[1.10 & 1.13c & 1.13d] Custom red portal to any location [same act] created by missile - fix

[Nizari]

A few days, I got asked on our discord about red portals. I have replied they can be used by cairnstones missile function (won't describe it in here, as this is just the fix).
Right, you can use this method to create red portal with skill, missile and thus as ctc on death effect and such. The possibilites are vast. There is only one, well, actually 2 problems about it. First is the portal naming which will always cause the portal created in 'departure' spot to be called of ' no level name' (unless you change the string of it to Mysterious portal of whatever). Naming in destination location will always be prooper.
The second problem is the fact that such portal would give you a crash when used in placfes other than act 1, arcane sanctuary, canyon of the magi, barricade1, barricade2, barricadesnow and Nihlathak's temple entrance.
Just to be precise - the mentioned crash would occur only when entering the unnamed portal: creation place ---> destination. You can use it without worries destination ---> creation place.

Anyway, enough of explaining what the problem is. Thanks to Firehawk (credits about this one goes to him), here is the fix to all of mentioned problems:

1.10:

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6FD13D9A   8B4E 14          MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FD13D9D   56               PUSH ESI
6FD13D9E   8841 04          MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD13DA1   E8 727A0000      CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10427>

TO:

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6FD13D9A   E9 B12C0100      JMP D2Game.6FD26A50
6FD13D9F   90               NOP
6FD13DA0   90               NOP
6FD13DA1   E8 727A0000      CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10427>

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6FD26A50   8B4E 14          MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FD26A53   8841 04          MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD26A56   8B4424 30        MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+30]
6FD26A5A   8B4D 14          MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP+14]
6FD26A5D   8841 04          MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD26A60   56               PUSH ESI
6FD26A61  ^E9 3BD3FEFF      JMP D2Game.6FD13DA1

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1.13c:

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6FCC246C  |> 8B4E 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FCC246F  |. 56             PUSH ESI
6FCC2470  |. 8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FCC2473  |. E8 688AF6FF    CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10258>

TO

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6FCC246C     E9 44550500    JMP D2Game.6FD179B5
6FCC2471     90             NOP
6FCC2472     90             NOP
6FCC2473  |. E8 688AF6FF    CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10258>

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6FD179B5     8B4E 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FD179B8     8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD179BB     8B4424 30      MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+30]
6FD179BF     8B4D 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP+14]
6FD179C2     8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD179C5     56             PUSH ESI
6FD179C6    ^E9 A8AAFAFF    JMP D2Game.6FCC2473

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1.13d:

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6FC360CE  |> 8B4E 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FC360D1  |. 56             PUSH ESI
6FC360D2  |. 8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FC360D5  |. E8 2445FFFF    CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10040>

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6FC360CE     E9 321A0E00    JMP D2Game.6FD17B05
6FC360D3     90             NOP
6FC360D4     90             NOP
6FC360D5  |. E8 2445FFFF    CALL <JMP.&D2Common.#10040>

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6FD17B05     8B4E 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+14]
6FD17B08     8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD17B0B     8B4424 30      MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+30]
6FD17B0F     8B4D 14        MOV ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP+14]
6FD17B12     8841 04        MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX+4],AL
6FD17B15     56             PUSH ESI
6FD17B16    ^E9 BAE5F1FF    JMP D2Game.6FC360D5

[Conqueror]

Thanks for this info!

How can I limit the use of the skill/missile to cast it in a specific location and that it can't be casted anywhere else?

[Lurix]

Thanks for this info!

How can I limit the use of the skill/missile to cast it in a specific location and that it can't be casted anywhere else?

Imo your best option is using the missile as death-skill on a specific monster, preferebly a superuniqe.
You can position the monster at your area of choice, that's exactly how I'm using this feature as well.

[Conqueror]

That is very useful too. Thanks for the idea.

I was thinking about the option to use CltClc1 in Missiles instead of PAR4, to add functions like:

if act 1 -> X portal
if act 2 -> Y portal
if a particular sector -> secret portal

Example, you place an invisible monster with an invisible aura that gives you a stat, then when you position yourself in that area, the stat gives you access to a secret portal, for example in a Town (like Harrogath).

I was looking for a way to replace the ID Level reading from Par4 to CltClc1 (changing a DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+38] to DWORD PTR DS:[ESI+84])

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=61189

[Conqueror]

Thanks for this info!

How can I limit the use of the skill/missile to cast it in a specific location and that it can't be casted anywhere else?

Imo your best option is using the missile as death-skill on a specific monster, preferebly a superuniqe.
You can position the monster at your area of choice, that's exactly how I'm using this feature as well.

I'm sorry to bother you. Can you check if the towns portals work for you? Because with these modifications, I realized that the blue portals don't work.

[Nizari]

As you already know, the error was caused by some plugins you use, this code edit does nothing wrong to normal town portals

[Conqueror]

It is true. I forgot Dreamlands modified that function before