[Release] The Mine of Malan Vael

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Re: [Release] The Mine of Malan Vael

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I've just started this mod with an imported party (I do that in all mods just to make things a little easier if modders ramp up the difficulty early) and instantly fell in love with your mine tileset (and immediately downloaded it off Nexus of course). :)

I've also seen shots of your wizard's tileset on the Nexus. I hope you release it one day since it looks like it could mesh nicely with Skuggasveinn's much, much anticipated town tileset.
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Thanks for the comments, glad you liked it! I don't think I'll work on the Wizard tileset as I don't like it that much (apart from the bookshelves, which I already released), but I'm working on something else already.
Neikun wrote:I'm banging my head off the wall trying to balance starving party members, constant damage, and respawning enemies
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looking for the second key in the contaminated area.

I found the first one on the right hand side,
but I simply cannot find the other one.
Help?

As for speeding up monsters, you could probably increase the framerate of the animations and define new animation events for the modified animation files.
There is a large secret button close to the southern lever gate (almost opposite of it). It opens an area with the 2nd key inside (not hard to find, you can even hear the secret door).

I tried to increase the framerate with the animation editor, but somehow it didn't work for me. Nothing changed in game, speed was still the same.
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Re: [Release] The Mine of Malan Vael

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Weird. That's how Pandafox did the sped up turn animations for his Flydragon, I 'm almost sure of it.

Thanks for the tip on the secret button, though. I was starting to feel like it might be the answer, but I didn't know where to look.

EDIT: Found it. That is a good hiding spot!


I'm stuck in a different spot now though. I cannot find the fourth red gem o:

Peaked at the source, discovered my error. :mrgreen:
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Neikun wrote:Weird. That's how Pandafox did the sped up turn animations for his Flydragon, I 'm almost sure of it.

Thanks for the tip on the secret button, though. I was starting to feel like it might be the answer, but I didn't know where to look.

EDIT: Found it. That is a good hiding spot!


I'm stuck in a different spot now though. I cannot find the fourth red gem o:

Peaked at the source, discovered my error. :mrgreen:
You can adjust the speed of the turn animations in the lua script (works for the attack animations as well, just not for movement), are you sure he sped up the animation itself? I only tried once though, maybe I did something wrong. Actually I think I may have done something wrong, since I'm sure Xanathar did test the framerate adjustment when he implemented it. But I set the Ogre movement animations to 60 fps, made a custom ogre, made him use my new animation and he was still just as slow as before.
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Hmm. I'm not sure then. Sorry! :oops:
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Hi Phitt,

Quick question.

Have you got any plans for releasing the weapons you brought out in this mod? Some of them are really very nice. :)
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They should be in the source files.
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Re: [Release] The Mine of Malan Vael

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Excellent work, very hard dungeon, i'm stuck on contaminated area lookin for the 2nd key, any hint?
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matteo.n83 wrote:Excellent work, very hard dungeon, i'm stuck on contaminated area lookin for the 2nd key, any hint?
I'm sure you found the first key lying on the floor.
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The second key is in a secret area, which can be opened with a (large, so it's easier to fnd) secret button. The button is almost opposite of the southern lever gate.
Oh, and to everyone else as well, had a near death experience today. Someone pushed me into the guardrail while I was driving with 120mph. I spinned over all four lanes of the highway, got hit by another car and crashed into the (concrete) guardrail on the other side. All I remember are airbags appearing everywhere around me and waiting for the final impact before I die. The front part of the car was completely ripped away - engine and everything else around it was gone. And all I got was a small wound at the knee! German car manufacturers ftw! My VW Tiguan saved my life. 2nd birthday today.
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Re: [Release] The Mine of Malan Vael

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Phitt wrote:
matteo.n83 wrote:Excellent work, very hard dungeon, i'm stuck on contaminated area lookin for the 2nd key, any hint?
I'm sure you found the first key lying on the floor.
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The second key is in a secret area, which can be opened with a (large, so it's easier to fnd) secret button. The button is almost opposite of the southern lever gate.
Oh, and to everyone else as well, had a near death experience today. Someone pushed me into the guardrail while I was driving with 120mph. I spinned over all four lanes of the highway, got hit by another car and crashed into the (concrete) guardrail on the other side. All I remember are airbags appearing everywhere around me and waiting for the final impact before I die. The front part of the car was completely ripped away - engine and everything else around it was gone. And all I got was a small wound at the knee! German car manufacturers ftw! My VW Tiguan saved my life. 2nd birthday today.
:o Good news that you're still here writing this hint and thanks i've seen it :mrgreen:
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