^ new NPC window

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-Griswold refuses to repair cursed magic items
-buttons got a new color now

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 17 2011, 3:38 pm by Ahli.

-Added original monster sounds
-Made buttons yellow-gold
-Added even slower health regeneration
-Added gamble window background that I don't really like.

"Even slower health generation"...Does that refer to monsters, or did you added health generation in some update I missed? :3

It's slower than mana regeneration.

So Ahli, is this going to have random dungeon layouts or is it going to be a set layout for the whole map? If the former then kudos because that's pretty crazy.

I'm using Ramdom Dungeon levels made out of units. I wish I could paint the ground with triggers, too :S

Cathedral levels are pretty easy to create because you start with a random room and try to add a random room onto a random wall and then you just repeat that 2000 times.

I've already created a first version of the general cave layout created by an algorithm.
But that algorithm takes a while to perform because it can create areas caves with holes that I do not allow.
So the general cave layout will be redone several times which is time consuming.
I've done it like it is explained here

I've worked on a method that sort of allows you to do this ..

I've got a custom model that is 2048x2048x1 in size; so basically a terrain tile model. The downside is that you can't have opacity / blending terrain and you have to basically paint at 100% of a new texture. Might be useful if you want to distinguish between Cathedral (tiles?) to Caves (dirt?) to Hell (char-dirt?)

Won't you see the whole terrain unit through the fog, because you scouted it? If the map is covered in gray fog, it should work, I guess.

Ah, I just use it as a Doodad model. So it is always visible and doesn't have annoying UI stuff popping up / cause players to automatically target the unit (and require fancy flag settings).

-I've fixed a bug regarding ogden's speech bubble.
-Moved quest notifications to the debug message area to avoid overlapping with party member info area.
-Hopefully fixed the appearance of the "can't control this unit"-error messages.
-Made lever bigger, so they are easier to spot.

I really need to change the spell damage. Atm it is super overpowered like 4 hitting Leoric with holy bolts.
They do so much damage because they currently scale with base magic points so a level 7 Sorcerer with high magic just overkills every undead.
Firebolt seems ok with its damage.

Some information about current flawed spell damage:


I should add spell levels influencing the damage, too...

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2011, 11:45 pm by Ahli.

Just implemented a function that let's me spawn multiple arrows.

I am getting concerned that all the maths functions and triggered stuff is going to cost the games performance

I've still around 90fps with my desktop pc.
The activity still remains below 100. I would guess in average it's barely below 50.

The multi shot consists out of a loop and simple math to get the angle for each shot:
arrowAngle = aimingAngle - 45 + (45/sumOfArrows) + spawnedArrows * (90/sumOfArrows)

So the arrows will be split into equal parts and will be centered in the middle of where you are aiming...

What is this multi-shot shit in my Diablo 1 Classic? =/

I'm adding skills to the game.

Most skills will become stronger with arcane magic, so reading books can improve every class.

Ideas I've written down a few weeks ago. But everything might change, if people give me better ideas.
I'm not a genius game designer... so it might be lame what I'm doing.

I still think you would be better off going for a more Diablo 2 route for Skills and Abilities...

I've hosted some games on sc2mapster's EU map night and just answered some feedback from TheAlmaity aka TheWatcher.


Sadly it's the only chance I have to test my map in full multiplayer and I'm not happy about the multiplayer situation.
So I might reduce the monster respawn count and buff the monsters for multiplayer.

edit:
other changes:
- made positive magic effects' color easier to read. It's now the same as the magic item name.
- leap ability deals damage

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jul 31 2011, 12:08 am by Ahli.

Why are you making new skills? I thought the idea was to make a Diablo 1 replica, and I really liked the idea of that. Making it mostly similar with a few random additions doesn't seem as cool I was looking forward to the really old school feeling of playing Diablo again. I've tried to do it before on old bnet, but no one was on

I'm adding that because the original mostly consisted out of slow movement [except sorcerer: teleport like a mad man] and attacking and 90% of the players ask me about skills... Rogue had no need for any skills because she owned everything herself. The warrior had huge problems versus ranged in caves or hell. That's the biggest problem in Diablo when I want to create a more balanced game between the classes in the end.

