Greater Armor and Weapon Mood/saved posts

Category: Quests/Sagas/Events
Topic: Ebon Gate Festival
Message #: 2077
Author: GS4-WYROM
Date: 10/23/2011 04:41 AM CDT
Subject: Armor and Weapon Moods - A Primer

After doing some alteration in Platinum, I think I need to put a little information up to help ease the alteration process for those that at least read the forums. Let me just say, they have a small chance to fire off the ambient messaging roughly every 6 minutes. There is a good chance you might not see them go off at all in a day. Items with no flares, weighting, sighting, padding, defender, blessing, edging, or TD bonus do not do any ambient messaging. You can bless or guiding light flares (or minor edge a 0x weapon) to cause them to be ambient though. All flare types have several generic messagings programmed into them. Padding, weighting, and sighting do not, and will ONLY go off when you get a custom ambient setting done.

When you do get a custom ambient messaging setting done, it does not nullify the programmed in ones, so it will do those and your custom one. These are suppose to be magical cantrips, illusions, and images that your items "cause." They do not cause permanent things to happen. Armor concealers may not work friendly with them, I didn't test that a heck of a lot. You can PROD your item to turn it on and off, in terms of ambient messaging. ANALYZE has a lot of this information built in. When altering the custom settings (RUB, CLENCH, and ambient), treat the alteration like you would getting an EzScript. You write the first and third person messaging. If you can only produce one (1st or 3rd) at the time of alteration, don't worry, I'll assist you. You may only get one custom setting done per alteration session, unless I work through the line another time (you know the drill). I'm also very open to working with you on these.

~Wyrom, ASGM

Category: Quests/Sagas/Events
Topic: Ebon Gate Festival
Message #: 2437
Author: GS4-WYROM
Date: 11/03/2011 10:20 PM CET
Subject: Re: Armor and Weapon Moods - A Primer

Just want to help clear up some confusion about how the ambient portion of this script works.

If your item doesn't have any special properties, it will never be ambient.
If your item is blessed, edged (not ebladed), or has guiding light flares, it will be ambient until those wear off.
If your item is padded, weighted, sighted, or defender, it will not be ambient UNLESS you get a custom one done.
If your item has flares or a TD bonus, it will be ambient.

You can PROD your item at any time to turn it on or off. It has only a small chance to be ambient once every ten or so minutes. Each flare type has about 4 default ambient mood messagings. If you get a custom one done, it will have a chance to fire off, as well as the default ones, if it has any. Bless, edge, and guiding lights have ambient as well, which can be applied to your blessible or 0x items with this script.

ANALYZE has a bit of information to help you alter them. Hopefully this can help with further questions.

Dyhne won't be around till sometime next week. He probably will only show up one or two more times total.

~Wyrom, ASGM

Category: Game Design Discussions
Topic: Items and Inventory
Message #: 875
Author: GS4-WYROM
Date: 08/20/2013 04:59 PM EDT
Subject: Armor and Weapon Moods - Default Ambients

It was asked to see all the default ambient messaging that Armor and Weapon Moods have. So I figured I'd give them a proper post. Hopefully someone saves the information somewhere (hint hint).

Target Defense

Silvery light flares up from your adamantine greatshield for a moment.
Faint light shimmers across your adamantine greatshield, illuminating previously hidden sigils before fading away.
Defensive wards surround you, pulsating a silvery light for a moment.
Silvery warding sigils surround you, fading into your adamantine greatshield.

Elemental Edge

Your steel longsword flashes brightly for a moment, before dimming back to a soft glow.
The light within your steel longsword dims suddenly before flaring to life again.
A faint glow surrounds you for a moment.

Holy Bless

A holy aura radiates from your adamantine khopesh.
A faint white aura flickers around you.
A pale white aura dances across your adamantine khopesh.

