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THQ Nordic / Titan Quest II - What We Know So Far
« on: 12 August 2023, 02:27:14 »
There's one thing I want most of all that I don't see listed...that it's got mod tools lol

I already know I'm gonna suck at this game just like I still do with TQ base game, I need more summons dammit

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Legion of Champions AE / Passing the torch to nargil66
« on: 14 July 2023, 18:56:01 »
I am officially retiring from modding altogether due to age and health issues, I will be 60 in a few days. Having trouble even walking at this point and eating ibuprofen like candy. haven't done that since my time in a non-union factory in the 80's

Anyway, I reached out to nargil66 to see if he would finish the mod for everyone and he decided to pick it up for us.  :))

I for one welcome our new Modding Overlord and I've provided all the raw files and such to him.

So let's give a big welcome to the new modder for Legion of Champions, nargil66!

I'm lookimg for ward to the discussions when we get updates and such, pretty exciting!

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MEGA Drive folder link:
https://mega.nz/folder/FlBiXZaL#1TulGpnS0oTVTPJkQ1bWag

Select full mod LegionOfChampions_EE.zip and select download.

If you only want the database for an update, select the LegionOfChampions_EE_database_only.zip and select download.

I think everything is working for now.

The game will crash to desktop if you are playing, exit to main menu and try to play again. Most of the time.  ???

Pet summon amount limits:
Defense: 1 Shield Maiden and a second at level 26, 1 Armored Spirit, Phalanx is the same as base game
Dream: 1 Nightmare, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. Dream Copy (forget it's name) 1, same as base game
Earth: 1 Magma Elemental, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. Core Dweller 1 limit
Hunting: 1 Wolf, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. 1 Bear limit
Nature: 1 Forest Nymph, 2 t level 5, 3 at level 26. 1 Sylvan Nymph limit
Neidan: 1 Dragon, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. 1 Terra Cotta monster lure limit
Runemaster: 1 Rune Golem, 2 at level 4, 3 at level16, 4 at level 26. Menhir Wall same as vanilla. Menhir Altar spawns 3 with a projectile summons.
Spirit: Skeleton Berzerker 1, Skeleton Warrior 1, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. Skeleton Archer 1, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26 30 second life span. Lich King 1.
Rogue: Killbot 1. Traps 1, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 9, 4 at level 26. No cooldown.
Storm: Frost Wisp 1, Storm Wisp 1, Ice Golem 1
Warfare: Ancestral Warriors 1, 2 at level 5, 3 at level 26. Spectral Archers 1, 2 at level 5 3 at level 26. Battle Standard 1.




If you talk to the first NPC fellow at the game's start he will grant you level 2 for those that want a boost or those who want a no kill run.

Some things are overpowered/underpowered. Let me know what you think and I may even agree, you never know.  8)

As always in alpha, if there's something broken, please help me out by letting me know.

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So I have ported over what I could salvage from my Atlantis mod and I'm hammering out the bugs from that and have started development on a new version.

Haven't added the game map yet, but I hope to some day if just to make some QOL changes for petmancers (Sciron's camp is crazy for pet pathing madness...where'd everybody go? Auuughh!).

Added a couple new quests so far.

Already used a new skill type template from Eternal Embers for the Champion Heart amulet skill for Warlock where every kill has a chance to raise a poison zombie and it's pretty fun. Thinking about who could use a skill that causes their victim's corpses to explode which would also be fun.

Too much to mention here in the OP.

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Downloads / Early Alpha Testing ~ Go!
« on: 10 June 2021, 03:02:28 »
Looking to be a laboratory guinea pig? Want to bang your head when the game crashes every time you try to farm?

THIS IS A PET SUMMONER MOD.


If you like to play builds that don't use pets or even builds with pets as only player support, you're gonna have a bad time.

If you play without pets, please don't post about how hard this mod is without pets in the thread.

MEGA Link to the share folder :

https://mega.nz/folder/Q4Z22LLD#fBYOBKX9Xb2lL7n2h_bA9w

Once the MEGA page opens you'll see "legionofchampions.zip" which is the whole mod including map, assets and database.