If you look at some Diablo mods like The Hell by Mordor (I think it's the best mod ever made and it's way better than the original or hellfire), you can see that he added some spells for the fighting players like Aegis and Fury. They raise damage, dexterity, health for a few seconds or provide you with a damage reduction (%) buff.

It's not my goal to create a 100% replica of Diablo 1. I'm trying to create a fun game based on Diablo 1.

Another problem is that there is no physical damage reduction on the monsters existing. So there is no point in shooting fire bolts as a warrior (you are better with a bow than with any spell because your strength raises bow damage). The only reduction existing is on the spell damage which makes it less worth than physical damage.

So if I add physical resistance, the elemental damage becomes more important than before. But Warriors aren't good in dealing elemental damage, so I add skills that deal physical + elemental damage. The amount of elemental damage will be raised by books which will give every player a general need of books.
-> Then I need to add a stash that the player can have a magic raising equipment to read books (like in D1). Else the Warrior won't benefit from that.

I'm still thinking about how I will base the elemental damage on the skills. I'm convinced to use a % increase (with the % set by the read book count of the element: e.g. fire). I want every class to read books to raise their power. Because of the low starting magic, the Sorcerer should get the first books and the higher spell tiers first. The other classes get their magic with gear later on and boost their skills more. But the main improvement should come from the first spells for the class.

So I have to think about the spell damage's base to maintain the arcane magic to deal the higher elemental damage than the skills, so that these skills will be used versus physical immune enemies. I could add higher cooldowns, but that would suck for some skills like the Warrior leaping into a group of enemies and can't leap out, so he is trapped (same with whirlwind, if I add that, it's most likely).

The Sorcerer will maintain to use the original spells. His skills will mostly be passive boosting the spells' Chance to Hit or mana cost or cast delay or damage increase with mana cost increase [-> higher DPS].

Every class will receive at least one party spell, too. It will most likely be a time based buff.
Like Sorcerers raise the resistance, Rogues raise movement speed and Warriors raise damage or defense.

I'm not sure about how many skill levels I use. There are 50 level Ups possible atm. I'm thinking about a cap of around 12. But I don't want characters to max out a skill at level 12. I would like them to force to spend their points in multiple skills.
Anyway, I can continue thinking about that, if I have all skills together.

And I need to change arcane spell system, too. Lowering mana costs for attack spells while raising damage doesn't fit well together. The Sorcerer just owns more and more as further the game progresses [cast cast cast cast cast cast cast cast, drink potion, repeat]. So the mana cost need to raise slowly, too.

If you have suggestions regarding skills, that would be cool to know. I think you can understand my thoughts on skills now.

edit:
news:
- fixed some bugs like leaping through walls [sometimes I forget that the trigger unit search (only middle of unit) works different than the data unit search (can be the edge of the unit)] or a bug related to data teleport only possible into areas where you have vision (Blizzard really needs a flag to control that).
- fixed bookshelf spawn (now it is very likely that 2 shelves will spawn in every level). Now they have a proper orientation, too.

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^ Tome
news:
- made a cool tome window out of cain's journal page from the diablo3 homepage.
- added vision on bridges, added small monster size variation, abolished some blob shadows on dungeon stuff

edit:
more news:
- If a Fallen dies, there is 50% chance that a nearby Fallen runs in fear for 1 to 5 game seconds instead of fighting (this is data only )
- added life and mana leech to bows
- fixed a bug with teleport
- improved monster respawns to check for pathing distance instead of distance

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- spells deal at least 1 damage, if the enemy is not immune (before, small resistances could negate all spell damage) [inferno should deal damage versus resistant enemies now]
- fixed a bug that made you try to leap over grates, if a path to the other side exists
- raised gold drop amount in the first level by 50%.

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- added traps to chests. Traps won't attack/deal damage to monsters.
- added some stones lying on the cathedral ground
- fixed a bug with "repair all" repairing 2 handed items twice (basically what payne reported long time ago ).
- Butcher's room door has blood on its texture and a special tooltip

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- added ogden's sign and magic banner quest

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- doubled hit recovery amount for monsters
- added hit recovery marker over the head of the units

Post has been edited 12 time(s), last time on Aug 18 2011, 9:26 pm by Ahli.

can we dupe items -_^ lol?

This map is looking good ahli keep up the hard work.