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Modding and game content creation => Mods => Topic started by: wciow on 1 October 2010, 09:58:21
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Click the link below for the third release of undead faction :)
(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9440/ud3.png) (http://www.mediafire.com/?h8h538byg154eh6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_0emkBKZo
Mirror Download (http://download.megaglest.org/techs/undeadpack.7z)
(updated to add mirror to it gets seen -- arch)
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Just some general observations -
Great textures on the buildings.... the headquarters is outstanding - awesome styling.
The team colors image on the barracks and catapult unit are far too large.
The units look pretty darn cool, the animations are fluid and the overall styling pleasing.
Nice work, looking forward to the final version.
(http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/TrappinGlestMaps/Glest%20Other/Glest%20Tileset/undead_screen2.jpg)
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when you said "Undead," i was originally thinking that they would be your stereotypical zombies...
i was disappointed...
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Wow! Very nice looking. After seeing that image, I can't wait to go home and download (stupid school blocks mediafire now too).
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This is quite a nice start, and I look forward to the completed version.
The team colors image on the barracks and catapult unit are far too large.
I'm inclined to disagree. I think it's a fine style choice. To each his own, of course. ;)
Kinda hard to critique this since I don't know what is still WIP and what's done. The Warrior's attack animation could use a little attention. He seems to lunge through the target. The Armoury is multi-selectable, and the Void Stone has wooden armor. Not sure if either of those are intentional, but I suspect they're not. I guess you probably did intend for the Balista to have impact damage, but I can't be sure, so I might as well point it out. Plus, I'm pretty sure it's spelled "Ballista", unless maybe that's a national variation. The Void Stone also doesn't have any team color. I'm assuming the attack icons are still WIP.
Some of the units could maybe use some more variety in their textures. I don't know what rules apply to your undead, but real corpses aren't just solid gray, and adding some open wounds, dried blood, etc., could be good for the horror factor. Currently pretty much everything is gray: stone buildings, old wooden siege equipment, corpses, and so on. It might help to have some more "damaged" looking animations, like if one leg drags behind because it's broken.
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Cool, you've posted it! Guess I will try it out again.
i was disappointed...
Well, I'm not.
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Very nice building models, I love the original art style 8)
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project status?
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Update is on the first post ^
Once again comments and opinions welcome :)
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Psst, description, images, etc on first post? :)
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I have played your new alpha release.
I like your mod's unique design buildings and fluent animations of units.
especially I think the mod's constructing animation of the buildings which rise slowly from the ground is very nice. :thumbup:
I also like the overall creepy mood of the buildings and the units have.which somehow reminds me the series of novels by great H.P.Lovecraft. :D
but I feel a bit desolate about lack of the sound effects.even if it's an alpha.with sounds,the mod's impression will be awesomely improved.Are you going to prepare all sound effects by yourself? :o
I hope you keep up good work! :thumbup:
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Maybe I'll create a wiki page for this today :)
but I feel a bit desolate about lack of the sound effects.even if it's an alpha.with sounds,the mod's impression will be awesomely improved.Are you going to prepare all sound effects by yourself? :o
Heh, actually a lot of Glest mods have sounds by the own dev...maybe 50 to 60 percent of the mods. Sometimes they are pretty good though, I mean, I know that for the norsemen faction, titi used his own voice + family and friends...of course I bet he still altered them a bit, but it came out nice...one of the many good examples. But I guess using other sources for sound is ok, as long as credit is given and it has the right license...
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I love the buildings coming up from the ground.... so fresh!
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Maybe I'll create a wiki page for this today :)
I wouldn't actually recommend that yet. It's still a "preview alpha". I say wait till we have a working final release until we have a wiki page, unless you wish to take into aspect the unfinished-ness of the mod...
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....whoa.... dude, those buildings are awesome, where'd you learn to texture like that?
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this mod is most amazing indeed. the buildings look brand new! and how about a closer look to the models eh? zombies or mummies or skeletons are they?
can you please list us the units. also the looks of their wepons. and upgrades.
cheers mate! nice mod
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Very nice mod! :)
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The final version of undead will be released sometime before the new year (hopefully), after that I plan on making a GAE only version which is closer to how I imagined the faction to work. I shall be asking questions and documenting as I go.
Oh, really? Hmm... you should have posted the link for the 2nd version then...
