Dear All,
The initial commit for the ODE project was created on 2015-06-11. It is now approximately 7 years and 10 months later (2023-04-04). Whilst the ODE and following ODE 2 repositories contain software that is functional, and (to my knowledge) mostly bug free, the programs have always been relatively basic in terms of visuals and features. With life and other projects repeatedly drawing my attention away, there has only been a total of 75 commits in the original repository and 67 commits in the 'mark 2' repository.
I have, over the last 7 years, gradually lost interest in video games. With the potential takeover of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft announced, I feel it will soon be more likely that mods and modding tools for altering Blizzard products will be challenged. I have therefore decided that now is a good time to 'retire' the ODE editor (both version 1 and 2). To this end, I intend to delete the ODE 1 and 2 repositories on 2023-05-07.
If you wish to have a personal copy of either repository, please fork or clone the desired repositories before 2023-05-07.
Thank you to those who have contributed to the project, and to those who have asked questions or starred the projects over time.
--Matthew
This repository should be considered deprecated. Work has continued in the Open Diablo Editor 2.0 repository.
This is an MIT-licensed Diablo editor, written in Java. I uploaded the code due to a request from mewmew (see official forum thread).
The editor also uses other software subject to different licenses, such as Gradle (see Credits/Acknowledgements below).
Download the built program from the Nexus Mods page and follow the usage instructions on that page.
- Install Open JDK 1.8
- Set your JAVA_HOME and add Java 1.8 to your PATH variable
- Install Git from the Git homepage
- Bring up a command prompt for the folder where you want to store the code
- In Windows, shift + right click in an explorer pane then select open prompt
- Run "git clone https://github.com/matthewrkarlsen/open-diablo-editor.git"
- Enter the
open-diablo-editorfolder and bring up a new prompt - Run "gradlew createReleaseJar"
- Move the resulting jar from
.../open-diablo-editor/build/libsto your Diablo folder - Run the JAR with the command
java -jar open-diablo-editor-0.0.1.jar(changing the version as appropriate)- Diablo.exe will remain unchanged
- A new DiabloModded.exe will be created
- No other files will be changed
- If the DiabloModded.exe exists, ODE will load that in preference to the Diablo.exe
- To run the modded version, double-click on
DiabloModded.exe - Enjoy (hopefully)
The following people have contributed to the project:
- Matthew R. Karlsen
- Robin Eklind (mewmew)
- ChaosMarc
The Diablo 1 mod workshop (dead link) has proven to be extremely valuable in the construction of this software.
A recent mirror for the mod workshop is available here.
The workshop was originally created by Charlie with assistance from Jarulf.
A big thanks to all those who hosted it for so long.
The gradle wrapper is part of Gradle, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
JUnit 4 is used for testing, licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Matthew R. Karlsen
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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