I was a coding maniac at work yesterday, tryi...

September 13, 2003 by Adam in NWN1

I was a coding maniac at work yesterday, trying to play catch up for all the days I was gone. Somehow I found the energy later last night to pick up the toolset and work on the Mechanus puzzle levels. It's tedious work, but I think the hard parts are done. Now I've just got to introduce the new things for each level and test them out.

I woke up this morning and decided to work on spells. I'm switching over to "true" spells, using the spells.2da file. I switched over Ritual of the Guiding Light over and after some fiddling got it working okay. Next was Ritual of the Burning Circle. Finally, I'm in the middle of the Ritual of the Spiked Wall. It's a bit tricky as it requires some new spell effects.

The screenshot of the day shows me playing around with the Guiding Light spell, summoning a bunch of weak lights to frighten and confuse my enemies. Their main purpose is to illuminate the area and point out interesting things, so their combat skills are minor at best.