Elf Faction 0.9.7 & 2.0A (Both MG Compatible)

[gameboy]

yeah! i saw that, thats why i changed the build time of all trees to 1.
@mictes i changed the order of the commands 1st the stop 2nd move 3rd harvest 4th plant 5th build 6th attack 7th repair. you also can change the order of the buildings you want to build.

[verarticus]

so is the download link in the secound post the new one with the changes? or is it not out yet or do we need to change it ourselves?

[gameboy]

i'll post it on wednesday.

[gameboy]

bad news, as soon as i lower the starting resources and put restrictions for units and buildings the ai stops doing anything other create more elves and do nothing, and when i remove restrictions but lower the starting resources the harvest. i'll try to fix it if i can't then i'll release 0.6 and let one you try it.

[ZaggyDad]

The screenshots look great, but you might want to remake the texture of the town center(or the whole thing), because it looks sorta bland.

[gameboy]

if your talking about the tree of life then thats just a big tree, theres a new model in 0.6, so be sure to download it.

[gameboy]

okay i still can't get the AI to work, but why delay a release, so here it is.
http://http://www.mediafire.com/?lycmee5mg1t
68MB
The Changes:
Added Content:
Units:
Magol Hedir
Gryphon
Wood Guard
Upgrades:
Beast Taming
Elven Taming lore
Other:
Music
Fixes:
changed the Tree of life model
added song command to units
added grow command to tree
changed Corral and Academy models
removed shapshooter from archers
fixed plant command, now all tree grow almost instantly

[titi]

I wanted to try it, but it doesn't work (for me) whats wrong?
I simply get
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

Is this mod only for GAE?

[gameboy]

what?
I tried it in the original glest it works, did anyone else get this problem?

[wciow]

I just tried your faction and I think its very good. I tried it in GAE 0.2.10 and it works without any problems.
I'd like to post my constructive criticisms for your faction.

+ Excellent faction music loop.
+ Tree based buildings are great! especially the growing tree and the wood guard.
+ magol hedir looks good.
+ Tech tree is not too big or complex like some other faction mods
+ Unit models and textures are generally good.
/ 2d icons are well made but are hard to differentiate because they are all green.
/ Ents are not implemented yet
- The resource system doesn't seem to work very well.
- Faction is massively unbalanced atm. (this covers alot of different problems)
- Forge building seems unnecessary to house a single upgrade.
- Non-tree building textures need improvement.
- Griffon texture needs improvement.

Thats all I can think of right now.

[titi]

ok, now it works for me too!
I installed it again and now its working. I don't know what was wrong.

And its really a nice new faction!!!
Lots of good new model.
Some are a bit too big for my opinion and some build up much too fast (trees).
The buttons look really good, but it's a bit difficult to devide them.

One hint for the animations. You should export one frame less. If the start and the end frame looks the same, skip the end frame. Otherwise you get these stocking animations.
Another problem I see is that the cpu will always have trouble with the sing ressource. Probably its better to replace it with something like housing, something like  every units needs a tree( or a part of a tree ) to live. But probably I'm wrong and you get the things working.

I think there are still a lot of things to do, but I'm very curious what it looks like when it is in the final version!

[gameboy]

thanks for the complements, comments and tips.
actually most of my walk animations have one frame less, but thanks anyway.
as for the buildings, i'm still at designing some smaller ones hopefully in my next release they'll be smaller,for sing i think i'll change it back to food.
i'm still working on perfecting the trees so... well whatever.

[gameboy]

okay, i'm having trouble texturing the wise elf, so i'm hoping one of you guys could help, i want the texture to be like Elrond in LOTR you know flowing gown and all that, thanks in advance.
[attachment=1:mcacqoph]wise_elf.rar[/attachment:mcacqoph]
[attachment=0:mcacqoph]wise elf.jpg[/attachment:mcacqoph]

- The resource system doesn't seem to work very well.
- Faction is massively unbalanced atm. (this covers alot of different problems)
- Forge building seems unnecessary to house a single upgrade.
- Non-tree building textures need improvement.
- Griffon texture needs improvement.

i didn't see this before, i'm sorry.
resource - for sing, i'm going to change it to grace for that, i'm gonna have to add another building, the Elven Sanctuary.
unbalanced - ATM
Forge - i'm gonna remove a the elven taming lore upgrade, so i'll add two more upgrades for the forge.
Texture - i'll see to it, btw by buildings which ones do you mean.
Gryphon - My bro said the same thing he said it looked like a dog, so i'm going to totally re-model the gryphon(even though i spent four days, animating it).

[horusofoz]

You Elf faction looks pretty cool to me. Can't wait to play it and the other new factions you guys are working on.

[gameboy]

here's a teaser wciow
THE Ent

fully animated, i just need the wise elf for a new release

[wciow]

Wow! the Ent looks really good gonna be good to see it in-game.

I'll go finish texturing the Wise elf.

[titi]

simply wow!
this model is really good!

[gameboy]

okay, 0.8 is set to release sometime in the second week next month, it won't have any new sounds, but many new models and retextures and of course a few units: the Ent, Minstrel, Wise Elf, Huorn and two new upgrades.

[ZaggyDad]

Wowza. That rar is 68 Mb. Most of the other factions are usually 15 Mb. How'd it get so big?

[gameboy]

aaa... its not very clean and the models are very big and some have two to three texture files.
BTW its good to see you back, its been like month.

[Omega]

Wow, it is looking good. Nice ent model. I'll download it on my school computer later, this is just too huge for dial-up. (Boy, am I glad military will probably be about 1 MB per unit uncompressed, much smaller).

Oh, and it IS nice to see Zaggy back.

[modman]

I will implement the Ent model in the next version of Dark Magic BTW.  I will retexture it, but the real goal is to have a different model, and actually, it will look completely different.  This one is like a live tree; the Treant in Dark Magic is a dead one.

[gameboy]

can someone do the sounds?
i post some elvish words soon, right now i can only remember one, Le - Yes.

[modman]

Sorry, my hands are a bit tied at the moment!

[gameboy]

okay so i modeled the gryphon, i want to know if the texture is good enough, because i want to start the gryphon rider and i don't want to do all that work if the texture is not good. so here it is:

Sorry, my hands are a bit tied at the moment!

So will you do it when your hands are free?
I don't want sounds till the final release.