Fear News Thread

[Dach]

Originally posted by TB3
Here is another variation not animated the fall on the very left was just testing mode2

now that looks cool, aslong as the edges don't stay straight like that

[TB3]

Originally posted by Dach


now that looks cool, aslong as the edges don't stay straight like that

Thanks
Do you think it will look good sideways too ?

[TB3]

Well With my server being down I will get to work on storyboarding and fixing some graphic errors. I will post more of my progress l8r as I need to shower and get ready for work now. Hopefully stefan will fix my server soon but if he doesnt that's fine because I have alot of story line to get ready and map out. Event sequencing is key!!!

*Edit* I noticed my posts finaly hit 500 so i made me an avatar like it?

[Dach]

Originally posted by TB3
Thanks
Do you think it will look good sideways too ?

Don't use the same image though (well the same image rotated), look at the picture I drew to see how, IMO, the directions should look. Hmm, this waterfall is pretty...


I dunno why you'd need to see that, but it is really pretty, well actually St. Bernadette's is prettier, but I don't feel like searching for that one...

[TB3]

Originally posted by Dach


Don't use the same image though (well the same image rotated), look at the picture I drew to see how, IMO, the directions should look. Hmm, this waterfall is pretty...


I dunno why you'd need to see that, but it is really pretty, well actually St. Bernadette's is prettier, but I don't feel like searching for that one...

Thank you thats what I will do I will just have to find a way to make the stupid thing save on jasc without screwing up the colors
Any freeware gif saving programs out there that work good?
or any p2 i mean pay ones that are good? Jasc optimizes too much and I don't do animations much

[TB3]

UPdates Yay 3-31:
- Audio effects worked on
- Extensive gani testing and work gani's completed today
idle,walk,run,pull,grab,pulling,push,swim,lift,car ry,carrystill, and sit
- Seasons system implimented into levels

I'll do more l8r and post some screenie's

[TB3]

Here is an example of the ganis/sprites

[TB3]

I sure do hope people still read this well a small update but none the less bring many elements together to get this!!
I rainy day... but still omfg! lolz
Like no?

[kabouter]

That looks really nice TB3!!

[Spark910]

That looks really cool.
How far off being ready with lots of content?

[xManiamaNx]

Looking really good.

[WanDaMan]

Awesome man

[GoZelda]

Coolies.

[TB3]

I started playing around with terrain yesterday because I never had before and I made a tileset for it also heheh
It wont be used for the server levels however it may make a nice mini game or something.

[WanDaMan]

Add more gradiented colours to that grass and god damm, we have a great server ;O!I love it..

[Admins]

Originally posted by konidias
I'd advise you not to use the attach feature in ganis. I thought it would be a simpler way to make my ganis as well, but it really screws with layering and such.

The attach thing works quite good, it's recommended to use that if you want to easily edit your animations. You can attach on top (ATTACHSPRITE) and below the sprite (ATTACHSPRITE2), never had problems with that on Kingdoms.

About Fear:
The character looks quite amazing

[TB3]

Originally posted by Stefan


The attach thing works quite good, it's recommended to use that if you want to easily edit your animations. You can attach on top (ATTACHSPRITE) and below the sprite (ATTACHSPRITE2), never had problems with that on Kingdoms.

About Fear:
The character looks quite amazing

Wow ATTACHSPRITE2 I didnt know that thanks that helps alot now I dont have my previous problems heheh.
And thanks Justin made the original body graphic I just finished them up (fixed the pixel errors too) and organized them lolz I also made some variations of the bodies such as race and sickness ect...

Below attached is a snap of the tileset I made (The idea for it came from windwaker) and also a diff character body.

UPDATES:
Created body variations / ethnic variations
Im working on God's Level Path NPC
- This npc does everything you can imagine to a level. It's almost done!!! Its probably one of the hardest things I have ever scripted because it is so comprehensive its almost insane. I will give an example of a level created with it, The main thing now is testing different values with the random seeds that im using. Although its no substitute for hand tiling it can probably reduce the ammount of time to tile a level by 80 or more % depending on how indepth you plan on getting. The water on water part is the most painfull because you have 2 tiles for water sides and then you have to do all those freakin calculations for placing tiles its making my head hurt.
It does things in this order through the whole level with one click
- Paths dirt into grass
- Paths grass into grass
- Paths grass onto grass
- Paths deep water onto water ( I may just drop this out and make a seperate path npc for it)
- Adds 1x1 variation tiles ( water rock / grass scraps / weeds / blah)
- Adds almost all predefined objects as well as defined ones that I have created @ a random rate all about level.
( all of this is added @ a random rate of course)
The hardest part so far has been the pathing because it doesnt involve mouse dragging interaction it has to decide a route to take a kind of A. Im doing it mostly in random sized rectangles usualy smaller than 30x30 because of it interfering with other things too much that can all be changed later depending on how much of what I want where.
*END rant* err updates

