Updating and adding summoning spells

oky here it is updated and ready!! , after some fine tweaking to the boars AI strategy its all good:thumbsup:

extract and drag drop data folder for fun.

**THE FILES ARE HERE**


updated files list

/rules
protos.tab
strategy.tab

/art/meshes
meshes.mes

/art/meshes/monsters/pigs
pig-boar1 folder
pig-direB folder

/mes
description.mes
long_discription.mes


have fun

make some mobiles and test em out tell me what ya think.


ACE

 

Thanks, Ace, I'm having a look now - a couple of things I've noticed - you left the Category at 9, which is outsiders (I think), I think it should be 5 for normal animals (from looking at other Protos.tab entries). ToEEWB references a 'category.mes' file which I can't find ATM. Also, you set the Intelligence to 3 rather than the 2 it has in the 3.5 Monster Manual (Celestial/Fiendish animals have a minimum intelligence of 3 for some reason).

Thanks also for the sounds, I think they'l be fine, does anyone know how you attach sounds to a creature?

I'm going through and correcting my creatures based on Kalshane's info on skills (thanks Kalshane). Which leads to a question, skills and saves use the base values, with the game engine adding in modifiers from ability scores & feats, but what about attack and damage rolls? from examination of the existing protos.tab entries, these do include the relevant modifiers.

Finally, is it possible to give a creature an Improved Critical on its attacks? Am I wrong or right in assuming that Improved Critical (Unarmed Attack) will do this?

I'll try and post an updated set of files later tonight, then I'll be busy until Saturday.

Charles

 

Hey Nerik,

category.mes is in /data/oemes/ If it's not extracted yet it's in ToEE3.dat

Looks like 9 is ousiders, 5 is animals, and 7 is general monsters.

Cuchulainn.

 

Thanks, Cuchulainn, I'll take a look.

Anyway, as promised, here are the updated files (but not the boar graphics - the resulting file was too big), I've added in more fiendish spiders (but I toned the sizes down a bit :biggergri , let me know what you think) and a fiendish giant constrictor snake. I also tweaked the feat allocations of some of the creatures I added earlier (I'm not sure if this will make any difference without adding some appropriate strategies, which is something I need to learn to do).

I've also added an updated version of the Spell radial .mes file with revided protos.tab IDs, and I've added a Galeb Dhur to Summon Nature's Ally VIII to 'flesh out' its options.

A further questions - does anyone know what the numbers for 'Monster melee poison' mean, I noticed that spiders have a '2'?

Charles

 

For natural attacks, the fields should contain the total value minus anything gained from character levels (which it will add automatically). If the creature uses weapons, the game will calculate everything itself.

If the creature is medium or small, you can use the appropriate "Improved Critical" feat. If it is some other size, then unfortunately not.

 

Oops! so i did, Cool thx for that fix Nerik, its looking good all these new monsters are great.

next project is reskin of dire bear:evil:


and TED yep ill do that now for ya and post it in the kotb board.

 

I'm glad you like them, if you're going to re-skin the dire bear (sounds nasty in a taxidermist sort of way), I'll have a stab at doing a portrait of it (based on the Monster Manual one). But I won't be able to do much until the weekend (games night Thursday & Friday).

Charles

 

Ok, here are a set of portraits for a dire bear (based on the monster manual/SRD picture), these are just the TGA files, that hopefully should work (any idea what portrait.mes ID they should have, or should I just use the next unused one?).

If these are ok, I can do a few more (I'm not that hot at painting/drawing, but I can clip existing pictures irate: ), one thing I'm not sure about is the white background, I might be able to change it if required.

Charles

 

the white seems fine to me, however are most monster pics using a black background?

try both lol and see what is best, its a peice of cake to take it into photoshop and subsitute the colours, with out losing any edge detail (my graphic design skills are good for something hehe) i can do it if ya want.

 

Just had a look through the game's portraits, and a number of colours seem to be in use, I think that the general rule is that the colour is dependent upon the creature's habitat, natural creatures get a sky blue or green-ish background, undead get a darker background, fire creatures get a firey background etc. As most of the other bears have bluish backgrounds, I'll try something similar.

Charles

 

Ok, here we have a dire bear with a blue background, what do you think?

Charles

 

@Nerik

A day or two he says...., anyway here is a zip with the actual spells preserving the NPC casting ability. Also the zip includes the .txt files for the spells above fifth level with the proper caster levels for each.

The main thing about the spells scripts themselves is that I have reworked them so that you will not have to update the scripts for any NPC's. The script now reads the values from spells_radial_menu_options.mes and generates a random monster from what it finds there when the spell is cast by an NPC.

I haven't put anything sophisticated as far as error checking in so the entries for each spell in the options file have to maintain the current format, no extra spaces, no extra line breaks etc. So long as you keep things looking the way they do now, make sure the actual number of entries for the spell matches what you have specified and you don't go over 99 entries it should all be good (the game probably requires all that anyway...)

Darmagon

 

Nerik yep the blue background looks good nerik lets use that one