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I love this mod, can't wait for the GAE version. ;D
Have you planed out a full tech-tree? can we see it? :angel:
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you should have posted the link for the 2nd version then...
Click on the logo on the first post. Its a link to the download ;)
@Hands
Yeah I have a finished tech tree for the mod. I've added a couple of units from what I originally planned. The whole faction is nearing completion and should be ready before the new year. Once this is completed I will change the XMLs to GAE only tags and add extra emanations and effects and possibly a new unit or two.
Units which will be in the next release are:
Spirit - Worker unit
Warrior - Light meatshield
Crossbowman - Ranged unit
Ballista - Ranged anti-building
Plague Catapult - Ranged anti-infantry
Tomb Guard - Medium melee/anti-air unit
Wight - Healing support caster
Liche Guard - Heavy melee unit
Liche - Powerful caster/summoner
Bat Rider - Air unit
Possible new units for the GAE version include: a large monstrous size 2 unit, an aquatic unit, a transport unit, a burrowing unit or maybe something else.
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Oh yeah... I forgot about that. Again? :-[ :O
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Really interesting mod but theres one big problem when i played it. The worker units are invisible so the only way i could see them was from the shadows. Some people can not run glest with shadows so they turn shadows off. If they do that there is no way to see the units and no way to use the mod.
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Really interesting mod but theres one big problem when i played it. The worker units are invisible so the only way i could see them was from the shadows.
Currently the workers are represented by particles only. Players who turn off particles and shadows will not see them at all.
I will release a simple model which can be used in place of the default invisible one. Changing this one file will allow you to see the workers, but it probably wont be as nice to look at
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I like this faction well made, but i have two suggestions:
1) When i click on a worker it doesnt happens anything, i have to click in the space around the worker and this is a little annoying for me because i never remember it and i always click on the worker (in the white part) and nothing happens! Can you make the worker clickable even when you click on it and not only in the space around him?
2) It would be nice to have some flying units like bats or a vulture (picture --> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Gyps_fulvus_-Oakland_Zoo-8a.jpg/300px-Gyps_fulvus_-Oakland_Zoo-8a.jpg )
Keep working on your mod! :)
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A tip for the workers: Make two transparent planes and cross them like an intersection forming a boxish shape so that when you click on the place where the body would be, you select the unit. 8)
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New release on the first post.
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Jollygood :D
Buildings and unit models qualities are getting more better and better,I'm very impressed.I think they have magitech quality.
one question:when the sounds come?
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I played the v3 and its very nice!
Even if i still have that problem with worker that when you click on it it doesnt work and you have to click on the space close him..however i thought about an improvement for the workers.
Now when they mine or harvest you can't really tell if they are doing it or not so i thought would be nice an animation like these: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5431/30719512.jpg
with this improvement you could tell what and if the workers are working or not. Hope someone will comment my idea :)
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Even if i still have that problem with worker that when you click on it it doesnt work and you have to click on the space close him..however i thought about an improvement for the workers.
Now when they mine or harvest you can't really tell if they are doing it or not so i thought would be nice an animation like these: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5431/30719512.jpg
with this improvement you could tell what and if the workers are working or not. Hope someone will comment my idea :)
agreed, i like this idea
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I got this in GAE.
Glest Advanced Engine: Error log file.
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
XML Error in techs/magitech/factions/undead/units/liche_guard/liche_guard.xml:
Error loading ParticleSystem: techs/magitech/factions/undead/units/liche_guard/head_particle.xml
Error loading ParticleSystem: techs/magitech/factions/undead/units/liche_guard
Error converting from string to int (base = 10), found: 0.3
I'm not sure if this is GAE's fault or the mods, so I guess I'll just leave it here.
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@Hands
This is because the particles for the Liche Guard have an emission rate of 0.3. Just change this to 1 in both particle files and it should work fine :)
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Stickied.
Great! Going to try this...but is it GAE only now? :/ Not yet, right? I want to try it out with others...
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Currently its GAE/MG compatible.
The next release will be GAE only since most units will have some kind of special attack or ability with GAE only tags.
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OK so the WIKI Page was created https://docs.megaglest.org/Undead
Also, I test this faction and it seems very cool...
