Question

WickedlyCool · Post by **WickedlyCool** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:30 am

can i add customized character photos in this game? how?

Lord Plothos · Post by **Lord Plothos** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:37 am

Look here:

http://www.sorcerers.net/Games/ToEE/index_editors.php

About halfway down you'll find a couple entries on portaits, and some portrait packs to add if you don't want to resize everything yourself.

WickedlyCool · Post by **WickedlyCool** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:40 pm

thanks lord plothos..
another question, it is true that the maximum lvl in this game is only lvl 10?

Lord Plothos · Post by **Lord Plothos** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:19 am

Depends on your mod/patch status. If you've installed temple.zip, for instance, this removes the level 10 cap. If you are running just patches 2 and 3, that won't. There's also a front-end program that lets you turn off the level cap. But basically it was designed with the cap, and this was removed by many modders who wanted to go higher (and who felt those who wanted the cap could just stop levelling their guys once they hit 10th level).

What are you running?

WickedlyCool · Post by **WickedlyCool** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:47 am

sorry for the late reply lord plothos.. ive think im running the latest patch which is TOEE_PATCH1_ENU (8.72mb).. so meaning ive already turned off the level cap right? if ever how do i know that ive already removed the level cap?

Lord Plothos · Post by **Lord Plothos** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:17 am

Well, from the name you give, that's the very first official patch. That won't remove the level cap.
What you want to do is this.

1. Apply patch 2. You can do that on top of patch 1, no worries.
2. Apply temple.zip. This will remove the level cap. Your saved games should be just fine, so long as you don't have any metamagic stuff going on with your spellcasters.

You can get the patches here:
atari patch 2
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http://www.atarisupport.com/
-or-
http://www.co8.org/files/patch/TOEE_USA_ANY-PATCH2.EXE

Temple.dll
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http://www.jadri.com/temple.zip
-or-
http://www.co8.org/files/patch/temple.zip

Installing patch 2 is easy: just double click it. Installing temple.zip is harder. Just follow these steps.

1. Unzip the patch. (Double click the folder you downloaded and choose the extract all files option in the corner of the window (XP))
2. Find the file in you GAME'S directory called "temple.dll" and remove it. (Put it somewhere you can find it again.)
3. Take the "temple.dll" file from the unzipped patch folder and put it where the original file was.
4. Inside the patch folder should be a folder called "data". Inside that folder should be three new folders. Take all of them and put them into the game's "data" folder.

After that, you should be all set. Game should run more stable, and there will be no level cap. Plus a whole bunch of other problems were fixed.

WickedlyCool · Post by **WickedlyCool** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:02 am

why patch 2 instead of patch 3? is it ok if i install pacth 3 instead of pactch 2? isnt it that patch 3 have more bug fixes than patch 2? or it is because that temple.dll doesnt support patch 3?

ive already done what youve told me to do Lord Plothos, and for that THANK YOU. im just curious..

Lord Plothos · Post by **Lord Plothos** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:29 pm

Okay, so the deal is this. Patches 1 and 2 fix bugs and issues all over the place, and the fixes are good. Patch 2 includes patch 1, so you don't really need 1 at all any more. Patch 3, on the other hand, was a fix for just one problem: the looting bug for windows XP service pack 2. That's all it did. There was already a fan-made patch available (temple.zip) that fixed this problem and more besides. Thus, patch 3 is pretty useless. The fan fix fixes more, so it's already the better option. But it doesn't stop there. All the fan mods out there (co8, Liv, Ted, Vicks and Wedge, etc.) are written for patch 2, and since 3 isn't necessary, none of these were or will be altered to work with patch 3. Thus, you have another reason to go with temple.zip: it'll be compatible with other mods, whereas 3 will not be. (Some mods require putting temple.zip after or include it themselves, and in that case, you can easily remove temple.zip by just putting the original temple.dll file back where it came from and removing the three new folders from the data folder. Voila! You're back to just patch 2, and the mods can be applied to that.

Hope that answers all your questions.

WickedlyCool · Post by **WickedlyCool** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:04 am

since im running ToEE in win98 i really wont be needing patch 3..
thanks for the great help lord Plothos