The Ascension Of Vigil
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Slot machine eh, that'd be kinda cool but wouldn't fit in really ..
I'm going to release a new version soon, you'll notice the controls have improved a lot and tons of other tweaks / fixes, etc. All I have to do is fix the camera up and it's ready!
I'm going to release a new version soon, you'll notice the controls have improved a lot and tons of other tweaks / fixes, etc. All I have to do is fix the camera up and it's ready!
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New version released
What's new?
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NOTE: Relics are auto-enabled in this version as they haven't been scattered around the TAoV levels, and also money does nothing as of yet except for collecting...
- Relics are coded in
- Updated a few levels
- Vigil can run back and forth between castle and castle 2 with proper spawning, this isn't finalized however but it's there and it works
- All documented camera styles are now included (mappers)
- New maps included: tower.bsp (Alpha), village.bsp (Alpha), boss1.bsp (nearly complete), cathdral.bsp
- Included a small custom campaign created by neg from Terrafusion: ruins.bsp map will start it
- Castle 2 is finishable
- New music for the tower (will be changed once bl1tz composes new music), and village
- Vigil's flaming head smash requires the "Spin Slash" relic to perform, I've also changed it so it must be executed DURING the double jump instead of any time after it
- Vigil can now block after a double jump
- Vigil no longer loses air mobility after a double jump
- Infinite weird angle wall run glitch fixed
- Rare ledge grab bug fixed
- Red shadows are now back
- Fixed a bug where it was possble to double jump out of a death sequence meaning you gain full health and you do not lose a life
- Vigils animation has been cut and optimized (no more repeated frames in his model), animation cuts aren't noticable except he no longer has a 3rd idle stance
- Vigil has a new attack "Cyclone Crush" which is executed by down, forward + attack, cannot be done in mid air!
- Vigil can now execute his round house kick after a double jump allowing an even larger air combo potential
- Double jump will no longer hurt enemies while you're invunerable after death
- Vigil has a totally new run animation, and ledge grabbing animation
- New enemies: Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- Wraiths become ghosts when killed
- Oriented Vigil's double jump animation properly
- Enemy AI has become smarter
- Knights can now block- The blocking random frequency is also increased properly with difficulty levels
- Spin attack doesn't waste mana hitting flying corpses
- Transparent hud in GLTAoV (Darkplaces)
- New sound effects, Vigil breathes heavily when tired and blood splatter sounds
- I rewrote some of the blocking code, Vigil will now always look properly face the opponent to block .. this includes fireballs coming at him, and the right side of the first boss
I may of missed a few tweaks/changes but it's most likely nothing important! Enjoy this new version because I've worked hard on it for a while (so much that I needed a break!); be sure to deathmatch / coop sometime too eh?
What's new?
---------------
NOTE: Relics are auto-enabled in this version as they haven't been scattered around the TAoV levels, and also money does nothing as of yet except for collecting...
- Relics are coded in
- Updated a few levels
- Vigil can run back and forth between castle and castle 2 with proper spawning, this isn't finalized however but it's there and it works
- All documented camera styles are now included (mappers)
- New maps included: tower.bsp (Alpha), village.bsp (Alpha), boss1.bsp (nearly complete), cathdral.bsp
- Included a small custom campaign created by neg from Terrafusion: ruins.bsp map will start it
- Castle 2 is finishable
- New music for the tower (will be changed once bl1tz composes new music), and village
- Vigil's flaming head smash requires the "Spin Slash" relic to perform, I've also changed it so it must be executed DURING the double jump instead of any time after it
- Vigil can now block after a double jump
- Vigil no longer loses air mobility after a double jump
- Infinite weird angle wall run glitch fixed
- Rare ledge grab bug fixed
- Red shadows are now back
- Fixed a bug where it was possble to double jump out of a death sequence meaning you gain full health and you do not lose a life
- Vigils animation has been cut and optimized (no more repeated frames in his model), animation cuts aren't noticable except he no longer has a 3rd idle stance
- Vigil has a new attack "Cyclone Crush" which is executed by down, forward + attack, cannot be done in mid air!
