MXL Sigma: Screenshot Thread

Thanks Marco, so... do you think you can use custom sprites in your project or you're not interested in this kind of contribution?

For sure, as long as you manage to understand how sprites are imported into the game. It's not hard, but some people can't manage to do it (deal with offsets, palettes and such).

If you work on existing monsters, of course you do not have that problem. In such case you can just be creative and surprise us with alternate versions of existing monsters

I do have a little problem there... I am that kind of people.

You (or someone else) would need to take care of the pallete compatibility and of importing the sprites.

Also I am more interested in creating new animations rather than new characters, and I would like to work by requests.

RequiemLux wrote:I thought that, since he was showing the "cosmetic" improvement, the core of the mod was almost finished

Well core features are pretty much implemented, more or less. Some few things need polishing, some other are half-done due to various reasons like more research needed, could be improved, or whatever. But what's taking the most time is the GUI code. the resolution changes screwed up 95% of the GUI. Of course I could take the same approach D2MultiRes did, and that would be a 5 minute fix, but I wanted to add functionalities to the GUI, and that required a remake of the GUI code from scratch...

Just to give an idea to those very encouraging people that constantly come here with lame comments. Fully replacing just one GUI page is usually around more or less 1000 lines of code. Also keep in mind the research involved, the time taken to do stuff such as thinking of the most efficient way of doing something, fixing blizzard's dumbass stuff, developing new systems to implement some things more easily, testing in-game, etc.

It should also be noted that I do not have anyone making GUI images for me at the moment, Zartok doesn't seem to have much time anymore. And working with placeholder GUI would require me to do tons of little fixups later whenever the GUI is made. Although with things as they are now I might end up doing that still. But even then making placeholder GUI still does take time.

whist wrote:Well core features are pretty much implemented, more or less. Some few things need polishing, some other are half-done due to various reasons like more research needed, could be improved, or whatever. But what's taking the most time is the GUI code. the resolution changes screwed up 95% of the GUI. Of course I could take the same approach D2MultiRes did, and that would be a 5 minute fix, but I wanted to add functionalities to the GUI, and that required a remake of the GUI code from scratch...
Fully replacing just one GUI page is usually around more or less 1000 lines of code. Also keep in mind the research involved, the time taken to do stuff such as thinking of the most efficient way of doing something, fixing blizzard's dumbass stuff, developing new systems to implement some things more easily, testing in-game, etc.

I didn't think that the GUI's stuff was such a drag

whist wrote:Just to give an idea to those very encouraging people that constantly come here with lame comments.

Hope to not be one of them.

whist wrote:It should also be noted that I do not have anyone making GUI images for me at the moment, Zartok doesn't seem to have much time anymore. And working with placeholder GUI would require me to do tons of little fixups later whenever the GUI is made. Although with things as they are now I might end up doing that still. But even then making placeholder GUI still does take time.

It's a shame that in a community so big no one can help you with this... Is the Sigma team composed just of you two?
I have a little question, feel free to answer or not. Do you have a "to do" list of improvements and changes you seek to implement? If you have, it'll be nice to see in a forum page your objectives put alongside a percentage of completition... so anyone can see, and stop asking for a release date, and maybe someone could find out that he/she can help you with something.

RequiemLux wrote:It's a shame that in a community so big no one can help you with this... Is the Sigma team composed just of you two?
I have a little question, feel free to answer or not. Do you have a "to do" list of improvements and changes you seek to implement? If you have, it'll be nice to see in a forum page your objectives put alongside a percentage of completition... so anyone can see, and stop asking for a release date, and maybe someone could find out that he/she can help you with something.

I do have some side help from Mnw1995 @ the Phrozenkeep. He usually works on some little things that takes a lot of research and time while I work on all the rest. For example he was the one to fully reverse and replace the item desc code for us, to which I then added and changed a few things. As for now, he is working on replacing the treasure class drop handler, as this is a massive server-lagger. That's the kind of stuff that doesn't bring "that" much to the mod, but yet needs to be done and requires a lot of work in order to be done. That's where Mnw1995 helps a lot, because it cuts into the wasted time in a way. (well, it's never wasted, but I would say, not efficiently invested)

I hope to see this sooner rather than later

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Here to announce and apply sth.
1.Apply for authorizing for the translation for Chinese once Sigma is avaliable
Translator would be "wangyxmike" and/or me ("Cai_Miao")
2.Apply for Worldwide Chinese forum
That's all, thx.

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Sigma release year confirmed! :mrgreen: