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by Mechanist
Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:41 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

Actually i need more context for this one to get a coherent translation. ;) This text appears when the installer is performing a full search on each disk drive in turn (from C to Z). It's directly followed by the drive letter, such as: Currently searching drive: C:\ (a progress bar appears undernea...
by Mechanist
Tue Jul 24, 2018 3:26 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

Thanks; now the Community Patch both supports patching the German Drakan, as well as has German as a language option for the installer :D I did miss one text string though, since it had been hardcoded into the search progress bar handler, buried amongst hundreds of other lines of code. english.CurrS...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 21, 2018 6:20 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Modified Ruined Village level file, with controllable Arokh
Replies: 3
Views: 9413

Re: Modified Ruined Village level file, with controllable Arokh

Ok, I've replaced the level files in the OP - since I've gone back to this in the meantime, and made a much better version; this time with (mostly correct) layer visibility :D
by Mechanist
Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:55 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

I can have a look at those strings and translate them. Sure, feel free :) (BTW: the %n is a newline escape character, copied verbatim from the installer text strings - I left the %n's in because the forum's (Code) tag handling is kinda broken, and lumps everything together into one line anyway). Pl...
by Mechanist
Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:03 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

Thanks! Works great (except Violence is greyed out - but its set to excessive). Ok, I've done some proper testing with the German version of Drakan you provided. The correct way to handle it (and this is how it will be integrated into the next release of Community Patch) is to install German Drakan...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:43 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Improved and/or rebalanced MP maps
Replies: 4
Views: 9745

Improved and/or rebalanced MP maps

Since there are still many promising MP maps that could use some significant improvements (both in terms of balance and/or overall quality), I figured I might as well get started on tweaking those. ------------------------------------- Here's the first one: Amen v2 . Last time we played the original...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:22 am
Forum: Arokh's Lair Forums
Topic: Main site content which needs updating
Replies: 12
Views: 12872

Re: Main site content which needs updating

Here's some more stuff I stumbled upon by chance, while looking through the SP levels for candidates for conversion to MP maps. On Singleplayer levels download page: <about Doomsday> Released work done on a 12 level series which adds RPG elements and other features from Drakan2. Cancelled due to lim...
by Mechanist
Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2275627

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

This is most aggravating. So it turns out that it's not actually related to CPU type at all. The first sign of trouble was when on my new AMD server (with cable Ethernet connection, no wireless), Auropolis worked for me - but not for everyone else :!: The next step was to take the old Intel Atom ser...
by Mechanist
Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:28 pm
Forum: General games and fantasy discussion
Topic: Real world places associated with dragon legends?
Replies: 1
Views: 9066

Real world places associated with dragon legends?

A couple weeks ago, when playing multiplayer (or rather, fooling around in multiplayer) with HeNniFerBoB, the conversation eventually led me to bring up the subject of Janosik , who was a legendary folk hero - robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Obviously, Janosik is not connected to any dragon...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: New Drakan dedicated server hardware (Mini-ITX size PC build)
Replies: 2
Views: 8340

Re: New Drakan dedicated server hardware (Mini-ITX size PC build)

Yeah, it's great for video reencoding actually :D I need to convert all my variable-framerate recorded gameplay videos to fixed framerate before any video editing software can handle them without desyncing the audio - but HandBrake crashes instantly on my main PC for some bizarre, undetermined reaso...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:45 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan: Order of the Flame permanent multiplayer server
Replies: 13
Views: 16747

Re: Drakan: Order of the Flame permanent multiplayer server

All right, my Drakan server is now running on new hardware :D The most significant change is that it's on a cable connection now, as opposed to wireless - which seems to have totally eliminated the random lag spikes; previously when it was on wireless, I was having intermittent high ping/lag issues ...
by Mechanist
Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:35 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: New Drakan dedicated server hardware (Mini-ITX size PC build)
Replies: 2
Views: 8340

New Drakan dedicated server hardware (Mini-ITX size PC build)

I've been previously running my Drakan server on an old Intel Atom netbook with Win XP. Although its tiny power consumption (around 12-15W) was quite advantageous, the hardware was otherwise rather ancient; barely keeping up with the demand of running the server together with the antivirus+firewall....
by Mechanist
Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:35 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Rynn = Daenerys Targaryen? Or not?
Replies: 4
Views: 11085

Re: Rynn = Daenerys Targaryen? Or not?

shoprat wrote: Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:17 pmThe biggest difference is Daenerys gets 'scale rash' on her bottom/Rynn is a badass :)
Have you seen the best part, though?

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by Mechanist
Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:47 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

Huh. On my machine, swapping out just Dragon.rrc (on a fresh install) resulted in a blank keybindings list, as it was suddenly looking for German command names in Drakan.cfg - and obviously, there were none. In your case, I guess it's because you already had the German version running before, so the...
by Mechanist
Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:19 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan Community Patch
Replies: 39
Views: 74876

Re: Drakan Community Patch

Interesting, thanks. It'll take some excavating to get to the root of the issue, though. I'll be releasing a new build of the Community Patch by this weekend, so there won't be enough time to integrate proper German language support in this release. For a quick hacky fix, overwrite your Dragon.rrc a...