The Phrozen Keep

Questions about how to edit other ds1 in win_ds1edit than the one that comes with the zip are redundant. I guess a fixed post about the subject should have appear long ago. So let's make one. First, you have to know that win_ds1editor is a DS1 editor, not an AREA editor. Some areas like Tristram are...

I repeat it again & again, but ... MPQ Stormless Editor called "MPQEditor" when it's launched, and the exe is "MPQEdit.exe". The best mpq extractor/insertor IMO, just right-click and use "extract with full-path", or "Replace with file", so good. Show unknown entry ! Can filter too. No lower/Upper ca...

It's not as easy as this. There are 3 indexs that identify a tile, and nothing tell that the tiles of a dt1 can be found in another dt1. Even if there are, nothing tell you that they will be the same tile declined in another variation. Also, forget the cathedral, it's one of the few dt1 that is in a...

Hmm, it should have work, I'll investigate. EDIT : Ok, my bad. The error in the code is that 2 or at least 4 parameters is ok, but curiously 3 parameters is not :( // syntaxe of the command line printf("============================================================\n"); if (argc >= 4) // at least 3 ar...

I just updated the 1st post with 2 links on my website for backups.

Just an idea : tilemakerv2_5.zip build a ds1 and a dt1 from a pcx image. It only produce *floor* tiles tough. What's interesting is that it's using not 64 but 256 sub-indexes per main-indexes. Well, in short : it's using a trick to allow to put 4 times more floor tiles in its dt1 than in vanilla dt1...

-A Quick overview of all tiles on the right side Since I'm [almost] not coding anymore, it's not going to happen. Not by me at least. But you can use this workaround : since you can open multiple ds1 at the same time (100 at most IIRC), what you can do is make your own special ds1 just for displayi...

I'm not an expert on converting animations to D2, but here's what I know of the D2 engine and think must be considered. The engine display 25 fps max. Animations can be anywhere between 0.0 and 25.0 fps, and finely tuned (see Skeleton example below). Taking some players and monsters animations as re...

It seems it's already like this with vanilla TXT files. I don't see any reason tough, so I'll assume it's just a leftover bug in the TXT. Try to remove this incorrect link, but it'll surprise me if it is your problem.

I fixed some links, just used the "d2mods.com" shortcut, that should be enough.

If you find more incorect url, don't hesitate to mention where, I'll fix them as well.

The tutorial stoped working from a certain patch. I think it'll work as expected with the 1.10 patch, but I'm not sure with the next patch. I'm sure it don't works with the current patch at least. It's because using in an Act an object of a later Act is not suported by the game normaly, the editor d...

Back from holydays, sorry for the delay. I must be stupid or something, how do I remove/move an existing object with this editor? You should first read the file README.txt that comes with the editor, as my online documentation is incomplete (especially regarding objects). Now to answer your question...

My DCC "encoder" is in fact unfinished, right now it just prepare all frames by dithering all cells (1x1 to 5x5 pixels) in order for them to have only 4 colors max. It does this job already, but all the bitstreams and the DCC are not created. You can freely use the source code if you wish : dcc_enco...

Try this one : dc6edit_1.02.zip. It works on my 7 64bits.

EDIT : I'm not sure I understood correctly what you want to do, but if it's really about extracting *DCC*, then dc6edit won't do the job. DrTester will do, or my in-progress MergeDCC v2.

You don't have to launch the .exe, but a .bat, in order to give the .exe some necessary parameters. win_ds1edit is a command-line tool, not a window application. There should be some .bat as examples. A .bat file is a simple text file that you can edit with notepad for instance, but the file has a "...

I don't know if it'll works, but you might try to install this executable : Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1 MFC70.DLL Security Update.

Can you be more explicit ? I don't understand what tool you're talking.

I don't remember exactly which ones, but certain few .txt are necessary, that may be the problem. Check which .txt have their .bin generated by the game. For these ones you normally don't have to put the .txt as well. But for the .txt that don't have the .bin, put the .txt. On totaly another subject...

I suggest to try with that tool, specifically designed to create new enventories : D2Inventory : WYSIWYG inventory.txt editing.

The Vis and Warp in levels.txt, as you found out, need to reference all the possible warps that DS1 contains, but given the version of the DS1 it is possible that some warps are in fact not there. No problem. It's only a problem when a DS1 has a Vis which is not referenced in levels.txt. Check Makin...

Postmortem: Blizzard's Diablo II , by Erich Schaefer, October 25, 2000. Characters and monsters, such as this Vampire, were created in 3D Studio Max. An in-house tool would render the files from many different angles (eight for all monsters, 16 for player characters), and export them in the file fo...

I believe this is hardcoded so, and as your tests are showing, you probably can't change the way how the armor layers are taking their color from the Torso component. Not without dll-editing, that is.

The original icons are not really transparent, it's just that half of the pixels were deleted on them.
That beeing said, and if I'm remembering correctly, in the game options the user can choose if the automap is to be displayed normaly or with translucency.

Follow theses rules : the final image should be in 256 colors mode (8bpp), right before converting it with a Diablo II image converter. the background (transparent) color must be the color index #0 (the color in itself is normally not important, that's the index which is important) never use the col...

Something suspicious : in IndexDC6() you're reading a byte, but then don't increment the pointer to the next byte : The code should probably be : for ( i = 0; i < fh.length; i++) { c = dc6_file[pos + i]; i++; // adding this line should solve the problem if (c == 0x80)