Boss Pets. TL1 Mod by Nyriox Posted byPhanjamon 02 Mar, 2017 07:41
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!
#1 Reply Posted byLord Nyrioxon 02 Mar, 2017 08:49
I would point out that half the work of BossPets was to REMOVE the fish dependency from the overpowered pets.
I made them replace the default Dog (Helljackal), Cat (Dragonkin Overlord), and Ferret (Queen Hatshepsut) base files.
The charactercreate.layout file was copied from the Vindicator class mod, then tweaked to revert the reference to the "Lightning Demon" (which I deleted from my mod-list anyway), back to "Ferret". The only other change was to make the "display names" match their new, overpowered forms.
So long as your charactercreate.layout file includes the Dog, Cat, and Ferret, you should have no problem using this mod without it.
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#2 Reply Posted byLord Nyrioxon 02 Mar, 2017 08:59
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).
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).
Hi Nyriox. In the case of the Dragonkin, you can literally just make a copy of the entire DRAGONSPAWN model folder (from the MEDIA/MODELS/DRAGONSPAWN folder) and give it its own foldername inside your mod folder structure. Since the <STRING>RESOURCEDIRECTORY: line in your unit's .DAT file is path-specific, the game won't get confused even if you don't change any of the filenames. You can then add maps and edit the .MATERIAL file in that folder as you need.
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...
Hi Nyriox! Well it could be some niggling little detail in the code doing that, and it could be other stuff Vyrax needs to run that you haven't transferred over yet.
Did you take the entire contents from Vyrax's MEDIA\MODELS folder and put that in your mod? He will need all those files to run properly. What directory path does it have?
I just checked Vyrax's TL2 .DAT and he has 9 skills. You might wanna try building him in TL1 without any of these skills first, just to isolate if the crashes are being caused by those skills looking for stuff they can't find.
#6 Reply Posted byLord Nyrioxon 07 Mar, 2017 14:03
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
), so I made some fish instead; hope you don't mind.
). 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...
