Changing spells to other ones

[Kaze]

There was this post a long time ago:
http://community.istaria.com/Web/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=55890
In which someone changed this Shining Blades spell to that of Fury of the Demon. Anyone know he did that?

[Blue Hasia]

you really can not change a spell to another one(that would be cheating, and super hard that would require hacking Tugla severs) but you can change the visual effects on your side, client side. like I did here

http://community.istaria.com/Web/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=62907


Bubble Breath

Purple Haze

Red glare

Spirit skull

stars breath 2

star breath

Swoosh Breath

yellow breath


what i think i did ( was a while back) was copy the name o the def fileanimation I wantedthen open the name of the ENT FILEmove I wish to see the effect applied to and in the ENT I copyied over the name of were the file sought out the def file and in next boot up i saw the new animations

[Kaze]

got help from guy on IRC below is the result[:D]
http://reclamation.dk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1180

[Ebonfyre]

I wonder if this can be done with dragon spells since they are so plain looking.

[Pharcellus]

It can, Ebon. Just have to do a little creative file editingcopying.

[Ebonfyre]

This should be fun since im a complete ************ when it comes to something like this.....lol.

[Blue Hasia]

If you can find the animtions for the dragon spells please list there names, I have searched and searhed and searched, especial for the reach one. but with no luck I have yet to find any spell...mainly i think dragon have no unique spells...we use probaly a defualt spell attack with a wierd name.

[Ebonfyre]

Well I was following the directions in the link Kaze provided, but I cant seem to find the root directory file :enable_debug.exe. I think its the third step that is mentioned. If I could find that file then I would try...lol.

[AmonGwareth]

Dragon's Reach uses the standard combat animation.

[Ebonfyre]

Wouldnt happen to know what tempest and blast would be? Thanks for any help you can provide.

[AmonGwareth]

THose are both spells so they use the standard spellcasting animation.

[Ebonfyre]

So thats means it might be either:

cast_01.ent
cast_02.ent

I might also try the following file as well: blank_effect.ent

Cant wait to get home and try them out. If you get these to work Hasia before I get home let me know :).

[Blue Hasia]

I tried blank effect in the past was not it...and im not hasia im Blue :P there is actual a user here Named Hasia...I got the last name hasia from reading his short noval he wrote

no cast 1 and cast 2 do not effect dragon magic spells....and Amon you would not happen to know entitie effect name for reach? it would really help me out I been trying to find it for months now. would love to link reach with a dragon fireball attack Deffinition.

[AmonGwareth]

Let me clarify that there is a difference between animation (gr2 file) and particle effect (ent, def files). I thought you meant the animation.

Many dragon spells use the default animation with NO particle effect. I'm not sure if you can change that on your end.

[Blue Hasia]

[:'(]...I hope one day then that the devs will add more visual attack animations then

[AmonGwareth]

I'm working on tying existing particle effects to existing abilities and spells. But I am not able to create new ones at this time.

[Blue Hasia]

thats great to here Amon[:D], is adding a visual affect to reach apart of what you are working on? Like when reach is activated we will launch a fire ball (example: dragon_fireball_2.def)

I been able to link that fire ball to my fire breath attack, looks great would love to see that one in game.