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Originally posted by Paul Siramy:
Haaaaaa finaly, a person from who I have a feedback, and he said he love it... Thanks, now I feel better

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Come on now Paul. I have been giving you props for days!

The color program is a gem and very useful. Thanks!

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Originally posted by RexxLaww:
Come on now Paul. I have been giving you props for days!

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For my work of the dt1, yep.
For my work on mpql.txt for stormless mpq editor and mpqviewer, yep

But by the time I wrote this, not for the doc on the d2 colors (ok, now it's done lol )

First, let me introduce a screenshot of the new version of my dt1 viewer. Now it have another grid in it, the brown one, which indicate, in box of 32*32 pixels, the size of the image. As I was suspected, the x-pos ans y-pos Clannad told about... are not positions but sizes. Let's check this exemple :

Look at the "y boxsize" and "x boxsize" in the upper right corner. y=-352 and x=128. Let's divide them by 32. y=11 and x=4 then. I never saw size which were not power of 32 in all the DT1 I have checked. These size are relative to the bottom_left corner, that's means : even if there's only a small part of a wall on the right, the xsize will be maximum (128). Btw, I'm almost sure the upper row is always empty.

On the left part of the screen are some debug infos of the sub-tiles of the main image (block). in that order (as indicated) : index of sub-tile, xpos and ypos, xgrid and ygrid. xpos and ypos are for putting the sub-tile at the good place in the main image, and the xgrid & ygrid seems to only be interested with floors : they'll represent the position of the sub-tile in the main block, and if you check these location with the "FloorFlag" , it is the same(btw I reordered them to a far better easy understanding : just look at them 45° right, that's your image). In blocks which have walls, these xgrid & ygrid seems to always be set to zero.

(link outdated)
(link outdated)

Well, enough for now, enjoy.

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You can see there are part of the worldstone that you can have in all the bitmaps. Anyone have an idea of how it works ?

EDIT >>> just delete the 4th image, it was exactly the same as the 1st, silly me

(link outdated)

As usual, check the .bat, but it's like for the dt1debug I previously made. Giving a dt1, it will extract up to 4 pcx and 1 ini, named after the name of the dt1. If you extract act1\town then act2\town, your 2nd town will erase the 1st.

Ex :
dt1extr d:\data\global\tiles\expansion\siege\cliff.dt1 -pal d2pal\act5.dat
will produce 4 files :
* cliff-wu.pcx
* cliff-wd.pcx
* cliff-fs.pcx
* cliff.ini

-wu stand for Wall Up
-wd stand for Wall Down
-fs stand for Floor Static
-fa stand for Floor Animated

the .ini contain all the necessary datas of each blocks, which will be give to the dt1maker. By changing only pcx a little, you'll have a looking-new dt1, but by editing the ini you can change the "floor flags1" trhu 5 and then (I hope) able to modify where the player can walk... But I'm thinkink these floorflags are more for the method of drawing walls for transparency, than the place where he can walk. We'll see.

As I said, it's a beta, so don't expect too much for now, but you can easily see most of the walls/floor of the dt1.

I'm going to make the dt1maker now

Btw, WHERE'S THE CHAMPAGNE ? Here's the first dt1 replacment for d2 ! I changed a floor and a wall in tristram, and voila. So it is possible. Now I can make some tiles for debuging the ds1 format. I have to work on it a while more, 'cause I have some problems with the new dt1. It's bigger than the original (I have some space somewhere in the file, bug), and the encoding is not exactly the same as the original (bug again). Ho, and it can only for now encode the tristram dt1, I'm sure you want more Despite of this, it works.

If you want to see it by your own eyes, get this zip (600 kB)

p.s. : I changed the floor of wirt too, but ... he stay exactly the same... I think there's an object of wirt somewhere in another tile that go on my floor...

DT1 Tools.zip (500 kB) Read the Readme.txt .

This is not user-friendly (not windows), the maker of dt1 can only (for now) read the "town.ini" and "town-**.pcx", but at least it works pretty well.

I have extracted the tristam\town.dt1, and then remake it with the maker, the files are EXACTLY the same : same size, and each bytes are the same. I have tested expansion\siege\cliff.dt1, and I have only 1 block that have a size higher than the original, but I don't know how it happen, and it's not important for the game (that's only 1 byte different, of the 5 393 306 ones). And of course as you have see 1 post above, the *modification* of tiles themselves works too.

A Beta, 500 kB, only command-line... well I know they are poor progs, but the sources of the progs are there, it's free, and it works.

I prefer to work on the ds1 now, instead of making a more user-friendly tool. I know I can do one, but it took me more than 40 hours just to have a dt1maker that works, so too much time-consumed for now.

That's all folks

EDIT >>> I just finished to replaced my old links to some old zip by "(link outdated)". Now you only have the dt1 tools, and they're all updated.

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Originally posted by Paul Siramy:
Btw, WHERE'S THE CHAMPAGNE ? Here's the first dt1 replacment for d2 !

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: : :Gets a champagne : : :

Here it is Paul Siramy, let's celebrate your achievements!!!!

Everything is looking good, you're doing a tremendously good job here, my congrats to you

I just update the progs in the package. Now the dt1maker can output all names of dt1, not only "town.dt1", the dt1debug (viewer) can use 4 screen resolution from 640*480 up to 1280*1024 (use the + and - keypad), the dt1info (dumper) is up-to-date.

ok ,they are minor changes, but they needed to have it done. Now, I'm almost sure I won't update this progs anymore, except for bug correction purpose. It's stable (at least at my home, anywhere else I don't know despite I think ther are too), it does what it ought to do, and you can work on dt1 with them (yes, again, far from user-friendly).

Now, if Isilweo's ds1 editor is so powerfull that my attempts to make another one are silly, just tell me, because I don't want to lost time in pointless efforts.

the ds1's are broken into many layers, like the first town(townE1.ds1) has 6 maps
and 4 layers per map he called props
immbeded inside is the X the Y and the act as well.

after that he found the 2 types of 'characters' type 1 humanoid/monster typed
and type 2 background and floor data(torches chests etc)

He noticed in town they had addition data with the type 1's these were starting and end point for walking.

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Originally posted by Apocalypse Demon:
[...]It can be found on the front page of this site in the tools of the trade section too by the way.

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Harg ! I have take progs on this page for months, but never saw this editor. I was wrongly searching for something like "level editor". Thanks a lot apoc for pointing me this. I just downloaded it, now it's time to test it

EDIT >>> ok. It "works" but I understand why apoc said he want more. It's not very usefull for user. It's a lot of investisment to put into, to be able to make maps. Ok, I am too rude, because it's the only one level editor that exists. Btw, I downloaded some time before the "mpq stormless editor", and there is the source of a console-prog that allow to read a mpq without the storm.dll. If I can understand the code, the d2 level editor will be able to read gfx directly from the mpq, no need to extract all the files. Of course I know this editor will be my biggest piece of work. I'm seeing how it should be made, but... that's a titan efforts to do in coding. I won't be ready before at least 1 month.

Now, silly, but usefull dt1 editing :

For anyone doing this (Paul Siramy I think?), here is the number one problem with Isilweo's Editor:

No ability to copy and paste ALL layers in a 'square' at once. If yours did this, it would speed everything up.

Thnx.

Since there is a variable amount of layers in ds1, you can't simply copy and paste all layers infos of one map to another one. How can you copy 11 layers and paste them in 6 ?
I'm trying to find how the choice of the right tile is done in the ds1, and the use of the layers as well.