A new version of qtScribe editor were released today, for more info, download and bug report, checkout out our forums -> here. Dont forget to say thanks to radzh for this tool!
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First version of ArtGen tool is out, now you can easily create new Art files from images. For more info and download visit our forums.
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Here is preview of my latest work, new automaton prototype, if you want to know more about this or you want to download preview .Art file, check out out its dedicated topic at out forums -> visit.
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Latest progress report includes screenshot from ’game’, which is running also at Linux, if you interested, you can read that report here.
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I’ve wrote a small tutorial for adding speech to dialogs in Arcanum, now you can test your voice acting directly in game! Read here. |
To help to those who wants to help us with voice acting, I’ve made a tool that will make that a lot easier. Check out forums for more info…
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Do you think that you can voice act? plus you think that your voice unique in some way? if yes, so why not to try some voice acting? Your voice could be given to any character in Arcanum, its up to you who you choose, it may be NPC without voice or you might re-speech Virgil’s voice for example. If you are interested, please visit our forums, and tell us shortly something about you and character you want to voice act. <Read more> |
A three days ago, I’ve started learning modeling, and here is result, my attempt to remodel automaton from Arcanum. The main reason why I did started this is that we need to recreate most of original Arcanum content for OpenArcanum, including models, sounds and speech. If you want to help in any way with, modeling, animating, voice acting, sound mixing please visit forums and offer your help, it will be greatly appreciated! Discuss here. |
This debug feature which I found in Arcanum executable while researching it a year and half ago, allows you to see debug messages generated by Arcanum engine. These messages will be very helpful for somebody who wants to know how Arcanum works or who wants to make some engine patches… All messages will be printed into console which will be created by Arcanum after startup, it will also write all messages into external file called ”debug.txt” which will be create in main Arcanum directory. To enable this ... <Read more> |
And here it is. qtScribe, all-in-one tool for editing most files used by ”Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura”. Latest version is 0.7, Linux and win32 builds included. Grab it here. |
Few days ago, first version of MultiArcanum has been released, check out original thread for more info. |
This is a bit old video, forgot to post it here…. Whats going on? its new multiplayer pack that contains a master server and client, and it allows you to play Arcanum online again, when you click on ”Internet” in multiplayer menu, it will connect you to master server and arcanum will get a server list, where you can connect and play… more info in forums. |
This is preview of first version of MultiArcanum, the first and the only pack that converts Arcanum for multiplayer play! When it will be released? probably before this sunday |
Have you experienced lagging in Arcanum multiplayer? I think that Arcanum is very famous for this unpleasant feature So why is Arcanum multiplayer so lagging? Its simly because of that multiplayer was designed for LAN only, where speed of data transfer is at least 10Mbit/s, so they used TCP protocol to transfer data from server to client and back… Whats bad about TCP in Arcanum? simply, TCP waits till data are tranfer... <Read more> |
There are 2 articles about ArcanumAlive written by radzh at Gamer.ru site, in Russian language of course Check them out:
Feel free to write some articles about ArcanumAlive too… this is aimed to anybody who feels good about this project! |
There has been done some research on Arcanum’s packets, a complete structure and info about them can be seen here. Any research contributions are welcomed! |
Yeah, everybody needs help sometimes, so We are not an exception If you are interested in this project, and you want to help, please visit our forums here and check out if there is something interesting for you. Thank you! |
Here are some screenshots that were taken from Delphi research engine while researching Arcanum:
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This is ordinary request for donation? Sure it it…. not. You can see this request almost everywhere, so you may ask why you should donate anything and for what it will be… Well, so here is list for what your donation may be used:
What you can get if you donate:
*Depends on amo... <Read more> |
Here is list of some arcanum related sites, check them out and if you find some site that is not in this list, please contact admin…
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When I was researching prototypes, I’ve found out that they contains AID, when you decode this AID, you get art filename and other stuff. In prototypes, there is prove that female version of non-human races was available in game while development. These art files has been deleted before release, and game uses simple hack that loads a human female arts for every race. Now the question is why they needed to delete them… because of CD size limits? |
Here are two videos from ArcanumPascalum: |
This website is dedicated to computer game Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura. The main purpose of this website is to provide information about project called ArcanumAlive which is about researching, recreating, modding and expanding this game. Why creating a new website for almost 8 years old game? There are plenty of reasons why I wanted to create this website, first of all, I wanted to have own space for my project, and I did not wanted to use free website hosting because I hate that limitations ... <Read more> |