- Vigil can now execute his round house kick after a double jump allowing an even larger air combo potential
- Double jump will no longer hurt enemies while you're invunerable after death
- Vigil has a totally new run animation, and ledge grabbing animation
- New enemies: Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- Wraiths become ghosts when killed
- Oriented Vigil's double jump animation properly
- Enemy AI has become smarter
- Knights can now block- The blocking random frequency is also increased properly with difficulty levels
- Spin attack doesn't waste mana hitting flying corpses
- Transparent hud in GLTAoV (Darkplaces)
- New sound effects, Vigil breathes heavily when tired and blood splatter sounds
- I rewrote some of the blocking code, Vigil will now always look properly face the opponent to block .. this includes fireballs coming at him, and the right side of the first boss
I may of missed a few tweaks/changes but it's most likely nothing important! Enjoy this new version because I've worked hard on it for a while (so much that I needed a break!); be sure to deathmatch / coop sometime too eh?
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When I get a batch of CDRs? When Dreamcast has more available memory to work with? When the framerate is stable?
No idea, however these are ALL issues. I think RADQuake may actually run it as sad as that is...
No idea, however these are ALL issues. I think RADQuake may actually run it as sad as that is...
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Right, map02 isn't released but it's almost done.. however I have it, and I've never released screenshots either! Why? It's RPG's request that I do not release anything on it until he gives the word too and all the coding and entities are done for it.
If you want to continue playing, after defeating the hell knight in the first level, bring the console down and do "changelevel castle" or whatever map you prefer. The levels may not connect physically but you can still keep playing ... (some levels DO connect physically)
I've said this from the beginning however keep in mind that,
TAoV is NOT a complete game, it's a constantly work in progress till it's reached completion that the public is intended to view and give input and improve on - within my own scope of how it should turn out.
Basically it boils down to me working on a game that I view as super freaking awesome within TAoV's genre (side scrolling 3D beat em up), you guys give suggestions for improving it even more and I take into consideration on wether or not I implement your ideas.
Hope that clears it all up
If you want to continue playing, after defeating the hell knight in the first level, bring the console down and do "changelevel castle" or whatever map you prefer. The levels may not connect physically but you can still keep playing ... (some levels DO connect physically)
I've said this from the beginning however keep in mind that,
TAoV is NOT a complete game, it's a constantly work in progress till it's reached completion that the public is intended to view and give input and improve on - within my own scope of how it should turn out.
Basically it boils down to me working on a game that I view as super freaking awesome within TAoV's genre (side scrolling 3D beat em up), you guys give suggestions for improving it even more and I take into consideration on wether or not I implement your ideas.
Hope that clears it all up
Last edited by Tyne on Sat May 13, 2006 12:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Took a TAoV screenshot with:
Real time dynamic shadowing (Doom 3 lighting), Bloom, Bump mapped textures, Gloss enabled, and a custom gloss mapped skin for Vigil. Good, or ugly? You decide!
Real time dynamic shadowing (Doom 3 lighting), Bloom, Bump mapped textures, Gloss enabled, and a custom gloss mapped skin for Vigil. Good, or ugly? You decide!
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Id say it looks fabulous! The first pic's fantastic. Its amazing to see what those tricks can do.
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Redrew Vigils Mug Shot at the bottom of the screen since the old one was terrible...
Ingame comparison shot:
Ingame comparison shot:
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That's an improvement!
As for the pics above; I don't like them (the effects on them that is). It's all way too plastic-like and too bright in places.
Also I think the background the of flask should be black as well.
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Now for some general questions that bugged me for a while;
-What map-editor do you use?
-Textures. Custom or are the originals free to use in a 'TC' project?
-The camera position is obviously different. Do you need to create camera pathways?
