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Ok, what about an aformentioned static shub based a bit off the Doom revenant ?
Can summon or resurrect beasts, maybe indicated visually with an electric bolt from its "arms" to indicate which monster is being revived. Make it interruptable if a decent shot is landed. Additionally could fire short electric bolts from its "arms" when player is in range. Give him a hp count of maybe 1.5x/2x the Shambler Also the ability to very shortly and occasionally teleport away and back as a dodge mechanic - only if it is not busy resurrecting or attacking you with bolts. Place him in a room with some other beasts to contend with whilst avoiding getting too close (light punishment from bolts) and interrupting his resurrects, all the while landing damage in him, made harder if attacked whilst idle as he can then occasionaly teleport 1 second to the aether out of the projectiles way. Probably a nightmare to code but that would make a cool mini boss to drop here and there. Considering the amount of unused animations on many other monsters I find it rather unlikely that there was no time to give the Vore a few inhale and exhale frames.
If they had intended for the vore to have a non-breathing stand frame, and had plenty of time to create animations, why didn't they create a frame for it? They just reused a frame from the standing animation. It smacks of a placeholder nobody remembered to revisit, not a conscious artistic choice. "No Vore idle" was not an artistic choice. In the same way, the axe having no impact flesh sound, and the rotfish not having a gib, were also not artistic choices.
When you are rushing to get a game out the door, certain little things just never get round to being done. Loads of stuff gets lost and forgotten during development.
Six months later you're playing it on disc and see something "oh shit who left that in there?" Humans have a tendency to sexualize everything. Giger knew that, and his designs are actually a parody of the human mindset, I guess (something like �You want sex? Then I'll make it gross for you"). Just like Beksinski said that the morbid and depressed designs of his own art felt actually humorous to him.
However, in Lovecraft�s works the monster designs are actually serious. The twisted ones in his works are not the monsters, but the humans (the more human-like a creature is, the higher the chances of it being a mutated human). This may have to do with the monsters in his works usually having some kind of religious role, either as servants or as gods. In Lovecraft�s work, the lost and the twisted are usually humans. Gods like Nyarlathotep may be chaotic to mortals, but they're actually following their own rules. "Error: model progs/shambler.mdl has a skin taller than 200"
says the DOS Quake version that comes with the GoG installation of Quake. It's version 1_08 from Mar 11 1997. They must've upped the limit later than that, if it ever was changed for the DOS version at all. I'm not planning on playing Quake with it, so it's not an issue. I wont be getting to the fiend any time soon. Once I am done with the Vore I will be taking a break to finish my Anatomy course which will take me till end of July before I will resume any personal projects sadly. Then again folks lasted this long so what is a few more months? :)
Well everyone I've finally got around to adding custom giblets for Arcane Dimensions to go along with this HD shambler release.
The above links have all been updated so the ZIP and readme "should" be the latest versions. New Screenshot!! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1849053/Shambler_Gibs_Done.jpg Give it a try and tell me what you think. Cheers! But what about a remake of our favorite bitch on three legs, with a bloody oozing snatch and puffy tits ?
Vore and shambler are among the best models in the game. I think of all the monsters they should've been remade the last (unless every subpar monster model was remade already).
Anyway, looks great. the axe having no impact flesh sound
Actually, it has, but it only works on other players, and is a horrible hack. Barnak later end of the year I will resume that project. But your dream version will stay a dream. I wont go down that path for the Vore. Feel free to make it yourself though.
Dwere - Nope the Shambler was the worst offender next to the Vore when it comes to a model that was lower that the most basic enemies in terms of polycount and pixel density. That is why I put them on my list first. You can find some notes of that in the text file. Happy gibbing everyone!
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