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This subject has been briefly talked about in replies to comments made in the Sacred 2 Sacred Hall Of The Temple Guardian 2. But I thought that it would be a good idea that I share the model in full 3D here, first the original one: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/258a2f981026a0c66146f4637eaf43fa/The-Futuristic-Manor-House And the All New Version: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/88db93aa-10b9-4aab-98c8-da7953c9a789/All-New-Futuristic-Manor-House

Two more items of note: 1) There're 3 particle files: fx_gen_frostring1, fx_gen_frostring2, fx_gen_frostring3. Does changing the emission rate from 333 and 222 to 111 fix the lag issue for the FX_GEN_FROSTRING on your rig? Seems to work for me. 2) In your opinion, Is there any chance we get a better sector files editor? There's quite some info there, especially if one would like to modify the main menu sector(most importantly, camera position and angle, imp position, special effects for the sector)

The story continues... Pushing quests in Tyr Lysia and suffered a death trying to tank a boulder toss from Ghanka at 25% HP. <sigh> Dumb ass is as Dumb ass does I guess. I was questioning the value of questing for XP gain when I came across the "breaking the news" quest - which involves an escort portion of this chain. I *LOATHE* the escort quests and this dumb ass goes running off getting himself into trouble with mobs on multiple occasions; and then eventually get myself killed jumping into a fray to try to rescue him, opening the map to try to tp back to town to save us both... and ends up with both of us dead. At this point, I am sure that doing quests is definitely not worth the time it takes, nor the frustration of doing those effing escort quests. So wandering around just exploring, killing, leveling and saving up for the next shop around level 45. 4 million gold up... and 3.8 million spent got 2 gems as weapons: one +3 allskills; rph 0.9 and 27 life leech and the other +5 to all GI CA's and +2 to CE (after socketing). But the real win was getting up to 22% Phys. dmg mitigation. I got the Orc cave in my sights and this is gonna be well needed. The final step is grabbing the Inure mod for Purifying Chastiment which I get to pick up at level 46. I arrive at the dreaded locale at about level 46.5; and with great trepidation enter into the cave of pure death. Had to use a few potions but emerged victorious! Took note of my health pot count, did a few more runs and it seems I am using more than I gain, but only -2 or -3 a run. Farm up to level 48 and end up quitting since the uniques really weren't dropping well (got 1 set piece and a couple of garbage tier uniques). I did make back about 3 million gold scrapping all the blue+ tier drops and a level and a half in (relatively) short order so not gonna whine about it too much. Continue with the exploring a little to help gain levels and progressing the quest. Somewhere in the dragon caves or early swamp I did see on the wiki (and, thus remembered) that map explore helps with chance to find valuables... so lucky me for choosing to do that. Not extensively, but each bit done helps in the end Arrive at the next big 'test' of the build - Garganthopod. With Toughness chosen at level 50 I do feel like the fight shouldn't go too bad, and indeed it is fine except when he summons his adds at which point I break off to tackle them before re-engaging the big baddie. Travelling thru the jungle I do have to use the odd health potion if there's a couple of champions in a pack, but that's the first that's happened since getting the mitigation flowing. Kral was a joke as he was in Silver, spending more time backing away than trying to kill me. Arrive on the dryad island, and re-discovered the 'turtle island'. Actually forgot about this gem of a levelling spot so might do some farming here on and off since I am not too sure I should be heading into Platinum at level 54 (maybe 55 after getting there). I do plan on doing another spending spree at level 60 (or earlier if skills+3 start showing up on jewellery), and it would be nice to do that in Platinum which I think is possible but that dangerous 4th Nameless is the big question mark. Haven't died since that unfortunate cluster-mess escort mission so not too interested in losing the valuable survival bonus. Back to the grind

Heh, you won't find that task easy, just like I haven't. It's no sense to produce a silver platter. So there: there're two tools, GR2 Converter by Norbyte and grnreader98 by Pesmontis(interesting, they're both Dutch). And you have to use both in tandem: GR2 Converter is good in that it extracts to helpers, not bones and keeps the 2-nd UV layer intact. Grnreader98 is better at animation extraction(most of the time) and it keeps material(which is = texture used for Sacred2), Norbyte has has given no consideraton to the issue of materuial info loss so far. In short: the quest is manageable, but demanding. Should be not much of an issue to one of my compatriots educated in the 80's. Unfortunately, I've received my school education in the 90's and the university education at 2000's.