The Ascension Of Vigil

Post by **Tyne** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:35 pm

law56ker wrote:Awesome, job I'm glad your reanimating, even though your first animations where good they should turn out even better this time. Did you work on the walking at all so he doesn't appear so stiff as he walks? Nice work on the new grass sprite, is there any other kind of sprites or graphics you would want, Maybe get rid of some of those sprites that are quake related including the health bar thing.

Walking is fine, infact I've gotten compliments on how great I've animated his walk.

I think you should remap the sword or have someone remap it and give it a more metallic look and give the sword handle look different then the blade itself.

The sword graphics are going to be changed.

It would also be cool to see some orginal looking enemies that differ from the ones in quake, maybe you could find someone to remap certain enemies or import something from another game.

I've asked Chillo to replace their models, it's up to him though; otherwise they stay.

I thought of a new level that the grass would work good with, maybe a spooky swamp with grass and piranias in some of the water. Or maybe on some levels you could have some small creeks or rivers where you whould have to cross over logs and if you fell in some sort of fish or monster would start attacking you.

Not a bad idea, I'm upgrading level interactivity and quality at the moment!

I just thought of another idea, since you are redoing the main chracter maybe you could have your orginal character as a boss, or play some role in the game. Maybe after you defeat the game or acheive some goal you could unlock to use or to play along side with. Maybe you could have a couple of moves or specials unique to each character.

The old model may be featured, but I haven't decided how (archers so far use the old model, new animations). Vigil will have a helper already at one point but I'm not saying what it'll be or releasing any details (mostly because I haven't thought of 'em yet) - all I know is his helper will not be human!

Next version is a graphical overhaul on a ton of things, and it may be GOLD. We'll see!

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:04 am

Cool sound good!

DCmad · Post by **DCmad** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:52 am

"The old model may be featured, but I haven't decided how (archers so far use the old model, new animations). Vigil will have a helper already at one point but I'm not saying what it'll be or releasing any details (mostly because I haven't thought of 'em yet) - all I know is his helper will not be human!"

If i could vote, i'd say an eagle flying arround Vigil and casting fireballs randomly.
Or a dog (a replica of your dog) biting enemies.
It could be a good showdown of NPC's AI.

TheDumbAss · Post by **TheDumbAss** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:56 am

Grass looks a lot more natural now than the early shots I saw.
Really interested in seeing the new model in action. Last I heard you had been making really good (and quick) progress on the reanimation.

Keep it up Tyne!

Post by **Tyne** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:54 am

I'm changing TAoV to dynamic music standards, so music will change when you encounter mini-bosses or whenever we want; I was also bored last night and created this piece of music, not sure if it'll be used yet...

http://renegade.circa1984.com/TAoV_MiniBoss.mp3

Comments please? :)

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:32 pm

The music is not too bad although I think it should have a more midevil *dark* grand feel to it. The music seems a little to cheerful for the theme of the game. It's pretty good though. I should try making some music, you ever use reason thats an amazing music making program. I'm sure i'd suck at it but maybe i'll try. I love the lord of the rings soundtrack i think something similar to the more high tempo music from those movies whould work good for taov.

Post by **Tyne** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:21 pm

Better, more suggestions! This one is improved vastly, I may make the choir singing part of the song longer... I added a building up snare which is cool

http://circa1984.com/renegade/TAoV_MiniBoss2.mp3

Post by **Tyne** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:46 pm

[WARNING]: Delete older copy of TAoV if it exists instead of overwriting it! Also note this is also a PRE-MATURE RELEASE and contains a few missing skins on Vigil and a few older models need replacing...

Well, I accidently deleted the old TAoV.rar file when working on my FTP .. I don't have a copy of the old .rar file so I have no other choice!

I wanted atleast 3 new attacks in the next version but oh well.. here's 1 for now!

New version released.
Changes?

Tons! Check http://www.inside3d.com/ for details ...

enjoy the new attack I also just added 30 minutes ago and be sure to check out the relit Castle, and almost-finished Castle2.
Final note, this was released ahead of time so please report all bugs here as usual ...

(I don't care to document them anymore as it really doesn't matter at this point).

Moi · Post by **Moi** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:46 am

Glad to see an update from Tyne!

cant see a newspost on inside3d.com though...

DCmad · Post by **DCmad** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:44 am

He did it again, Tyne changed the way of moding the Quake engine.
Castle2 is perfect.
Couldn't the BoR guys do a 1-1 fighting game with BoR engine? Or a Flip Shot one?

Post by **Tyne** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:49 pm

Special motions for moves are in, plus a new attack! Vigil twirls his sword at crazy speeds then does a finisher I haven't decided on yet..

Moi · Post by **Moi** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:15 am

wow, really great! did someone test if it works on dc?

Imerion · Post by **Imerion** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:52 pm

wow, really great! did someone test if it works on dc?

If I remember right, the game will be tweaked to work on DC once its done.

Post by **Tyne** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:01 pm

Should still work on Dreamcast to a certain degree.

Also I should let you all know that Vigil himself is 241 frames of animation .. earlier today he was 275, the max amount is 256 before Quake breaks!

What's this mean? and why should you care?

1. I had to chop out some animation, the biggest cut was to his 3rd idle animation which is now completely removed. The rest you won't notice as they were mostly repeat frames and now some animation aspects are handled code-wise and not in the .mdl itself!

2. I also gave myself a comfort-zone for 1 or 2 last additional attack(s) which are undecided, however they cannot be over 15 frames of animation!

3. I know the last attack will involve the following input: down, up + attack .. any ideas on what Vigil should do?

After that, he's finito and I'm not adding ANYTHING else to him. Seriously.

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:38 am

You still gotta make those common knights taller they look like little kids. Hopefully you can have your friend retexture them so the game is as unique as it can get.

Also we should try to make some orginal art to put on the stone walls and such and try to elminate anything that reminds us that it is a quake mod. Also maybe we should think of some more sprites for the environment, maybe more bushes and various plants. How hard is it to edit the textures on the night and dogs can they be exported and edited in photoshop?

As for your animations please try to keep thiem as smooth as you can while keeping under your frame limit, i hate nothing more then a great looking game ruined by choppy animation. Anywas great work.

Can someone tell me how to load the levels in this game I've only been able to play the first level cause i forgot how to do that.

DCmad · Post by **DCmad** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:17 am

Can someone tell me how to load the levels in this game I've only been able to play the first level cause i forgot how to do that.

In console ("~"):
map castle2 starts castle2.bsp with initial stats.
changelevel castle2 starts castle2.bsp mataining the stats from the current level. This is the trigger on end level portals.
The available maps are:

arena1
castle
castle2
dungeon
map01

jessman · Post by **jessman** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:45 am

NICE! Any ideas for the next release? This game just seems to get cooler and cooler!

Post by **Tyne** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:14 pm

More screenshots! (REMOVED)

Another new enemy, Ghost(s)! These guys are similar to wraiths but very weak, however they're invisible (almost) and suck away your health automatically. The closer they are to you the faster your health decreases! They cannot kill you however, but they're able to bring your health done to 1 HP. More ghosts == faster death :O! Dangerous indeed!

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:47 am

looks good

Post by **Tyne** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:52 am

Working on the boss fight now! Vigil's animation was updated also by Chillo!