"LegionOfChampionsAtlantisDatabaseOnly.zip" is JUST the database. Paste it over the existing one in your custom maps directory if you use it.

To download a file from the MEGA folders webpage, hover your mouse over the name of the file you want, a little "..." will appear to the right. Click the "..." and you will see a prompt for the download. Since it's already zipped, you can use the standard download selection I think.



REQUIRES RAGNAROK AND ATLANTIS DLC TO PLAY.

MOD WILL BE MODIFIED REGULARLY AND NEED RE-DOWNLOADING.

So the mod is stable for now (restarting to farm will still crash the game sometimes), keeping in mind a new patch is on the horizon. So tuck in and summon an army of minions while we can!

I have been playtesting and there are some things that can't be fixed:

Game crashes when restarting from the main menu, like when you try to farm.
Hidden merchants can still be targeted.
Auto targeting will attack creatures that are hidden from combat like traps.
Pets controllers still target hidden ambush spawns that haven't spawned yet.
Etc.

That being said, this is the thread to download and to fix bugs, balance the unbalanced and tell people I've made an executive decision and that's that. :D

Still a work in progress so don't download if you want a flawless gaming experience.

Stuff I haven't got to:
Boss treasure chests will spawn two sometimes (that can be fixed, but it's a big consolidation of multiple quest files, each with a different system...sheesh)
Miniboss near Wusuo Mountain teleporter is really rough and not complete.
Polish up the Ordnance skills.
Finish Monster Infrequent sets in act 5 and Atlantis DLC.
Etc.

Future plans:
New area in Atlantis I have planned, but won't impact this version as far as character save files.

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Legion of Champions AE / LoC Ragnarok / Atlantis development
« on: 25 March 2021, 17:55:03 »
Porting the base database, assets and map ideas from several failed attempts to a mod in ArtManager. I fooled around just for fun with a mod for Atlantis for awhile and had some new ideas I'm bringing along.

I removed traps from Rogue and added spiders, traps are now with wolves in Hunting
Here is a Warlock in the Gorgon Cave in Normal:


Here is Dream mastery's new Polecat summons:


I've replaced the Frost Wisp in Storm with an Ice Golem

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Ideas and Suggestions / Legion of Champions: Atlantis
« on: 03 December 2019, 00:13:21 »
Here's a link to what I've completed so far if anyone wants to play:


https://mega.nz/#!N1xTQCDa!aqXB_MkfEUuIRXqDrr4QG1IiTrwXFPqL8jyMLZ0aRao

It isn't completely finished, but it's playable. Have only started on the map so very few new changes.

I think I will restore the Mushroom summons for Dream sometime. And add the ordnance again.

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I'm stumped trying to do this.

My eyesight is getting gradually worse and I haven't seen a star since I was 25.

Usually I have all the maps memorized so I don't notice, but with the new Ragnarok and Atlantis, I am bumping into things and getting ambushed as I watch the mini-map for clues to where to go when it is nighttime.

I tried making a potion with a quest directive to set the time of day, but drinking a potion doesn't trigger the "use item" in a quest file.

Any way to do this without using a hex editor?

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Ideas and Suggestions / New mod project for Atlantis DLC
« on: 26 June 2019, 04:55:30 »
Starting a new mod for the Ragnarok and Atlantis DLC, not sure exactly what it will be when it's done. Not even sure I will name it Legion of Champions, but probably.

I really don't want the Ordnance in this version, I never used them.

I am focusing on charms and relics with the new Tinkerer affix, it really inspired me to add custom completion bonuses as a better alternative to the pseudo-crafting of the Ordnance stuff. Player skill or even mastery bonuses for example. Nerthus' Mistletoe is now given by the King as three pieces that when assembled give +1 to random mastery.

Also improving epic and legendary items to help with skills more.

Anyway, here is a video showing my Skinchanger in Epic Egypt. I tried to get the tooltips for the relevant skills to show the mods new stuff.



