Do you have a website or permanent eResidence where I could go for updates?
working on that right now
Looks good, put some decent thievery quests too if you can. One of the things I disliked about the original Arcanum was that the thieves quests could be done by most wizards or rich scientists.
this is also something i disliked from the original arcanum. mages could basically do anything in the game while other classes were limited by skills. I am working on quite a few quests that cannot be completed if you are not a thief. for one, you have to prowl through Prince Escalus' castle where level 50 guards walk in packs of eight. If a mage with low prowling and a huge party goes in, he'll be detected and torn to shreds (and no, even with Worthless Mutt you will not kill them)
I'm interested in playing as female halflings/gnomes too, will they be able to use armor? There's a mod out there that lets you play as them too but they can't use armor because they don't have sprites for that, and I think they could only fight with daggers or with no weapons.
see, making sprites for them would be possible, but look at the obstacles:
1.the file extension .ART used for sprites, cannot be opened and edited without the correct program. The only app (to my knowledge) that can successfully do this is Redview which is in Russian.
http://arcanumclub.ru/ <-- an active arcanum modding site....in Russian. If someone could point me to the downloads page i'd be really great ful.
2. there are literally thousands of sprites for just one character model. These aren't done for the gnome and halfling females. I would have to make the sprites for Dark Barbarian Armor/small arcane armor/ everything else looking sideways, front, back, diagonal, fighting to the left, fighting to the right, casting harm, casting polymorph, etc...... and all that work for only one armor. That's around 500+ sprites per armor.
so yea...basically it's a dagger and that's it
BUT look what i found
this is from the game code that lists the items:
{8134}{NO GOOD}Small Ladies City Dweller Clothes
{8135}{NO GOOD}Small Ladies City Dweller Clothes
{8137}{NO GOOD}Small Ladies Smoking Jacket
{8138}{NO GOOD}Large Ladies Smoking Jacket
{8140}{NO GOOD}Small Ladyservants Clothes
{8141}{NO GOOD}Large Ladyservants Clothes
{8143}{NO GOOD}Small Ladies Rustic Finery
{8144}{NO GOOD}Large Ladies Rustic Finery
looks like we would have seen female everything's if they hadn't been rushed by sierra. Troika wrote NO GOOD before each small/big female item..i wonder if that means they didn't complete the models, or sprites don't exist for them, or they just haven't been implemented yet. I, for one, hope it is the latter. If i manage to find these items, i have no problem adding them to the game.
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