Ernie Noa's RPG Blog

I got stuck yesterday, I had the toolset crash while saving. I had a finished area become corrupt and a resource of some sort. I was able to restore what was broken using a recent backup! I backed up and restored one area, for the resource I opened the module backup and grabbed a copy of the unpacked resource file from the temp folder created when the module is in the toolset. I opened the current/broken version, dropped in the valid file and POOF! I'm there. I did a ton of work on my last major exterior area last night. It needs a ton of polishing.

I maintain a personal blog in addition to this gaming blog. I've got to point out today's personal entry as it has a some very cool photos. Click here to see it.

I made a ton of progress earlier this week. I laced a few major areas together and can walk through them and run through large chunks of dialog along the way. I learned a ton about HAK packs (see earlier posts). I also took a 4 day break to read the last Harry Potter book, which was quite good. (Everyone dies on page 50). I was disappointed a bit in book 6 but found the last book to be most satisfying. I haven't been posting here, but I have been corresponding and posting elsewhere on the net. I am still crawling foward on my project.

Screenshots from my current project! Hope you enjoy them. If you have time read my previous post, I'm still stuck... I finished a large interior area and this exterior. I'm pretty happy with it. :-)

I am interested in using a few visual effects from NWVault . Specifically, dripping water and some vines . I haven't tried the vines yet, but I have used the water. I placed the five files included botu_dropsfx.sef (this seems to be the main FX file) botu_dropsend.pfx (part of the fx file, the start point of the drop or particle emitter) botu_drops.pfx (I'm guessing the end point of the drop) botu_dropsend.tga botu_drops.tga I dropped all five files in the override with no effect. This closed thread on biowares forums was helpful. I put all of the contents in the temp file for the module. I was able to copy a place effect, and pick the drops from the list. Unfortunately autosave started throwing a terrible error. I experimented moving everythign but the .sef to the override and the module wouldn't open properly (no worries, I had a backup). It's exactly what I need, but I'm not sure how to safely install it for distribution and/or development. I'd also ...

There was an odd birthday convergence yesterday, July 19th. I posted about ' The Birthday ' by Maerduin . Yesterday was also Adam Miller's birthday, who is also a modder who has produced some amazing adventures. Yesterday also happened to be my birthday. How odd...