Playing with Rune golems is similar to Menhir Wall, and it's a lot of  fun.

Still trying to get a good feel for the new Crushing damage added to Heart of Oak. I changed the combat equation for physical DoT to be int + str /2 instead of just flat int.

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*Updated for Atlantis DLC
*Updated for Atlantis Patch 2.8

You can use and edit the existing game map either by extracting and decompiling the game's map or you can download the latest decompiled map ready to use. The extraction and decompile instructions here are for use with a Windows operating system.

Here is my hosted link with MEGA with a zipped version of the extracted and decompiled game map as of June 17th 2019:
Here is my hosted link with MEGA with a zipped version of the extracted and decompiled game map as of July 25th 2019:

https://mega.nz/#!NsQ0GYgK!bKrHOArCLE2MxxU4PRup-YGH6WbxMIj2cA-29UoZXiE

(I left the decompiled terrain textures in the directories for XPack3 in this download, you can delete them if you like)

Extract this to your mod's "source" directory. In Art Manager, set your tools directory to your game version's installation directory* (see below) and then go to the source tab and locate the "Levels\World\world01.wrl" file. Right-click it and select "auto-create asset". Build your mod and you now have the game map as part of your mod, ready to edit with the Editor.exe.


In order to extract the game map from the install directory yourself , start by getting the MAPDecompile.exe utility here:

https://mega.nz/#!x15EkYrB!SLz0XR5yuz_nfCyHtHJbPHZdGmQaTMcaYT7NgnExtoc

  • Extract the game map from the <game install directory>/Resources/Levels.arc using an Arc Extraction utility (see other tools threads to get).
  • You end up with "World/world01.map" in whatever directory you extracted it to.
  • Open ArtManager and start a new mod and copy and paste the MAPDecompile.exe to the "Working/CustomMaps/<ModName>/source" directory of the mod. You can do this with an existing game mod the same way, just copy to the existing mod's source directory.
  • Next, copy and paste the "world01.map" to the same directory, the "working/custommaps/<modname>/source" directory.
  • Next, open up the WIndows Command Prompt. If you haven't used it, take a moment to Google the basics, you only need to know how to change directories really.
  • Change the Command Prompt directory to the "working/custommaps/<modname>/source" directory you copied the MAPDecompile and world01.map to.
  • Type in "MAPDecompile world01.map world01.wrl" so that it looks similar to this:

    D:\Documents\My Games\Titan Quest - Immortal Throne\Working\CustomMaps\AtlantisMap\source\>MAPDecompile world01.map world01.wrl


  • Hit "Enter". If everything is correct, the MAPDecopiler will start decompiling each game map level one by one, a scrolling list of level names process and you can see the progress.
  • Your mod's Source directory should now look like this:
    Source
       Levels
       Maps
       Quests
       Text
       XPack
       XPack2
       XPack3

    The map decompiler will have made the highlighted directories during the decompilation if they didn't already exist.
  • Once the Decompiler is finished, navigate to the source directory and select the "world01.sd" and the "world01.wrl" files and select "cut".
  • Paste the "world01.sd" and the "world01.wrl" files directly into your "Source/Levels/World" directory of the mod. I don't know why this works or why it is necessary or why the decompiler doesn't extract these files directly to the correct directories, but this is a necessary step to make this work.

At this point you can remove/delete the "world01.map" and "MAPDecompile.exe" files from the source directory as they are no longer needed.


Now you can open up the Editor.exe and select that mod, navigate to source/Levels/World and click the world01.wrl file and the game map should load up in the Editor.

*CRITICAL STEP*
In ArtManager, click the "tools" in the menubar at the top, then click "Options..". Click the file picker for "Tools Directory" and navigate to your Steam or GOG installation of TQ Anniversary Edition. Since the Atalantis update, you can't use the original THQ MapCompiler.exe which ArtManager gets from the tools directory to compile the map. If you don't do this, the map's pathing will be broken and unusable. This really flummoxed the mod community for a couple months after the update as all our maps were broken until @Prosoro got this tip from the devs themselves.

