GLADE Team Project: Dark Magic

[-Archmage-]

Yes, but first you do it really fast and see which team wins, and then do the match again but without speeding up, and focus you attention on how the losing team fights against the winning team...........

[John.d.h]

I'm in the processing of animating the Harpy model that Jamin made for us, and I was wondering... how is she supposed to attack?

[-Archmage-]

From the Harpy concept I saw, I'd think she'd attack viciously with her claws.

[John.d.h]

That's kinda what I was thinking for an air-to-air attack, but I don't know about air-to-ground.

[-Archmage-]

How about a huge movement of wind, a weak but good attack as it would have a splash radius of 5 or something.

[modman]

I'm in the processing of animating the Harpy model that Jamin made for us, and I was wondering... how is she supposed to attack?

How about a huge movement of wind, a weak but good attack as it would have a splash radius of 5 or something.

Good question.  I never thought about it before, but I think Arch's suggestion is fine.  I am pondering whether it will attack ground at all, but I think it is only logical, since it will be the only air unit at the time.

So the options are a melee attack and a particle proj, eh?  I like the particle proj option better, because it will look better than a claw attack.  Also, it can be faster that way.

If we can make a "wind"-looking particle system for the Harpy, I'm all for it.  That's my verdict.  Mark could probably cook up something to look pretty good I think; he is pretty good with particle projections.

[Fluffy203]

OK since holy empire is going to be the opposing faction here i'm going to throw together a very rough alpha by maybe wensday and try to start balancing it with darkmagic 

[John.d.h]

Maybe the Harpy will have two different attacks: a splashing wind gust against ground units, and a high-damage talon attack against flying units.

[-Archmage-]

OK since holy empire is going to be the opposing faction here i'm going to throw together a very rough alpha by maybe wensday and try to start balancing it with darkmagic  

It's better to balance after you finish the mod, because you will probably add new units that will throw off the balance.

Maybe the Harpy will have two different attacks: a splashing wind gust against ground units, and a high-damage talon attack against flying units.

Yea, I think that would be good.

For the gust animation, I think it should thrust both wings diagonally down towards the ground, and then the beast would go shooting back a little after she(I think) flapped her wings.

Oh BTW if anyone has trouble with the particle effect for the wing gust, I can help.

[Fluffy203]

i have all my units complete except the legionnaire lol

[-Archmage-]

Oh, well in that case, are you going to use my Spectators Map?

[Fluffy203]

lol sure i don't really care which map it is , i just need to have it balanced so far 

[-Archmage-]

Well the best way to balance is Spectators Map, just download the spectators package here.
Be sure to read this instructions!

[Fluffy203]

ok thx for that 

[-Archmage-]

No Problem!

Hey John how the animations for the Harpy coming?

[John.d.h]

I still just have standing and walking done.

[-Archmage-]

Oh ok.

[ElimiNator]

J.D.H you mean flying right?

[John.d.h]

You can call them hovering and flying if you prefer.  I was just going with the standard naming conventions.

[ElimiNator]

Just making shure he was a flying unit.

[modman]

With high damage, maybe we could settle for something around 200-350 (slashing, of course!)?  Otherwise it gets ridiculous.

Another thing.  I think that forums are designed to convey ideas, not be chat rooms.  Thus comments like "ok" are not helpful to the discussion, and are in some ways detrimental.  It's annoying because often the discussion is spread apart, so I have to search for it, reading through posts which are a waste of eye exercise.  

Additionally, enough with spectators, OK?  Put it in your sig, or include something in your post besides advertisement.

Finally, please, enough with the off topic.

[titi]

here is the allyp. http://www.titusgames.de/darkmagic/allyp/allyp_v1.zip
blend-file, texture and g3ds included.

But: I had to remove all the cool looking alpha stuff  :'( :'(
It looked much too strange in glest. I separated the model into two parts, the transpareny part and the teamcolor part, but it didn't work.
But I think it still looks ok.

And there is another problem, I don't like the animations I made. The model is completly rigged now and there are 4 animations included too, but I don't like them. Anyone con help here?
Same with the texture, I'm not shure with the red tail and the teamcolor shines through the model everywhere, so someone is probably willing to fix this.

[-Archmage-]

I'll take a look at the anims, and possibly patch them up.

Edit:
Changed the standing and walking anims quite a bit, changed the attack a little, and redid the whole death anim, I like your idea Titi, but instead of the beast floating away, I have it being sucked into itself!
I just have to export to G3D and upload.

Exported all to G3D, testing real quick in-game.

Edit: All Tested, I think they're pretty good!

Download following shortly.

[-Archmage-]

-Download:Allyp_V2.7z - 230.3 Kb

Will get a pic up shortly...

Edit: And here it is!

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9859/allypscreeny.png

[John.d.h]

Nicely done, both of you.  I think you forgot to make the part with the tail single-sided, though.  As it is, it's team color instead of transparency.  Aside from that, no complaints.