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Old 05-08-2013, 08:22 PM
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Aye well - Nilbog if you're out there, I am willing to work on it. I do need access to actual source and not just the executables, of course.

For that matter, I'm really open to working on the project as a dev in general. I spend half my time at work on these forums / browsing the internet and would love a side project that keeps me coding.
There is no source code that has anything to do with these effects.

Yes, this is black box reverse engineering. Good luck trying to figure out where these files are being referenced.

The .dds image files in SpellEffects folder are DirectDraw surfaces which implies they are being passed as an argument to a DirectX particle emitter function. However, the .edd file has no reference I can find.

In my opinion this means the file is a custom format that is read in by a custom function which passes data to the DirectX particle emitter functions.