Dual Wielding Bard

[LP727]

So I stumbled across some old D1 sprites on the internet and I found sprites of dual wielding!

A couple hours (way more than expected) later, I came up with this:

dual_wield_poc.mp4

There are plenty of issues:

• The color palet is slightly different than the default one in DIABDAT
• The swords are straight instead of saber like
• The magic animations just have the left hand sword vanish
• The is only one sheated sword in town
• The light armor sprite set has the off hand weapon disapear when walking
• The medium armor version had yet to be found
• I could continue all day...

But the upside is I figured how to do it and I am willing to contribute it to the repo if there is some interested. Will take time and maybe a bit of help but nothing that a reasonably large amount of coffee cannot solve.

Thoughts?
I have plenty of other ideas too!

Maybe I could have the new sprites live in devilutionx.mpq?
Maybe we could keep the different pallet since this is for the bard character?
While I am playing with the sprites, why not make the bard a less frustrating character and bump it's attack speed to it can finally prevent advocates from escaping? Or would that no feel authentic enough?

Let me know what you think!

[k-bar]

looks cool

[julealgon]

I think adding such modified sprites to the repo would be a copyright violation most likely since they are basically identical to the originals and it would constitute a redistribution (don't quote me on that).

Also, I'm pretty sure that modified sprite is well-known. Isn't it the one used by The Hell?

Besides, the DevilutionX team is already working on a 100% custom sprite for the bard class (not sure what the progress on that is).

[AJenbo]

It's stuck somewhere behind 1.6.0 since I haven't had time to work on it for a while.

[LP727]

Thanks for the feedback, I shared the link where I took the sprites above, if copyright infringement there is, it is already being done over there since well, the sprites are there without mention of any copyright.

Also, thanks for pointing out that it is well known, although I fail to see how that is relevant here...

Nevertheless, say I would like to contribute the the project on that front, would that be possible?

[StephenCWills]

I'm sorry to say that your observation that your source already appears to infringe on Blizzard's copyrights does little to assuage my doubts about whether it is a good idea to incorporate them.

The fact that the sprites are well-known is relevant because we have explicitly chosen not to use them.

You might consider joining the Discord server. AJenbo has been known to eagerly provide guidance and tools for developing new sprites to those who show an interest.

[LP727]

Thanks, you are correct, my observation on copyright infringement was not relevant whatsoever, sorry about that.

Also sorry again for missing the point about the well-known status of the sprites as well.

I'll reach out on discord to discuss contribution further.