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Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Wednesday, July 21 2004 00:13 Profile Homepage #35
quote:
Originally written by Daravon:

I downloaded but it won't start. It says that it is "either damaged or doesn't work with this type of computer" to which I was like: "Huh?" I have Mac OS 9.2.2
I assume the standard BoA Editor works for you? Possibly the download was corrupted, and you should try downloading it again?

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Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Wednesday, July 21 2004 00:13 Profile Homepage #35
quote:
Originally written by Daravon:

I downloaded but it won't start. It says that it is "either damaged or doesn't work with this type of computer" to which I was like: "Huh?" I have Mac OS 9.2.2
I assume the standard BoA Editor works for you? Possibly the download was corrupted, and you should try downloading it again?

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
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Same old story in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 13:01 Profile Homepage #25
All relevant skills - Intelligence, Mage/Priest spells (whichever's relevant), and Magery - increase the damage of affected spells by the same amount. Getting one intelligence increases your damage by the same amount as one Magery or one Mage/Priest Spells skill. This is described in the Blades of Avernum documentation, Spells, Bonus.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
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Same old story in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 03:12 Profile Homepage #18
Each level of intelligence only increases damage by 1. Since the amount of damage is randomized anyway, I suppose it's possible that you didn't notice 6 extra damage, especially if you were unlucky.

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Same old story in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 00:40 Profile Homepage #16
If intelligence doesn't help, then magery won't. It's odd that intelligence doesn't though, because the BoA Docs say that its damage is increased by your bonus. (it's been known to be wrong, though; it isn't too surprising).

EDIT: After doing some testing with the character editor, I found that Intelligence does increase Repel Spirit's damage.

[ Monday, July 19, 2004 01:29: Message edited by: Isaac ]

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Fun facts about script calling order! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 00:20 Profile Homepage #2
Also, for the party triggering step-on specials, if there are multiple types in the same place, the order is terrain script, then special rectangle, then script for stepping on that terrain type (one of the possible special properties of terrain).

EDIT:
quote:
Originally written by Just call me Kel:

However, terrain script START_STATEs are weird and seem to be called whenever BoA feels like it, which appears to be influenced by monster movement -- possibly they are called in between different NPCs moving.
So that's why certain terrain scripts that I've heard of blast the party into oblivion instead of just damaging them once a turn. Things like that would need to check the tick to make sure it's different than last time. Or of course, do it in the town's START_STATE, but terrain scripts are nicer for some things.

[ Monday, July 19, 2004 00:26: Message edited by: Isaac ]

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Fun facts about script calling order! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 00:20 Profile Homepage #2
Also, for the party triggering step-on specials, if there are multiple types in the same place, the order is terrain script, then special rectangle, then script for stepping on that terrain type (one of the possible special properties of terrain).

EDIT:
quote:
Originally written by Just call me Kel:

However, terrain script START_STATEs are weird and seem to be called whenever BoA feels like it, which appears to be influenced by monster movement -- possibly they are called in between different NPCs moving.
So that's why certain terrain scripts that I've heard of blast the party into oblivion instead of just damaging them once a turn. Things like that would need to check the tick to make sure it's different than last time. Or of course, do it in the town's START_STATE, but terrain scripts are nicer for some things.

[ Monday, July 19, 2004 00:26: Message edited by: Isaac ]

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 00:16 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Dahak:

Is there a way to ditch the grid lines. They are very annoying (2D or 3D).
No. I found that without them I couldn't tell where the spaces were. Although it would be possible to modify the code to remove them, there isn't room for more buttons to do all these suggested features. If I decided I wanted to work on this program some more, though, I could add another row of buttons.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Monday, July 19 2004 00:16 Profile Homepage #32
quote:
Originally written by Dahak:

Is there a way to ditch the grid lines. They are very annoying (2D or 3D).
No. I found that without them I couldn't tell where the spaces were. Although it would be possible to modify the code to remove them, there isn't room for more buttons to do all these suggested features. If I decided I wanted to work on this program some more, though, I could add another row of buttons.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Sunday, July 18 2004 13:34 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by Suneun:

There's no way of zooming out, yes?
Correct.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Sunday, July 18 2004 13:34 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by Suneun:

There's no way of zooming out, yes?
Correct.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Problems designing stairs in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 00:21 Profile Homepage #1
Use terrain #1, "Blackness", at the end of your stairs. That's what the stairs you copied do, although it's hard to tell (I figured it out by drawing cave floor all over the Solid Stone, and some of the black area didn't seem to disappear. That's Blackness terrain, probably designed for this purpose).

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Problems designing stairs in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 00:21 Profile Homepage #1
Use terrain #1, "Blackness", at the end of your stairs. That's what the stairs you copied do, although it's hard to tell (I figured it out by drawing cave floor all over the Solid Stone, and some of the black area didn't seem to disappear. That's Blackness terrain, probably designed for this purpose).

