Changing spell particle effects

[azxten]

I've been reverse engineering the spellsnew.edd file to figure out what each part of a spell actually does. It hasn't been easy.

I decided to try my luck and E-mailed about 5 artists who worked on EverQuest before before and after the spell changes were made. Hopefully one of them is feeling generous and will explain something to me but I doubt it.

Allen Bond is my one true hope for an explanation.

http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/...-Lebounde-Bond

What are your main duties on EverQuest?

Building zones, textures, objects, particle effects.

However, I believe he is still employed with Sony and working on EverQuest. In fact, I couldn't find his contact information so I just used the standard soe.sony.com E-mail address format and I didn't get a return message.

I'm stalking EverQuest artists for information on how to reverse engineer the files they made.. unbelievable.

[Furinex]

I thought of something. I remember there being an Item, that had a clickable effect where the spell effects were of the old classic shielding effects. And I distinctly remember the new spell effects already been around for some time. I wanted that item so bad just so I can splash the old spell effects around everywhere I went. Maybe if we can figure out this item (I wish I could remember more), we can find out what it is listed as using in the item global, match it with the spell file, then find our offsets.

[Rhambuk]

Best of luck to you fellah's your doing bog's work!