spiders

[selena]

Despite being a computing graduate I'm completely dumb with anything that doesnt use organic organs to live and survive .

I'm also highly arachnaphobic, and I have never ever killed or even fought with a spider in BG, ToSC, SoA, or ToB. I get someone else to do it for me. As such, I feel I've missed a large part of the games, especially BG because I had to stop playing it, my reactions to accidentally stumbling across a spider were so bad it induced panic attacks.

So, there's lots of codey people here and all I wanna know is - is there any patches, or code I can use to make the pictures of them go away? I dont care what they look like, as long as it's not like a spider [img]smile.gif[/img] I don't mind seeing the word 'spider' (ideally though it'd say something, *anything* , else).

Sorry for this rather trivial post, but most people dont understand how bad someone can react to a pixellated graphic

[Daniel_M]

Im not too fond of spiders myself [img]smile.gif[/img] , you just got to say to yourself "There only a computer sprite they cant hurt me! " Its easy to say this, bit doing it is a different thing. To answer your question, i dont think its possible to change the way the spiders look. If anyone else has another idea please feel free to post it.

[Azred]

Well, she could always get Near Infinity and change the animation graphic of the "arachnids" to something else. Goblins, perhaps. However, she'd have to do this for all the arachnid .cre files.
Sometimes, Daniel_M, even the idea of the focus of a phobia is enough to trigger an attack.

OR, you can imagine that the spider on the screen is one of the spiders on your bathroom-wall, and make it pay for it crimes towards all humanity [img]smile.gif[/img]

[selena]

I shall try the sight - I can't kill spiders on the bathroom wall, nevermind on a computer screen, god knows why [img]smile.gif[/img] And a psychologist I saw as a child assured my mother I would improve with age... not likely [img]smile.gif[/img]

But thankee [img]smile.gif[/img]

[SixOfSpades]

How should we roleplay this? The PC cannot stand the sight of spiders, and therefore must never come within sight radius of them, or else will suffer a Morale Failure: Panic for four rounds (no Save.) The other characters in the party must do all the scouting ahead & killing, or else all the spiders must be killed while out of sight range, by using area-of-effect spells.

Seriously, though, changing the animation files seems the best bet. I suggest all the Dog and Wolf avatars; there's a good variety of them, they hardly get used anymore, and they move at about the right speeds. Roughly the same amount of hitpoints, too.