Maestro MOD Patches

[vladimir-maestro]

New patch avaible
http://mm7-maestro-mod.3dn.ru/load/1-1-0-11
149kb

READ CAREFULLY! IT MAY AFFECT THE GAME PROCESS AND MAY OCCURE ITEM LOST!

[vladimir-maestro]

Something wrong with patch
It didn't patch correct files.

[vladimir-maestro]

Patch is fixed and avaible now!
Tested - everything is quite well but it consists of 2 files now!

I do not know but old patch works only with EVENTS and ignore icons!
What I used was:

LodMerge.exe icons.lod Patch_2.6.1.lod /bLodMerge.exe events.lod Patch_2.6.1.2.lod goto done

Everything looks fine but merger ignore second part of line...what I do wrong?

I do not want to create separated file for every file that I fix

[Variol]

I just tried to equip the wand of fireballs during a combat with the goblins and the game crashed.

Even out of combat it's the same thing.

[Big Daddy Jim]

My Mage is currently carrying three of these wands; 40 charges, 38 charges, and 38 charges, respectively. I'm back in Harmondale and went Goblin huntin' to try out each of the three wands of fireball. I equipped the Mage with each, in turn, and tried them out. All three work fine, with no problems encountered.

Since I cannot duplicate your problem, I cannot offer any suggestion. Perhaps Vladimir can assist?

BDJ

[Variol]

My party consists of 4 Dragon alchemists BTW.

[Big Daddy Jim]

Variol,

It seems like I 'jumped the gun' in my first response. What I was using was the simplw wand of Fire (Bolt), which works fine.

I id 'cheat' the game and added a Fireball Wand and experienced the same problem as you. As soon as I equip the wand, it 'freezes' the game. I'll see if any other wands do the same. My uneducated guess is that it is a size or coordinate issue with the graphic.

Vladimir?? Any suggestions?

BDJ

[DarthVadre]

BDJ it seems you know the game process quite well. Did you do professional game development?

[darknessfood]

No, he made the mod this mod runs on !

[DarthVadre]

No, he made the mod this mod runs on !

I know I was wondering if he did professional development or anything like that.

[Big Daddy Jim]

No, he made the mod this mod runs on !

I know I was wondering if he did professional development or anything like that.

In point fo fact, I worked as an Applications Engineer for 30+ years, generating program-specific applications in Assembly, Cobol, Fortran, C, and VB through the years, with a smattering of C++ for good measure.

The only 'game' development experience I have, however, is generating an MM7 mod based upon the Event Language of the game. Vladimir is using my Rev4 mod as the basic for his 'enhancements'. I am only involved in the Maestro mod as a player for the Beta release.

For what it is worth.

BDJ

[Variol]

Meaning no disrespect, but I agree with others that this should have waited a week or 2. I just find I'm turned off now.

[Big Daddy Jim]

Variol,

Perhaps you're right. I'm not sure that the mod has had even an Alpha playtest.

However, Vladimir did state that this go around was a Beta test for debugging.

I will continue to play thru the Beta and hopefully identify some of the problem areas for Vladimir. Perhaps then he can re-release the mod with no Game Stopping events.

That aside, I am impressed by many of his graphics and think that the mod, once debugged, will be a worthwhile addition for the community.

So I'll 'hang in there' for now.

BDJ

[Herry Hardfoot]

I'm not frustrated because Vladimir did say the mod is at the Beta playtesting stage. I expected bugs--I'm just writing down the little ones I've found, and when I have a few I'll send him an e-mail. I'm in Erathia at the moment, and still having a ball.

I wasn't able to get the latest patch to work. It's a "RAR" file which I don't have the software to unzip. In the meantime I'm just avoiding the danger zones like Deyja and Nighon.

[bungleau]

I heard there was a new mod, and had to check it out...

Very nice, Maestro! I really like the Runes... they add something different to the usual mix.

I did come across a couple of things... ranging from minor to major.

1. Minor - Simple Clothes are visibly a 2x3 inventory item, but take up 3x3. I suggest making the image bigger if it can't be cut down to size.

2. Minor - I found two contestant shields, and the Judge only took one. No big deal 'cause I simply dropped the other one, but it might be worth eliminating the extra one.

3. Medium - Sorcery staff on EI equips as a bow, not a staff. Shoots arrows, though... pretty cool

4. Major - Broken items (specifically rusty chain) disappear from inventory. I'm not sure if there's just no broken image or if it's truly gone, but I can't click on a broken item

5. Suggestion - for the goblins respawning in EI, can you have some goblin chieftains respawn as well? Otherwise there's just no challenge there...

6. Side note - in character creation, the races all listed normally. Not sure if I just mis-installed (since I overlaid it on my previous MM7 install), but I was expecting "RACE" up there.

Excellent job, amigo! Thanks for putting in the effort!

*B*

[vladimir-maestro]

Yes, in a time I will upload fully fixed version of MOD. Now I only can upoad little patches.
Agree If I will upoad new version of MOD every day - it will confuse people! And noone want to download 111 mb just for fixing 2 sounds, 3 sprites and so on.

By the way - there was a problem with some magical wands! Swarm, Fireball, Paralyze.
Now tou can fix it
http://mm7-maestro-mod.3dn.ru/load/1-1-0-12
But be sure that you run this patch from SOUND folder!!! It fix Audio.snd!

[Herry Hardfoot]

[quote="bungleau"] 3. Medium - Sorcery staff on EI equips as a bow, not a staff. Shoots arrows, though... pretty cool

I haven't got the hang of this quote thing yet.

The Sorcery staff isn't a bug--it's supposed to equip as a bow. If you read the description, it says something about shooting "magic missiles." There are other melee weapons in the game that equip as missile weapons instead, but I haven't found any of the others yet. The really cool thing is that training up in those weapons still works, so even though my mage has a dagger in his hand, when I trained to expert-level staff I got the armor bonus because the staff was equipped on my back.

[bungleau]

What? You mean I've actually got to *read* things?

I'll take the hit on that one.. I didn't expect to see a staff equip back there, and didn't bother reading the description in detail.

Thanks for educating me, Herry

As for that quote, I think you just need a "close quotes" tag - [ /quote]

*edit* Forgot to add in a couple more things... Maestro, I *really* like the new art during the "scene changes"... thanks for adding that in! I also like the new welcome screen... feels like a new game!

Have you thought about modding BDJ's opening dialogue to reference your mod? At the very least, you should add yourself in the credits (which, BTW, run at a perfectly acceptable speed on my machine)

*B*

[Big Daddy Jim]

Herry,

You cab download a program cakked '7-ZIP'. It's free and will handle the RAR for you.

Link:

http://www.download.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html

Hope this helps.

BDJ

[bungleau]

I used 7-zip as well. I've used it before, and it's handy.

One request to Vladimir-Maestro for the mod... is it possible to remove stealing as a default thief skill, and put disarm traps there instead? I do find that one useless...

Looking forward to a descent into Erathia tonight...

*B*