Once you have made any edits or simply want to add the map as-is, right click the "world01.wrl" in the ArtManager for the mod the map is going to be in and select "auto-create asset".

Build the mod and enjoy your original game map in your mod.


*NOTE*
Terrain textures in the Atlantis DLC are not loaded in the map editor by default as of this writing, @Endymion suggested a quick fix below.

Create a directory in your mod's build directory inside the Resources directory and name it "XPack3". If you already have a directory named XPack3, use that and create a directory in there and name it "TerrainTextures".

Use an ArcExtractor to unpack the Resources/XPack3/TerrainTextures.arc to this new directory.

In ArtManager, load your mod, then click the "Archive" in the menubar and select "Build". This will pack all these terrain textures into an "XPack3.arc".

Load up the map editor and viola! The terrain textures are now visible.

Do the same process for Resources/XPack3/Scenery.arc and Resources/XPack3/Underground.arc to see the walls and such as well.

Do it with the Resources/XPack3/Creatures.arc as well to see the monster proxies.

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Bug Reports LOC AE / OPEN BETA TEST
« on: 25 February 2019, 21:49:14 »
https://mega.nz/#!UohS2YLD!bkybysYlOtOfbpXXKfzy7ZsSXoRLq4AhLrVa2OTU9s8

650MB Download

Requires Ragnarok expansion to play.

Download the link above and extract the legionofchampragnarok_v1 folder to your Documents folder like so:

Documents ->
                      My Games ->
                                            Titan Quest - Immortal Throne ->
                                                                                               CustomMaps ->
                                                                                                                        legionofchampragnarok_v1

This is an open BETA test release.

I am testing for minor bugs and gross imbalance issues. I'm not looking for feedback on design issues.

Visit the Game Play Videos thread here

https://titanquestfans.net/index.php?topic=126

to see what the mod is like.

I once stumbled on a video of someone exploiting a bug in the AE version Monster in the Woods quest to get unlimited Champ Hearts lol

So things like that would be helpful to find before I release the finished mod.

Please report bugs in this thread.

BUGS LIST:

Champion Heart Recipes missing text tags (fixed for next update)

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Bug Reports LOC AE / Alpha tester bug reports
« on: 29 November 2018, 04:08:57 »
Post the bugs here. EXPOSE MY SHAME TO THE WORLD.  :))

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWP2ABMB20FD2N_-ochNERQ

I am watching his niche Shaman build using life leech (not ADCtH).

He's pretty thorough and has a great grasp of TQ game mechanics.

Enjoy!

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Other Modifications / Simple tutorial to add effects to animations
« on: 02 February 2018, 00:24:25 »
Do you know what an AIF file is? I don't.

Are you an expert with 3DSMax? I haven't touched it in 15 years. I downloaded Blender, but the learning curve is too steep for what I want to do (or what I am capable of lol).

DISCLAIMER: This method bypasses the ArtManager's source/asset functionality. Every time you do a fresh build of your mod after using this method, the ArtManager will ask if you want to delete the unassociated resource that is the animation you added. Just click no every time. It's annoying, but if you aren't a real developer and just want quick and dirty, it's a small price to pay.


I am assuming you are familiar with ArtManager and other tools already.

So here is the poor (or dumb like me) person's way to add a particle effect to an animation.

Here's the example. There is now a Saberlion Hero since Anniversary Edition, Creatures/Monsters/Saberlion/um_saberlion.dbr, and I want to give it an ice breath skill.

You could make it a wave and add a line effect to the skill file, but why do that when you can get a genuine looking breath effect? So let's add a snow breath effect animation to the Sabrelion.

We will need the animation files in a bit. Use ArcExplorer to extract the creature meshes and animation files somewhere.

Navigate to Creatures/Saberion/Saberlion01.msh in your Viewer.exe located in your install directory for TQ.

