ds1edit2.zip (link outdated). There's the fortress of pandemonium in this zip, try Fortress.bat .

Now it's 02:35 am, and I get up in ... 4 hours 1/2, oops Good night.

<<< EDIT >>> delete the ds1edit2.zip link, don't exists anymore.

Perhaps the mouse scrolling could be faster though.

And about those strange tiles in Harrogath, any progresses? I see they still appear as blue grids.

Very nice work Paul Siramy, you are the man

As for the Blue tiles in harogath, I'm starting to think they are special tiles. They're from the dt1 "collisions.dt1", so I think they're use to forbide the player to walk somewhere, and the game never draw this tiles.

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Originally posted by Paul Siramy:
The scrolling speed is in the .ini, change the value in there

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Oops now I noticed...

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Originally posted by Paul Siramy:

As for the Blue tiles in harogath, I'm starting to think they are special tiles. They're from the dt1 "collisions.dt1", so I think they're use to forbide the player to walk somewhere, and the game never draw this tiles.

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Hmmm could be, they doesn't seem to contribute with the "visual"... but I just entered the game and my character can walk over many of those tiles (except of course those who have something above them, like trees or barrels).

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If you try to load an act5's ds1, like harogath or baal throne, the prog will stop because it don't find the necessary dt1.

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Originally posted by Paul Siramy:
I was thinking too of a "mod_directory", like the -txt options of d2 : it will scan first in this directory for dt1, palette, ds1 etc... and only after in the mpq.

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A very good idea, excellent for modding purposes

It's not perfect, but it seems it works. If someone have some ds1/dt1 of some mods, can he try this Mod Directory in the ini ? Just set this data to the mod path, like "c:\my d2 mods", and then put the full tree of data in there (starting from "data"). I think the prog will read from the mod first, and only after in the mpq if it didn't found. But I haven't tried. Let me now.

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Originally posted by Alkalund:
but I just entered the game and my character can walk over many of those tiles (except of course those who have something above them, like trees or barrels).

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Are you sure ? I mean theses tiles have darker blue part on them, and last time I have checked, I couldn't walk on these darker tiny blue sub-tiles, despite I could walk on the other.

Try near the waypoint, I couldn't go behind the building which have a tree in front of it, but if you check with my ds1edit.exe you'll see there's nothing than could stop the player to walk *inside* the building except... this tiny darker blue sub-tiles. Am I right of is it only some bad memories ?

As for the mouse speed I have implemented in the last release, it works well on my p166 with w98, but it don't work at all on this AMD 1.4 Gz with XP where I am right now... Maybe because my prog is a dos prog and dos is emulated under XP ? In any case, I don't see how to make it work. Sorry if the mouse is too slow for you (I'm not speaking of the mouse scroll but the mouse movements speed).

And yes, I use Windows XP and the mouse moving speed is slow, but that's Ok I think.

On W2K it won't work it says 'VESA not found'

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Download this zip (78 kB), launch the go.bat and provide me with the vesainfo.txt here.

With my card under w98 I have :
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Allegro VESAINFO utility 4.0.1, djgpp
By Shawn Hargreaves, 2002

VESASignature: VESA
VESAVersion: 3.0
OEMStringPtr: NVidia
TotalMemory: 64 (4096K)

Mode 0x100: 640x400 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x101: 640x480 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x102: 800x600 4 bpp planar
Mode 0x103: 800x600 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x104: 1024x768 4 bpp planar
Mode 0x105: 1024x768 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x106: 1280x1024 4 bpp planar
Mode 0x107: 1280x1024 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x108: 80x60 4 bpp text
Mode 0x109: 132x25 4 bpp text
Mode 0x10A: 132x43 4 bpp text
Mode 0x10B: 132x50 4 bpp text
Mode 0x10C: 132x60 4 bpp text
Mode 0x10E: 320x200 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x10F: 320x200 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x111: 640x480 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x112: 640x480 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x114: 800x600 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x115: 800x600 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x117: 1024x768 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x118: 1024x768 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x11A: 1280x1024 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x130: 320x200 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x131: 320x400 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x132: 320x400 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x133: 320x400 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x134: 320x240 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x135: 320x240 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x136: 320x240 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x13D: 640x400 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)
Mode 0x13E: 640x400 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888)
Mode 0x145: 1600x1200 8 bpp packed pixel
Mode 0x146: 1600x1200 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565)

'vesainfo -v' for a verbose listing
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try to look here too...

