Spells: Spell Effects going straight up?

[azxten]

you can iterate through all the entries until EOF is hit

Unfortunately it won't be that easy. The file contains all spell effects and only some of them are supposed to act in this manner. Also, the names don't match up in any meaningful way to the spells so its hard to find which should be modified.

Its likely the file will need to be hand edited to get each "type" of spell like healing, shielding, frost nukes, etc to work correctly and then the file will be included in a future patch.

[azxten]

Sure, I fixed it. Identified particle file as spela2.tga. Replaced half of the instances of this string in the file with a different particle name. Checked if it changed spell to different particle, repeated until I identified which effect was used by healing spells.

Identified as VengeanceV2 S1-1 at least for level 1 Minor Healing.

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Strangely this spell had 00 00 in the offsets where the previous spell had FA C2. Changing this to FA C4 which fixed the shielding spells causes the effect to go backwards from the hands. Changing it to FA C5 looks the same as the shielding spell with FA C4.

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If someone will compile a list of spells that are supposed to have effects like this I will fix them. Currently we have:

Shielding spells
Healing spells
Frost nukes
Bard "Chant of Battle" type effect

What else is missing?

[a_gnoll_pup]

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

Unfortunately it won't be that easy. The file contains all spell effects and only some of them are supposed to act in this manner. Also, the names don't match up in any meaningful way to the spells so its hard to find which should be modified.

Its likely the file will need to be hand edited to get each "type" of spell like healing, shielding, frost nukes, etc to work correctly and then the file will be included in a future patch.

I would map out the file in a program such as 010 editor. The spells are mapped out by ID, im pretty sure, which the spell file references. It's in the file somewhere although I can't remember where exactly. Each spells in spells_us.txt references this ID.

If you can identify this ID byte, it would be easy to figure out the rest of the puzzle, as you could update spells by ID and make a program to either string compare, ID fix, or even add a new entry to the file via structures. The byte is actually a DWORD, byte just sounds cooler.

[azxten]

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

I would map out the file in a program such as 010 editor. The spells are mapped out by ID, im pretty sure, which the spell file references. It's in the file somewhere although I can't remember where exactly. Each spells in spells_us.txt references this ID.

If you can identify this ID byte, it would be easy to figure out the rest of the puzzle, as you could update spells by ID and make a program to either string compare, ID fix, or even add a new entry to the file via structures. The byte is actually a DWORD, byte just sounds cooler.

Thanks for the info, I'll look into it.