Here's the saberlion with the menu bar ->View/Attach Points enabled. Attach points are arbitrary points on the mesh usually attached to a "bone" in the mesh but always specified with an alignement to the mesh or bone XYZ alignment. Here is the Viewer.exe result of the Saberlion mesh using it's native "saberlion_attalpha.anm" animation. I have highlighted the "HeadEffect" attach point using the menu bar -> Select... -> HeadEffect -> Select.




Now the Ice Sprite already has an animation with a baked in ice breath particle effect, let's just use that? What the...?




You can use that if you want, but that's not what I am envisioning. :)

Here's the ice sprite in the Viewer.exe. Notice I have selected "HeadEffect" attach point again (which is important to know later) and it is highlighted. Now also look closely and notice the three arrows in the white box of the highlighted attachment? Those are the X,Y,Z axis of the attach point. Notice the green one? That is the "Y" axis. These colors match the colors in the PSEditor's three XYZ axis, too.




Here is the effect that the ice sprite frost breath animation calls in the PSEditor. Notice that it flows along the green "Y" axis? When it is attached in the animation file to the ice sprite "HeadEffect", the effect will orient itself to the attach point of the mesh. So if the effect is along the "Y" axis and the attach point is aligned with the "Y" axis facing the player, everything looks great.




Now navigate to Creatures/Monsters/Sprite/anm/spriteice_skill_castprojectile.anm. Open it with a GOOD text editor. I am using Notepad++ because it works and it's free. Here's what we see:




Scroll all the way to the bottom and see all the callback point stuff like "RightHandHit", "SwipeRight" etc. There is the entry I am looking for "CreateEntity". That's the language to add something to the animation from outside like an effect. Highlight and copy the CreateEntity and everything between the following braces { }.


Now navigate to Creatures/Monsters/Saberlion/anm/saberlion_attalpha.anm, this is the animation I chose to use. You could use any, but this looks more like a breath attack so I am using this one. Open this in your text editor and scroll all the way to the bottom.

Place your cursor at the the last place in the file and create a new line there. Paste the CreateEntity stuff you copied from the ice sprite animation.


Notice I matched the "frame" in the CreateEntity part with the moment in the animation I want it to go off, in this case it's the RightHandHit callback point.


Now, save the saberlion animation file somewhere making sure to maintain the ".anm" file extension.


Remember, this is the poor (or dumb) person's way. Not the RIGHT way, whatever that is. If I knew that, I wouldn't be writing this tutorial.

Copy and paste your new animation NOT in your working directory, but in the Documents/My Games/CustomMaps/YourMod/Resources/Whatever folder of your existing mod, e.g. Creatures/Monsters/Saberlion/anm/.


Open up your existing mod in Art Manager. In the menubar, select "Archive" -> "Build". This automagically injects your animation file into your compiled mod's .arc file that matches the directory in the Resources that you pasted the animation into. This is not the usual build command, I have only ever used the "Archive->Build" for doing this.

Now go to the Saberlion animation directory in Art Manager. Creatures/Monsters/Saberlion/anm. Open the "anm_saberlion.dbr" file.

In the All Groups -> Animation Sets -> Unarmed tab scroll down to "unarmedSpecialAnim1" row. Double click in the 4th column and click the "...". Navigate to the new animation you just archived and select it.

Two rows below that is the unarmedSpecialRef1 slot. In the fourth column enter "Icebreath". Remember the case, it doesn't matter what it is as long as it's the same wherever you use it later.

In the skill file that the ice sprite's use "Records\Skills\Monster Skills\Attack_Projectile\IceSprite_FreezingBlast.dbr", there is an entry to add Skill Config -> skillSpecialAnimationName. Enter "Icebreath" here as well. Don't worry, the ice sprites will still use their animations because it is their default for spellcasting in this case. That could cause problems sharing a monster skill between monsters, but just be careful and check. You could always copy the ice sprite skill and give it another name no problem.


In the Saberlion Hero's (Creatures/Monsters/Saberlion/um_saberlion.dbr) skill tree enter the ice sprite breath skill. Enter it in the saber lion's skill config as you wish.

Build your mod.

Bam. Saberlion hero has ice breath now.

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