Classic-Era Client(s) - Gauging Interest

[Dac321]

/drool

Well done sir, well done.

I'd love to see my character spinning in this character selection..

Gnoll, I have a question.. Maybe I can jog your memory, or anyone else's. Do you recall while selecting different races while in creation mode, the pitch, or tune of the Character Selection Music would alter? For example, if you selected an Ogre, or Troll, a heavily bass would take over the chorus to represent evil, then if you were to select a dwarf, or gnome, a higher pitch flute would then play. Does the EQmac version have that feature, and if so, that would properly add a nostalgic feeling. If it is still around, that would be great. Just me 2 cents.

But again, I am very interested in your work.

[Stinkum]

Originally Posted by Dac321 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you recall while selecting different races while in creation mode, the pitch, or tune of the Character Selection Music would alter? For example, if you selected an Ogre, or Troll, a heavily bass would take over the chorus to represent evil, then if you were to select a dwarf, or gnome, a higher pitch flute would then play.

This sounds extremely familiar.. Damned good memory you have.

[Lanzellot]

good job man

[a_gnoll_pup]

Originally Posted by Stinkum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This sounds extremely familiar.. Damned good memory you have.

I'll try and get a video of character creation for you guys. Updated github, I forgot the structures for the Mac client.

[a_gnoll_pup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znDk2_UUj0w

What's working so far (not much, but you can see it works.)

[Telin]

This is fantastic! Eqmac client is probably shortest route (still not an easy one) to taking this server much closer to an authentic classic experience. Well done so far!

[Dac321]

Originally Posted by a_gnoll_pup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znDk2_UUj0w

What's working so far (not much, but you can see it works.)

This is brilliant.. Getting excited for it.

[a_gnoll_pup]

Picture is worth a thousand words, but i'll type some more:

I am ingame now.

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[a_gnoll_pup]

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[pyrese]

Originally Posted by Dac321 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gnoll, I have a question.. Maybe I can jog your memory, or anyone else's. Do you recall while selecting different races while in creation mode, the pitch, or tune of the Character Selection Music would alter? For example, if you selected an Ogre, or Troll, a heavily bass would take over the chorus to represent evil, then if you were to select a dwarf, or gnome, a higher pitch flute would then play. Does the EQmac version have that feature, and if so, that would properly add a nostalgic feeling. If it is still around, that would be great. Just me 2 cents.

This is correct. If I recall correctly, this was accomplished by turning tracks in the midi for character select on and off based on the race of the selected character.

Originally Posted by a_gnoll_pup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just got sick working on this a tad (spent like the entire night reverse engineering the MIDI code to make a DLL that adds proper MIDI support to the client) but here's the final result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njQ1wi_bLPM

Notice the Old UI is fixed up a bit as well. This is the result of adding a proper server name to the configuration file.

Next up, position updates and spells. After that I will demonstrate a modern-era client (Titanium) and an old-era client (EQMac) in sync.

Note: Unfortunately the Trilogy client is incompatible with modern hardware, and the EQMac one barely works as-is, so this is the closest you will get to perfection on Windows 8.

Does...does this mean we can have variable combat music again?