Main things to do:
- Provide hold position for units
- Make outposts repairable
- Make spirits to have different animations, etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_0emkBKZo
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@Wciow:
Is there some kind of license on which you publish your undead mod, for example some variant of creative commons ? CC BY-SA maybe ?
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Hmm, its been a while since I made the Undead mod. From what I can remember it is all made by me with just a few photos from burningwell which are Public Domain.
I like to release all of my works as Public Domain. Some mods such as Dwarves contain parts of magitech (mainly sounds) and the last "official" release by Archmage was marked with some CC license, which I don't mind.
I recently looked into helping the Planeshift RPG project and then recoiled in horror when i saw their licensing terms. Basically I get bored by licensing stuff so anything released by me will usually be Public Domain unless it contains someone else work which requires a certain license.
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I like to release all of my works as Public Domain. Some mods such as Dwarves contain parts of magitech (mainly sounds) and the last "official" release by Archmage was marked with some CC license, which I don't mind.
Thank you for reply, and thank you for using such generous license. I'll be sure to credit your great work even if license does not require it.
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I've tested this mod in last GAE release, it does not work as-is. There are a couple of issues:
- in liche_guard/head_particle.xml and feet_particle.xml, emission-rate is 0.3, and GAE does not support it. I've tried setting it to 1, it works now.
- in necropolis/destruction_models/ruin.tga, texture size is not a power of 2. I've set it to 256x256 (leaving the rest empty), it works now.
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I love this mod, so atmospheric especially with Swamp tile set. I think swamp tile set would be cool with some really eerie distant horn sounds instead of the birds at daybreak though.
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The link to the faction seems to be broken :(
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Yes the link says the file has been removed by the author or by mediafire, is still wciow around?If yes can you upload the mod again? If wciow is not active any more does someone have this mod in his/her pc?It would be good if someone would reupload it. It's a good faction and one of those i would like to see in megapack (together with japanese).
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Yes I'm still here, just not posting as often as I used to. I'll dig out my old copy and get someone to host it somewhere more permanent. I might also make a few additions with new mg features (attack boosts, multi animations, etc) ;)
I'm still working on my storm ravens faction (for about a year) but I don't get as much time to mod as I used to :'(
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Thanks! If you would improve the workers with my idea (see above) it would be great too!
ps: if i am not wrong your mod was more GAE oriented right? Now that GAE development seems stopped you could make it more megaglest oriented and upload it on the mod centre :)
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Sorry if my question is stupid, but how can I download this faction? I'm trying to get it but http://www.mediafire.com/320 talks me that:
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Invalid or Deleted File.
The key you provided for file download was invalid. This is usually caused because the file is no longer stored on MediaFire. This occurs when the file is removed by the originating user or MediaFire.
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Can you help me?
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I'm afraid it looks like the download link has broken. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the faction myself. Does anyone else?
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So if anyone have this faction I'd like you to post it in internet and give me the link or send it to me by e-mail, my e-mail address is SLSH550-^-GMAIL.COM
or by other ways.
Thanks in advance.
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I guess you mean here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=80906450624869754633 (http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=80906450624869754633) .
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The file Atze pointed to is now mirrored on download.megaglest.org (http://download.megaglest.org/techs/undeadpack.7z), too.
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Great! is a wonderful mod, well worked.
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Original thread: https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=5985.0
If you never played them here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqt17fz7QA
Supposedly a WIP but pretty functional and almost 10 years later the original download link still works :o
No traces of license to be found and author is not active since 2018 however:
"Quote from: wciow on 7 September 2011, 10:01:51
Hmm, its been a while since I made the Undead mod. From what I can remember it is all made by me with just a few photos from burningwell which are Public Domain.
I like to release all of my works as Public Domain. Some mods such as Dwarves contain parts of magitech (mainly sounds) and the last "official" release by Archmage was marked with some CC license, which I don't mind.
I recently looked into helping the Planeshift RPG project and then recoiled in horror when i saw their licensing terms. Basically I get bored by licensing stuff so anything released by me will usually be Public Domain unless it contains someone else work which requires a certain license."
So they are under PD.
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It turns out that AI struggle with producing certain units as it produces only a few types :/ Testing and fixing this, is necessary before adding to mod center.
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Mod center is not made for beta tests . Mods must be in a quite poolished, play ready state to get added there.
This mod is not "ready" yet.