New Monster Effect

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Originally Posted by SheenBR

LOL!!!!

Yes, lets keep writing in ASM.

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I would! It's the ultimate language, PC DNA. The further you detach yourself from it, the less of a real man you are. (j/k) ;)

@Vormav: OT

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Win9x didn't support locking hardware devices or ports access to one program. (it was hard to lock a file securely TBH) So using LPT1: outside a printer driver was hard to do safely unless you where in DOS. I was using AutoCAD with a parallel dongle about that time... or more correctly, my father was.

So all that makes sense. Would it be sound to suspect that PS6 created the textures and UI and MAX 3.1 made the maps and meshes? Maybe, but we've pretty much proven that something around MAX 7 has created many of the newer maps and textures, and seems to have all features PT supports and not many that it doesn't.

I would have thought that even the pre-Morion stuff was MAX 5 or 6... but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some of the code is older. TBH, it wouldn't even surprise me to learn that there was a 2D or isometric beta version of PT. :lol: I'd almost be surprised if they didn't experiment with OpenGL for the 3D instead of DirectX early on, because 3D prior to DX5 was pretty crappy, and I strongly suspect pre-public beta versions of PT where older than that.

ehehehe, asm is veeeery low level language...

...and its hard to produce buggy app in it :)

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Originally Posted by Vormav

O a visitor message (I never went there before lol), well I don't use any communicator so probably I will not be able to do that.
I prefer forums where posts can be verified and others can post they few cents about problem.

If ASM is all you know than make new section move your code there and fix links to functions that reading those tables, there is no mutch philosophy in it.

Also post your current error/problem with mob table. No sounds, wrong sounds, no particle effects?

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I made a new table in a new section with new effects (Mimic, Hest, GoblinShaman, Niken, etc.).
I just do not know what to do for my new table to be used in place of the old

Find what's reading those offsets table

ID
offset_to_mob_name
ID
offset_to_mob_name
[...]


like:
MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[6182FC]
and:
MOV EDI,6182FC

6182FC is address of your table, fix it to you new address.

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Originally Posted by Vormav

Find what's reading those offsets table

ID
offset_to_mob_name
ID
offset_to_mob_name
[...]


like:
MOV EAX,DWORD PTR DS:[6182FC]
and:
MOV EDI,6182FC

6182FC is address of your table, fix it to you new address.

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The first part of what you say is already done, just need to find these two MOV's

Yes... the problem is that nothing refers to that table in the code according to Olly. :( That's why I thought they seemed to be counting up from the registry value. :/:

It seems Olly cannot analyse this. So you'll have to set a breakpoint and trace, or try IDA. :wink:

IDA Pro rulez :laugh:

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Originally Posted by bobsobol

Yes... the problem is that nothing refers to that table in the code according to Olly. :( That's why I thought they seemed to be counting up from the registry value. :/:

It seems Olly cannot analyse this. So you'll have to set a breakpoint and trace, or try IDA. :wink:

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ok, thankx bob and vormav

IDA is instant win because it will make sense out of nonsense table by adding comments and showing you where offset is leading it bubble =P

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Newest IDA can even use multiple encodings for text.

But you probably targeting wrong thing, you should target 1st mob ID not offset to mob name.

http://oi43.tinypic.com/15f3vyc.jpg

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Originally Posted by Vormav

IDA is instant win because it will make sense out of nonsense table by adding comments and showing you where offset is leading it bubble =P

Spoiler:

Newest IDA can even use multiple encodings for text.

But you probably targeting wrong thing, you should target 1st mob ID not offset to mob name.

http://oi43.tinypic.com/15f3vyc.jpg

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hahaha i love u man :lol::thumbup:

One last question: I redid this table NAME / ID of the monsters, if I use a current game.exe with all new monsters and effects, I still need to add the wav\Effects\monster\monster.wav, etc. on the server. exe?

why? server will play sounds too? lol

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Originally Posted by SheenBR

why? server will play sounds too? lol

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That's why I asked, I asked why I saw some strings in some server.exe related to it and I was astonished

http://i40.tinypic.com/2r6nnlv.jpg
huhu wow fully functional :D

woooow -.-

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Originally Posted by SheenBR

woooow -.-

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