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« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2009, 03:42:28 PM » |
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Ho- ho- hooooooooly crap, these are delicious. Please make more, ASAP.
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« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2009, 01:22:48 PM » |
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These look great!
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« Reply #23 on: November 03, 2009, 02:01:15 PM » |
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Fantastic - the details really add an extra layer of... wonderful bewilderment... especially the shadow's attire and the mindflare... WTF  Looking forward to more! |
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« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2009, 11:07:43 PM » |
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« Reply #26 on: November 05, 2009, 09:37:13 PM » |
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Great stuff
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Traumadore
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« Reply #27 on: November 11, 2009, 09:05:18 PM » |
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Here's some more monsters. The firebat is immune to fire, the golem is immune to everything! You better run!   So, I'm trying to think of a way to make navigable dungeon bits, but I don't know the best way to make something useful. Any ideas? |
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« Reply #28 on: November 11, 2009, 09:18:30 PM » |
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That is an EPIC golem.
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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2009, 02:37:26 AM » |
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...  Best golem EVER. So, I'm trying to think of a way to make navigable dungeon bits, but I don't know the best way to make something useful. Any ideas?
Here's my two cents on the topic. Very much a minimal approach (edit before posting: and might not at all be suited to your chosen media). - For map objects, you just need the graphics of the objects (pretty much the same as the monsters).
- For the walls, you need the graphics of the wall as you're standing in front of it. For something that's real 3D, that's all you need, the engine will do the rest.
For pseudo-3D stuff such as Might and Magic III- V or Ishar, you need to create graphics for the two sides of the walls.
At the easiest, it's done using the perspective tool and scaling of your imaging software (for GIMP users, here's an excellent tutorial for creating perspective distortion).
The wall sides' heights are double of the original on their wider sides (the one that's closer to the viewer), their width is 3/4 (but try 2/3) of the original width. This might or might not be correct, but it looks alright.
This took about 5 minutes maximum (and I didn't know how to do it when I started this post), enjoy: 
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« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2009, 10:32:16 AM » |
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That's not a bad idea. I didn't think of someone using distortion, or applying it like a texture maybe? 3D dungeons a-la Etrian Odyssey would be pretty fantastic.
I'll create some wall and floor textures along with some dungeon props for the background. Crates and barrels will be conspicuously absent though.
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« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2009, 10:39:40 AM » |
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I was going to reply here and suggest Etrian Odyssey as a reference!
Personally I would find simple floor/wall square textures to be easiest to work with (i.e. to place on the sides of cubes 3D space), but you could always provide distorted pseudo-3D too.
Impenetrable forest areas could be done with a mixture of camera-facing billboards and cube blocks.
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« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2009, 10:56:31 AM » |
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Hello this is Pencerkoff For pseudo-3D stuff such as Might and Magic III- V or Ishar, you need to create graphics for the two sides of the walls.
Oh nice. If it helps keep you motivated, I will make that game if you supply enough graphics. I tried to make a game maybe a year back that worked on the same principals in a hex grid. Using GM surfaces I might be able to do whatever I want with a texture, and then you wouldn't need to bother making a bunch of views of the same thing. I hope it's not illegal to experiment on a game engine before part 2 starts... -PENCERKOFF |
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« Reply #34 on: November 17, 2009, 01:42:57 PM » |
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Another monster, the very tall and gangly Gelugon or "ice devil". Also I just popped out a mimic. It was pretty angular and painful. If I made a game with this, Gelugon would be the hero. |
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« Reply #36 on: November 17, 2009, 05:15:10 PM » |
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Well I didn't want to say about how many I would do, so other people couldn't bother me about it. I'm somewhat behind since I didn't do any this weekend, however. I'll do my best to emulate that haggard smiley, but I'm simultaneously doing some intaglio prints and a few monotypes for an event, so please be patient. There should be enough to flesh out a decent game, considering many commercial RPGs boast bestiaries of 70+ monsters. We'll have at least half that.
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« Reply #38 on: November 18, 2009, 12:56:29 PM » |
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i really enjoy every new update !
your illustrations would fits perfectly with an "Odin SPhere"-like animation style !!
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« Reply #39 on: November 22, 2009, 09:44:43 PM » |
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