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[Ulb]

 

File Name: IA Content: D2 Bear & Werebear
File Submitter: Ulb

File Submitted: 14 Apr 2011
File Updated: 09 May 2013
File Category: Infinity Animations
Download: here

 

This mod contains the (giant) bear and the werebear animation from 'Diablo II: Lord of Destruction', ported to BG2.

 

Note: Infinity Animations core mod needs to be installed prior to this mod.

 

For a more detailed overview, including information regarding compatibility and installation, please check out the readme!

 

UPDATE: Version 3.3:

Fixed a palette error in the werebear animation's death/sleep sequence.

 

All previous UPDATE notes:

 

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UPDATE: Version 3.2:

If TobEx is installed, the animations will now use more appropriate walking sounds.

 

UPDATE: Version 3.1:

Updated the inventory paper doll graphic for the werebear animation. (The old one was hideous.):

 

UPDATE: Version 3.0:

Finally the giant bear has a proper shadow animation. All credit goes to Gwendolyne, who generously provided the new giant bear animation, including a shadow.

 

22.03.2013 UPDATE v.2.3:

 

- Noticed that some giant bear animation bams also had weird compression settings & fixed it. (Still no shadows for the giant bear thought, sorry )

 

22.02.2013 UPDATE v.2.2:

 

- Fixed the werebear animation's transparency and shadow.

 

I went back and edited the palette and compression settings. This time the animation should work flawlessly, even while invisible or under color glow effects.

In case of missing installers or any other trouble, please inform me via the ShS forums.

 

30.01.2013 UPDATED v.2.1:

 

Uploaded a new version with a working installer.

Please note that there might still be a slight issue with the werebear animation's transparency setting from time to time. If you're having trouble after you biffed your override folder, you might want to try to manually copy the content of the Werebear_D2 folder into your override. At least for me, that seems to do the trick.

If you're having any other issues with the files, please leave me a message here at the shs forums.

 

UPDATED: D2 Bear & Werebear v.2.0

-added shadows for werebear animation
(please note that due to an yet unresolved issue the werebear animation's shadows are affected by colorglow effects. Untill I figured out how to fix this, I won´t go through the effort of adding shadows to the giant bear animation, especially as that one doesn´t really require a shadow for my mod's usage.)

UPDATED: D2 Bear & Werebear v.1.0

-now comes with a separate WeiDU Installer to install the provided animations, as long as IA Core Mod doesn't support it's installation.
-provides basic information on manual installation (just in case I really messed up the WeiDU installer)

 

 

Many Thanks to:

 

- Gwendolyne for his contribution.

- The Spellhold Studios, it's forum community and the people that keep it up and running.

- The makers and maintainers of:

 

• WeiDU: Westley Weimer & Valerio Bigiani (The Bigg)

• NearInfinity: Jon Olav Hauglid

• Infinity Animations: Erephine & Miloch

• DRTest: Sloan

• BAMWorkshop2: Andrew Bridges

• DLTCEP: Avenger

• TobEx: Ascension64

• Creature BAM-It

• Gimp.26

Edited by Ulb, 09 May 2013 - 01:44 PM.

[Daulmakan]

Wow, nice work.

[Ulb]

Cheers for the praise

Though most of the work was done by the Blizzard Art Team and the developers of the tools I used. (DrTest, BamWorkshp2, DLTCEP, Gimp2.6, CBam-it)

[Miloch]

The only major flaw on these animations are missing shadows. (With my knowledge of the tools I used, adding shadows would have ment to do that manually for every single frame.)

If you can import your animation into a 3d modelling tool like 3ds Max, you can render the shadows there. There is some info on how to do that here, though it may not work with whatever format Diablo is in (there is a 3ds plug-in for NWN animations called NWMax). Otherwise, you can look at what Kwiat_W did with his Pack Mule mod to use an effect to add the shadows. There are some glitches with that though, so it is better to render them in the actual animations if you can.

[Ulb]

If you can import your animation into a 3d modelling tool like 3ds Max, you can render the shadows there. There is some info on how to do that here, though it may not work with whatever format Diablo is in (there is a 3ds plug-in for NWN animations called NWMax). Otherwise, you can look at what Kwiat_W did with his Pack Mule mod to use an effect to add the shadows. There are some glitches with that though, so it is better to render them in the actual animations if you can.

If I'm not misstaken D2 uses some kind of 2d animations like IE does.. so the whole 3d moddeling tool solution is no option? (no clue about 3d moddeling programs)
The pack mule mod looks interesting I'll make sure to look into that once I managed to complete my Werebear kit mod. (That whole shapeshifting thing isn´t as easy as I expected it to be )

Anyway thanks for you're help.

[Miloch]

If I'm not misstaken D2 uses some kind of 2d animations like IE does.. so the whole 3d moddeling tool solution is no option? (no clue about 3d moddeling programs)

I don't know, as I have no idea about Diablo II or its animation format. But it doesn't really matter if it uses 2d or 3d as long as you can import it into 3ds Max you could still (in theory) render the shadows. Actually it should be able to do that even for BMPS or AVI files (not real movies but containers of snapshot 2d BMPs).

[Ulb]

Hey there, just wanted to drop a little update.

The Werebear Kit seems pretty playable and I am half way through adding shadows to the werebear animation.
Both should be done and ready for release by the end of the week, though there might be a slitght delay, depending on how much time I'll have to spare the next few days.

[Ulb]

Just posting a new version of the werebear & bear animations, this time including a WeiDU-Installer.
I don´t have BGII installed at the moment and can't test whether everything is working the way it should..so let's just hope forgetting to pack the actual installer was the only mistake I made...

Attached Files

•  Bear_Animations_D2.rar   6.64MB   511 downloads

[Test Person]

Thanks for update, and making this available. - Your forum attachment needs updating with the above link, as the file attachment (not the post attachment) is the one that is currently linked to the BiG World Project link list, and the one which everyone is downloading ...so there are lot of players out there with this file (including me, until I found this) who can not install or use it because it lacks the installer.

Edited by Test Person, 28 January 2013 - 04:04 PM.

[Ulb]

Hey Test Person, thanks for the hint

 

The file should be updated by now. I tried to update it back in september when I discovered the missing installer but the whole shs page was being reworked and wouldn't let me do it...

 

Anyway, you're welcome and I'm glad you like the "mod".

I hope everything is working properly now.