This mod aims to make mages in the game to appear more stylish. For that end it adds mage-specific staffs with ranged attacks and circlets, plus it also tweaks all robes, so that player can choose their look. The idea of this mod began in the Narbucchad's Demise Wizard's Staff thread, after I discovered the ranged staff animation within the game files.
The mod consists of three parts. The first two add 7 Wizard's Staffs and 3 circlets to the High Hedge stock and to Xithiss in the Black Pits, after the first upgrade of his stock. The third part contains visual tweaks for robes.
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1) Staffs have same characteristics (+1 enchantment), but have different color, mainly to fit different color styles of NPC mages. They have unique paperdoll animations which I have accidentally discovered some time ago, but lacked an inventory paperdoll, which I then drawn myself. I have also edited few existing icon bams to fit colors of individual staffs. Lastly I have edited several projectile files (PRO files) which, I believe, the game currently doesn't use (I guess they are leftovers) and created energy projectiles which all fit the color of their staffs' gems (See the screenshot below).
With the WeiDU install (the last rar file), proper descriptions and names are added. If you wish to use an override install (the first rar file), the description uses related string, but is rather vague and incorrect.
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2) Circlets already exist in the game files, with proper names and descriptions, so I merely put them in Thalantyr's stock. They have (tiny) paperdoll animations, but they were missing inventory animations, which again I drawn for them. These animations are in the separate rar file (the second rar file) and also a separate choice in the WeiDU install.
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3) Robe tweaks section doesn't add new items, but only tweaks existing robes. It gives them the ability to switch between all three possible visual types (no hood and no cape, no hood with cape, hooded with cape) via item abilities. Every robe then looks as original by default, but has two item abilities, which can change their looks to the other 2 visual types. This allows to set the favourite look for your wizard (and overcome some graphical glitches - elven female horribly colored leg comes to mind...).
Robe tweaks come in two versions (there are two folders in the rar file, and two choices in the WeiDU install). One version keeps all original set colors of robes and the other removes them, which makes them use character's colors instead.
Note, that as a side effect, I had to make all robes automatically identified.
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INSTALLATION:
The first three rar files below contain only game files for non-WeiDU override installation. If you want to install the mod this way, just extract them in the override folder, which is located in the game's core folder (the one with a file "chitin.key" in it). If there is no override folder, you must create it. Note that the non-WeiDU install will miss correct descriptions of Wizard's Staffs.
The fourth rar contains WeiDU installation. Extract the file in the game's core folder (the one with a file "chitin.key" in it) and run "setup-more_style_for_mages.exe". It contains all three parts of the mod and they can all be installed individually.
Screenshots:
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(OP edited 10.8.2013)
The mod consists of three parts. The first two add 7 Wizard's Staffs and 3 circlets to the High Hedge stock and to Xithiss in the Black Pits, after the first upgrade of his stock. The third part contains visual tweaks for robes.
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1) Staffs have same characteristics (+1 enchantment), but have different color, mainly to fit different color styles of NPC mages. They have unique paperdoll animations which I have accidentally discovered some time ago, but lacked an inventory paperdoll, which I then drawn myself. I have also edited few existing icon bams to fit colors of individual staffs. Lastly I have edited several projectile files (PRO files) which, I believe, the game currently doesn't use (I guess they are leftovers) and created energy projectiles which all fit the color of their staffs' gems (See the screenshot below).
With the WeiDU install (the last rar file), proper descriptions and names are added. If you wish to use an override install (the first rar file), the description uses related string, but is rather vague and incorrect.
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2) Circlets already exist in the game files, with proper names and descriptions, so I merely put them in Thalantyr's stock. They have (tiny) paperdoll animations, but they were missing inventory animations, which again I drawn for them. These animations are in the separate rar file (the second rar file) and also a separate choice in the WeiDU install.
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3) Robe tweaks section doesn't add new items, but only tweaks existing robes. It gives them the ability to switch between all three possible visual types (no hood and no cape, no hood with cape, hooded with cape) via item abilities. Every robe then looks as original by default, but has two item abilities, which can change their looks to the other 2 visual types. This allows to set the favourite look for your wizard (and overcome some graphical glitches - elven female horribly colored leg comes to mind...).
Robe tweaks come in two versions (there are two folders in the rar file, and two choices in the WeiDU install). One version keeps all original set colors of robes and the other removes them, which makes them use character's colors instead.
Note, that as a side effect, I had to make all robes automatically identified.
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INSTALLATION:
The first three rar files below contain only game files for non-WeiDU override installation. If you want to install the mod this way, just extract them in the override folder, which is located in the game's core folder (the one with a file "chitin.key" in it). If there is no override folder, you must create it. Note that the non-WeiDU install will miss correct descriptions of Wizard's Staffs.
The fourth rar contains WeiDU installation. Extract the file in the game's core folder (the one with a file "chitin.key" in it) and run "setup-more_style_for_mages.exe". It contains all three parts of the mod and they can all be installed individually.
Screenshots:
(OP edited 10.8.2013)