DT1 to Monster Animation

[Xibalba]

Hello,

Its been a VERY long time, i havent modding for a while so im kinda shy to ask something easy like this. Anyways. I have these rough dt1 files from the keep:



So i want to have a static, neutral "monster" which is just a crystal shard that you can "mine" with attacking. The text editing part is easy. Create a new monster type, edit monster stats like making it neutral, no attack, low health, edit drops so it can drop crystals etc. Everything ok until this point. How can i change its animation? I want to use that crystal shard tile as an animation. Someone did a similar thing long time ago. He created a tree, you attack it, it drops apple. Same thing, different approach (Will do that too, lol ). So how can i do this? I think ill end up messing offsets etc.

[mirecek]

Take the crystal image, and make gif file with 8 same frames of that image. Then convert the gif file to dcc. Rest is as you said, editing offsets etc.

[Xibalba]

Take the crystal image, and make gif file with 8 same frames of that image. Then convert the gif file to dcc. Rest is as you said, editing offsets etc.

I cant change its background color to (RGB 170, 170, 170). Do you know how can i remove the background?

Anyways fixed it.

[Xibalba]

Ok i done everything.

+ Added new Monster Type.
+ Added new MonStats.
+ Added new MonStats2.
+ Added new COF and DCC (Only neutral.).
+ Added new AnimData.

now i have this error:

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Diablo II Error
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Assertion Failure
Location : D2Client\Engine\GfxUtil, line #1437
Expression : eComponent < NUM_COMPONENTS
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OK
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Is it associated with TotalPieces column in MonStats2.txt ?

[Xibalba]

So fixed that too now we have this, LOL



+ I need to get rid of that background. (DONE)

+ Fix that glitching. (Almost fixed, 8 x 32 frames. Now sometimes they appear, or sometimes invisible.. SIGH)

+ Fix the lightning. (DONE)

[Okapi]

Hello,

The triple post looks nice .

I've got some questions about the animation which might lead to a solution: are you using the "idle" AI (so it won't do anything)?, only one animation part (e.g. TR; total pieces set to 1?)?, is the column "dNU" set to 1 (so it only uses one direction)? and/or did you use SixDice or Cv52 to save the .gif as a .dcc (if only SixDice was used save the .dcc again with CV52, had some issues with only SixDice usage)?

Cheers,

~Okapi

[Xibalba]

Hello,

The triple post looks nice .

I've got some questions about the animation which might lead to a solution: are you using the "idle" AI (so it won't do anything)?, only one animation part (e.g. TR; total pieces set to 1?)?, is the column "dNU" set to 1 (so it only uses one direction)? and/or did you use SixDice or Cv52 to save the .gif as a .dcc (if only SixDice was used save the .dcc again with CV52, had some issues with only SixDice usage)?

Cheers,

~Okapi

yes my mistake, i was in hurry and when i noticed it, it was too late to delete my double-post. Anyways,

AI is idle, one piece only (TR), dNU was set to 8, i used Cv52 with DCC addon.

I want it to work like Lightning Spire. Just stand there and do nothing (Except the attacks spire do.)

EDIT: I love you man! Setting dNU to 1 instead of 8 worked like a charm. But like always i still have problems but they might be easy...

I cant properly set their x/y coordinates on Cv52, they are floating But i can fix this by trail-error

EDIT2: Well, still happening but more rarely.

[Okapi]

Hello,

+ I need to get rid of that background. (DONE)

I cant properly set their x/y coordinates on Cv52

Those quotes do not add up *; is the background still that greyish color (which matches the X/Y lines of Cv52)?

Setting the background color to 0,0,0 should help you.

Cheers,

~Okapi


*With "getting rid of the background" I assumed you changed it to 0,0,0. : D

[Xibalba]

Hello,

+ I need to get rid of that background. (DONE)

I cant properly set their x/y coordinates on Cv52

Those quotes do not add up *; is the background still that greyish color (which matches the X/Y lines of Cv52)?

Setting the background color to 0,0,0 should help you.

Cheers,

~Okapi


*With "getting rid of the background" I assumed you changed it to 0,0,0. : D

I changed it to 170, 170, 170 according to the animation conversion tutorial. But when i extract other existing dcc files they have 0, 0, 0 background. Anyway i solved this problem.

The only thing left is to adjusting x/y pos and those disappearing glitch (now happens more rarely thanks to you).

[Okapi]

Hello,

Glad I could help .

Might I be able to take a look at your files?

Cheers,

~Okapi

[Xibalba]

Hello,

Glad I could help .

Might I be able to take a look at your files?

Cheers,

~Okapi

Ok ill send them to you with a pm

[mirecek]

from what monster you took the cof files?
I recall the num_components error is from difference between frames in cof and dcc

[Xibalba]

from what monster you took the cof files?
I recall the num_components error is from difference between frames in cof and dcc

Fixed that problem