Revival of BattleGlest?

[MuwuM]

I'm thinking about reviving the BattleGlest - project.

I love the idea of rebuiling the BattleGlest - mod  I paused some months ago.

My ideas for features:

• complete support for the latest MegaGlest version (without harming the sandbox)
• precompiled Lua-script to have clean coding, but still have all coding in the scenario XML-file
• all playable heroes will be included in the precompilation of the Lua-script
• full animated models
• many particle effects
• voice-over for all characters
• support for 5 versus 5 and 3 versus 3 player matches
• ...

I'd like your comments whether I should try it again and who would/could help me to build an awesome mod.

This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

[Coldfusionstorm]

I could help with VO's.

I love doing voices .

I never played the first battleglest i have to admit.

[tomreyn]

Nice logo there. And I'd like BattleGlest to be revived, too.

[Ishmaru]

It be nice to see it get completed!

I didn't know you quit this project before

Anyways, someone posted a link to some CC by SA models from a 3D RPG game, I think these would look great for Battle Glest!
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=9324.0

[MuwuM]

I didn't know you quit this project before

Yes, it was just paused. But after the changes related to the Lua-sandbox some fundamental changes need to be done. So I think starting from scratch is quite helpful for doing it right.

[Ishmaru]

Do you have any Ideas about the look or theme of the new BattleGlest?

[MuwuM]

I would prefer a heroic, ironic, funny fantasy theme (similar to http://www.grotesque-game.com). There will be comic-style models and exaggerated voices. I actually have a couple of hobby-voice-artists avaiable, so voice will not be too hard. If I manage bump-mapping and outline effects I'd like to use them, too. But I'd like to keep coloring kind of realistic. I hate purple minotaurs , but like red and blue mushrooms . For the UI I think of something similary to the axe in the WIP-logo on first post. Which means colorful, simple, with outline and a little 3D.

Features I like

bumpmapping

e.g. normal mapping

sample normalmap

cel shading / toon shading (+ outline)

combined samples

[titi_son]

The Problem is that you cant do a black border with megaglest.

And i would still help you and i hope that you can make it run faster than before because the old version lagged here.

(what about this monster without the backpack or whatever that is)

[Omega]

The Problem is that you cant do a black border with megaglest.

Not yet, you can't. Such a feature could be requested.

GAE once added a feature that would add a team colour outline on units. Similar logic could be used to apply a black border.

[Julius]

Yes try not to reinvent the wheel :p

The Ryzom assets linked above are great and would fit perfectly for such a game. They are also very well animated and not very high-poly (as the game is quite old).

Was .iqm now supported in Megaglest as an model format? If yes getting the Ryzom assets in the game should be a breeze.

[Ishmaru]

No glest still uses .G3d there was some some development for .Iqm support if I remember correctly, but it has been dropped. But surely its only a few extra steps in blender to convert.