(02-22-2024, 07:58 AM)lafouine Wrote: Hi guys, I'm new here and I've been drawn by those amazing diablo 2 sprites oO

https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/diablo2diablo2lordofdestruction/

I'm currently working on a rpg Adventure Game Studio project and would like to use the barbarian animations as a basis to create my animations. But the previous page, as complete as it is still misses a few animations that I would love to have (death, whirlwind...) so I tried ripping them myself. I followed a few tutorials that I found on the net but I still can't figure how to use MPQ viewer to extract the COF files from the installation folder. Is there any tutorial here about how to use this software ? I always have the same error message when I try to open a COF file with MPQ viewer and I can't tell where it comes from...

Thanks in advance

(02-23-2024, 01:44 AM)Barack Obama Wrote: Diablo 2 ripping tools:
https://mega.nz/file/JV5Aza7Q#3x6t-cZE0wwuCN4Fa0Tf98R0J8AID3q294FEK8-OlPA

Contents:
allegrodll
animdata edit
drtester
mergedcc
Extracting Diablo 2 animations (PDF tutorial)

Maybe this works better for you.

Necrolis Wrote:If you are using the MPQs from the digital download, DrTester will bomb when loading these, you need to remove the (attributes) file to fix this (since it cannot understand the zlib compression this file uses).

Mubbsy Wrote:Good to know, I assumed that Drtester would have loaded up first and then asked which mpq you wanted to view, so I assumed something else was wrong with it, not that it was loading the mpq's already and having issue with the version being digital download.

I'm not sure where this 'attributes' file you speak of would be for DrTester though, as it only comes with the exe and 2 readme's.

If you guys have another similar option to it that works, that would probably be preferable as I'm at my wit's end with DRTester right now. The discord you linked to appears to be private though, how would I go about getting an invite to the channel to check out this new option?? I googled diablo PK discord and didn't find any mentions of it.

Texalic Wrote:Well, if I'm not wrong, those attributes can be fixed by using version changer from chaosmarc
https://www.versionchanger.chaosmarc.de/
You can first copy and paste your game folder, to have a backup before you do anything....copy version changer files in the root folder where mpqs are, and run the batch file, you have sth like, fix attributes, just read and you will see.

Though, I have tried few versions of drtester from what I was able to found on internet, and program doesn't run on my side on windows 10.

For discord, go to forum index, under the phrozen keep forums, last one is Keep Discord invite by HarvestWombs or

https://discord.gg/NvfftHY

Necrolis Wrote:

Mubbsy Wrote:Good to know, I assumed that Drtester would have loaded up first and then asked which mpq you wanted to view, so I assumed something else was wrong with it, not that it was loading the mpq's already and having issue with the version being digital download.

I'm not sure where this 'attributes' file you speak of would be for DrTester though, as it only comes with the exe and 2 readme's.

It loads up a default MPQ when you open it. The (attributes) files I am refering to are in the D2 MPQ's, they are part of the newer MPQ format infrastructure.

Mubbsy Wrote:If you guys have another similar option to it that works, that would probably be preferable as I'm at my wit's end with DRTester right now. The discord you linked to appears to be private though, how would I go about getting an invite to the channel to check out this new option?? I googled diablo PK discord and didn't find any mentions of it.

There is a link to our Discord in the left menu, under "Community", though thats the same link as Talic has given you.

Quote:Working on Animations Yourself

OK, so you want to do your own animation manipulations for D2 modding? Well, we have a new tool in the 'Animations' section
of our File Center's Mod Tools area. It's called the DR Tester v0.05,

It's an MPQ graphics test bed...and anything new is welcome when it comes to D2 animations.

(02-24-2024, 05:04 AM)Barack Obama Wrote: Some other info:
https://d2mods.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=62158&p=481841&hilit=drtester#p481841
https://d2mods.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=58568&p=458905&hilit=drtester#p458905

WinMPQ ist mentioned there, which might be a good replacement for drtester.

Quote:Working on Animations Yourself

OK, so you want to do your own animation manipulations for D2 modding? Well, we have a new tool in the 'Animations' section
of our File Center's Mod Tools area. It's called the DR Tester v0.05,

It's an MPQ graphics test bed...and anything new is welcome when it comes to D2 animations.

Since drtester handles mpq stuff, I would give WinMPQ 1.66 a shot if it's not possible to get the latest drtester version from phrozenkeep's discord:
https://sfsrealm.hopto.org/downloads/WinMPQ.html

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(03-04-2024, 05:26 PM)Barack Obama Wrote: Okay, I got in. Seems like you just have to write a short post and ask for account verification (a simple "Hi" doesn't seem to be enough).

Used the search bar and typed drtester, clicked on a post from nikoabovethelaw who also asked for tools and saw this answer:

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Clicking on cain-commands revealed this:

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Lots of nifty tools, so definitely check it out if you can make to the the server.

Anyway, here is the discord DRTester:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2sei3ft1ile2tyq/Dr_Tester.zip/file

Not sure if you still need it, but I decided to post the link anyway.