Rubes Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Hey everyone, i am in the process of making a new mod based on a favorite book of mine by Terry Goodkind (hope some of you have read it its a good series), anyway one of the main things in these books that i thought would be really fun to make would be the wizards keep, the huge vast place where wizards and their families used to live, also a place where things of great power and magic are held, and also a place where books come in the millions, this mod is going to take a looooong time to complete, and on top of that there aren't enough books in the game to fill up the amout of libraries that i am going to add to try and replicate the keep as the book describes it. So the reason for this post is to ask ppl if there is anyone who would like to aid me in this quest and help me either right some books (corney if they must be) or help with the scripts, or just even drop me an email with suggestions on what you want to see in the final product, no matter if it is related to the book or not (shrug) i don't care but if you have anything that you want to maybe help me with, even if you want to design a room for the keep and i will merge it with the main keep file, whatever you want to do to help i will gladly appriciate :) also any items that you want to make would be great too. There is one thing though that i really really need help with, i need help making a script to be able and rescrit the player from certain parts of the keep based on lvl, more lvl = more access, however i am not sure how to do this, or even if you can do this, so if anyone out there is an amazing scripter that would be aswome and i would really appricate the help. and one final thing, for somereason i can't find any of my mesh files that are already in the game, so when i try to make a new book, it doesn't look like a book because i can't find the right icon or mesh files, :( maybe i just am not looking in the right place, but even if i do a search on my computer it isn't there <shrug> oh well if anyone knows what is going on or maybe has a fixer to this plz tell me. On a final not thank you very much for any help you can offer and anything you have either post here (i will be checking daily) or drop me an e-mail at [email protected] (thats 1324 not 1234) plz no spam, i don't fake processed meat. :P Thanks Again,~Rubes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanateros Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 ok this should probably be under team recruitment but i know what you mean about the books i had the same problem. the way i fixed it was to just open up a book in the cs, find the cover i liked and then i would rename the id and title, when it asks you to create a new object i click yes then edit from there. it works easier than if you try to make them from scratch because i have never been able to find the book art and icons in any of the directories. hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 As he said, the .nif models for existing objects seem to be stored in an unuseable .zip file on the cd. So either do what thanateros said, and modify something close, or make a new model yourself. The only thing I can think of for the level restriction thing is lvl 100 locks and an npc that gives the key, like you get quest items. I think I remember seeing somewhere that some quests have a level restriction, so it shouldn't be too hard to make a "quest" that puts a key into your inventory if you're high enough level. Or possibly something like the doors that open only at a specific time of day, except set the condition for opening to be the player's level. Sorry if this isn't making much sense, its little more than guessing since I'm not exactly a scripting expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 ok this should probably be under team recruitmentagreed. thread moved EDIT: oh no wait its already been done lol! my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acoran Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Ok first of all that is great Idea and The Sword of Truth books rule and second, i can't help with scripting and i'm not a very good the C.S. but I may be able to help make books for you. On Idea I already have is a book with the rules in it. Wizards 1st Rule: People are stupid. Wizards 2nd Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. Wizards 3rd Rule: Passion rules reason. Wizards 4th Rule: There is magic in forgivness, magic to heal. The more forgivness you grant, and more the forgivness you receive. Wizards 5th Rule: Mind what people do, not what they say, for deed may betray a lie. Wizards 6th Rule: The most important rule there is:The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. Wizards 7th Rule: Life is in the future, not the past. Wizards 8th Rule: I'm not done with the 8th bok so I don't know the rule yet...Sorry Hope you like this Idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 hey thx all for the info, and yes i love the wizard rule idea for book, but if you saw the mod atm, well hehe you would understand what i mean by i need books, and i never knew shelving books could take such time :P. but the idea about editing old objects worked perfectly thank you, also i was looking into the idea about keys, but i need a way to really RESCRIT them, so no sneaky theif can come in and pick the locks, lvl 100 locks can be picked, <shrug> i will continue to look into it, and err not sure what the team recruitment fourms are :P maybe i just need to read more about the site, but if i am not suppose to be posting here sry... anyway if anyone does know anything about scripting, correct me if i am wrong it looks just like C progaming but i don't know much about C :( well anyway thank you to those who have posted and if someone could tell me if i am suppose to be posting elseware or if this is ok :). P.S. If anyone wants the mod at any time to view or mess with (if you would be so kind as to maybe email or tell me of any changes that you made, that way if you wish to merge them together later i don't put something in the way of your mod cuz we dun want that :rolleyes: and that way it will be all the better) so if you do want to see it or mess with it drop me an email at [email protected], or if you want i will be happy to merge anything that you want to make yourself (room, characters, items, etc..) and will put them in there. P.S.S if anyone is wondering why i want the lvl recritions so bad (you need to have read the books to understand this) but there are many areas in the keep that only wizards of certain power lvls, as it were, can access due to the powerful shields there. and also if anyone is good at making 3d things a Sword of Truth would be really cool! And on final note: If anyone can figure out how to make a way, script maybe <shrug>, to make a weapon have an effect that instead of casting every single time you strike an opponent (seeing as how when your skillz go up you start hititng almost every time) to only go off every like 3rd or 4th hit, to make it sort of a thing you are waiting to happen not something that you expect to happen every hit... if you don't know what i mean... its err.. hmm kinda like the everquest (evil game....) has the weapon procs during battle so it doesn't come every hit, and its cool when it does. so ya.. if anyone understands this well my hats off to you, and if you know a way to make it work then i would love to hear it :) thanks again everyone and hope you had a nice weekend. ~Rubes :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 AND YOU FORGOT THE 8TH RULE :angry: Naked Empire was the best one so far besides Temple of the Winds Wizards 8th Rule: Talga VassternichHigh D'Haran Translation:....i forgot what it means now... well thats no fun... well anyway i got part of it :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 i forgot there is one last major thing that i really need help with, in the keep there is a creature called The Sliph, its a type of traveling device that was made by the wizards out of a human, its like a living quicksliver type thing, if anyone knows how to model that would be aswome, i am not sure how to describe it, so instead i will attach a picture from the terry goodkind fan site, (the modeler of this picture is not me, and is unknown, thus i could not msg them but here it is anyway.) http://www.terrygoodkind.com/faninfo/art/sliph.htmlhttp://www.terrygoodkind.com/faninfo/art/kolo.htm and also the scripting would be like that of the mage guild trasporters, the silph travels only to certain "wells" where she is attached to, so if you can help with this, or with anything else that would be great :) well have a good day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubes Posted August 25, 2003 Author Share Posted August 25, 2003 Does no one want to help me?? :unsure: so....sad.... well if thats the way it must be then i suppose i will have to try to do it myself, i will keep you all up to date on it, and maybe at some point someone will want to help me :( well anyway, i suppose i will go work on it and maybe once i like it somewhat i will post it. ~Rubes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acoran Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 I thought Naked Empire was bad. Nothing happend. But the 8th rule means, Deserve Victory. And I haven't askked but I have a friend you is a REALLY REALLY REALLY good graphics designer, he might be able to help make the sliph and Sword of Truth. so I'll ask and keep you infomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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