Hi @Lord Nyriox  . Thanks for sharing your Boss Pets mod.  I have a custom charactercreate.layout file in place already for some custom class mods and I couldn't remember how to edit it to insert more pets (it's been a while since I've modded TL1 ), so I made some fish instead; hope you don't mind.

I noticed the .MATERIAL files don't point to all your new "glow map" images, so they may not be rendering as you intended.  Other than that it worked really well and it's a fun mod!

Regarding the .material files:  Actually I did update them for the two pets that included them (I'm not sure how to copy a preexisting mesh and have the game reference it separately). 

Both the Helljackal and Queen Hatshepsut contained their own mesh data, so I simply updated the .material files for those.  (I used the Vindicator assassin-helm .material file to help me figure out how.) 

On the other hand, since I can't use blender or anything similar, I'm not at all certain how to do the same thing for the Dragonkin Overlord (which uses the "Dragonkin" mesh, by the way). 

Thanks again,
– Lord Nyriox 

Actually, what I really want to do with the Dragonkin Overlord is backport the "Ghost Dragon" model from TL2, make it non-ghostly, and then use it as the base model for the pet. 

Since one of the pets included was modified from one of your TL2 backports, Phanjam, do you have any advice on how I could do such a thing (without installing TL2 or GUTS)?

The backport your referring to is the Jackal?  Yes, handling the TL2 ghost dragon model the same way as the Jackal would get it into TL1 just fine (feel free to reverse-engineer that mod ).  Since you don't have GUTS I'd need to give you the model files for that - will send you a link to a DL...

Since I am having literally zero luck getting the Vyrax model to load in TL1, I figured I'd share the skins I had been working on in the hope that a usable dragon pet could be created. 

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In short, the default Vyrax skin gave the impression of an ancient, deadly beast.  Since I was trying to make a pet, I tried to clean up the image to give a "pampered pet", rather than "ancient monster", impression.  The 9-pixel eye was expanded to fill more of the socket (and given a proper pupil), while the wings had their scars patched up to look well cared for.

I have 4 or so color variations of the default skin (RED, DARK, MID, DEFAULT), in two types:  "normal" and "armored".  "Armored" skins simply have one of the spine ridges copy-pasted along the seams of the upper side of the wings (the experiment had a surprisingly smooth effect), and are denoted by an "A" at the end of their filenames. 

Since the color-balancing was done by hand, and I didn't take notes during the process, the colors for the "armored" versions of their equivalent skins are somewhat different (I created them all at different times).  I hope that's okay. 

I also (of course) included a glowmap for both the default Vyrax skin (just the eye), and the pet skins (eyes, tongue, and roof of mouth).  No skin pack would be complete without them. 

Let me know what you think!
- Lord Nyriox,
Necromancer of Torchlight