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@ Lardarse: What gets asked a lot? Whether Preach is Preacher, or any of my other questions in this topic?
@ MadFox: a modified Ogre, I like it :) Hi all.. very interesting thread !
I'm making(trying) new models for my single player Quake projects 3dsMax for the 3D
Qwalk to export the models Photoshop for the textures Goldwave for sounds notepad++ for coding fteqcc to compile the Qc Maybe concentrate on one thing at first, but once you get a bit more practice monsters can be put together pretty quickly. Making GOOD monsters is harder and takes a lot more time, but is worth it. A lot of the stuff I list up there I have access to through work, though there are a lot of freeware programs that can be used instead - I've heard of Animation Master, Blender, Paint Shop Pro etc that can be used instead of the otherwise expensive 3D/2D stuff. gimp is a free alternative to photoshop.
i had a really hard time trying to use it though, because i've been using photoshop for years now. i think, though, if you never used photoshop, learning gimp would be simple because you don't have to unlearn all the PS shortcuts. i hear often that it's quite good, too. Great UI. Has its qerks but its good. Can take a while to load, it always loads loads of fonts before opening. I think photoshop is probably much better TBH. I've been using CS4 web edition which doesn't have photoshop, but the draw module in Flash I thought was awesome. You cant do that stuff with GIMP. You can do weird script-stuff in GIMP but I have never had a handle on any of that stuff. :(
Do you mean vectors? Use Inkscape for that.
I love GIMP. And I really like it's seperate windows because my window manager allows me to control them nicely. To do simple drawing I have to use paint. But for editing bitmaps GIMP is awesome. I mean there's a clone tool, brushes like PSP, a magic wand selection tool like photoshop etc. But it doesnt have a line tool. Sometimes a curved line is what you need, and you cant get one from GIMP.
Here's what I've been thinking about one of our 'new' enemies.
It should be a Shalrath class enemy, although much more defensive / medic class. The vomit attack is its primary ability: It eats any gibs lying around if it has no player in view or has no player, which become gib ammo. If a grenade is fired at it then it is diffused and becomes grenade ammo. It only vomits at player entities When vomiting it fires a qty of stuff at the player dependant on the skill level 1-4 Grenades act the same as normal player grenades - they bounce and later explode If a Vomitus manages to hit itself with a Grenade or gib then it is re-consumed Gib ammo bounces but does not explode, causing 5 damage to any non-undead hit Grenade ammo bounces and explodes as normal, it can gib undead Any non-special ammo is deigned as blood ammo, the default Blood ammo does not bounce and causes 3 damage on hit As well as this the Vomitus can create zombies (after chewing) from any human-sized corpse. Bigger corpses produce a zombie and a number of gibs dependant on how big it is. A gib produces one gib ammo Dogs and fish produce two gib ammos Scrags, Grunts and Enforcers produce a zombie and one gib ammo Ogres produce a zombie and 3 gib ammos Vores Produce two zombies and 3 gib ammos Shamblers produce three zombies and 2 gib ammos A dead player produces one zombie and one gib ammo, and any grenades carried are converted to grenade ammo So, the ideaa is that it's not transforming the corpse but instead reconstituting it into something else... I'm thinking also that three rockets or a combination of damages finishing with a rocket are needed since it instantly 'dispels' grenades and has a melee ability to fall back on called devour. Devour deals 100 damage to anything hit, instantly converting it to ammo if killed (removing any corpse) Vomitii ignore attacks by all other monsters (they're not the sensitive type) Other monsters can't gib a Vomitus, and forget about it once it temporarily dies first, i don't think it needs ammo.
i like the idea that it gains the ability to fire a grenade if it catches one, but there's no need to complicate matters by keeping track of how many it's got. all a player needs to know is that "when i fire a grenade at this thing, it can fire it back". a simple 'if grenade is caught, then next attack is a grenade attack' type of thing is all that's needed to convey this. after the first grenade catch, subsequent grenades are still caught, but won't trigger another grenade attack until the first has been completed. also, i don't see why it couldn't catch missiles too. while it would be cool if it could fire actual missiles back at the player from a gameplay pov, it doesn't really make much sense. still, if it could convert missiles to grenades, that'd still be an interesting mechanic. for it's normal ranged attack, i don't see why you'd want to limit it with gib ammo unless it's some kind of overpowering ability, which would be bad for other reasons. as for the whole zombie resurrection thing, it seems like there's too many abilities on one monster. especially if you're going use the vomitus as a base, which has a really boring and ugly model. basically just a blob with a couple of tentacles. this is just opinion, but resurrection abilities seem way too cool to put on a blob. :P The 'I fire this, it fires it back' is pretty much what it does. The whole 'ammo' thing is just how it works internally.
Not being able to change rockets is just to allow the player to kill it, explained that the velocity of the thing causes it to explode. The overpowering ability is being able to manufacture new enemies - the ressurection thing is just to underline the fact that it's undead and make it tough to kill. It can also start 'deflated' until triggered. Already redone the mesh :) Finally, about the complexity, a lot of our monsters are more complex than the originals, but to the player remain relatively simple. The idea isn't to confuse the player but leave them thinking 'ah cool, I'll be ready for that next time!' So grunts that strafe and reload as opposed to patient Enforcers who lie in wait makes both more complex from a code standpoint, but the game more varied and interesting overall. is the typical open source application. It has great features, is stable and performs well, but it looks and feels like shit. It does not adhere to any GUI standards on any platform that I know! I have never been able to use it at all.
I find Gimp, Blender, and GTKRadiant a lot more intuitive than PaintShopPro, Gmax, and Worldcraft.
I haven't tried Photoshop because I can't be arsed to pay the monstrous sum that some evil commercial entity requires. Same for 3ds max. I find Blender's UI to be superb, actually. GIMP is getting there, it's already down to two windows.
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