12-06-2003, 08:38 PM
1. Nice to see you chose to stick around after your "welcoming" thread. :)
2. What you envision strikes me as similar to Chippydip's calculator, massively enhanced. ATMA has some of the functionality that you seek. IIRC, it had at one point a character editor function.
3. The tool you are seeking is not trivial to build, however. If you were inclined to build one yourself, (and become famous for doing so!) you'd probably do well to seek out the Phrozen Keep Mod crowd for advice on digging what you wanted to out of the various mpq and text files, so that you would replicate the game engine's calculations for various combinations of skills, stats, and items together.
I think that if you use an editor to achieve that end, you can safely not cheat by simply not playing those characters you create for "test" and "what would that look like" purposes.
You make the call.
2. What you envision strikes me as similar to Chippydip's calculator, massively enhanced. ATMA has some of the functionality that you seek. IIRC, it had at one point a character editor function.
3. The tool you are seeking is not trivial to build, however. If you were inclined to build one yourself, (and become famous for doing so!) you'd probably do well to seek out the Phrozen Keep Mod crowd for advice on digging what you wanted to out of the various mpq and text files, so that you would replicate the game engine's calculations for various combinations of skills, stats, and items together.
I think that if you use an editor to achieve that end, you can safely not cheat by simply not playing those characters you create for "test" and "what would that look like" purposes.
You make the call.
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In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete