Engine hacks

BPD · Apprentice Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Posts: 10

I only ask because I have zero comprehension of whether it is a lot of work or a little:

Can you give WorldEd the higher resolution treatment? 1024x768 or higher for the edit window?

Thanks again for all the cool stuff.

Brian

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

WorldEd has no limitations, it just fits your desktop resolution.

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Inspired by recent dwarven mage discussions, I decided to finally track down the dwarven spell penalty. The following hack removes it.

Normal spell cost for dwarves:
B1687:EB
B16ED:EB
5087F:EB
53345:EB

Enjoy.

Dark Elf · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject:

Note: I consider any usage of the above hack in the Ironman challenge cheating.
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BPD · Apprentice Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Posts: 10

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BPD · Apprentice Joined: 19 Oct 2008 Posts: 10

Koorac · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject:

Is there any way of increasing the inventory size (for example to 16x14)?

Cloaked Figure · Expert Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 88

Is there any way to disable ONLY the Sierra beginning movie?

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Cloaked Figure · Expert Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 88

That worked, thanks.

Cloaked Figure · Expert Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 88

Hey Drog. I was thinking today if maybe there were a way to disable the 400x800 limit on loading screens and slides. I always wonder why they did that.

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Cloaked Figure · Expert Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 88

Huh...what if someone with only 800x600 res on his PC tries to run a mod that adds 1280x800 loading screens? Will they re-size on their own? Or simply not play?

Thank you.

Drog Black Tooth · Guest

Yes, they simply won't appear, i.e. you will see a black screen while starting the game.

Minuos · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject:

I have a few small, simple contributions to make. Using them is the player's choice. I simply thought it was odd to cap some stats before their master stat was maxed.

This caters for the maximum playable ST of 24, for Half Ogres.
12,000 Maximum Carry Weight (instead of 10,000):
1B5224:E0
1B5225:2E

This addresses the fact that you get plus one HR per three CN, but that ends with 6 HR at level 17, now it'd end with 7 HR at level 20.
7 Maximum Heal Rate:
1B5234:07

This sees to the extra CN Dwarves and Half Orcs have. Normally it stays at 20, even after 21 CN is reached.
21 Maximum Poison Recovery:
1B5238:15

Very picky of me, I know. But here they are. If the caps somehow serve an ulterior purpose, my apologies. That aside, can you tell I have mild OCD?
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Synik · Untrained Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 8

Can anyone explain to me what we do with the things Drog has been posting? I want to stop the title sequences and such when you open the game from happening so the game starts instantly. Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Thanks.

theorel · Expert Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 95

Here ya go
This will kill the logo movies. You'd need another one to kill the movies in the Arcanum module(including the opening cutscene with the full-plate pistolier).

Crypton · Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject:

Here are offsets for WorldEd hack for Hi-Res townmaps, drog has forgot to tell us how he did that hack, and I needed townmaps in original size for OpenArcanum to allow zooming in townmap window, so I hacked it by myself.

All offsets are in decimal, width and height variables are 4 byte integers and WorldEd version is 1.0.6.9.

39625 = Source Width (256)
39633 = Source Height (128)

39699 = Target Width (64)
39707 = Target Height (32)

Townmap chunk image is 256x128 pixels, then its resized to 64x32 pixels, and then saved into 8 bit bitmap.

You can modify these variables to generate images of any resolution.
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rroyo · Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject:

Ah...
Thank you!
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Minuos · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject:

Quick question for you, rroyo - or anyone who might have an idea.

I raised the Magick/Tech aptitude caps to 250, since I'm never done choosing Tech or Magick by the time they're 100. I'm not too savvy with the mechanics of the game, so d'you know of anywhere this may cause problems?
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rroyo · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:16 am Post subject:

250 huh....? Wow.

In theory, there should no problems if you've reset everything needed for that high of a level but, you're in uncharted territory here.
So - Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

And if you would, keep us apprised on how well this works out.
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Minuos · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:35 am Post subject:

Yeah, I had a feeling there wouldn't have been much call for people to do this before, heh. I always tweak a few caps when I reinstall - this is just a new one. But thanks, rroyo. I'll take note of anything odd.
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