Hello everyone. I would like to introduce my WIP mod, called “Stellar”. The purpose of this mod is to expand endgame and build diversity by adding special new items into the game.
Those new items modify сonstellation skills, turning harmless procs into a powerful weapon.
Not so fast. Those items are pretty hard to obtain.
Most of the Stellar items drop from certain enemies around Cairn. But, unfortunately, many of those items lost their Star Power (but not all ;)) and are now Powerless:
Powerless items have worse attributes and do not provide any modifiers or set bonuses. They are still good for leveling though, due to their lvl requirement eing lowered to 50, but their armor value is the same as the 94 lvl item one.
To bring powerless items back to their full potential, you will need to find Star Dust. This new component drops from a new mob called Star Hunter. Those guys spawn randomly on any(!) difficulty, after you kill certain mobs:
Star hunters are very dangerous and require good gear to fight them. Each Star Hunter drops 1 Star Dust, that can be used to turn powerless items into stellar ones:
But be warned though, stellar constellation modifiers may cause cool fx changes!
Yes my Shattering Affixes mod also gives Devotion modifiers, that’s one feature that I love because it’s not present in the base game.
Do you know that you can make the cosmic/stellar background of your items moves in the inventory icons ?
It would be even cooler.
Yes, I wanted to make a moving background at some point, but didn’t find any support for that in the asset manager. How do you do that? Compiling bitmaps doesn’t give an option to add animated frames…
yes it does I did it for my Shattering Affixes mod (it’s open source, you can look at it if you want).
But unfortunately they don’t have a scrolling feature for bitmap, so you would need to make 30 or 60 frames for each of them which is a lot of time for an effect that player’s will see 0.1% of the time when they open their inventory.
I see… He has a very low chance to spawn a Star Hunter, so you are kinda lucky to see that happen =)
I think I will make different tiers of Star Hunters, so you’d get a weaker version at lower levels. Weaker versions will have a lower chance to drop Star Dust though.