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http://dougbot.com/forum/meatHoleDemon.jpg A real wizard, physically he's taller yet thinner than a Shambler. A number of magical ranged attacks as well as summoning abilities and physical regeneration. When the player first sees him he's seemingly dead, impaled on a lance jammed into the wall, on their approach he disimpales himself and uses his regenerative magic to recover from the wound. Throughout the battle the player wears him down despite his regeneration until he resorts to destroying the floor, levitating himself around the arena. Heavy attacks can disrupt his concentration though, causing him to fall into the void revealed below. That is clearly not Yog Sothoth, but instead is obviously the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/781008102041/inlineimg/Y/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster_2-thumb-514x514.jpg 3d, though I don't want to post a shot of it - it's too squat and needs a structural rework.
Well tails and tentacles don't get into games much, because they're difficult to animate, same for odd numbered legs on stuff.
(Kudos to Madfox for taking on the tripedal Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath) The tail can stay or go I spose, but I quite like it, and animation in Quake is 8bit interpolated - assuming the engine supports it / it's turned on. Used a Shuffler and Shambler for size reference, but the mesh got taller. But the references were a bit counterproductive as well since he ended up too stocky, like I mentioned. func_messageboard_vote? Wouldn't override a team_remakequake_vote, but would be taken into consideration - Tail or no tail? Mainly thinking of the finnicky animation it'd need. i think the tail is a good idea. it stops the monsters from looking top-heavy from it's spindly legs.
i'd only be worried that vertex dancing may distort the extremely thin and mobile tail. actually yes, kinda like that demon, accept with the wolfmothers teeth when she laughs in that one scene
Good point, the tail is thin and ratlike, so a potential breaker is the
Don't follow you there so much, meTch - Joker and the Thief? ;) Madfox:
That will be awesome! Best monster yet, cant wait to see it with all of the frames of animation and some texturing :) Ijed: MeatHoleDemon looks proper scary. I think the tail gives it a very devilish look. Attacks could be a tricky one. Red fire perhaps? Wouldnt want it to looks cheesy :D Also that picture is very nice, who drew that? Zwiffle/Metch: That looks very sort of nightmareish. Kinda like a Cacodaemon with tentacles and no mouth. And bigger. So nothing like a Cacodaemon. All concepts very quakey. That Meatholedemon would make an OK boss, but I think it would be nice to see more than one of them in an episode. Like you say - a Shambler level enemy. Man I wish I knew where to start with modeling. Throughout the battle the player wears him down despite his regeneration until he resorts to destroying the floor, levitating himself around the arena. Heavy attacks can disrupt his concentration though, causing him to fall into the void revealed below.
This sounds like a really proper intense bossfight. With different stages to drag things out a little bit. I never liked how, in some games, you go "oh shit it's the boss, I better pull out my big guns" and then splat him against the wall in 10 seconds flat, because you used the big guns. Regeneration would avoid this problem I'm sure. ;) But phases are important, just complicated. PainKiller, with all the bosses it had was a good example of what to do / not to do. Like the Cthulhu type swamp monster which nobody understood.
A decent variety of attacks is important as well. I think I might like some kind of room-sized boss that was basically growing on a ceiling and would pop out monsters in self defense while you just shot rockets at it or something. It could be above some kind of arena with lava or other traps that you would have to maneuver around while avoiding other monsters and trying to line up a shot.
I guess the weak points would be eyeballs or something on this giant ceiling-growth, I dunno. Seems like it would be fairly Shubbish. http://www.flyingomelette.com/oddities/sab/mantorok.jpg
Which was a massibe blob with tentacles, covered in eyes and mouths, also impaled by magical pillars which bound it. Similar to what we're planning for Shub, yeah. But that depends on the team. I really should write a bigger post about this sometime, but have you guys played (or heard of) Arkham Horror? It's this RPG-ish multiplayer board game where you fight tons of lovecraftian monsters spewing out of portals to other dimensions, controlled by elder gods. Tons of fun, and all the stars of the Lovecraft bestiary are there. Might be good inspiration for monsters I could figure out how to translate the experience to good ol' Quake.
Crazy intense boss battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucahQg_wWZA Makes me wanna play some Hexen. but im having trouble imaging it walking, it doesn't have legs like the shalrath with the knees bent out
The legs indeed stand indsside out.
I don't know what it is.., making a fast chalk of the model goes fine, as soon as I try my best it ends up in verticemeshes.
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