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Old 11-11-2011, 12:59 AM
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Wink Not having to stare at spell book - NOT CLASSIC

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Old 11-11-2011, 01:49 AM
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can we ban this fucking idiot yet?

its probably wehrmacht
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Old 11-11-2011, 02:03 AM
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he so mad
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Old 11-11-2011, 01:50 AM
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I believe lvl 30 or 35+ you didn't have to anymore and could still gain meditate skill just sitting. This was an added change but I don't know when.
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Old 11-11-2011, 03:34 AM
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I recall this being true, but it makes me wonder how classic we have to get.

I wanted to try making a halfling paladin but apparently that wasn't allowed. Not sure how that really breaks immersion when there were gnome warriors in classic though.
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Old 11-11-2011, 12:31 PM
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I recall this being true, but it makes me wonder how classic we have to get.

I wanted to try making a halfling paladin but apparently that wasn't allowed. Not sure how that really breaks immersion when there were gnome warriors in classic though.
I too would like to make a non-classic paladin (gnome!). Unfortunately, they do try to make things as classic as possible. I bet the only reason we don't have to stare at our spellbooks is that they haven't gotten around to coding that in yet :/

But as for the short races that got new classes, I think halfling paladin is the biggest stretch :P

The clerics all worship Bristlebane, which is really cool! But they can't really have paladins that are out to cause mischief and mayhem, so they're all stuck worshiping Karana. And Karana is a traditional paladin deity, but the class itself doesn't really fit in well with lore of the race. I mean they're supposed to be like playful, lazy and carefree creatures; not knights in shining armor.

Of course, gnome knights don't make all that much sense either.. but at least they fit in with the cleric and necro deities [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only new combination that made a lot of sense was halfling ranger.
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Old 11-11-2011, 01:28 PM
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As a person who fixed some of these once-thought unfixable issues, I will say this:

Yes, it's possible.
It just needs to have time set aside for it. Nilbog's original post is spot-on.

It will require:

- Opcode to start meditating (0/1 flag)
- Serverside checks to prevent meditating while standing and other invalid conditions.
- Serverside handling of the opcode to turn meditating on.
- Extra: Disabling other UI elements as well as the viewport to simulate book in the face when the book window is up. The UI element would cover the entire viewport in classic.
- UI element when pressed sends opcode with 0/1 flag depending
- UI files modified to support the UI element

The last two will take considerably long, the others are trivial and can be done in a day.

While I am on the subject of classic, I may start work on a "true classic" UI using the elements from the original bmpwad files. I just recently found out the dimensions of every single window so the only thing left to do would be to write XMLs. This would mean that there would be a single chat window, no options for transparency, and all UI elements would be locked for a true classic experience.

The original UI was the XML-based UI hard coded, in case anyone was wondering. Hard coded meaning the dimensions, the names of the tga/bmp/tegra overlays, etc, were all embedded in the client and could not be modified. The same effect could be achieved with the XML-based UI and minor edits to the files to disallow some features, sans some important things like the character window viewport (which was broken in DX8 anyways.)

This UI would be *completely* voluntary when first released and there for immersion only.

If it is successful, I will implement the UI from velious as an XML-style format, and those two will be the only UIs allowed, pending review from Nilbog or Rogean to force them.
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Old 11-11-2011, 01:32 PM
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If it is successful, I will implement the UI from velious as an XML-style format, and those two will be the only UIs allowed, pending review from Nilbog or Rogean to force them.
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Old 11-11-2011, 02:49 PM
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Great infos.
I don't see why it should get turned down if you had something working perfectly. Now if you can do the classic character creation and character select screens from there, bravo. Huge elements of a classic feel.
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Old 11-11-2011, 04:44 AM
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Ain't this spellbook neat and organized? Its perfect and it only took me 40 hours!
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