[TB3]

ITS 5 IN THE FREAKING MORNING IVE BEEN UP FOR ALMOST 8 HOURS WORKIN ON THIS PATH NPC and its pretty much FINISHED THANK YOU JESUS
I just created an ordinary map with the level generator take a look

[TB3]

Now I go through each level and click onetime with my GOD Lat NPC and this comes out

[TB3]

I now jump into the map and warp to a random level and take a screenie
ONW IM GIONG TO LSEEP!!!

[WanDaMan]

Care to show me it in the tileset?
I tried making a path lastnight, but I got confused.. Hrmm can I have your AIM please?

[TB3]

Originally posted by WanDaMan
Care to show me it in the tileset?
I tried making a path lastnight, but I got confused.. Hrmm can I have your AIM please?

Its kind of easy Ill show you a neat way to find the tiles easier and to make path npc's easier
Ill pm you l8r with my aim

And here is a s/c of how the map is coming along

[kabouter]

That map is amazing TB3!

[TB3]

Well its l8 again but I made something new
A new path npc that changes a level that looks like this
(which was also completely generated)

[TB3]

Into this by changing the tiles to beachside tiles
Dunno bout you but it will save me allotta work considering i still have several hundred levels left to work on

[D1ce2]

Interesting,But when you use that one click level editing, Doesn't the 'Half Grass' Still show there when you use other objects in a level?
Also its a sign of Lazyness, Don't use it all on "Fear" Mabie a few levels, I would like to see this server .

[TB3]

Originally posted by D1ce2
Interesting,But when you use that one click level editing, Doesn't the 'Half Grass' Still show there when you use other objects in a level?

??? Kinda confused me ? I can make it remove the halfgrass if I want I could even make a path npc to remove all half grass from a level. Is that what you mean?

Originally posted by D1ce2
Also its a sign of Lazyness, Don't use it all on "Fear" Mabie a few levels, I would like to see this server .

Lazzy? try making that npc!! j/k
Pretty much all the levels on Fear are hand tiled many by such people as mmmmkay / shadowless / me / Spanky / and some more.
I'm trying to get an outline built on the other big island using this method to quicken things I still have to go back and change things arround (hand tile them) and make them look alot better but its a whole heck of alot easier to finish up tiling a level when it looks like this to start with

See below

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[WanDaMan]

Does the path generator do any more angles?
Do a whole level of just moving the mouse and then post it

[TB3]

Originally posted by WanDaMan
Does the path generator do any more angles?
Do a whole level of just moving the mouse and then post it

That whole level I posted was just
ONE click (objects, paths , everything)
well 2 cause the beachsidepather is a second npc
And I used the sandpath2 to fill in the gaps between the beachside and the other sections

[TB3]

I went through in a matter of minutes and converted that 100+level map i showed earlier that was entirely generated into the beachside tile type around the edges where the water is

[TB3]

Made me a new Pathing npc that does sand 3 different ways at once and reverses them for a total of 6 variations in tiling.
Looks kinda nice what you think?

[R0bin]

nice :O

[WanDaMan]

Wow, haha they rock
The second NPC Path thing, went a bit wrong though, but what not, wow :O!

[Dach]

nice work
*cough*editnpc*cough**hack* ow *rubs throat*

[TB3]

Originally posted by Dach
nice work
*cough*editnpc*cough**hack* ow *rubs throat*

*sniff* arent they just *achooooo* wonderfull

[R0bin]

edit the path npc to put a wave of dancing faeries to kill us all! beware the faeries!






























they are evil.

[TB3]

off subject I found a neat way to use beach tiles
Yeah i know its a little buggy looking but neat I havent seen this done b4

[WanDaMan]

Looks quite good, but I don't think i'll use it
I try to use them like this, with new designs etc :

[NeoJenova]

Originally posted by WanDaMan
Looks quite good, but I don't think i'll use it
I try to use them like this, with new designs etc :

That looks interesting, as if it is rising on one side but the other side looks like a crater... or atleast to me it looks like that.

[WanDaMan]

Originally posted by NeoJenova



That looks interesting, as if it is rising on one side but the other side looks like a crater... or atleast to me it looks like that.

Yup, same here