Replacing Walking Animation With The Running One

[RyanFialcowitz]

I'd like to make it so that when the player character walks it looks like he/she is running. . . is this possible?

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Necrolis]

The long way is ALOT of copy pasting, the better way is to rewrite the gfx loop(in 1.11b its alot easier to do than in 1.10) to use the same anim for the different modes

[RyanFialcowitz]

Do I really have to ask?

How do I do either? Which is easier?

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[onyx]

Extract the running animations (all body parts with different equipment), rename them to match the filenames of the walking animations, and edit animdata.d2 if neccessery (meaning if framecounts of run and walk differ).

[Necrolis]

Recoding the draw loop is harder & faster, Onyxs method is easier and slower, your choice[note this presupposes that have or don't have certain skills, ie the first option is very easy if you an experienced reverser and coder, or the second could be easier if your a uber god with bat scripts]

[RyanFialcowitz]

Okay, how do I tell which are the running animations and what is the file extension I'm looking for. I already increased the walking speed to match running- so that shouldn't be a problem- thanks.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Necrolis]

running is mode RN(you'll also need to replace the townwalk as well) which is TW iirc

[RyanFialcowitz]

what is the file extension I'm looking for.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[cla$$ics]

.dcc?

[RyanFialcowitz]

Yes and it would have been helpful if some had mentioned that. But the renaming the files doesn't work anyway.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Necrolis]

It does, how do you think the monk works in BTH? Did you put the files in the correct mpq(put them in the patch), and are the names 100% correct?

[RyanFialcowitz]

Just as an example:

Replacing BAHDBA1TWHTH.dcc, BAHDBA3TWHTH.dcc and BAHDBA5TWHTH.dcc with BAHDBA1RNHTH.dcc, BAHDBA3RNHTH.dcc and BAHDBA5RNHTH.dcc abd renaming them does not change anything in game- whether I put the files in patch_d2.mpq or the folders in the Diablo II directory.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Necrolis]

You've only done it for the hth type, you need all the types plus TW is just the town walk mode, you also need to replace normal walk[town walk should actually be replaced by town run), look in plrmode.txt for the mode lists you need

[RyanFialcowitz]

I've renamed all WL in Char to RN and all RN to WL. This should switch the animations outside of town, but it does not. Assuming Town Run is TR- it doesn't exist as far as I could tell, at least not as an animation file.

I should further point out that, at least for the barbarian, there are only the WL, RN and TW versions of the above files.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[RyanFialcowitz]

Renaming the files to switch the animations is completely unecessary. Nor does one need a bunch of complicated code edits. You can switch the walk/run animations by simply switching the tokes in PlrMode.txt- the elegant aspect of this method is that the code remains the same. This way the player won't be, quite unrealistically, punished for choosing to run rather then walk.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Nefarius]

Renaming the files to switch the animations is completely unecessary. Nor does one need a bunch of complicated code edits. You can switch the walk/run animations by simply switching the tokes in PlrMode.txt- the elegant aspect of this method is that the code remains the same. This way the player won't be, quite unrealistically, punished for choosing to run rather then walk.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

Yes, the game builds the internal token table by loading those txt files.

[RyanFialcowitz]

The long way is ALOT of copy pasting, the better way is to rewrite the gfx loop(in 1.11b its alot easier to do than in 1.10) to use the same anim for the different modes

Extract the running animations (all body parts with different equipment), rename them to match the filenames of the walking animations, and edit animdata.d2 if neccessery (meaning if framecounts of run and walk differ).

Then why did no one mention that a simple text edit would work in lew of all of the above? I've noticed this pattern in most of my posts here- a whole lot of misleading or inaccurate information is thrown out there and I usually end of up finding the correct information elsewhere. Considering that Necrolis is the primary respondent to most posts here. . . I'm not trying to come down on anyone but if you're going to answer virtually ever post then your information better be correct and I find hard to believe that I'm the only one that continually got incorrect information.

Peace.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz

[Necrolis]

Well you've just been unfortunate enough to catch me out with an arb question or two(well the pierce one was my fault for attempting to read hex instead of asm, should have rather refered you to a post i made 8 months back). I don't claim to know everything(nor do I), I just know alot more because of code editing and years of exp, but if someone else has something better to say then say it(which seems to never happen, except on rare occasion...)

[onyx]

And since I see my post is engaged in this discussion too, I'll add a few lines here. I haven't replaced character walk with run ever. What I have done is replacing the whole character token with a different one. Needless to say, the PlrMode.txt edit that you mentioned wouldn't have worked in my case, that's why I don't even know about it. I have provided a solution to your problem that works if executed properly, and that was the only solution that I knew of. Would you be happier if your posts were left unanswered?

This is only a forum and you can't demand answers to your questions. We do what we can and we provide the solutions that we know of. Too bad no one who knew of the PlrMode.txt edit stopped by in your thread.

[RyanFialcowitz]

Dude, as I said earlier- not blaming anyone. Just had several threads where it seemed I was getting the run around. Needless to say I didn't care for it- but as it seems it was unintentional then I think we can lay the matter to rest.

Lastly, this forum and all others like exist for the sole purpose of answering questions. No demanding ever took place. I asked questions and the bottom line in this case was there was a much simplier solution, is that your fault for not knowing it- absolutely not, but it's annoying to have waste quite a lot of time getting one complicated thing to work when a simple one would suffice.

In any case, thanks for the polite replies. I think I've done all I need to do with Diablo editing- so I thank you, all of you, for you input.

-Ryan P. Fialcowitz