Mod News Icewind Dale in ToEE Engine: the first chapter demo beta or something

[sstacks]

I personally would like to have a crack at a Star Wars d20 game at some point.

 

[Mustawd]

Adding new 3d animations unfortunateĺy are currently beyond our modding capabilities

Why is that? Just haven't focused on it? By the way, I'm learning blender to make my own D&D 3.5 mod. Any suggestions on map making?

 

[Black]

Just fill the map with bugbears.

 

[Allyx]

Why is that? Just haven't focused on it? By the way, I'm learning blender to make my own D&D 3.5 mod. Any suggestions on map making?

The plug-ins we have written to convert 3d models from 3ds max/Blender/Anim8or to ToEE's .skm format work, but exporting the animations to .ska format don't... for some reason (that stuff is way beyond my area of expertise).

As for making maps, I'd suggest creating a 3d map in another game (Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or Dungeon Siege 2 for example) then importing the map to Blender, converting to an isometric view at 45° angle and export that as a 2d .bmp file which can then be resized, and split into 256x256 pixel sections (world builder does this function) and put into ToEE.

World ed is required to define areas that cannot be walked over, adding clipping data, containers, doors, monsters and loot, it also is used for assigning the ground material sounds (snow/wood/grass/dirt/stone etc...) when the characters walk on them.

 

[Mustawd]

As for making maps, I'd suggest creating a 3d map in another game (Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind or Dungeon Siege 2 for example) then importing the map to Blender

You mean for ease of use? Meh, I'm going all the way and making my own maps from scratch. Thanks though. I had thought about doing that with NWN mods, but I decided against it in the end.

 

[FeelTheRads]

How easy is with the current tools to create a module? Let's say, without adding anything else except new maps. Are there tools available for dialogue and scripts?

 

[Allyx]

The dialogue files can be edited in notepad, scripts too but perhaps better to use pycharm for those, most of my scripts are simple copy/paste jobs, ToEE has plenty of script examples to copy from.

 

[Jaesun]

The difficult part of the ToEE engine is the rendered backgrounds (when making new content). The rest of the framework is however solid.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I was asking because the rendered backgrounds are the "easy" part for me. But I wouldn't even know where to start if I wanted to put such backgrounds to use. Not that I'd ever have the motivation to do it, even if I did know.

 

[Mustawd]

There's documentation on the Co8 website. Although, I wish it was more organized tbh.

 

[Allyx]

FeelTheRads there are a number of frequently requested classic modules that keep cropping up in forum posts at the Co8 boards, if making maps is your thing, there would be many people interested in helping turn them into playable adventures. Against the Giants would probably top the list of most requested new modules.

 

[Allyx]

Here is one such thread at Co8 to illustrate my previous point.