Fire

Licks of flame rise up from your adamantine khopesh.
Fiery hues dance over the surface of your adamantine khopesh
Pale red light ripples over your adamantine khopesh
The air around you becomes hot, as waves of heat rise from your adamantine khopesh

Ice

A thin layer of frost forms on the surface of your adamantine khopesh for a moment, before melting away.
A pale blue light flickers across the surface of your adamantine khopesh.
An intense chill fills the air surrounding you.
An icy gust of air blows in from your adamantine khopesh.

Lightning

A blinding flash of blue-white light bursts from your adamantine khopesh.
The faint scent of ozone wafts through the air and surrounds you.
Small bolts of lightning coil around your adamantine khopesh.
Steaks of blue-white light coil around your adamantine khopesh.

Impact/Earth

Pale brown light flickers across the surface of your adamantine khopesh.
A rhythmical thumping emanates from your adamantine khopesh.
Your adamantine khopesh begins to vibrate for a moment.
A faint humming sound surrounds you.

Acid

Pale green and yellow light flickers across the surface of your adamantine khopesh.
A heavy acrid smell overwhelms the air surrounding you.
Tendrils of green smoke coil around your adamantine khopesh.
A sizzling sound comes from your adamantine khopesh.

Vacuum/Void

The air stirs around you for a moment.
Everything around you seems to distort for a moment.
Suddenly, the air around you is drawn toward your adamantine khopesh.
Your adamantine khopesh bends inward for a brief moment.

Plasma/Guiding Light

A dark violet light, followed by a white flash, flares up from your adamantine khopesh.
Licks of violet and white flame dance across the surface of your adamantine khopesh.
Violet flames flare up and surround you for a moment.
Blinding violet light cloaks you for a moment, the source coming from your adamantine khopesh.

Steam

Vaporous grey mist hangs in the air around you for a moment.
The air becomes hot surrounding your adamantine khopesh, causing waves of steam to form around you.
Plumes of steam rise up from your adamantine khopesh.
A torrent of steam rises up from your adamantine khopesh in a spiraling motion.

Mana

Ripples of white-blue light waver outward from your wyrmwood runestaff.
A white-blue aura pulses around you for a moment.
A field of mana forms around you for a moment.
Rhythmical pulses of white-blue light emit from your wyrmwood runestaff.

Acuity

Verdant light flickers across the surface of your wyrmwood runestaff.
Intense verdant light bursts from your wyrmwood runestaff.
An intense verdant glow surrounds you for a moment.
Your wyrmwood runestaff shimmers slightly, glowing an intense verdant light.

Mechanical

A mechanical grinding noise comes from your adamantine khopesh.
The sound of gears clicking emits from your adamantine khopesh.
A loud creak comes from your adamantine khopesh.
The sound of metal knocking emits from your adamantine khopesh.

Unbalance/Grapple

Translucent tendrils coils around your adamantine khopesh.
The air around you seems to pulse slightly.
A burst of energy flares off your adamantine khopesh.
A heavy pulse of air emits from your adamantine khopesh.

Disruption

Black tendrils dance across your adamantine khopesh, causing the air to crackle around you.
Various sections of your adamantine khopesh wink in and out of existence for a brief moment.
Your adamantine khopesh wavers from sight, shimmering slightly as it becomes solid again.
Your adamantine khopesh shimmers slightly, fading after a few short pulses.

Dispel

A field of anti-magic energy becomes visible surrounding you.
The area around you glows brightly, as your adamantine khopesh discharges a field of energy.
Your adamantine khopesh wavers from sight, shimmering slightly as it becomes solid again.
Your adamantine khopesh shimmers slightly, fading after a few short pulses.

Disintegration

Blackish green beams rise and fall from your adamantine khopesh.
Blackish green particles flake off from your adamantine khopesh.
Your adamantine khopesh wavers from sight, shimmering slightly as it becomes solid again.
Your adamantine khopesh shimmers slightly, fading after a few short pulses.

~Wyrom, SGM

Category: Game Design Discussions
Topic: Items and Inventory
Message #: 882
Author: GS4-WYROM
Date: 08/20/2013 10:42 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Armor and Weapon Moods - Default Ambients

For every person who calls it a Dyhne script, another NPC dies.

~Wyrom, SGM