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:36 Profile Homepage #27
I have converted the graphics in a way I think will work. The code would have to be changed for it to work on Windows.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:36 Profile Homepage #27
I have converted the graphics in a way I think will work. The code would have to be changed for it to work on Windows.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:00 Profile Homepage #23
I have finished version 0.9b1, which includes the tiny rectangles in 3D, and Tab to switch between 2D and 3D, as well as some more bugfixes. Get it at the same place. Unless I get the tinting code or more bug reports soon, I will release this as version 1.0.

Jeff (or anybody else who would know), what should I do with it when it becomes version 1.0, to make it available to everyone?

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:00 Profile Homepage #23
I have finished version 0.9b1, which includes the tiny rectangles in 3D, and Tab to switch between 2D and 3D, as well as some more bugfixes. Get it at the same place. Unless I get the tinting code or more bug reports soon, I will release this as version 1.0.

Jeff (or anybody else who would know), what should I do with it when it becomes version 1.0, to make it available to everyone?

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 03:52 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

It appears that first_group_member(0) will always return 0, even if character 0 is dead or deleted. Have other people tried this, and if so, received the same result?
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

Agh, I am a fool. To refer to group 0, one uses the number 1000 even if the parameter calls itself "which_group" and not "which_char_or_group."
Does this apply there too?

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Friday, July 16 2004 03:52 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

It appears that first_group_member(0) will always return 0, even if character 0 is dead or deleted. Have other people tried this, and if so, received the same result?
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

Agh, I am a fool. To refer to group 0, one uses the number 1000 even if the parameter calls itself "which_group" and not "which_char_or_group."
Does this apply there too?

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:37 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:

Looks very cool.

Tinting is not done using system calls, but by bit by bit editing of the graphic data. It's a pain.

- Jeff Vogel
Hmmm... If you could post your tinting code, then, well, I'll probably implement it. If not, I doubt I will. After all, I don't even know how much each thing tints it, and I don't know how to do "bit by bit editing of the graphic data" (although I bet I could figure that part out).

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:37 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:

Looks very cool.

Tinting is not done using system calls, but by bit by bit editing of the graphic data. It's a pain.

- Jeff Vogel
Hmmm... If you could post your tinting code, then, well, I'll probably implement it. If not, I doubt I will. After all, I don't even know how much each thing tints it, and I don't know how to do "bit by bit editing of the graphic data" (although I bet I could figure that part out).

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:32 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

It would be lovely if you could get the various things that are not displayed (terrain scripts, etc) to display. I imagine a little box with 3-d versions of those graphics in the corner of the terrain that they're on, much like the 2-d version, but I have no idea how hard that would be to implement. If not, I'll just switch to 2-d. No big deal.
I am going to implement that tomorrow.

quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

I may have just missed this, but is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between 2-d and 3-d? That'd be really nice, if it's not already there. Maybe TAB, if that's not already used for something.
That reminds me, I was actually intending to implement that, with the exact same key, but I forgot about it. I'll do that too.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:32 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

It would be lovely if you could get the various things that are not displayed (terrain scripts, etc) to display. I imagine a little box with 3-d versions of those graphics in the corner of the terrain that they're on, much like the 2-d version, but I have no idea how hard that would be to implement. If not, I'll just switch to 2-d. No big deal.
I am going to implement that tomorrow.

quote:
Originally written by Just Call Me Kel:

I may have just missed this, but is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between 2-d and 3-d? That'd be really nice, if it's not already there. Maybe TAB, if that's not already used for something.
That reminds me, I was actually intending to implement that, with the exact same key, but I forgot about it. I'll do that too.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:26 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Originally written by Vercalos:

Wow. This looks like quite an amazing piece of work, and certainly useful for checking how something would look in the game, and checking to make sure that everything that needs to be seen is seen.

BTW, if you want a good place to store images, check www.ripway.com
Not sure what they get out of it, but there's one thing I found that would make using that impossible for me:
quote:
Note: Accounts that are inactive for over 30 days will be removed. Please log in at least once a month to keep your account active.
There's no way I could reliably remember to do that forever.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Isaac
Warrior
Member # 4202
 written Thursday, July 15 2004 10:26 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Originally written by Vercalos:

Wow. This looks like quite an amazing piece of work, and certainly useful for checking how something would look in the game, and checking to make sure that everything that needs to be seen is seen.

BTW, if you want a good place to store images, check www.ripway.com
Not sure what they get out of it, but there's one thing I found that would make using that impossible for me:
quote:
Note: Accounts that are inactive for over 30 days will be removed. Please log in at least once a month to keep your account active.
There's no way I could reliably remember to do that forever.

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Creator of the 3D Blades of Avernum Editor for Mac. Get it at Ingenious Isaac's Illusion, my web page. Better yet, get Battle for Wesnoth, a wonderful free TBS game.
Posts: 192 | Registered: Sunday, April 4 2004 08:00

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