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#185272 An idea?

Posted by Child on 31 January 2005 - 09:46 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Hi,

I have no knowledge of modding. Well, very little. But I'm learning/being taught. However, I would like to pose a question.

The basic idea is: renaissance firearms.

I love the idea of Duelling pistols in BG2, or a blunderbuss or something. Obv i wouldnt make them overpowered, but it would be nice to see something a little different. Now, the questions are these:

i) Is it possible to create an animation for a weapon that looks roughly gun-like? (i am expecting the answer no, but im checking possibilities here). Otherwise I'll just use the xbow animation, or possibly the sling.

ii) Is there a way of turning off the restrictions on dual-wielding missile weapons...it wouldnt really be appropriate to something like duelling pistols.

iii) Is there someone out there who would be willing to draw quality item description pictures and inventory icons (a ground icon would be nice, but im not desperate for that)?? The reward would be much kudos, a passing mention in the credits....

iv) Have I bitten off more than I can chew?

v) Would it be possible to create the Wand Of Frost effect but to replace it with one of flame, or possibly just a grey version (for the blunderbuss).

vi) Ive bitten off more than I can chew haven't I?

Please reply.....Ive got some ideas, and i reckon this could be pretty cool, even with lots of restrictions but..........

Thanks

-C

#185274 Still would love to see this

Posted by Child on 31 January 2005 - 09:49 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Prob not the right place...but sorry? FFG has a romance? REALLY? Are you sure u dont mean Annah.....Ive read numerous places that FFG has no romance, and ive played through several times and never encountered it. Have i really missed this?

#185309 An idea?

Posted by Child on 31 January 2005 - 12:28 PM in IE Mod Ideas

Right...
Ok....

So:

i) Is there anyone willing to help/do some invent and description pictures..ill look into doing it myself but any offers will be gratefully seized upon

ii) Ok, so im using xbows...is it possible to configure an xbow to use the ammo for the sling (i.e. bullets?)

iii) Am i then wrong in suggesting u can uise a sling with a shield???? Coz if u cant hen surely its not entirely hopeless to expect maybe a change?

iv) Any ideas of implementing would be nice

Any hints/tips/other advice will definitely be taken notice of

Thanks

#185404 An idea?

Posted by Child on 01 February 2005 - 12:28 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Hmm...Ok....so it prob cant be done....
Reloading wise...it would be one shot i guess...but renaissance firearms pretty much are anyway

So though a problem for slings, not for pistols

#185510 Still would love to see this

Posted by Child on 01 February 2005 - 11:03 AM in IE Mod Ideas

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and the FFG romance is supposedly the best one Bioware has ever made.

(bah..i cant do fancy quotes...)

FFG. Fall-From-Grace....the FFG romance was mentioned in both of the two initial posts on this thread..and i was simply wondering if there was in fact one......because i know there is an annah one...but an FFG one i thought didnt exist

#185524 Still would love to see this

Posted by Child on 01 February 2005 - 11:58 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Actually, you could stick them anywhere...just claim they got spat out of TFoRegrets, and that they ended up there...as long as u have them initially confused that gets you out of everything

Hmm....i'd like to do an Annah conversion..but I think i need some modding practise first.....but thats a def maybe

#185622 Still would love to see this

Posted by Child on 02 February 2005 - 12:20 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Hmmm....more character development? Well, certainly it felt more like a realistic relationship....not all of it was smooth, and you couldn't work Annah out...which seems more realistic than a game in which many of the female characters fall in love with you fairly quickly, as long as you are even semi-nice to them....Its kinda the difference between being loved for who you are, and being loved despite who you are......

#185623 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 02 February 2005 - 12:25 AM in Planescape: Torment

This is kinda like not playing Deus Ex coz there is no female JC, or like not playing Gordon Freeman coz ure a woman....kinda silly....but I guess whatever floats ure boat. Um....but isn't it rather a lot of work to go to jsut to play as a woman? The Nameless One is hideously ugly, scarred, has been pretty nasty in the past, and smells, but I didnt ahve massive problems playing him....
Er...

U guys missed out another moderately big problem....
Ravel.
Ud have to make her lesbian or something? Or axe/change some of her dialogue?

#185624 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 02 February 2005 - 12:28 AM in Planescape: Torment

Oh wait, my bad...u already put Ravel in, right at the top :S Sorry...
But i did think of another smallish problem..Ei-Vene is gonna be a bit odd...the dialogue there kinda assumes ure topless....

#187012 An idea?

Posted by Child on 08 February 2005 - 01:45 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Gothic Rose is kinda right...the idea was that they were one-shot per battle weapons. u really dont wanna stand there reloading pistols when someone with a big piece of metal is trying to stick it in u. Given the problems with dual wielding and avatars etc, i was thinking of changing to a quickslot item.....but could i, in using a quickslot, give it the animation of taking out an xbow, firing two shots, then the xbow disappearing?