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In the Pandemonium Fortress, the stairs were not right. Now it's ok (another tricky things to took into account).

Also, the "mod_dir" parameter in the ds1edit.ini works well, I have tested it. So I have deleted the ds1edit2.zip. The last updated zips are like always :
ds1scene.zip (203 kB)
ds1edit.zip (270 kB)

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ds1edit.exe, new keys (they're in the readme.txt too) :

P = Print screen (screenshot)

Shift + F1 to F8 = view only this layer
Ctrl + F1 to F8 = view all floor & wall layers except this one

H + Left click = Hide the current visible layers of 1 tile (usefull to see behind)

S = Show (un-hide) all tiles of all layers

Backspace = view all floor & wall layers

Minor change : when you right-click, you enter the edit window. In the left part there's the preview of layers of the edited tile. The background use to be white, now it's grey, which is a lot better for my poor eyes (and I'm serious).

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@Joel : here's a summary of my current logic to draw the tiles of a ds1 (ds1scene.c)

there are 2 pass, each one check each tiles of the map, from left to right, then up to down.

- pass 1 : for all lower walls, floors, upper walls (orientation != 15)
- pass 2 : only for roofs (orientation = 15))

in pass 1 : for each cell, 3 sub-pass :
      * lower walls (orientation > 15)
      * floors (orientation = 0)
      * upper walls (orientation < 15)

in the lower and the upper walls sub-pass : I don't draw the layers from wall1 to wall4 anymore, now the prop1 tells the priority of the walls layers, layer with prop1 = 129 is draw first, 145 after (check the Pandemonium Fortress).

drawing the lower walls before floors correct some problems in some ds1, and don't bring new ones
      * pandemonium fortress
      * siege
      * worldstone ...

The display of the map didn't seems to be so complex 2 months ago, when I was only playing the game

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Also, when trying to display a tile of orientation 18 or 19, if not found, I swap the orientation of this tile (18 <--> 19), and launch another check. If again not found, then I change its sub-index to zero, and launch a last search, it should find it.

This was for some cliff corners, in "siegetown.ds1".

The floors, roofs, walls tiles can be see, despite they can't be selected, nor change right now, but it's start.

You can edit the ds1edit.ini to change the scroll speed in the edit window (edit_scroll_x & edit_scroll_y datas). A screen of 1024*768 is a good choice, I found 800*600 too small in this edit window.

That's the keyboard arrows to move around these tiles in the edit window.

It's far from perfect, It seems I missed some tiles, here and there. I can't see all the painted walls of Duriel, The Shrub in harogath don't have the right wall... Certainly a bug.

I edit the precedent post too, because I found another tricky thing to correct the display of townsiege.ds1 . Also, I'll try to implement a dt1 filter in this window, to see just the tiles of the dt1 file you want, not always ALL the tiles, because in harogath that's a maze to search 1 particular tile.

And now... good night (tired)

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free ftp repaired, update of my site.
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You can download the ds1scene and the ds1edit like always. I put them in my sign now, it'll save me from repeating the links.

screenshot of the current state of the edit window :

The numbers are (in that order)
      * main index
      * orientation
      * sub index
      * frame
they are the main data of a dt1, it's for debuging purpose but it can also help the maker of a level, because there is a sort of "theme" numbers for certain tiles. I changed the internal order of the tiles, to have the tiles of the main theme near of each other, as far as I could.

You can't change the tiles yet, but the code is almost ready, so next week maybe. See you.

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I guess i'll go to allegro homepage to seek infos.

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