Darmagons new spells

okay decided to start a new thread for download of my new spells to make things a little tidier. Remember to backup any changed files before unzipping the file. Alist of changed files is in the readme. Installation instructions are also in the readme. Have fun.
EDIT: June 25, 2005
- new revision of Disintegrate with sound and new eye-candy now in zip
- Ray of clumsiness beta now added to zip
- the zip is now over the 100 kb limit so I cannot include it as an attachment but
you can get it here

EDIT: July 23, 2005
-new version with Ranger Paladin spells included. for details of use see the
readme in the zip
-miracle and finger of death added. Now sorcerers can be levelled to 14th
-to download click on the above link

EDIT: July 24, 2005
Okay I f***ed up. Cujo changed some files in his mod but they were not included
in the main release. One of the files was spells.mes. I was building on the old
one. My release has now been fixed. If you downloaded before now (Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:43:50 GMT) you can get the fix below. unzip to your toee data\mes folder and say yes to overwrite.
EDIT: July 24, 2005
serious bug found link on page linked to above disabled. need couple days to fix.

There is a bug in ToEE, detailed here which makes Ray of Clumsiness not always a useful spell. Drifter has posted a fix for the bug in the same thread. If you plan on using Ray of Clumsiness I strongly urge you to get that fix
Darmagon

 

Darmagon, good job: you're in the right way then! We'll wait for your next efforts

 

That does not happen here.....

ShiningTed:

I haven't really done too much with the eye-candy for the spell other than copying the effects for Ray of Enfeeblement and turning them Green for Disintegrate. I might try your suggestion later once i am done with my current spell. I think it was you who suggested Ray of Clumsiness (I may be misremembering). I have gotten it to work by using a negative bonus with Cat's Grace. It seems to work perfectly but I am not going to release it until I have done a thorough test And Yeah sound would be great, I haven't even started to delve into that area of things yet
but I understand you have had success in that area. My hat is definitely off to you.

Darmagon

 

regarding Ray of clumsiness

Found a bug with the calculation of maxdex bonus for armor that renders ray of clumsiness useless or worse in many situations. detailed here.
So that spell is on the back burner until I can find a work around. I know Orion(79?) is hot to get 3rd and 4th level ranger and paladin spells working, but I am unable to find a way to do this. I have a few notions for what I want to do next. In particular I would like to try to implement some lower level (1-3) spells (original or just not implemented yet) that could add a new dimension to the game for spell-casters (within the limits of ToEE of course). So does anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: June 25, 2005. Ray of Clumsiness is now released due to Drifter's bug fix.
See the initial post in this thread for details.

Darmagon

 

Well, I would like them, but I won't die if they are not included in the game! But, if you have time, I think that you could add the missing spells with different names. For example, heal moderate wounds instead than cure moderate wounds But spells is your own part, I keep working on bugs related to core-rules

 

new revision of new spells released see the initial post in this thread for details

Darmagon

 

Orion, I took your suggestion and tried adding new spells for rangers with different names. I started with Heal Serious Wounds no luckl. On a hunch I also added the same spell for clerics. It does not show up for them either. It seems clear that the spell lists for classes that don't learn new spells are pre-done and somewhere that I cannot get at them. I would guess they are inside temple.dll and I don't have the skills to edit it. Sorry

Darmagon

 

Bad luck, really. At least you did a try and we know something more now, and that we just have to make a deep dll hacking

 

I lied. new spells for clerics show up after they level up but nothing happens for rangers spells above 2nd level. It looks like ranger spells (and probably paladin spells I haven't tested this for paladins yet) cap out at 2nd level period.

I have tested every other class (except druid) and they all get the new spells I create for them whether they are standard D&D spells or not and regardless of level.

I do have a work around though, it will just require the player to be honest and not cheat. New spells I create for rangers of 1st or 2nd level do show up (when the character levels up). I can make a spell (say cure serious wounds) be a 1st level ranger spell and rely on the player to only place it in the proper level slot. That is the best I can do for now. I think I will make a notation in the spell name so the player knows what level it should be. Something like "Rgr-Cure Serious Wounds 4th".

And I just thought of something else, I should be able to make it so the spell will fizzle if the character is not of high enough level to cast it. What do you think would that be an acceptable work around?

Darmagon

 

IMHO, that idea is fine as long as somebody won't remove the cap