Changing spell particle effects

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Originally Posted by August [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why would it be difficult to determine where these are being referenced? What method is passing in the data to the DirectX particle emitter function. Is the DirectX particle emitter function well-defined? Are there references? How did the original EQ devs know how to create the DD surfaces? We should be able to locate calls into directx. We then should be able to see how these files are deserialized, or find the entry point into the DirectX method call and see what gets passed in as a parameter. If it's just the DDS surface, then we should be able to look up the member definition of that DX interface and understand the serialization format. If it's passing actual parameters, then our custom function is defined in source and we should be able to tell what we're pulling from the files.

In either case we own the code that deserializes or we know which method is decoding the files - and that method, if DirectX, is public domain.

Its not really difficult, just very time consuming. Go do it. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]