(I did some mapping for Duke Nukem Manhattan project which had camera paths)
As for the pics above; I don't like them (the effects on them that is). It's all way too plastic-like and too bright in places.
Also I think the background the of flask should be black as well.
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Now for some general questions that bugged me for a while;
-What map-editor do you use?
-Textures. Custom or are the originals free to use in a 'TC' project?
-The camera position is obviously different. Do you need to create camera pathways?
(I did some mapping for Duke Nukem Manhattan project which had camera paths)
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I just turned it on for the fun of it since not a lot of people can enable all those effects at once. I like TAoV with a 45+ framerate personally!
Anyways, I've added rain to TAoV; it's animated and also moves properly by the engine and it works in both Darkplaces (looks better due to NODEPTHTEST effect) and regular Quake engines.
The cursor you're seeing is if a piece of geometry blocks the camera, the cursor will help give you an idea of where Vigil is currently standing behind it and is a great visual aid; unfortunately this only works in Darkplaces as Makaqu is lacking the EF_NODEPTHTEST; effect as I mentioned above.
Rain!
Anyways, I've added rain to TAoV; it's animated and also moves properly by the engine and it works in both Darkplaces (looks better due to NODEPTHTEST effect) and regular Quake engines.
The cursor you're seeing is if a piece of geometry blocks the camera, the cursor will help give you an idea of where Vigil is currently standing behind it and is a great visual aid; unfortunately this only works in Darkplaces as Makaqu is lacking the EF_NODEPTHTEST; effect as I mentioned above.
Rain!
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That is seriously a great piece of work. The revamped images and the rain makes it all good. I liked the effects on the previous images. They look really cool and is an easy to see environment. It's like this though. Either you get Star Wars or you get Star Trek. I mean Star Wars was a gritty and dirty with little shine (until the new movies came out.) Star Trek has always been shinny and sparkly, even in the worst of battles. So I would go with the effects that resemble the real world most. Add spiderwebs and dirt and grime to the walls. Make things broken and sloppy looking, like they've existed and been used. The universe isn't clean and shinny.
It's cool your seeing this project through. I'll enjoy the day when a complete copy is play on my dreamcast.
It's cool your seeing this project through. I'll enjoy the day when a complete copy is play on my dreamcast.
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Alright guys, I'm not a 2D artist at all really so I've decided to post some images from TAoV and it would be great if a graphic artist or anyone could either redraw these competely, or retouch em so they're aren't so ugly:
Keep in mind that these images must remain the same dimension/pixel size, and the pink is transparency in Quake! Feel free to use any pallet colours you wish but they will be downgraded to Quakes pallete (as that's required)...
TAoV's horribly ugly title screen:
This one isn't so ugly but is just plain outdated as you can tell with the old Vigil model:
Ofcourse you would get a full credit and perhaps access to secret TAoV betas if you wish... Thanks!
Keep in mind that these images must remain the same dimension/pixel size, and the pink is transparency in Quake! Feel free to use any pallet colours you wish but they will be downgraded to Quakes pallete (as that's required)...
TAoV's horribly ugly title screen:
This one isn't so ugly but is just plain outdated as you can tell with the old Vigil model:
Ofcourse you would get a full credit and perhaps access to secret TAoV betas if you wish... Thanks!
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Tyne; I don't know if you noticed but with the word 'ascension' in that image (I think it was used for loading?), the spelling is incorrect. I figure that whole image should be redone.Tyne wrote:This one isn't so ugly but is just plain outdated as you can tell with the old Vigil model:
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Oh god, you're right.. :P Thanks for pointing that out!Vash*The*Stampede wrote:Tyne; I don't know if you noticed but with the word 'ascension' in that image (I think it was used for loading?), the spelling is incorrect. I figure that whole image should be redone.Tyne wrote:This one isn't so ugly but is just plain outdated as you can tell with the old Vigil model:
Redraw needed stat! umm any takers? perhaps friends? family? pets?
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