New Horizon on 20/6/2005 at 03:13

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Had a few Eureka moments over the last few days.

1. Woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly knew how to make the weapons cycle in TRUE T1 and 2 style. They no longer slide in from the side. Instead, I realized I could use the Z axis and put the dormant weapons underneath the selected weapon...but so far in the distance that it would take them long enough to reach the front of the screen that there would be no overlap. Give it a try, you will see. :)

2. Fixed the issue with the new Health gem shields taking over all the models that share that gem: health potion, hammer wands.
Achieved this by adding the health shield texture to the editor. I then had to comment out the hud gem model in the ibt files and change the hud gem texture in the gamesys to point to the health shield texture. Then a dynamicallyloaded static mesh folder to load the hudhealthgem model is placed in the content folder. Long winded...but it works.

This would also make it possible to reskin all the loot in TDS so that it doesn't require loot glint. I might do it...but then again...that would be a HUGE project in itself. Might just leave that for the FM authors or include the improved textures in my upcoming T3Ed automated installer.

3. Increased the hilight distance for doors ever so slightly. I found the distance to be a tiny bit too short when compared to the previous games. It sits somewhere inbetween TDS and T1/ 2 now.

Available for download at the usual place.
(http://www.timgormley.ca/~minimalist)
Minimalist Project Download and Homepage

Fafnir13 on 20/6/2005 at 03:30

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Possible for no Loot Glint? You, sir, have made my day. :thumb:

New Horizon on 20/6/2005 at 04:01

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It would make my day as well. :) Just not sure how much work it would be yet to make this for the original missions. Fan Missions are completely different. We can just take the existing textures and repaint them to look more looty and them import them back in so that it doesn't affect other items sharing the loot textures and make them look weird.

DarthMRN on 20/6/2005 at 11:33

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Force damnit, NH! How can you make TDS so great and at the same time make it unplayably difficult like this?!

You are forcing me to have the original installed with its lousy textures and worthless enemies in oreder to be able to play beyond the first few missions. To know Minimalist is out there and not be able to play it is horrible!

What is it going to take for you to reduce the sight and hearing of the enemies?? They increase level by level you know. I've had Shalebridge patients see me leaned against a wall in pitch darkness from four metres away!

I never beg, but....PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!

....
Hmm....
(Ignites lightsaber....)

New Horizon on 20/6/2005 at 13:04

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LOL I'll do some more testing for you. ;) It's hard finding the right balance for everyone. Some people thought it was just fine when the settings were 2 or 3 steps higher than they are now. Upon looking at the files, I realize that the settings I meant for this version were left out by mistake. The corrected version is now uploaded. The vision and hearing is only a slight bit higher than TDS's original expert settings. Hopefully just enough to get you sweating.