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I experimented with converting the files to xml. The problem was that the xml support for c is pretty much limited to scanners, while c++ has come nice parsers. At one time, I wrote some code that loaded a cap file and converted it to .xml using the tinyxml library. imho the great benefit of xml wou...

Thanks for your input. It has been a while since anyone has been interested in development! The idea about accessibility s an interesting point. The small inventory has always been a feature of egoboo, but it has always been very difficult to swap out inventory items. I guess the original idea was t...

Yes, but if tweaking characters to high levels is "part of egoboo," then all talk of level progression is meaningless. So, if you character is set to get +1 strength perlevel and +1 wisdom perlevel and whatever (for a total of 10 points), it should be twice as hard for you to advance as so...

@Zefz, if you look at the OLD[\b] XP progressions, the xp per level is directly linked to how how many skill points you gain per level. The different rates per class/role are basically due to this. At one time, I implemented an automatic version of this system, but many hated it because it became to...

Sure, cime. Zefz's statement is true about all the icons in egoboo, which should be alpha blended in the same way he is suggesting. Also, having the artwork for (say) a sword ocon could be used for any number of things including making a "sword book" or adding the icon to a flag or anythin...

the edges of the objects are "alpha blended" with the background tile, and sometimes outlined, etc, So that there is no east way to make an automatic procedure for separating the icon from the background.

Not artifacts, I believe. They were probably developed for a 256 color display with a certain palette and the "artifacts" is color dithering done by hand.

I have experimented with removing the background from the existing icons. Not as easy as one might think...

Is there any reason to retain 99 pages of general silliness? As far as I can see, that is the only thread on our forum that could account for such a large footprint. Also, where is the data for the private messages? Is it also in the php database? I could look all this stuff up somewhere, I'm sure, ...

We cannot eliminate the search capability since it is the only means to get a listing of "posts since your last visit." I have disabled posting attachments in posts and private messages. There is no telling what kind of abuse could happen through that channel. And since there is no way to ...

====== STEP 1 - open the user directory ====== There is a link in the install directory called My Egoboo Stuff double click on this to open the directory. If this does not work, right click on the link and choose "Properties". Then paste %AppData%\egoboo into the field marked "Target&...

I am in favor of using Misfit Model, because of the skeleton and the texture vertex manipulation. The problem is that it has issues with isolated vertices and does not auto-generate OpenGL commands. The md2 editor generates the OpenGL commands, and allows direct painting of the model, BUT does not h...

The error above is with one of the models/animations used in the healer module, and when the animation it told to loop back to the beginning it is getting an undefined frame number [ undefined animation frame == -1 (16 bit signed integer) == 65535 (16 bit unsigned integer) ]. Since there are only 9 ...

Well, Aaron would have done a lot better if he would have kept the window of opportunity to buy the game open for more than one day... lol

I also paid.

What is a mesh block and how is it used? I am referring to the block* variables in the MeshInfo_t. Is it for collision detection/path finding? This is what I am assuming, as it does not pop up in any rendering code (from what I can tell). In the old code, "blocks" were 4x4 tile areas whic...