#189393 Shapeshifter Kit MOD

Posted by Child on 20 February 2005 - 01:52 PM in IE Mod Ideas

no idea about balance with other mods, but doesnt it get very strong quickly? And im sure that ending up with nearly all stats at 25 is a bit silly :S i suppose it is a deity, but surely thats a bit ott?

Also...imprisonment? come on! and wingbuffert? on a werewolf... *doesnt see ne wings*

#189561 Shapeshifter Kit MOD

Posted by Child on 21 February 2005 - 02:07 PM in IE Mod Ideas

I can understand why u put wing buffet in but im sure cyric doesnt have it...
Anyway..whatever...I still think that making this thing is just giving u a beast fighter with massive stats, and as u can cahnge at will, u effectively dont need to use the druid class levels at all... :S ITs like changing a druid into a brilliant fighter, but keeping the spells for buffing b4 hand... :S A bit dodgy me thinks....er....But whatever..its a cool idea, dont get me wrong

I like it, but i think u need to scale down the power quite a bit :S

#189562 An idea?

Posted by Child on 21 February 2005 - 02:12 PM in IE Mod Ideas

You could always increase the range to some ridiculous amount with a weapon that is coded as a dagger, sword, hammer, or something like that. You'd just be left with the animation problem.

BoB? Um...where can i find info on this? There doesnt appear to be any in these modding forums..although thats prob just me not being able to find it whilst skimming through

#189647 Shapeshifter Kit MOD

Posted by Child on 22 February 2005 - 05:11 AM in IE Mod Ideas

Ok....i like the whole transformation time thing..thats cool. It erases some (but not all of the buff problems). Perhaps you could do a dispel magic on the PC when he shifts? Esp. if u gte some beardy g!t who has dual-classed to a mage or something. Can u imagine that thing stoneskinned? Urgh :S

I would cut down on the bonuses to abilities.... ginving natural 25s in all seems excessive.....and 25 for constituion with 36 hp/round regen is a joke. That woul take hours to kill :S

I misread the wing buffet thing..i thought it was an ability u wee giving, rather than an immunity, so it seems fair enough as an immunity. Maybe get rid of backstab immunity? Or at least reduce it to only obtaining at werewolf deity form...if ure trying to balance it, its gotta be vaguely defeatable by other classes, and otherwise i cant see how any rogue stands a chance...they will get torn apart in close-combat.

How about also adversly affecting the number of druid spells obtained, or limiting the druid spells to hostile? Or limiting druid spells to natural ones....like summon nature's ally, tangle, etc, but cutting things like flame sword, etc?

Im unsure what you are doing about the werewolf weapons....but if ure worried about dispel killing th epowers then make an item that looks like a claw, have it unmovable whilst in werewolf form, and give it powers. Though that would be fun to code :S Dunno how good u r with coding, but me thinks that would be complicated :S

Er......is anybody else gonna helpt his guy with suggestions, or am i doing it all by myself :S

#189649 Raise Dead

Posted by Child on 22 February 2005 - 05:14 AM in Dragon Age Series

hmmm....i dunno what u guys think, but xp penalties for raise dead sort of solve the problem....esp if u have dead chars not gaining any xp for a battle.... Er...but in bg2 it was too easy to resurrect....

#189788 should i buy it?

Posted by Child on 23 February 2005 - 02:50 AM in Icewind Dale Series

It's alright..not as good as bg2 though... or even bg. The problem is that the story line is a lot more general, rather than centering around you, and there is no true "you" character, as all 6 chars u create are given equal weight. There are also annoying ;little things, like the chars in combat taking a swing, then just standing back, looking around, until it is time for them to take their next swing...there is no sense of them being in combat...only an anim problem but still...all in all good, but not as polished as BG2. 82%

That was me

#190047 should i buy it?

Posted by Child on 24 February 2005 - 07:39 AM in Icewind Dale Series

And if you've got a few extra (insert currency here) then pick up the pack with both IWD and IWDII. It's cheaper than getting both seperately, and has bonus features.

IWDII over IWD tho, despite IWDII's hopeless lack of ending

#190050 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 24 February 2005 - 07:59 AM in Planescape: Torment

Correct me if im wrong. PS:T is the story of an immortal who has caused countless problems and evils throughout life, and is now seeking to atone for the crimes commited, and a way to stop more. In addition, the immortal's aim is to cease to be, so that no more crimes are commited, and a process of self-discovery is necessary for this.

Please look at that sentence. Now, it roughly sums up PS:T. It has all the crucial elements. Immortality. Atonement. Self-Discovery. I missed out adventure and fun, but those are aspects of the game, not the story. Now read that sentence again. Do u see any pronoun, or indeed anything else, that is suggestive of gender? No. Why not? BECAUSE IT ISN'T AN ISSUE.

