dialogue and plot writing. I'm actually also decent with sound and have a good pro audio setup. that doesn't work. (well, no the synths, fx processors, mics and sampler work fine and all... i just can't record anything except to minidisc. i hate computers) and i'm a pretty good digital artist too. just not toee graphics (so far)
Yeah plots and dialogues here too, I guess, and weird elements of the game like voices. And hacking up ugly scripts to get the job done
Hah, Hah, hah and another hah, even. No, I haven't done all that and was kind of waiting for your input. I, personally, have been off in partsys land for the last little while and have made some more discoveries. Those files are so fascinating, you can play with them for days and still not know quite what it is you are doing (even with all the best the net has to offer regarding particle systems.) I do know some things though, and when what I know reaches a critical mass, I will be releasing an informational brochure kind of thing Darmagon
Ohh - I forgot to mention it, but the girl who is providing me with cool stuff to mod in to the redhead NPC bard girl [voice and portraits] is also musically inclined and talented, can play a piano and sing (from years of lessons). I should be able to record and rip a digitally recorded song in to mp3 format and tie it in to one of her dialogues. Imagine that...a bard who can actually play an instrument and sing. Plus, what was actually asked for, I can do almost any technical thing with a computer and can learn fast - especially, if I have information such as the PDF I made (MOD & ADD chars.pdf, a 60-page PDF file) from Ted's Blog. I can learn new stuff fast like digitally recording music and ripping it to mp3, adding it to ToEE and making it work; making a NPC and modding it; learning to use paint programs like paintdotnet (freeware) and making portraits for ToEE. In short, I am learning a lot in this, my first MOD. Maybe my MODs after this will involve learning an increasing amount of scripting?
Well, a while ago I was bemoaning the fact that I didn't have enough time to chip in more than just testing services. So now I get laid off and have PLENTY of free time. :censored: I haven't done any tweaking of this particular engine yet but I've been a casual coder for 21 years and a Dungeon Master for 20. I have comprehensive knowledge of far too many game systems, including every version of D&D since the very first printing of Basic. I'm widely known in the community as a "game balance guru" (I used to be a math teacher, so number crunching and statistical analysis are second nature for me). I've written reams of source material for three original settings, won PnP and video game tournaments, participated in miniatures adjudication, created almost two dozen unique prestige classes, and produced and distributed the popular Depleted Uranium/Nuclear Winter mods (for Bungie's Marathon games) and the Annelid Apocalypse mod (for Microprose's Worms 2). So, um, someone suggest something I could help with, and I'll get right on it. oop: Blair "What?! No hyperdrive?!" "It's not my fault!"
well i am pretty good at taking whats available and making new things in the protos and my new favorite thing is mob files...oh yeah and chugging beer. does that help at all?
Pythoh scripts. Definately my strength. Not as good as Darmagon by any means, but give me enough time and I will write a beautiful piece of code. Modding this game has re-awakened my passion for coding, and made me realize how much I missed doing it. I can do dialog, though I find it rather tedious and boring, and tend towards the silly if left towards my own devices. I can do .mobs as well. Actually, I can probably do just about anything modding related with this game except for the art. I suck at art. Edit: Oh, and .dll hacking. I can't do that either. Or tie my own shoelaces.
:imwithstu I can do pretty much anything with ToEE, I struggle with scripting sometimes, the hardcoding is WAY beyond me, and art but everything else is quite easy.
* Bradrinwi *grins and takes allyxs sign holding it so the arrow points at allyx*Hard coding. due to absent friends being ..umm well absent.. Im rapidly learning win32 assem as well as dreaming of the temple .dll yes i think this may be a bad sign.. but who knows art.. nope,music Yes as in ive been a active semi pro musician for 20 yrs though im really not sure where youd place a jazzy sax solo.. or some rock jazz flute.. , dialougue not so youd notice ..etc however I have been a compu geek since more than..slightly before the commodore pet i learn very rapidly...(the fact im building working new char classes from the dll etc.. Ive been invovled in rpgs since d&d was in beta and gary was barely out of university and before that nepolionic minis and LoTr variants there of... I have been part of the programming team for 5 of the top hundred selling games (as of yr 2000) can program ada,fortran c,c+ c,++ vc turbo c java.. vb etc.. in my sleep though like driving that might be dangerous have run Vax and sparc clusters.. for fermi lab.. ive won various rpg awards at gen con and other tsr sponsoered events*though they prolly dont do tht anymore... and have been working with former judges guild module creators to finish the inferno module btw based on tdeckers comments judges guild went through very much the same thing the guy who made tower of mitra and the 1st part of inferno .. asked for x amount of time and was given x-6 mos... result is the first 5 lvls and some majour gaps virgil himself would have fallen thru... and then a few more simalarly rushed releases and poof no more judges guild but my title.." hapless bastard "( actually volunteered to take over dlll modding with 0 assembler xpereince since the 6502 processor..)(thats the apple 2 plus for those who are unsure...)) and the PDP DEC series
Thanks again for all the input. Last question: what is something that each of you, as modders, would like to see added to or implimented in ToEE? Modders only please, no "I want Ted to make me better quests!" or anything like that. This should be sort of a far-reaching consideration, a how can ToEE be better? type thing. Ideas?
The Temple.dll needs a few bugs worked out of it... 1) Monsters not provoking AoO's when drinking potions. 2) The shocking burst effect does negative energy damage. 3) Fix the node slowdowns (or at least find out the root cause of it). 4) Fix the rogue 12th level bonus feat. 5) Fix the ranger 15th and 20th level favoured enemy UI. That's my top 5 bugs, there are more but i'll let someone else have a go.
How to make ToEE a better game, you ask?..add a few +4 and +5 magic weapons and armor (plus, as possible, the weapons should do cold damage and the armor have DR) to the game that do not require being consoled in to the game. !!! And, for those "the-rules-cannot-even-be-bent" rules lawyers, make a simple quest to retrieve each item.
Allyx took most of mine. Especially the potion thing. But I can come up with some more: 1) Creatures with abilities that should be automatic (gaze attacks, auras, etc.) actually being automatic. 2) Make fast healing actually work correctly (there's a large number of creatures in the game that have/should have it.) 3) All special abilities for creatures in the game actually being in the game. 4) Fix the Improved Invisibility infinite AOO bug.
