spell pseudo-sound effects

I was wondering, you know like text appears over enemy heads when they use certain spells (like blinking battys say "blink!"), is it possible to add that to you'r spells? (or maybe the "heroic vandalism font"

Actually if you want to know I'm trying to make a Mace-class "Tome of using everyday objects as bludgeoning weapons", and want it to have a chance of bonus damage, with a TOME'D! written "sound effect".

 

You'd have to make a sprite that has that text (which wouldn't be too hard, since the frames would just be the text moving upwards )

 

Or just hoover for a second, probably if I set the framerate to 150 or 200 and just make 4 frames
Maybe I can even make it look like HEROIC VANDALISM font.

 

How would you cause said sprite to appear in game though?

 

use the <anim ../> parameter. lots of different spells have it. Create a folder and fill it with .pngs of your sprite animation. check some of the game resources to see how it's done. once you do that, you can designate it as the animation in your spell effect.

 

oh I did some already, but does anyone knows any good fonts for THOME'D! (maybe the HEROIC VANDALISM one)

 

I've looked at a few of them. It doesn't seem to be there. Take the Assassin procs for example, IIRC that all say their name when they go off, but if you look at the code, it looks like this:

Code:

<spell name="Blackjack" type="adjacent" icon="skills/rogue/skill_assassination0_32.png" >
    <effect type="damage" crushing="2"/>
    <effect type="sleep" amount="2"/>
    <description text="Jack that mother."/>
    <anim sprite="sprites/sfx/psionic_generic/psionic_generic" frames="5" framerate="70" sfx="impact"/>
  </spell>
<spell name="Sneaky Shiv" type="adjacent" icon="skills/rogue/skill_assassination1_32.png" >
    <effect type="damage" piercing="1" piercingF="0.33" secondaryScale="12" bleed="1" />
    <effect type="paralyze" turns="5" amount="2" />
    <description text="Go for the cheap shot, right between the ribs."/>
    <anim sprite="sprites/sfx/psionic_generic/psionic_generic" frames="5" framerate="70" sfx="shing"/>
  </spell>
<spell name="Et tu?" type="target" icon="skills/rogue/skill_assassination2_32.png" >
    <effect type="damage" piercing="3" piercingF="0.5" bleed="1" />
    <anim sprite="sprites/sfx/psionic_generic/psionic_generic" frames="5" framerate="70" sfx="shing"/>
  </spell>

The sprite called by the <anim ... /> parameter is just a stupid little sparkle effect.

 

So if you want to animate something else then simply change the sprite file path and the number of frames.

 

No, what I mean is that those skills are displaying sprites that they haven't called.

 

what are you trying to do? what is your current problem?

 

Procs all say their name when they go off.

 

So is there a something in the game's code that generates the pseudo sound-effects automatically then?

 

Because the animation it is calling is the "stupid little sparkle effect"? And because you'll have to make your own "text" animation and use it instead of the "stupid little sparkle effect" to get something that is not "stupid little sparkle effect"?

Yes, there is.

In the game's code, that is; not in the data files. So it is considered "hard-coded".

 

Hard coded? drat, will need to do animation then

 

Actually I think he meant its hard coded to generate the appropriate text for any proc that is added (although not in the font that you were talking about; You'll still need a custom sprite if you want it in the heroic vandalism font)

 

have you checked soundfx.xml?

 

I'm preaty shure zhat' just a sound file reference, besides you couldn't change the text

 

Since when is it a font..

 

Well every text has it's own font, right? And I think the font of HEROIC VANDALISM looks awesome.

 

Heroic Vandalism is just an image that happens to resemble the latin alphabet, it's not a font.