? will the inventory of player x be lost and replaced with that of player y? etc It's my understanding that PlugY is somewhat brittle in that regard , hence the "single server" thought - any permanent NPC save file would be server-side (player y...

Suppose one wanted NPC inventories to be based entirely on what players buy from, and sell to them. This behavior is present to some extent on a per-trip-to-town basis (if players sell an NPC with enough room an item, they can buy it back if they don't leave town). Could this behavior be extended to...

You already have that in D2 - in full screen mode. It stretches the graphics and fills the entire screen, no matter if you're playing on a 14" monitor or 21" one All kidding aside, the idea is to not have to mode switch the monitor and refresh rate every time, and be able to tab to other windows qu...

I should clarify one point - the Warcraft 3 switch doesn't affect the viewable area, it just scales the graphics output to fill the current screen resolution. It sounded like SVR's change had the same ability - to scale/magnify the 800x600 window to fill the screen at whatever the current resolution...

SVR said he had a way to resize the window : I *have* written a replacement d2direct3d.dll that lets you do this. It supports 8,16,32 bit modes as well as fully sizeable window mode. Also supports 24 bit DC6 format. It does not support perspective though, and may not run well on slower machines. Thi...

I might take the time to release a bit more thought-throughout version of AB. Don't know if this will require a full re-write, but thats for the future to tell. :cool: If it's any use, I think the group I've been trying this with would be happy with just a few minor changes and bug fixes. -magic it...

Thanks for the replies. Some further thoughts after more testing: The Skeletons summoned by Horadric Mummies in Act V are infinite and don't drop any items. Same goes for Chaos Hordes summoned by Blood Mages. Neither of the summoned units give experience. icon_sad.gif Meanwhile, Vile Spawns and Magg...

After some further AntiBalance testing (and awaiting Nefarius' return), here are a few observations and questions: - Yes, normal and superior items do drop. The first one I saw was in Act III Normal, Lower Kurast. - Blood Mages' animation seems to be glitched - they will disappear during certain act...

Say we have an intriguing mod (AntiBalance) and we wish to enable ATMA to recognize some small number of custom items from the mod (e.g. Magic Box). If the mod was created only through .txt file editing, is there any info about what ATMA would need so that it could transfer these new items between c...

Great, looking forward to seeing a Zod for once. With the "add 1-4 sockets" recipes, will that add to existing sockets or only unsocketed items? Another poster had this same issue - normal and superior items don't seem to drop, even with 0% Magic Find. What sort of ratios should we be expecting from...