PS:T was written for a male Nameless One. But that doesn't mean that the immortal can't be a female...nothing in the main points of the story even suggests that. Im not sure what the reason to make the Nameless One a male was, though i could conjecture several. But the fact is that the reason that there is only one gender is this: The game is vastly complex, with many dialogue options. Taking into account the fact that it had its developing time slashed, why the heck would Black Isle go to all the trouble, and more importantly TIME of writing in all the extra and different female dialogue options. It would totally change how many people reacted to you..

Take Deus Ex for example. In Deus Ex 2 there is the option to be female. in Deus Ex 1 there wasn't. Does this mean that JC Denton couldn't hypothetically be female, because the game didn't allow him to be? No. Because gender wasn't an issue int he game. Now let me tell you something else. Deus Ex 1 was initially made with BOTH sexes available. But there wasn;t enough room on the cd, and they didn't want to make it a 2 cd game, so they took out all the female soundsets, as well as the female models. Think about the implications of that for a moment.

The Nameless One could just as well have been female, and wasn't. Fine. But that doesn't mean that the gender of the Nameless One was set in stone, nor does it mean that there is no other option. If someone wants to write the female side, then go for it.

One final point: Longius please MODIFY your language. Calling people shallow on a public forum, with no real knowledge of them, or a true understanding of their opinions, is not only wrong, but disgraceful. Please add a little RESPECT to your language, because even if you aren't offending others, you are offending me. It doesn't take much. Your views are as valid as anyone else's, and posting them is fine, but don't drag the character of those who you disagree with into the debate, please.

Rant over.

#190175 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 25 February 2005 - 03:29 AM in Planescape: Torment

Just leave off her Longinus. In some ways i agree withyou..in that i think its a bit of a waste of time, simply because the effort needed doesn't really seem to tally with the result. But thats only my view, and its ashara thats making the mod, so it doesnt affect me. And tbh id be interested to see it work. Because if that works, then the possible expansion of the idea is brilliant.

The fact is that you aren't gonna change her views, and honsetly why would you want to? You can't make the world believe all your own views. I think, apart from anything, the sheer challenge of this makes it worth it. Modding to change chars around, and change big bits of dialogue....its crazy but if she can pull it off, i would d/load the mod, despite having no real desire to play as a female Nameless One, just to see the work she put in.

Besides, if you dont like the idea, don't download it. Its very simple. No-one if forcing you to take part.

#190201 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 25 February 2005 - 06:00 AM in Planescape: Torment

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PS.: oh my, this whole pointless argument reminds me on how I laughed at Charlie's Angels and it's whole concept... :mellow:

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LOL....which bit of the argument is pointless tho? The whether this is offensive/unoffensive, the whether her views can be changed argument, or the whether Longinus is being offensive, or the whether the mod should be made? LOL...

Um...also....i think i ought to change what i said slightly...U MIGHT change her views (i dont know her so maybe its possbile

) BUT its unlikely, andyou're far more likely to cause offense than anything...so surely it simply isnt worth it... LOL...T.G.M has the right idea

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#190327 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 26 February 2005 - 12:30 AM in Planescape: Torment

It was my first not entirely serious edit and yes, quotes shalt be inserted everywhere once I am at it

LOL...looks cool so far

#190340 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 26 February 2005 - 03:39 AM in Planescape: Torment

Actually. Do u want/need any help

This looks like it might be entertaining, and i cant pretend i havent got loads of free time

#190348 Shapeshifter Kit MOD

Posted by Child on 26 February 2005 - 05:25 AM in IE Mod Ideas

My suggestions:
- Severe limitations of druids spells, maybe no spells at all
- Can't wear any armor and any weapons
- Rage under werewolf (as slayer form, but without damage)

Maybe it shouldn't be a druid kit, more an evil-fighter kit?
Well, I don't know... need to find some ideas

Maybe only offensive druid spells? Which would make it practically useless.....coz then ud have to be druid form to cast them....
Hmm...make armour available as a druid, but limit weapons.
Hmm...the rage is agood idea....beserk would work 2 i think...

Def a druid kit....wouldnt make sense as a fighter really....altohugh u might get away with it....

#190373 portraits

Posted by Child on 26 February 2005 - 11:23 AM in Layers of Reality

Hmm...is there any way i can easily modify it so that the phaere portrait appears in bg2 when i talk to her? I like that so much i wanna edit it into my game

ITs REALLY good

#190377 PST for a female Nameless One

Posted by Child on 26 February 2005 - 11:26 AM in Planescape: Torment

Child, this is the question I dreaded - for I am working on BG1NPC atm. But if you think you are interested in rewriting say Annah's file for female friendship, and do not mind the possibility that I would never get to it after all, we can chat about it over PM.

Dreaded why? Becoz lazy and not actually working on it?

LOL its spawning enough debate to continue to be entertaining even so

Sounds cool

LOL...hmm..oh come on...BG1 vs PS:T....T wins hands down