Engine hacks

He means that after killing an enemy, he's unable to get out of turn-based combat mode. It's a completely random bug. The only method of getting out is to switch to real-time combat, then to normal game mode. However, his problem arises when real-time combat mode is disabled with the engine hack. With the only method of getting out of the never ending TB bug disabled, he's screwed.

 

Men Who Created this topic will be my GOD

"153F04:61 - NPCs will always display their portrait even if they're not in your party. (They will display a race/monster icon if they don't have one.)"

I wanted always to do it in my mod, and I got answer long time ego that this thing is impossible to do. Now I know that my dreams can be true

But now is a quastion. What file you open with hex editor, and what hexeditor you use to change this value. Because I already only made mess with pro files and art files. Time to change it and play with engine options

 

Well, making a small guide for newbies won't hurt, I suppose.

1. Download Hex Workshop, it's the best hex editor. A trial version will do.
2. Open arcanum.exe or any other 1.0.7.4 version based executable that you wish to hack.
3. Press Ctrl+G to enter 'Goto' menu. Check the following options: 'Hex', 'Beginning of File'. Copy and paste an offset from this thread. Click 'Go'.
4. Just type the new value.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 the necessary number of times.
6. Press Ctrl+S to save the file.

 

Thanks again. It is even more than I wanted to know.

One more quastion. Is there a newer document what dexcribe the hexs in pro files than:
___DKoepp__PROTOTYPEEDITING.doc
MiscProtoOffsets.doc
and Non_Magic_WeaponProto.doc

I mean, if somone have better knowlage than there is in these documents about specific numbes in pro files, can just put it on forum in form of manual. I mean in the same form like Drog Black Tooth post. I mean:

adress of hex -> meaning of value

That kind of documents are realy usefull and precious for modders.

And thanks again for engine hacks Drog. I was long time absent on this forum, but when I returned I noticed that there is lot of new usefull information here.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Doh! Thanks.

Another question that I have no idea if it is difficult or not: Can you completely switch off combat? As in, neither the player nor an NPC can initiate combat?

Considering that damn near everything is broken in combat and it is the weakness of this game, maybe it's better for me to just create a new combat system with scripting. All the pieces are there, and it sure would be nice to have mages actually cast spells...

 

Yes.

B3F80:C3 - combat init subroutine disabled
1B50CC:00 - combat AI off

This way nobody will be able to enter combat mode, and NPCs will never want to enter it, anyway.

 

Fantastic. Thanks.

 

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

 

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

 

Just use a blank movie from this dat.

 

That worked, thanks.

 

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.

 

There's no limit actually. Splash screens just can't be larger than the game's draw area, and it was 800x400 in the original, but in the high resolution patch the draw area just equals to your resolution. So, e.g. if you're running the game in 1280x800, then you can use splash screens of any size up to 1280x800.

Splash screens are stored in 'art\splash' in Arcanum2.dat.

 

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.

 

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