Heaven Storm Sticky

[Sir_General]

Ah Heaven Storm... finally got it's own sticky thread. And for a good reason, too. I'm ready to start the testing and designing. For everyone who asked to be a tester, thank you. If you were chosen, you'll receive an e-mail (hopefully in the near future).

This thread will be used for news, announcements, bug reports, blah, blah, blah, and all other things Heaven Storm. So then... let the games begin...


Alrighty then... I'm just going to put the download links up here. Anyone can download them, but since most of the mod is multiplayer, you won't be able to log on to the server without an account.

Beta Download A - http://d2mods.xfernet.com/filecenter/pa ... ile&id=817

[Sylver]

I downloaded the heavenstorm beta, but something went wrong when I was about to get into the main menu. I emailed you my log file.
My first guess would be that I did something wrong while installing it, maybe it would be handy if you put a short piece of info here how to install this thing...

[Sir_General]

All you should have to do is extract the files in the ZIP file to a directory of their own. Make sure you preserve the directory structure in the ZIP file. For example, the "Data\Local\Font\Latin" directory.

[NewbieModder]

I, Too, get an assertion instantly. I'll try to post some actual details.

OS: Win2K

Extracted to C:\program Files\Diablo II\D2 Mods\Heaven Storm, a directory structure I use all the time with my other mods, which use the VBS scripts.

Ran the launcher, Diablo II cinematics came and went, I got the splash screen (right before the main menu), and on the main menu, assertion failure.

Here's the failure, i've never seen it before, or even an assertion in D2CMP.dll before. I suppose that's becuase nobody edits DLL's so heavily like you do. Heck, you're the only mod with edited D2CMP I know of.

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Assertion Failure
Location : C:\Projects\Diablo2\Source\D2CMP\SRC\CelCmp.cpp, line #1087
Expression : pDestSurface

Oh, and here's the stack crawl at the bottom of the crash log. Don't know if it'll be useful, but knowing you, I figured i'd post it.

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14:38:22.118  Address  Frame    Module       Return    Stack
14:38:22.118  6ff5db7d 0012ee90 Fog.dll      Fog!Ordinal10028+008D 
14:38:22.118  6ff5d7db 0012ef64 Fog.dll      Fog!Ordinal10023+001B 
14:38:22.118  08a30000 08a30028 unknown      unknown+0000 
14:38:22.118  Stack walk error: 126
14:38:22.118  3 frames dumped

[Maxx Power]

I'm not having any of these problems. I'm reaching the title screen, no problems. Try clearing out your /data file in the d2 folder, that might help

[Bastian-Bux]

Well, I do reach the title screen as well, but thats it. I can't go into freespace .

[Sir_General]

Well, I do reach the title screen as well, but thats it. I can't go into freespace.

Nobody can. It's not implemented yet.

I, Too, get an assertion instantly. I'll try to post some actual details.

I have a few crash logs for this, and I'm looking in to it. Has to do with drawing a DC6 image to the screen.

Update:

This crash appears to be caused by playing in DirectDraw full-screen mode. Windowed mode is ok, and so is Direct3D in both full-screen and windowed mode. I'm not certain at the moment how to fix the crash, but if you are getting it, you can play in windowed mode or switch to a Direct3D video mode to get around it.

[Wlffrsether]

I've just downloaded the mod and installed it, but i get an error message when I press "play" in your launcher, claiming that i don't have "d2gfx.dll". I guess this is because I used to play using the modified "d2gfx.dll", so if anyone is so kind to mail me a regular "d2gfx.dll", cause I can't seem to find where I put the backup, it would be most apreciated.

wlffrsether@hotmail.com


EDIT:

Well now I managed to start the mod, and I came as far as the main menu in D2/HS, but no further. The "Enter Freespace" button don't do anything. Also, when I exit the game, numerous error messages pops up about different dll's. It more or less makes me reboot, cause I can't do anything to get rid of the pop ups. The error message is there, but there is no "X" to close them. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work either. The pop ups seem to take control, so I have to reboot.

One more thing i find quite strange is that when i press play in the launcher, it says "Diablo II is already running. Waiting for application to close", and after 3-5 sec D2/HS starts.

OS: WinXP

I guess there is only one thing to do. Re-install.

[Alkalund]

Clean DLL files (1.09b) <-- clean d2gfx.dll inside

The "Enter Freespace" button don't do anything.

As Sir_General mentioned above,

Well, I do reach the title screen as well, but thats it. I can't go into freespace.

Nobody can. It's not implemented yet.

[Bastian-Bux]

OK, so we beta tested the title screen, when will the next patch show up?

[Wlffrsether]

Alkalund: Yes I see that now. My bad.

One more thing. After the intro-movies there is a short glimps, about half a second, of the old vanilla D2 main menu, before it shifts into the D2/HS one. Is is supposed to be this way?

[Sir_General]

Well, here I am oh so many days later... still no closer to fixing the blasted DirectDraw crash! And with nothing else done on the mod. I'm so happy I could rip my keyboard in two.

Alright... but enough about that. I'm moving on. So everyone, you'll either have to run in windowed DirectDraw or switch to Direct3D. I'm going to go as fast as I can to get the next patch out.

[Newbdungeon]

yea im tryin to switch back to my vanilla d2, every time i start d2 it crashes, ive switched all the old dll's back to vanilla ones and removed all that i can think of

updating that the error message im getting when i crash is:
unhandled exception
acess violation (c00000005)

im pretty damn sure all the dlls im putting back in are the originals cause i have no otheres

[NewbieModder]

"You'll have to run in windowed mode".

How do you do this in your launcher program? I know how to in the VBS scripts, but your launcher doesn't take commands...

[Rhonlore]

Yeah Ive tried -w in the shortcut, and in the line designating where D2 is, havent been able to get windowed mode with the new launcher

[Drachenritter]

hm .. the titel-screen works in full-screen ....
starcraft goes diablo , eh ?

[Skeleon]

there it is! the first step onto patch 1.10 ...
i'm gonna test it out, till i get some news about HS, allright?

[WarWolf]

I dont know wether u still want to know it or not, but for me ur alpha works perfectly

[Sylver]

over which version of diablo 2 did you install it?

[WarWolf]

1.10 ... perfect black screen as it is planned

[Sir_General]

Alright, I've got another little test I'd like people to try out. The link is:

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/plan ... test-b.zip

It might take a little bit for it to get around to all of FilePlanet's servers, so if it says not found, try again in an hour or two. I trimmed off all the uncessary items this time (which was a lot), so it's just under 350Kb.

Anyway, this test should play like standard Diablo II. The only difference is you should be able to press "D" and toggle on/off a square towards the top left of the screen.

For those that use this, tell me if you have a crash or if the game seems to run very slow or choppy or the like.

[Rhonlore]

Using 2D gfx.

Windowed and Full Screen run fine and produce the red box on D
Colored box shifts through colors well

Using D3D gfx.

Windowed and Full Screen run fine and produce the red box on D
Colored box shifts through colors well

EDIT: Champion of the Light post! (250)

[WarWolf]

I think it works but is it also supposed to switch colors when its longer on the screen?

[Rhonlore]

Hey everyone, does anyone happen to have the Heaven Storm files?

I think they may have been lost forever, but they were a look into what you could do.

If anyone happens to have those files, do you think you could pack them up for us?

EDIT: Woopsies, didnt notice his second post. My bad

Heaven Storm

[Sylver]

So it's just a square. Nothing more. If this is all the progress that has been made in more than a year please don't continue.